🤡 “Forced Fun!” — Target’s Smile Rule. Trump’s $2k Tariff Dividend. OneSkin’s dude beauty. +Starbucks’ Bear-ista.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Target’s making workers smile if a customer is within 10 ft… but it’s not the only “Forced Fun biz.
President Trump wants to send you … but we found 5 huge economic plot holes.
OneSkin has biohacked the skin’s aging process… as Millennials trade “clean” for “clinical”
Starbucks is saying “I’m sorry” for selling out of Bearistas. Not baristas, bear-istas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, November 11th Veterans Day. And today's |
| 0:07.1 | pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:13.5 | Yeties, welcome back to the mecca of markets. Jack, you missed the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center by one day. |
| 0:19.3 | You were right there. Newman! |
| 0:24.9 | But stocks are up nonetheless, and it's because of our first story. |
| 0:26.3 | Jack, what do we got on the pot? |
| 0:29.5 | For our first story, it's President Trump's tariff dividends. |
| 0:33.6 | He said on Sunday that $2,000 checks are coming to most Americans. But these $2,000 checks actually have just a 12% chance of happening. And yet, |
| 0:39.0 | they've already achieved their goal. For our second story, Target is requiring their store |
| 0:43.8 | workers to smile at anyone who comes within 10 feet of them. That's right, it's forced fun, |
| 0:49.9 | and it's taken over corporate America. We'll explain why. And our third and final story. |
| 0:54.8 | There is a viral skin care product targeting dudes who work in tech. |
| 0:59.3 | One skin cosmetics is showing how the millennial age of clean everything is over. |
| 1:05.1 | But yet,ies, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:08.6 | Fantastic mix of stories. |
| 1:10.0 | Love the T-Boy Tuesday Mix, Jack. |
| 1:11.6 | Horters' Almanac, week 294. Oh, things we're running out of in the economy. Jack and I |
| 1:17.4 | and I, and keep a track for you. This week, we're running out of Starbucks bearista cups. |
| 1:22.6 | That is bear Easter cups, as in coffee cups shaped like bears. Because Yeti's last week I was in San Francisco and I witnessed something very strange at 5 a.m. when I was getting my coffee. Yeah, Jack stays on East Coast time when he's visiting me in SF and Jack, what did you discover at the Starbucks? I was at Starbucks and right as it opened, I expected to be the only one there, but there were dozens of people there. But Jack, |
| 1:44.7 | they weren't there for the early morning lattes, were they? They were there for the Barista cup. |
| 1:49.6 | Ah, Bearista, not Barista cups. It's a double entendre to hold your double espresso. Starbucks CEO |
| 1:57.0 | even name dropped this Bearista cup on the last earnings call. It's a honey bear bottle, |
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