📅 “Year in Review 2025” — Maxxing, Robots, & Kale Collar Workers
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Yetis, the 3 biggest forces in business in 2025? Trump, AI, & Affordability. For more on that? Look at every other newsletter, podcast, and social media post of every day this year.
But instead, we found the 3 biggest “pop-biz” themes of 2025: Maxxing, robots, & kale collar workers.
1. “Everything Maxxing”… From Protein Maxxing to Tariff Maxxing to the Casino Economy.
2. “Robots got Promoted”… Waymos, Blue Collar Bots, and laundry-folding humanoids.
3. “Kale Collar Workers”… Ambitious Zillennials cut Slop Bowls, but embraced Thriftonomics.
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| 0:00.0 | Yetis, Nick and Jack here from the T-Boy studio before our year-in-review episode. |
| 0:04.4 | We've only been on sale for our live show for less than two weeks. |
| 0:07.8 | That's it. |
| 0:08.1 | And the Yetis have already snapped up over half of the tickets. |
| 0:12.6 | 54% of the tickets sold. |
| 0:14.7 | Austin is pretty much sold out. |
| 0:16.9 | New York, now or never, grab those tickets, baby. |
| 0:19.4 | So this would be a great holiday gift for somebody. We got links in the episode description to our first four cities of the IPO tour are in-person offering. So besties in 2026, we can't wait to see you live. Grab your tickets now. Jack, let's hit the show. All right, Jack, here we go. Three, two. This is Nick. This is Jack. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome back. |
| 0:38.6 | It is Monday, December 22nd. |
| 0:41.0 | And today's year in review episode is the best one yet. |
| 0:45.0 | It's a T-boy. |
| 0:46.1 | The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeties, let's be real. |
| 0:50.8 | The three biggest forces in business this year, Trump, AI, and affordability. |
| 0:54.9 | For more on that, look at every single newsletter podcast and social media post from every single |
| 1:00.6 | day of this entire year. Breaking news, Trump and Sam Altman dominate the inflation headlines. |
| 1:06.2 | We're not going to cover Trump's takeover of the term sheet, AIs takeover of the markets, or the |
| 1:11.4 | K-shaped economy. No, besties instead, Jack and I found the three biggest pop biz themes of |
| 1:17.7 | 2025, the ones that made business news your business this year. So Jack, the three stories for today's |
| 1:23.7 | show, what do we got in the T-boy? For our first story, the consumer trend of the year was protein maxing. Protein maxing. But Jack and I noticed that in this economy, everything is maxing. For our second story, 2025 is the year that robots got promoted. From Waymo Highway cars to Amazon warehouse bots to the human-sized robots that are doing your laundry,ots got promoted. And our third and final story. The final theme of the year is kale collard workers. Cale collard workers. We all practice duponomics and learned to thrive in the thrift economy. But yet is, before we hit that wonderful mix. I mean, what a mix to end the year on. Love the mix, Jack. You can't remember everything |
| 2:01.8 | that happened this year? No, it can't, Jack. What do you think? Let's whip up the entire business |
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