⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The New York Yankees set a home run record… Thanks to a new data-optimized torpedo bat.

The #1 term you gotta know for Q2? “Stagflation”… when unemployment and inflation both rise.

One drone delivery startup is beating Amazon in the sky… but should serve houses or hospitals?

Plus, Kim Kardashian’s Skims is launching a Wall Street Shapeware line…

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, April 1st. 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. Yiddies, Jack and I are coming out you live from the south side of Chicago, and we ain't doing logistics today, are we, Jack? We are here for the 2025 Ambia Awards,
0:22.2	best business podcast, fingers crossed, here we go.
0:25.1	Okay, that dry cleaning better be a write-off, Jack.
0:27.4	Three stories for today's show.
0:29.0	What do we got on the pod, man?
0:30.2	For our first story,
0:31.6	the New York Yankees just set a home run record,
0:34.4	but it's all thanks to their new baseball bat.
0:36.5	So we're covering the torpedo
0:38.3	bat and the NASA trained AI analyst PhD team behind it. For our second story, the first quarter of
0:46.3	2025 ended yesterday. The second quarter begins today. And the one word that could define the
0:51.9	economy for the next three months is stagflation.
0:55.7	And our third and final story.
0:57.9	One drone delivery startup.
0:59.7	Zipline is beating Amazon and Google in the sky.
1:02.9	But Jack and I will tell you why drone delivery isn't really about the burritos.
1:07.8	But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
1:12.6	Fantastic mix of stories for a T-Boy Tuesday, Jack. The biggest product launch of this year, it changes the look
1:17.6	of business forever. Literally. Because Skims just launched financial fashion. We repeat, Kim
1:25.6	Kardashian is launching Skims Wall Street. That's right. Skims, the shapewear brand,
1:31.3	is making something for banking bros and financial females. Jack, could you sprinkle on some
1:36.1	context for us over there, please? Kim Kardashian founded Skims as a women's shapewear brand six years ago.
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