🩱 “Keeping Up With $5B” — Skims’ money situation. Country Music’s AI hit. Netflix’s theme park opens. +Harvard Grade InflAAAAtion
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The #1 country song in America was made by AI… It's the 1st of many future AI firsts.
Kim Kardashian’s Skims hit a $5B valuation… Wall Street thinks it’s worth more than Nike and Lulu.
Netflix just opened its 1st theme park… because Disney buys, but Netflix rents.
Harvard has an inflation problem… 60% of grades are straight A’s. #Gradeflation
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, November 13th. 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. Happy Vest Vember to all those celebrating. I can't believe you're not wearing your vest today, Jack. What happened to that thing? I mean, I wore it like three days in a row. I don't think I could do it for. |
| 0:21.7 | At a certain point, you couldn't even fit it in the studio. That was a big vest, Jack. Yeah, it is. We got three fantastic stories for today's show. Jack, what do we got on the pod? For our first story, Kim Kardashian's skim brand just hit a $5 billion valuation in the private stock market. But is $5 billion a lot? |
| 0:38.6 | Well, it's 10 times more than Victoria's Secret and two and a half times. hit a $5 billion valuation in the private stock market. But is $5 billion a lot? |
| 0:38.6 | Well, it's 10 times more than Victoria's Secret and two and a half times more than Nike. |
| 0:42.8 | According to Wall Street math, we'll explain. |
| 0:45.3 | For our second story, the number one country song in the charts right now, |
| 0:50.0 | we're 99% sure it's AI. |
| 0:52.7 | Yeah, Breaking Rust is the mysterious new AI singer, but like any good country song, this one |
| 0:59.0 | has got layers. |
| 1:00.4 | And our third and final story is Netflix. |
| 1:02.9 | Netflix just opened its first theme park, Netflix house just outside of Philadelphia. |
| 1:07.3 | It's like Disney World, but done Netflix style. |
| 1:09.9 | So let's go inside together. |
| 1:11.5 | But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, have we done a better mix? I love this mix, Jack. Nick, it seems like every week there's a new type of inflation we got to deal with. Yeah, we cover it for the Yetis. Shrinkflation, greedflation, tipflation, fee flation, Post, inflation, eggflation, you name inflation. |
| 1:28.1 | But the latest inflation is the smartest. |
| 1:30.4 | Grade inflation. shrinkflation, greedflation, tipflation, fee flation, post inflation, eggflation, you name flation. |
| 1:28.0 | But the latest inflation is the smartest. |
| 1:30.4 | Grade inflation. |
| 1:31.9 | Actually, Jack, it's the dumbest, and it's hitting hardest over at Harvard. |
| 1:36.7 | Get this. |
| 1:38.5 | 60% of all final grades given out at Harvard University last year were A's. I'm sorry, Jack, did the Harvard professors miss out on the chapter about the bell curve? |
| 1:48.0 | More than half of Harvard students are straight A students. |
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