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Nick
This is Nick, this is Jack. It's Wednesday ceviche Wednesday, January 28, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T boy.
Jack
The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
Nick
Yetis, for those of you watching on YouTube, do not worry. It looks like Jack is being swallowed by a Moncler Patagonia puffer vest. But he's alive and he's surviving. You okay over there, Jack?
Jack
Here's the predicament. I had an economic conference yesterday and I wanted to like, show that I used to work in finance, but I also wanted to signal that, like, I'm going skiing after this. How did it turn out?
Nick
I think going with three vests at the same time was a bold move.
Jack
And I like bold moves, Jack.
Nick
Three stars for today's team. Boy, what do we got on the pod?
Jack
For our first story, it's Vital Farms, the Cage Free egg brand is one of the largest egg producers in America.
Nick
But this stock is down 5% on a potential scandal or scramble. Let's go with scandal because its egg yolks are too orange.
Jack
For our second story, the biggest social media court case in history.
Nick
Yes, it did.
Jack
YouTube and Meta are getting sued big time.
Nick
This is Instagram's big tobacco moment.
Jack
And our third and final story. The most innovative business ideas in history came from reading one single sentence.
Nick
Besties, we need to tell you about how being 70th percentile at three things can make you 99th percentile at one thing.
Jack
I'm very intrigued.
Nick
Do the math. We'll give you a pause one second. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories, I mean, what a mix of stories. No one else is doing that mix, Jack.
Jack
All right. This week we discovered the widest new way that the tech industry is measuring their artificial intelligence.
Nick
Because the ultimate test of AI potential is actually playing Pokemon.
Jack
Get this. Nintendo's classic Pokemon game is the surprise standardized benchmark test of large language models.
Nick
That's right. Silicon Valley literally tests how smart their chatbots are by their ability to catch em all.
Jack
How fast can Chatgpt get that Charizard?
Nick
How fast can Claude grab a chatter pie?
Jack
How fast can Sam Altman steal my squirtle?
Nick
Hey, Sam, just give it back, bruh. We didn't do this trade.
Jack
Now here's the context. Nintendo launched Pokemon in 1996 as a game of complex mazes and puzzles.
Nick
Well, Jack, it turns out the biggest challenge for an artificial intelligence is complex mazes and puzzles.
Jack
It's the perfect test. In fact. OpenAI employees have a live stream of their latest model of ChatGPT trying to win Pokemon.
Nick
How about Google, where their CEO bragged last year that Gemini hit a whole new level in Pokemon.
Jack
So far, no AI has ever won Poke.
Nick
True story. No one's beat him.
Jack
So it's funny. Like in the 1950s, the Turing Test measured computers ability to imitate with the Imitation game.
Nick
And then Jack. We measured if a computer could play chess, win jeopardy, or pass the bar exam.
Jack
But now we're measuring computers with a different game.
Nick
Pokemon and besties. It turns out the only technology more powerful than AI is a bulbasaur.
Jack
I gotta take off one of my vests before the first start.
Nick
He's drowning. Somebody help out my co host. That's ni3 story.
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15 years before this song, two boys from the northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea that caused a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack.
Nick
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Nick
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Raj
Hey, it's Raj and Noah. And we're back with a new season of Am I Doing It Wrong? The show that explores the all too human anxieties we have about trying to get our lives right.
Noah
Because we're still doing a lot of stuff wrong.
Raj
But who isn't? That's why each week we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with. Whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions, or even dreaming.
Noah
We'Ll be talking to experts in their fields who are definitely doing things right. So the rest of us can be a bit wiser and a lot better equipped to handle whatever life throws at us.
Raj
Subscribe now and listen to new episodes of Am I Doing It Wrong? Dropping every Thursday starting January 1st, wherever you get your podcasts.
Noah
And for the first time ever, we're going to have full video episodes on YouTube. Because as long as there are things to get wrong, we're going to be right here to help you do them better.
Raj
Love y'.
Jack
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For our first story, Vital Farms, the publicly traded co op of farmer's market eggs is getting cracked like an omelet on TikTok right now.
Jack
And if true, the allegations sound bad.
Nick
They do.
Jack
But are they true?
