🐣 “Shoes to GPUs” — Allbirds 800% AI surge. Bad News Bull Market. Alex vs. Alix. +BieberChella
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Stocks hit All-Time-Highs in the middle of a war... Because of stock market gravity.
Allbirds announced a pivot to artificial intelligence… and shares surged 800%.
Alix Earle is beefing with Alex Cooper online… but the real battle is over their business models.
Plus at coachella you go to watch Justin Bieber watch Justin Bieber
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday the new Friday, April 16th. 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. I'm sorry, Jack. Today we got all-time highs, influencers, and AI shoes. All that's on the pot. It's a terrific mix mix of stories absolutely the best pot we've ever done |
| 0:21.9 | jack let's get right to it for what do we got on today's tea boy for our first story allbirds had |
| 0:26.6 | plummeted by 99% they sold their brand and their sneaker designs for pennies on the dollar |
| 0:31.6 | but yesterday all bird stock surged as much as 800% because they're pivoting from shoes to GPUs. Allbirds is now an AI company. |
| 0:40.3 | Can't smell allbirds without AI jack. For our second story, stocks just hit all-time highs. The |
| 0:46.0 | S&P 500 hit 7,000 points yesterday for the first time ever. It's a bad news bull market besties, |
| 0:52.2 | and we can explain it all using gravity. And our third and final story, influencer Alex Earl is fighting with podcaster Alex Cooper, and the drama is in the comments. But the battle is over their business models. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of story. I mean, it's like we told you, it's the best mix we ever done. We didn't tell you about Coachella. No, we didn't, we didn't. |
| 1:11.5 | You spend $500 to stand in the desert waiting for line for music. Yeah, it is. It's the legendary California concert with more porta-potties than people, Coachella. But the highlight of Coachella this year, it's Justin Bieber singing. Sorry, Jack, I think we mean Justin Bieber scrolling. Yeah, because Beebbs didn't have dances, costume changes, and bright lights this year. |
| 1:31.2 | No, no, I think we mean Justin Bieber scrolling. Yeah, because Bebs didn't have |
| 1:28.5 | dances, costume changes, and bright lights this year. No, no, no, no, no. The only thing that |
| 1:32.7 | Bieber brought on stage was a MacBook laptop. And an H-DMI adapter, because he opened up his |
| 1:38.3 | laptop to cast old YouTube videos of his up on the screen. No joke. Beeper's set was no singing, no dancing, no beauty, no beats. |
| 1:47.3 | Just a man, a hoodie, and a Wi-Fi password. |
| 1:49.8 | We were watching Bieber, watching Beaver. |
| 1:52.7 | Justin Bieber was reportedly paid $10 million by Coachella, but all he did was waterboard |
| 1:58.2 | the audience with YouTube videos. |
| 1:59.5 | I was Jack, boldest move in music since Beethoven cold dropped is ninth. |
| 2:03.8 | Link and I respect the move, though. |
| 2:05.5 | Because Justin Bieber is the first true algorithmic artist. |
| 2:09.1 | Yet he's never forget, |
| 2:10.2 | Bieber was actually discovered back on YouTube. |
| 2:12.8 | In 2007, YouTube made his bull cut go viral. |
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