🚕🏠“UberBnB?” — Airbnb’s ride surprise. Adidas’ mom pants. Harvard’s A-flation cap. +iPhone Birth Rates
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Airbnb’s next biz is cars, but Uber’s next biz is hotels... Prepare for Gig-ageddon.
Adidas is being driven by satin pants sold to Moms… because they’re influencing the influencers.
Harvard just voted to cap the number of As at 20%... But Princeton shows the Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Plus, the real reason global birthrates are dropping?... iPhones.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, May 21st, and today's part is the best one yet. And this is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:12.2 | Oh, yet he's just as we were press and record, SpaceX published their IPO paperwork for all to seek. |
| 0:19.0 | Classic Elon, publishing huge breaking news at a very inconvenient time, editorially speaking. |
| 0:25.4 | Now, Jack and I checked quickly. |
| 0:26.7 | The poop emoji is not included anywhere in the document, unlike we expected. |
| 0:29.9 | And this will be the first story in tomorrow's pot. |
| 0:32.5 | So you'll have all Memorial Day weekend to listen to it. |
| 0:34.7 | In the meantime, Jack and I are taking all of tonight to read |
| 0:37.8 | in T-boy style to the SpaceX IPO paperwork. But Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's show. |
| 0:43.3 | What do we got on the T-boy? For our first story, Airbnb just got into the car industry. |
| 0:47.3 | Just after Uber got into the hotel industry? Airbnb's becoming Uber. Uber's becoming Airbnb? |
| 0:53.8 | World collide. |
| 0:55.7 | For our second story, Adidas apparel business is beating their shoe business, and we see it in their satin leopard pants. |
| 1:01.6 | Because Facebook mom groups made it happen. |
| 1:04.9 | And our third and final story, Harvard professors finally voted to end gradeflation and cap the number of A's they hand out to 20%. |
| 1:12.3 | But Harvard's grade cap will fail if it doesn't learn a lesson from Princeton. |
| 1:17.6 | But yet he's before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:20.3 | The Harvard crowd not happy about that takeaway, Jack. |
| 1:22.7 | The dinkwad, double income, no kids with a dog. |
| 1:26.2 | Gen X and Millennials, the first generation in U.S. history to embrace the Dinkwad lifestyle. |
| 1:31.5 | The reason? It's because Americans aren't having kids like they used to. |
| 1:34.7 | And ain't just us. Two-thirds of the world's countries are facing the same problem. |
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