Nick
Hmm. We got curious yetis. We got a frittata fiasco here. The only company trying to increase the price of eggs right now, not decrease them. It's Vital Farms.
Jack
Here's the business. Farmers market eggs, but scaled nationwide under one brand.
Nick
We're talking 600 farms providing the supply of eggs to vital farms.
Jack
And Vital Farms provides the one brand to unify them all in grocery stores across the country.
Nick
Besties this business model. It's actually pretty common in agriculture, isn't it Jack?
Jack
Welch's grapes, Ocean Spray cranberries, Sunkist. They're all basically co ops of farms that sit under one brand.
Nick
But Jack, how would you describe the Vital Farms egg brand, if you will?
Jack
It makes it sound like the chickens laying the eggs live in some kind of millennial utopia.
Nick
I'm going to read a line from an earnings report.
Jack
No, not on the earnings report. On the egg carton it says happy hens, conscious capitalism and 108 square feet per hen.
Nick
I mean, can you sprinkle on some context, please?
Jack
That's more square footage than a New York City apartment.
Nick
You scan the QR code, Jack, you can see the chickens doing arts and crafts.
Jack
I believe you want to get on the wait list of that chicken kindergarten.
Nick
You're not going to believe this hen is a sculptor. Besties call it the uncaged egg club because this pasture raised egg company is doing 3% market share of the egg industry in this country and it's actually publicly traded.
Jack
Vital Farms IPO'd in 2020 and the stock was trading at double the IPO price.
Nick
It was a pure play protein stock.
Jack
Until a recent controversy fried the stock.
Nick
Get this, the scramble started on social media, did it not, Jack?
Jack
A TikTok journalist tossed some huge allegations at Vital Farms.
Nick
Basically this tiktoker who says he's all about helping people find local Food says Vital Farms. Eh, they got a little bit too corporate.
Jack
In a seven part TikTok takedown, this guy cites a study done last year by Michigan State University that found a new unusually high fatty acid levels in Vital Farms eggs.
Nick
And that Tiktoker says that's because Vital Farms feeds their chickens cheap, quote unquote corn and soy subsidized by the US government.
Jack
He also says that Vital Farms feeds their chickens turmeric, the spice to make the yolk and the eggs orange instead of yellow.
Nick
Which is actually if true, a very strategic marketing move is it not Jack?
Jack
The orange yolk if you've ever seen one. It somehow signals wholesomeness and like wow, this must be a high quality egg.
Nick
I mean full disclosure, I'm willing to pay more for an orange yolk Jack, any day of the week. The orange premium.
Jack
So that's why they're doing it. But the other reason they're doing it is that you can follow the money to the chicken coop. Vital Farm's biggest institutional investors are profit hungry since that IPO.
Nick
BlackRock, Vanguard, Amazon, Vital Farms institutional shareholders eat margin for breakfast.
Jack
Although from studying companies for years we can tell you that BlackRock and Vanguard are the biggest shareholders at pretty much every publicly traded now besties.
Nick
At first Vital Farms responded with their primal instincts.
Jack
They left a comment on this Tiktoker's video calling him a BS influencer.
Nick
But then Vital Pharms took 10 deep breaths and wrote a blog post and FAQ combating the influencers claims instead.
Jack
But still the allegations of greenwashing have had a dent on sales.
Nick
Now Vital Pharms Stock is down 46% from its all time high because the bad press could poach their Q1 sales. It's 50 shades of orange. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Vital Farms?
Jack
Eggs companies face three kinds of police. But only one of them has to prove it in court.
Nick
Yetis the ftc. They're the sheriff of our marketplace. If companies lie in their marketing, their job is to catch them.
Jack
But it's not just the Federal Trade Commission. There's also Wall Street Short selling Hedge funds often get ahead of the government in identifying corporate wrongdoing.
Nick
Those short sellers put out press releases saying the company is lying and that's why we're selling the stock. So it drops.
Jack
But now we're seeing a third third type of corporate police force online influencers.
Nick
You see Wall street often sells a stock based on a short seller's allegation. Even if that allegation is totally unproven.
Jack
And consumers do the same. When we see a takedown of a company on social media all the time, conspiracy is the most alluring content on your feed. You want to believe it's true even if there's no evidence.
