🕶️ “Smuggle, Inc.” — Mexican Drug Cartels’ biz. Crocs’ microdrama. AI’s Sci-Fi essay. +Self-Blowing Snowblower
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Why are Mexican Drug cartels so hard to stop?... Because they're run like the Fortune 500
Crocs' comeback plan is microdramas... 4-minute sultry soap operas of clogs
The Substack Selloff... It's a Sci-Fi newsletter from the Future of AI.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Sanchez, Wednesday, February 25th. And today's |
| 0:06.6 | pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:12.1 | You hear that sound? Is that the bats? Is that the black cod white moly taco I had last night? |
| 0:19.2 | That was now my love language. It's somebody cracking into a |
| 0:21.3 | Shinerbach. Yeah. It's McConaughey, I think. Because we just landed in Austin, baby. We got our live T-Boy's show later tonight. The next three episodes of this show are going to be a little more boisterous than usual. Yeah, they will. They will. First, because I'm in the room with Nick right now, which is great. |
| 0:34.8 | It's a beautiful thing. |
| 0:35.6 | Tonight, Wednesday night, we're recording the show live. |
| 0:38.0 | Thursday morning, that live show is coming to this podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | And Friday morning, that live show's coming to this podcast, and Friday morning we have a guest dinner. And all of it slathered with barbecue sauce and stets and hats, baby Jack. Three fantastic stories for today's tea boy. Before we count the pie. For our first story, Mexican drug cartels have been all over the news this week. So why are drug lords so hard to stop? |
| 0:55.6 | Well, it's because they run their businesses like a Fortune 500 company. For our second story, |
| 1:00.6 | the newest product from Crocs isn't a shoe, it's a show. True. A Crox microdrama. Because there are |
| 1:06.9 | toxic relationships, and then there's toxic competition. And our third and final story is |
| 1:12.0 | the substack sell-off, a viral doomsday essay about AI destroying the economy. Besties, this wasn't |
| 1:18.9 | fear-mongering. This is action-mongering. And that was actually a good thing. But yet, |
| 1:24.0 | before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, what a mix of stories. |
| 1:28.7 | Love the mix. |
| 1:29.6 | It is bigger in Texas. |
| 1:34.5 | Another humongous blizzard hit the Northeast, the second one of the year. |
| 1:36.9 | Jack Providence just got 30 inches of powder. |
| 1:40.0 | Broadway and New York had to cancel their shows for a second night in a row. |
| 1:42.3 | Okay, even the news stopped, literally. |
| 1:47.3 | The Boston Globe didn't print for the first time in their 153 year history. |
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