👻 “Halloween Canceled” — Spirit’s trade war-ning. Fortune 500’s founder fun. Pizza Hut’s reading app.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Spirit Halloween cancelled their summer costume preview… because the trade war has a tail.

A record 55 women lead Fortune 500 companies… and a record 24 founders do too.

Pizza Hut’s “Book It” app … it’s an original example of gamification.

Plus, Ikea did a commercial in 1994 that changed the country… The 1st ad with a gay couple.

(FYI, here’s that Ikea ‘94 commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCGv1hN6S9E)

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Thursday, the new Friday, June 5th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Here's the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yaddies, you're listening to one of the top 50 podcasts in the world. We just got the numbers from last week. Yeah, we started spiking on the Apple charts.
0:22.5	It's all thanks to your listening, so thank you. Besties, thanks for being a part of it. Top 50 shows
0:27.1	in the world. In the overall category. Overall. Not like pop business news pods hosted by
0:32.8	former college roommates. Top 50 overall. So thank you, besties, Jack. Three stories for today's
0:38.5	team boy. What have we got in the show? For our first story, Spirit Halloween just canceled
0:42.8	their Halloween preview party. Because the scariest part of the economy right now isn't the
0:47.8	tear of teeth. It's the trade war tale. For our second story, the Fortune 500 list for 2025
0:53.5	just dropped this week.
0:54.9	And we found the two most interesting numbers.
0:57.6	We hope the number of women CEOs keeps rising, but we know the number of founder CEOs will.
1:03.6	And our third and final story is Pizza Hut.
1:06.3	Their most powerful product isn't pepperoni pizza.
1:09.1	It's a book club.
1:10.2	That's right.
1:12.3	Book it. The popular summer reading challenge for kids is Pizza Hut's soft power. But yeties, before we hit that
1:18.4	wonderful mix of stories. Whoa, what a mix of stories. No one else is doing that mix. Love the
1:23.5	mix, Jack. 1994 was a wild year for the world. I mean, Jack, you had the O.J. Simpson car chase.
1:29.6	He had Michael Jordan Quinn basketball, and he had Jeff Bezos founding Amazon.
1:33.4	In 1994, you also had IKEA run a commercial on television.
1:37.2	So, Jack, let's pause the pod for a sec and talk about that IKEA commercial.
1:42.2	In the commercial, a couple of guys are buying furniture. Very nice.
1:45.0	Steve is more country.
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