Nick
Only the FTC has to prove allegations in court, but Wall Streeters and online content creators, they don't.
Jack
Still, we're going to point this out. Many experts, including the authors of this smoking gun study about the eggs, still say that Vital Pharm's eggs are the highest quality in the grocery store, but.
Nick
That that's not an interesting headline. So it obviously got way less attention.
Jack
The reality for corporations, they face three police in the marketplace, but only one of them has to prove it in court.
Nick
For our second story, Instagram and YouTube are defending themselves in the biggest court case in social media history.
Jack
But we've seen this story before with tobacco. This is Instagram's black lung moment.
Nick
Yetis big tech. They're kicking off earning seasons this week. Big day on Wall street for these guys.
Jack
But everyone's eyes are already on a courthouse in Los Angeles because a woman known by the initials KGM, a 19 year old, sued TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
Nick
And Jack KGM's claims on all those companies.
Jack
While she was a minor, the social media apps compulsively addicted her to her feeds, leading to anxiety, depression, and suicidal thought.
Nick
And besties. With 3,000 similar lawsuits in the pipeline, this one sets a huge precedent.
Jack
Mark Zuckerberg is likely to testify in defense of Meta because the verdict could change social media forever.
Nick
And here is the key of the allegation. Besties. These apps were designed to addict the Infinite Scroll.
Jack
The auto playing of videos, the push notifications. These are described by experts as dark pattern design.
Nick
Or to quote Tupac Shakur, I didn't.
Jack
Choose the Feed Life.
Nick
The Feed Life chose me.
Jack
The lawsuit says the company should be held responsible for the harmful impacts of addiction, especially against kids, if they're found to have made those addictive on purpose, but yet easy.
Nick
Here's what Jack and I find fascinating about this story. History doesn't repeat itself. It rhymes. And Instagram rhymes with cigarettes.
Jack
This court case is like Big tobacco from the 1990s, but substitute Joe Camel for the Infinite Scroll.
Nick
Our explanation, we see it as the algorithm is a digital nicotine. You got addicted to cigarettes, you get addicted to swipes.
Jack
Chemically speaking, the impact of a little Instagram bitch does look like smoking.
Nick
That's right, it does, Jack. Because both nicotine and an algorithm push your brain to release dopamine. Basically you get a digital hit and.
Jack
The feel good sensation of dopamine that's the driver of the feeling of addiction. It forces you to grab another cigarette, more cocaine, more gambling, all the addictive things.
Nick
And it reinforces what doctors call a quote unquote drug seeking behavior to get another hit, another hit and another hit.
Jack
And we're expecting to see some really embarrassing internal doctors documentation from Meta as this case proceeds.
Nick
Jack, call a plumber cuz we already got some leaks. What did we already hear about?
Jack
Employees referred to their app as a drug and to employees of Instagram as drug pushers.
Nick
Jack and I went to business school, not law school, but we can tell you that does not sound good.
Jack
And that may be why Snap and TikTok settled right at the 11th hour outside of court. Cuz they don't want their embarrassing details to get out in the public.
Nick
But Jack, I gotta ask, what are Instagram and YouTube saying in defense of themselves in this big Tobacco Y case?
Jack
Exactly what you'd expect, sir. To say that mental health is complex and correlation of using Instagram and being depressed is not causation.
Nick
And they pointed out they build protection tools. They'll shame you if you're still liking pics after two hours on the app.
Jack
But as anyone knows, unless you have the impulse control of the toddler who passed the marshmallow test, it is really hard to stop using Instagram unless you throw your phone into the nearest lake.
Nick
I'm sorry, Jack, did you say something? I was distracted. Is it time for the takeaway?
Jack
Yeah, it is.
Nick
Okay.
Jack
Yeah.
Nick
Yetis. All right, time for the takeaway. Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies in the biggest court cases in social media history?
Jack
Instagram is having its black lung moment.
Nick
Yetis, in the mid-1990s, 35% of high schoolers smoked cigarettes. Today it's under 10%.
Jack
Because the big court cases of the 90s against big tobacco framed cigarettes as a public health issue affecting our minors.
