🌵 “Party on the Playa” — Burning Man’s biz. Reading’s 40% drop. Intel’s Uncle Sam-vestment. + Vacation Update
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Burning Man is the biggest event for billionaires in the world… so why is it losing millions?
The US Gov’t is getting 10% of Intel in exchange for taxpayer $$… Uncle Sam CEO?
Pleasure reading is down 40% in 20 years #ReadingRecession… But Warren Buffett reads 182 books/year.
Plus, the new restaurant trend… is a pregnancy-inducing hamburger.
**And we’re going on vacation and Nick’s having a baby (IBO)! So we have special Bonus Episodes coming everyday to the feed while we’re out-of-studio.**
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, August 25th. 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. Yeti's full disclosure, our baby is due any day now. Any day now, right? Any now? Oh, wait, I'm checking my phone. Okay, we're good, we're good, we're good. So Yeti's, our annual two-week summer vacation is also a paternity leave this year, and it starts tomorrow. But besties, do not worry, Jack and I got you covered for the next two weeks. We've got exciting content planned and ready to publish for you every day right here on the T-Boy feed. So if you want to see our full schedule of bonus podcast for the next couple weeks, |
| 0:41.4 | check out our Instagram at T-BoyPod. |
| 0:43.4 | But for our last regular T-Boy pod until Nick's second child is born, |
| 0:47.9 | we whipped up three fantastic stories. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, these are so good. |
| 0:52.8 | No one else is doing them. |
| 0:53.7 | What have we got on the pod, Jack? For our first story, Burning Man began last night. It's the biggest party in the world for billionaires. But Burning Man's business is also burning. So Jack and I got a plan to keep it afloat. For our second story, the most eligible bachelor on the stock market right now, |
| 1:11.7 | it's Intel, the American chipmaker. Because the U.S. government is officially buying 10%. |
| 1:17.6 | Congratulations. We taxpayers are now part owners of Intel. Intel inside. And our third and final |
| 1:24.5 | story. We've been in a reading recession for the last 20 years. |
| 1:28.6 | Pleasure reading is down 40% in America. |
| 1:31.4 | And yet CEOs are reading more than ever. |
| 1:34.3 | In fact, Warren Buffett has read 100 books this year. |
| 1:37.7 | Nick and I are going to share the books when we're reading right now in that story. |
| 1:41.4 | And we'll tell you why you got to too. |
| 1:43.0 | But yet he's before we hit that |
| 1:44.2 | wonderful mix of stories. I mean, fantastic mix, Jack, I love this pre-vocation mix. Me too, Nick. |
| 1:50.8 | But as we mentioned, we're about to take our annual summer vacation, which coincides with |
| 1:55.1 | Molly and I having a baby. I'm going to do a staycation in Vermont and go to Kenny Bunkport, |
| 1:59.0 | Maine, while Nick has his go bag |
| 2:01.7 | constantly ready to go. The IBO jacket could come at any moment. Like, it could even happen |
| 2:06.2 | during a takeaway today. Yeah, the baby could come at any moment. But if it doesn't come during |
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