👙 “Final Hoot” — Hooters’ Re-hooterization. Facebook’s OG makeover. Canada’s WWII housing solution.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Hooters founders are buying it outta bankruptcy… but did you know Hooters once had an Airline?

Facebook is going back to the OG version… Because the Social Network became a Stranger Network.

Canada’s using a WWII playbook to fix their housing crisis… and it’s inspired by Long Island and Everything Bagels.

$AAPL $META $EAT

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0:00.0	This is Nick. It's Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday, April 2nd. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh, Jack and I are coming at you with an update from the Ambys, the Oscars of podcasting, baby. First of all, go right now to our Instagram, because we have some fantastic
0:22.3	behind the scenes highlights. Spoiler, we didn't wear tuxes. But I got to say, you look glam
0:27.2	over there, Jack. I was impressive, man. I mean, you literally did the glam camp. You know,
0:31.6	at first time doing the glam camp, I would do another one very soon. I like that. Now, we didn't
0:35.3	end up winning Best Business Podcast. That went to
0:37.9	Guy Raz and how I built this. Credible, if you're going to lose to one show, that's exactly
0:42.3	the legendary man you want to lose to. But we did win on the red carpet. So check out at T-Boy
0:47.7	Pod on Instagram. Yiddies, we had a blast. Thank you for helping us almost win that award. And Jack, three stories for today's show.
0:54.5	What do we got?
0:55.1	For our first story, it's Hooters.
0:57.3	The restaurant chain, famous for their company dress code, just filed for bankruptcy.
1:01.9	So we got to talk about the time Hooters launched Hooters Airline.
1:06.4	True story.
1:07.1	For our second story, Canada's new prime minister just announced a dramatic plan to solve
1:12.8	their housing crisis. And it's based on a World War II playbook, and it involves Long Island.
1:18.1	And our third and final story, Zuck is turning back the clocks on your Facebook feed.
1:24.2	Instead of a cockafonia videos from people you don't know, Facebook is bringing back
1:29.1	the friend. Isn't it cacophony? That's what I said, Jack, cacophon. Yeah, it is before we had that
1:35.0	wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. What a mix for a Saviche Wednesday. According to our
1:41.1	internal T-boy podcast listener data, you, yes, you are listening right now on an iPhone.
1:49.1	But despite how much you think you know your iPhone, you don't really know your iPhone.
1:55.0	True, because Bessie's the true story of how the iPhone was born is barely even known at Apple.
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