đ©ł âNike + Skimsâ â Nikeâs deal with Kim Kardashian. Protectorâs bodyguard app. Fire Trucks' oligopoly.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 âą 9.5K Ratings
đïž 19 February 2025
â±ïž 25 minutes
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Summary
Nike just partnered with Skims⊠but has Kim stretched Skims too far?
Protector just launched an Uber for Bodyguards⊠and 1 video hack made it go viral.
The Fire Truck industry has been taken over by Private Equity⊠but its stock tripled while fires fell?
The best Black History Month story yet?... Lonnie Johnsonâs Super Soaker.
$NKE $UBER $SPY
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Saviche Wednesday, February 19th. And today's |
| 0:07.0 | pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:13.4 | All right, Jack, four-day work week. I think that means Wednesday's the newer Thursday. |
| 0:18.0 | Thursday's the new Friday, Friday's still Real Friday? All those were more than |
| 0:22.6 | halfway through the week, which is fantastic. Wednesday, it's the Real Friday. Jack, three stories |
| 0:27.4 | for today's show. What do we got on the pod, man? For our first story, Protector just launched |
| 0:32.0 | the Uber for Bodyguards, and one video made it go viral. You can now get your own secret service |
| 0:37.3 | detail for your next Bachelorette party. |
| 0:39.7 | For our second story, Nike stock surged 5% yesterday on a collab with King Kardashian Skims. |
| 0:45.6 | And get this, Nike Skims is Nike's first new brand since Air Jordan. |
| 0:50.4 | And our third and final story is the fire truck industry. |
| 0:53.9 | Because it's now basically controlled by one business. There is the fire truck industry. Because it's now basically controlled |
| 0:55.4 | by one business. There is a fire truck stock. A fire truck stock. So Jack and I got to ask, |
| 1:01.5 | if fires have fallen by half, why has this fire truck stock popped? But Yeties, before we hit |
| 1:07.5 | that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories for the new Friday, Jack. |
| 1:12.4 | It's February. |
| 1:13.3 | And the best way we think to enjoy Black History Month, |
| 1:15.8 | it's to discover, find, and share the business stories of Black History Month. |
| 1:20.4 | And our favorite story right now is the Super Soaker. |
| 1:23.4 | That's right. |
| 1:24.1 | The Super Soaker Water Gun is a billion-dollar brand. Nick and I have been doing research on how the Super Soaker actually began. |
| 1:32.2 | Yes, we did. And it's way deeper than a plastic toy thing for water fights. |
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