🏒 “Hockey War” — NHL’s USA vs Canada win. Botox Bars everywhere. Meta’s undersea cable.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Tonight’s NHL game is USA vs Canada… it’s a geopolitical battle, so tix hit Super Bowl prices.
The fastest-growing retail concept is “Med Spas”... Botox, lip-filler, & butt-plumpers are surging.
Meta is building the largest undersea cable in history… because the future of AI is underwater.
Plus, scientists have identified the happiest and most productive time of day… 7am.
$META
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, February 20. And today's part is the best one. Yeah, this is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. And yeties, we have to finish quickly because Nick has an appointment after this recording. Don't you, Nick? I got a piano lesson, guilty is charged. Was it your New Year's resolution to get back on the piano? I knew his resolution was to learn a Beatles song by the end of the year. |
| 0:25.9 | I got you, Jack. Really? Yeah, it was. It is. Do you have one in mind? I had one yesterday, but I can't |
| 0:30.8 | remember it, Jack. I think the song is yesterday, but well done. If you know, you're now. Three stories today's T-boy, Jack, what have we got on today's five? |
| 0:38.0 | For our first story, tonight's NHL hockey game is the U.S. All-Stars versus Canada's |
| 0:43.5 | all-stars. |
| 0:44.1 | But this hockey game is also an economic battle and a lesson on storytelling. |
| 0:49.7 | For our second story, get this. |
| 0:51.6 | Meta is building the biggest undersea internet cable ever. |
| 0:55.2 | True story. It's 31,000 miles long. Because to quote Ariel, the future of AI is |
| 1:01.1 | Undeadnessy. Okay, I love that, but that was Sebastian, not Ariel. Pretty sure was Ariel. |
| 1:06.2 | And our third and final story. What's the deal with med spas? What's going on with med spas? America has |
| 1:13.1 | 10,000 medical spas, botas, botas, lip filler, buck plumpers. They are a surgeon right now, |
| 1:19.5 | so we got the numbers on Botox bars. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories, |
| 1:24.8 | I mean, fantastic mix of stories, Jack. Scientists have |
| 1:29.2 | discovered the happiest time of the year. They have pinpointed the hour, the minute, and the moment |
| 1:35.7 | every single year that you are your happiest on average. And the happiest time of the year, |
| 1:40.2 | yes, Jack? Is at 7 a.m. on Saturday, July 15th. All right, mark your calendars. We'll explain. |
| 1:46.2 | Researchers at the University College of London tracked 50,000 adult women. And they found that |
| 1:51.3 | those women are happiest right when they wake up. Irrespective of the day, true. All of us |
| 1:56.4 | wake up in a good mood. It's a universal truth. It turns out 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. is the magical |
| 2:01.1 | mental time when all of us are happiest. It's great news. It is. Now, unfortunately, happiness |
| 2:06.8 | dips until about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Then at 4 o'clock, you have a snack, you're done |
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