Nick
So the key to this case isn't that kids use too much social media, it's that the engineers design them to addict just like the cigarette companies did.
Jack
Intentional design plus awareness of harm plus a profit motive equals legal liability.
Nick
That's the equation for tobacco regulations led to age gating and wild warnings like pictures of black lungs on cigarette gardens.
Jack
This case could have a similar impact to warn people about the harms of social media or even make illegal addictive design elements like the endless scroll.
Nick
Because the breakthrough for both of these phenomena is reframing the issue as a public health crisis.
Jack
Apparently, Zuckerberg's the Marlboro man, because this could be Instagram's black lung moment.
Nick
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Raj
Hey, it's Raj and Noah. And we're back with a new season of Am I Doing It Wrong? The show that explores the all too human anxieties we have about trying to get our lives right.
Noah
Because we're still doing a lot of stuff wrong.
Raj
Who isn't? That's why each week we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with. Whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions, or even dreaming.
Noah
We'll be talking to experts in their fields who are definitely doing things right, so the rest of us can be a bit wiser and a lot better equipped to handle whatever life throws at us.
Raj
Subscribe now and listen to new episodes of Am I Doing It Wrong? Dropping every Thursday starting January 1st, wherever you get your podcasts.
Noah
And for the first time ever, we're going to have full video episodes on YouTube. Because as long as there are things to get wrong, we're going to be right here to help you. You too.
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Nick
For our third and final story, reading is the secret superpower of business success. And we found five great businesses that were born from one thing read by one person.
Jack
And being 70th percentile in three things will make you incredibly successful in one thing.
Nick
It's the 70, 70, 70% rule. We'll get to it. But first, besties, one out of four of you have not read a single book in the last year. We've got the details, we got the stats.
Jack
We're not narcing on you to your English teacher right now.
Nick
No, we're not judging.
Jack
But wait till you hear the end of the story, because we've told you before the wild stat about Warren Buffett. He claims to read 500 pages a.
Nick
Day, not just novels and biographies. By the way, Warren Buffett's 500 pages a day include newspapers, reports, work stuff, all that good stuff before this man.
Jack
Punches out, well, the world's best investor ready Moby Dickworth of text every day.
Nick
So the reason besties Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Stock is up 6 million percent in 60 years. And yes, that's a real number.
Jack
It's that reading is like compound interest for your brain.
Nick
But besties, the real ROI on binge reading, it's not about everything you read. It's about one thing you read.
Jack
Because Warren Buffett actually read Barron's magazine for 50 years. It's magazine about investing. But he only found one investing opportunity that he acted on.
Nick
But here's the key. That one idea led to an investment that made a 400 to 500 million dollars profit.
Jack
So as Warren said, I have made a 400 to 500 million dollars Profit from reading Barron's for 50 years and following just one idea.
Nick
It's a single line win. Basically, a single needle in a haystack of reading was a breakthrough for Warren Buffett worth half a billion bucks.
Jack
And it turns out many of the greatest innovations in business started because a founder read one line that he or she couldn't stop thinking about.
Nick
And Jack and I read about this concept in the newsletter by Trung Fan, which we happen to be fans of. So, like for example, Jack, tell us about Trader Joe's.
Jack
Joe Colomb read a statistic in Scientific American magazine about the rise in college degrees. So he created a grocery store for the quote, unquote, over educated, underpaid Jeff.
Nick
Bezos read in a magazine that the Internet was growing at 2,300% per year. So he quit his job and started something called Amazon.
Jack
Why did Sarah Blakely name her shapewear business Spanx? Well, she read in a book that consumers liked the sound of K, like Coca Cola, Kodak, or Spanx.
Nick
Phil Knight was lying around reading a newspaper about Japanese trading companies being flush with cash in the 1960s. So he reached out to one of them and funded his struggling startup, Nike.
Jack
And what led to Bill Gates passion for the personal computer? Well, he read a line in Popular Mechanics that stopped him in his tracks.
Nick
And those are his words. And you know what? Besties Jack and I have the same approach to storytelling. That's how we build every story of this podcast. Right, Jack?
Jack
We'll read a whole earnings report or an entire article and turn one line that we couldn't stop thinking about into the entire story.
Nick
So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in business?
