🧱 “MEGOs” — Mattel’s LEGO dupe. Utah’s online bouncer. Pizza’s stuffed crust strategy.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Mattel is launching their own version of LEGO bricks… What will win, brand or price?
Utah will make you show an ID to download Instagram… It’s a Social Media Bouncer (aka “The McLovin Rule”).
The economics of stuffed crust pizza are wild… so why’d Domino’s take 30 years to make one?
Plus, we’re dropping a Snooze Pod… We read 1 shareholder letter to help you fall asleep for Daylight Savings.
$PZZA $DOM $MAT $META
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday, March 7th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Three stories at the intersection of business and pop culture. But yet, remember those tariffs we mentioned to you about Canada and Mexico? What happened, Jack? |
| 0:17.9 | While Trump paused some more of them yesterday, he delayed them until April 2nd. |
| 0:22.7 | Despite the move intended to appease market stock sank another two full percentage points. |
| 0:28.7 | More tariff withlash, more market negativity all week long. My neck, Jack, my left neck. |
| 0:34.8 | It's starting to hurt me. But Jack, three stories for today's tea boy. What do we got on the pot? For our first story, Mattel is brazenly knocking off |
| 0:42.3 | Legos. Yes, they are. Mattel's Legos look exactly like Legos Legos. Mattel just dropped a Lego |
| 0:48.2 | dupe. We call it Megos, and we know who's going to win. For our second story, Utah is the first state in the nation |
| 0:55.0 | to require age verification with an ID |
| 0:57.6 | before you can download an app. |
| 0:59.3 | Utah is the first ever social media bouncer. |
| 1:03.5 | And our third and final story. |
| 1:05.1 | After 30 years, Domino's finally made their first stuffed crust pizza. |
| 1:09.4 | And the way that Pizza Hut responded to that |
| 1:12.4 | pizza is priceless, literally. But Yeti's before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, |
| 1:18.7 | no one else is doing that mix. Love the mix of stories, Jack. This weekend is the twice annual |
| 1:24.2 | daylight savings time. We are springing forward, so you are losing an hour |
| 1:29.2 | asleep. The good news is that sunset's going to happen an hour later. The bad news is you're |
| 1:34.3 | not going to have an hour of sleep on Saturday night. Yeah, we're losing an hour. It's gone. |
| 1:38.0 | And you're going to need a deep slumber Saturday night to compensate for that. But besties, |
| 1:42.6 | Jack, and I, we got your back. We have a plan to |
| 1:45.8 | help your circadian slumber this Saturday night. We have a dream to help you dream this |
| 1:51.5 | weekend. And it's the exact opposite of a typical T-boy episode. It's not going to wake you up like |
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