🐉 “Pickachu hates AI” — Nintendo’s Pokemon surprise. Quince’s $10B dupe. Rivian’s Valley of Death. +Red Carpet secret
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Nintendo surged 18% in 2 weeks thanks to 30-year old Pokemon… and it hates AI.
Quince just hit a valuation twice as good as Skims… thanks to caviar, candles, and caviar?
Rivian is taking orders for the R2… which has to disrupt Rivian, and save Rivian.
And the Academy Awards have a shocking plan for last night’s Red Carpet… Destroy it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, March 16th. And today's fun. It's the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories. You need to know today. |
| 0:13.3 | Our voices have recovered from D.C., but our emotions, oh my God, what a show man. Our live show days are truly a full body, full day exercise. I mean, |
| 0:21.7 | this brings me back to like preseason, Jack. We ended up at the bars until 1 a.m. with the hands. |
| 0:26.0 | I mean, the hugging, the amount of hug, my arms are sore. My shoulders are sore. I haven't |
| 0:30.7 | hugged so many people. So many hugs and so many wonderful conversations with our listeners after the show. |
| 0:41.0 | Besties, thank you so much for coming and for hanging out for the entire evening. |
| 0:43.8 | We were taking selfies and getting to know you for an hour. |
| 0:46.4 | That was before the after party across the street. |
| 0:49.8 | And it was all powered by adrenaline and lozenges. |
| 0:52.8 | Jack, three fantastic stories for our first pod back. |
| 0:53.9 | What do we got for the T-Boy? |
| 0:59.6 | For our first story, Nintendo stock has surged 20% this month, thanks to a surprise Pokemon. |
| 1:00.1 | True. |
| 1:02.1 | But the real surprise to us, what is it, Nick? |
| 1:04.5 | It's that Nintendo hates AI. |
| 1:12.0 | For our second story, Quince, the online fashion company, just hit a $10 billion valuation for selling luxury dupes. |
| 1:16.8 | But you want to know who Quince really copied? It's actually Costco. And our third and final story, Rivian is going through its scariest moment ever as a company. Oh boy, it's called the |
| 1:22.2 | Valley of Death in the car industry. Tesla survived it, but will Vivian? But yet he's, |
| 1:27.2 | before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:44.1 | I mean, we want a mix of stories to come back to. Love the Pod Mix, Jack. All right, who is the best dressed? Who is the worst dressed? Who is the best speech? Who had the worst speech? Did Leo get snubbed? I mean, what are we thinking, Jack? Everyone's chatting Oscars right now. Susie owe me 12 bucks for that one. |
| 1:45.5 | You were wrong on Best Director. |
| 1:44.2 | But the biggest business drama to us about the Oscars right now. Susie owe me 12 bucks for that one. |
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