Jack
Reading is how you unlock the 70, 70, 70% rule of success.
Nick
Look, daddies, reading won't make you the greatest expert in one topic, but it will make you knowledgeable.
Jack
Reading a book on, say, the hotel industry, it's not going to put you in the 99th percentile of hotels, but it will put you in the 70th percentile.
Nick
And Trung's insight from this? It's that it's better to be 70th percentile at many things than 99th percentile at one thing.
Jack
To know more than 70% of people about one thing doesn't take that much time. You could do it just by reading one book. Good point. But knowing more than 99% of people, that's going to require years of study.
Nick
And if you, if you stack up the skills in which you're at 70th percentile, then together, that is powerful.
Jack
For instance, the best comic book illustrator of all time, he was 70th percentile at humor, 70th percentile at writing, 70th percentile at drawing.
Nick
And the overlap of three 70th percentiles makes you a 99 percenter, but in a fraction of the time.
Jack
It's like the saying Jack of all trades, master of none, but often better than a master of one.
Nick
That's the full quote. Besties. Reading it gets us to 70% expertise fast and 70% in three skills. That is a talent stack. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for saviche Wednesday?
Jack
Vital Pharm stock is getting yoked on allegations made by a TikToker.
Nick
There are three kinds of corporate police yetis, but only one of them has to prove it in court.
Jack
For our second story, Meta and YouTube are in what could be a landmark court case that will likely take months to finish.
Nick
It's about digital nicotine. The jury. It could hand Instagram its first black lung moment.
Jack
And our third and final start is that the best business minds read a.
Nick
Lot the ROI on binge reading.
Jack
Because one big idea can come from just one thing that you read.
Nick
And 70% in three different skills is one heck of a talent stack.
Jack
But besties, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today.
Nick
First, India announced the mother of all trade deals with the European Union.
Jack
It's the number two and number four largest economies in the world. That includes 2 billion people.
Nick
Basically one out of four of us. By our math, that is the biggest trade deal in human history.
Jack
And it's a sign of increased cooperation abroad, while the US hasn't secured trade deals with either of those two.
Nick
And second, speaking of abroad, Jack, one American movie made more money in China than all others combined last year. And who was it?
Jack
Zootopia 2.
Nick
Yep. Disney's Zootopia sequel hit 1.7 billion bucks at the global box office. Highest animated movie take home ever, thanks to China.
Jack
Now, China has, like, stopped watching American movies, but Zootopia 2's the exception. And there's a cultural reason that explains it.
Nick
This is interesting. You see, the Chinese empathize with the main character in Zootopia, the bunny who goes from living in the country to making it in the big city.
Jack
That's the dream of, like a billion Chinese people.
Nick
And the antagonist in Zootopia is a snake. And last year happened to be the Year of the Snake.
Jack
So Disney don't Bank on Zootopia 3 Being a success unless there's a rat as the antagonist.
Nick
And finally, yesterday we did a story on Graza, the $150 million olive oil brand that put olive oil in a shampoo bottle.
Jack
Well, Heinz ketchup just said, hold my beer. They launched the first ever keg of ketchup.
Nick
That's right. Heinz created a keg of ketchup, AKA the kegs up. It's a Super bowl marketing move one and a half weeks before the bowl.
Jack
It's also part of a broader trend in food and beverages to win the wars on the shelves. It's all about the package.
Nick
Time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by Jack and I because we got a cool update for you.
Jack
Well, the Winter Olympics begin in just 10 days, and Team USA just announced the final roster.
Nick
So we dove in t boy style and we got some takeaways. Jack, youngest Team USA athlete. Who is it?
Jack
Abby Winterberger. Free skiing, 15 years old.
Nick
Oldest athlete. Who we got?
Jack
Rich Rahonen. The curler is 54 and still on Team USA.
Nick
Team USA also features four sets of.
Jack
Siblings on the squad, including the Kachuks of Team USA ice hockey.
Nick
But Jack, the state with the most per cap of representation. Who is it?
Jack
Vermont. Only three, but that's pretty good for a population of only seven.
Nick
It's like half the state. And Jack knows all three of them. Oh, but the school with the most representation on Team USA overall, who is University of Minnesota. Opening ceremonies next Friday, February 6th. If you know, you know by the.
