🏆 “Perfect Credit Score” — How to get one. Tesla’s new MAGA brand. Chili’s ate TGI Fridays.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Does the perfect 850 credit score exist?... It does, one man just got it, and we’ll tell ya how.

Tesla has become a $45K MAGA hat… so we’ll explain the biggest pivot in branding.

Chili’s restaurant stock surged 300% in the last year… thanks to its Great White Shark strategy.

Plus, it’s the Lunar New Year… so we found wild data on stocks during the Year of the Snake (spoiler: It’s bad).

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, January 30th, 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. Docs, they are dipping right now. Yesterday, it was because of the Fed. Our nation's central bank is worried about inflation again.
0:23.8	So yesterday, they announced their keeping interest rates high.
0:26.0	Investors would prefer if interest rates fell.
0:27.2	We'd prefer if interest rates fell.
0:29.0	The president would prefer if interest rates fell.
0:31.8	But the Fed's job isn't politics or popularity.
0:33.9	It's killing inflation.
0:36.9	So they gave us tough love and are keeping interest rates high. But in the meantime, Jack and I
0:38.9	whipped up three fantastic anti-inflation stories for you. Jack, what do we got on today's pot?
0:44.8	For our first story, Tesla just announced earnings, but the bigger story is Tesla's new brand.
0:50.6	Because Tesla has become a $45,000 MAGA hat.
0:55.8	For our second story, Chili's is the hottest restaurant in the country.
0:59.8	It's up 300% in the past year.
1:02.2	Because Chili's is known for its baby back ribs, but its strategy is great white shark.
1:08.2	And finally, for our third story, we all want a credit score over 750.
1:12.6	Nice.
1:13.3	Maybe even 800.
1:14.3	Nice, sir.
1:14.9	Who knows?
1:15.9	Isn't 850 possible?
1:17.5	Not too shabby.
1:19.0	But Jack, does a perfect credit score even exist?
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