🪷 “The White Lotus Effect” — HBO’s tourism bump. DeepSeek’s copy/paste. The Bacon IPO.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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“White Lotus Season 3” is about to debut… and it’ll boost Thailand’s economy by 20%.

The biggest IPO of 2025 is a bacon biz… so we devoured the first pureplay pork stock.

We now know how DeepSeek caught up to ChatGPT… the ol’ “copy/paste.”

Plus, the Utah Hockey Club is choosing a new name… but the fans at the rink decide tonight.

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday, January 31st. And today's pod is the best one yet this is a T-boy. Here's the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh, I know what's happening this weekend. Is this part one of the Datchelor party? Is that what's going on? There we go.
0:20.8	Yeah.
0:21.1	Okay.
0:21.7	I'm having six buddies from college of for ski weekend.
0:24.9	It's the quiet before having a third baby storm.
0:27.7	Remember, four weeks before the due date of a baby, you must go on a datchelor party.
0:32.4	It is required by the doctors.
0:34.1	We hear it all the time.
0:35.2	I don't think it's going to be a quiet before the storm.
0:41.7	It's a storm before the storm. But we've got three fantastic stories for today's show. Jack,
0:47.2	what's on today's T-boy? For our first story, White Lotus Season 3, premieres two weeks from this Sunday on HBO. But the White Lotus effect has already arrived in Thailand, and it turned
0:52.7	travel existential.
0:55.1	For our second story, we now know how DeepSeek caught up to chat Chippy T so quickly.
1:00.8	The old copy and paste, and it reveals the curse of the first mover.
1:05.5	And our third and final story.
1:07.6	The biggest IPO of 2025 so far is a bacon business.
1:13.2	Smithfield Foods is now a publicly traded pork stock. Links or Patty? Trick question both. Jack and I jumped into the world's biggest
1:18.9	sausage stock for you. We found some wild stuff. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
1:24.5	Fantastic mix of stories, Jack. Shakespeare once asked, what's in a name?
1:28.0	Well, in professional sports, there's actually a lot in a name. Mostly chance. Yeah,
1:33.2	and merchandise. But yet he's the Utah Hockey Club finally decides on their permanent name
1:37.9	this weekend. Because the newest NHL team, the Utah Hockey Club, still doesn't have a name.
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