Jack
Way for seven Americans, this is their fifth Olympics, including 41 year old Lindsey.
Nick
Vonn Yetis, you look fantastic for ceviche Wednesday. Jack, I lost you under the vest.
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Jack
Dude, I'm drowning. I'm drowning in my vests.
Nick
All right, besties, go enjoy whipping. Open a few chapters of great Expectations tonight and you'll probably come home with a profit tomorrow.
Jack
I think that's the day.
Nick
And then share that story with someone who you love today.
Jack
Hyh Tvoi Nick and I will see you tomorrow.
Nick
And before we go, happy birthday to legendary Eddie Sam Jensen celebrating all the way over in Utah.
Jack
Happy 21st birthday to Ivan Jimenez in the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Nick
I think he's got one of those Heinz ketchup kegs. Jack and Gabby pena has turned 18 years old down in Orlando. Orlando, happy birthday.
Jack
Happy birthday to Valerie in Rockford, Michigan.
Nick
And Trend Wisco is turning big. 50 years old in Greenbush, Minnesota.
Jack
Happy birthday to Jake Jordan celebrating in his garage in Atlanta.
Nick
And David Sulpy. Happy birthday even though still nobody knows where you're from.
Jack
And to anyone else celebrating something today.
Nick
Making a T boy celebrate the wins.
Jack
This is Jack. I own stock of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and Disney. And Nick owns stock of Lululemon.
Raj
Hey, it's Raj and Noah. And we're back with a new season of Am I Doing It Wrong? The show that explores the all too human anxieties we have about trying to get our lives right.
Noah
Because we're still doing a lot of stuff wrong.
Raj
But who isn't? That's why each week we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with. Whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions, or even dreaming.
Noah
We'Ll be talking to experts in their fields who are definitely doing things right. So the rest of us can be a bit wiser and a lot better equipped to handle whatever life life throws at us.
Raj
Subscribe now and listen to new episodes of Am I Doing It Wrong? Dropping every Thursday starting January 1st, wherever you get your podcasts.
Noah
And for the first time ever, we're going to have full video episodes on YouTube. Because as long as there are things to get wrong, we're going to be right here to help you do them better.
Raj
Love you.
Date: January 28, 2026
Hosts: Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell
In this brisk and playful episode, Nick and Jack break down three big pop-business stories:
The episode is rich with banter, memorable analogies (like “digital nicotine”), and tangible takeaways for listeners—whether you’re a business enthusiast, entrepreneur, or just in it for the fun facts.
Segment: [05:03–09:49]
Takeaway:
Egg companies—and corporations in general—now answer to regulators, Wall Street, and a new breed of online influencer. Only regulators are required to prove wrongdoing legally, but public opinion forms fast in the social era (often with little to no evidence).
Segment: [09:49–14:14]
Takeaway:
This legal battle could reshape the regulatory future of social media, just as the tobacco lawsuits did decades ago. The key isn’t just that kids use too much social media—but that the platforms were knowingly engineered for addiction, facing big public health scrutiny.
Segment: [15:40–20:35]
Segment: [20:39–22:16]
| Segment | Timestamp | |---------------------------------------------------------|---------------| | Podcast Cold Open & Banter | 00:01–03:42 | | Pokémon as AI Benchmark | 01:33–02:56 | | Story 1 – Vital Farms & The Egg-troversy | 05:03–09:49 | | Story 2 – Instagram’s Big Tobacco Moment | 09:49–14:14 | | Story 3 – Reading & the 70% Rule | 15:40–20:35 | | Quick Business Nuggets & Fun Facts | 20:39–22:16 | | Personal/Listener Shoutouts & Wrap-Up | 23:09–24:35 |
Nick and Jack maintain a light, witty, and highly conversational style, blending pop culture references, “dad joke” puns, and catchy analogies (“drowning in vests,” “digital nicotine,” “uncaged egg club”). The pace is quick, energetic, and oriented toward smart, busy listeners with a love of useful, retellable business stories.
This episode of The Best One Yet dives into modern business stories with fresh, fun analysis:
Whether you’re a business junkie or just want smart, snackable insights, this episode is a lively and memorable listen.