

14 Sep 2026 ¡ 22m ¡ 12 chapters

The episode covers three main stories. 1) Hollywoodâs âevil geniusâ trend: four upcoming films portray tech CEOs as villainsâThe Social Reckoning (Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg), Musk (Alex Gibney; includes claims Elon offered one woman $40M not to appear), Artificial (Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman; Amazon dropped it after investing in OpenAI), and You Can See Everything (Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder). Key claim: tech CEOs are âbetter villainsâ than bank CEOs because theyâre more powerful, less accountable, and influence elections via algorithms. 2) Lacosteâs âroom serviceâ fashion line: only available via room service at Hoxton Hotels; designed to reframe polos as premium. 3) Inflation and rates: CPI 3.4% YoY; 90% chance of Fed rate hike; housing ârate squattersâ keep markets stuck. Notable guests: none interviewed; referenced figures include Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, and Andrew Garfield/Jeremy Strong as actors.
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Discussion about the new trend of depicting tech CEOs as villains in movies.
âFor our second story, there's only one way to buy Lacoste's newest fashion line, hotel room service.â
Promo for the health supplement I Am Eight and its benefits.
Discussion on four movies featuring tech CEOs as villains and their cultural implications.
âYou see, I am eight is the way to simplify your supplement routine once and for all.â
Exploration of Lacosteâs unique strategy of selling clothing through hotel room service.
âFilmmakers are vilifying our tech leaders because power corrupts.â
Discussion on how Lacoste is retraining customer perceptions of value through exclusivity.
âYetis, if you want to wear the newest shirts from Lacoste, sorry, you can't.â
Learn how Lacoste is changing consumer perceptions of value with strategic pricing.
âRetrain the customer from thinking a Polo is a$15 shirt to a$150 one.â
Discussion on how Lacoste is retraining customer perceptions of value through exclusivity.
âYetis, you may have heard about BILT as the loyalty program that lets you earn points on rent wherever you live.â
Explore how inflation affects homeowners and the concept of rate squatters.
âThe youth mental health crisis is growing, and social media is a major driver.â
Explore how inflation affects homeowners and the concept of rate squatters.
âGab, tech insteps, independence for them, peace of mind for parents.â
Understand the implications of high interest rates on the housing market and consumer behavior.
âElon, Altman, Zuck, and Elizabeth Holmes are the villains in this fall's big movies.â
Get the latest news including Nintendo's tariff refund and AI's geopolitical impact.
âFirst, Nintendo got a tariff refund that's so huge, Donkey Kong is getting pumped.â
The hosts read out listener birthdays and congratulations, then note a New Yorker coincidence with past episode topics and tease season two.
âAnd before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Eddie Dan Tillman.â

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0:28This is Nick. Jack, three fantastic stories for today's show. What have we got on the T-Boy? For our first story, Hollywood's new villains aren't big banks. It's tech CEOs, and four films are about to show it. Besties, say hello to the newest movie franchise, Evil Tech Genius. For our second story, there's only one way to buy Lacoste's newest fashion line, hotel room service. Yeah, I'll have pancakes, mimosas, and a polo shirt. Yep, send it to room 512, please. And our third and final story, since inflation just hit another high, Interest rates will probably rise again this week. So we need to talk about mortgage hostages and rate squatters.
1:05But besties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What a mix of stories. Love the mix to kick off the week. Last week, we warned you about pheromone maxing. Pheromone maxing. Young men aren't showering. They're thinking their natural scents will help attract women. But now we got to warn you about another threat to your nostrils. Yeah, we're talking Uber stench. Uber stench. The air freshener overload in your next Uber or Lyft ride. And that smell is causing nausea, migraines, and a request to pull over right here, please. Yeah, I'll just put that right here. Get this. Bad smell is now a top complaint of the ride-hail companies.
1:37And the grievances have gone viral on TikTok. Because we've all smelled it and seen it. You know the usual suspects. They're hanging from the rearview mirror right now. Like the very cherry fruit balm freshener for the backseat. Or the Caribbean colada backseat scented hockey puck, you know. How about the vanilla Roma one that sticks in the air conditioning vent? Oh, Jack, what's the deal with the classic black ice tree? You know what I'm talking about? Shaped like a pine tree, smells like a chemical plant. What is black ice exactly, guys? I don't even really know that one. Wait, what exactly does black ice smell like?
2:08It smells like ice, which is nothing. But the worst part, besties, oh, the feedback. I mean, feed forward. If you tell Uber to try to fix this, it's probably gonna make the smell even worse. Because that driver's just gonna buy a 10th black ice tree and then hang it from the dashboard. The situation has gotten so smelly, The Uber CEO addressed it in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Uber might add an option in the app for fragrance-free cars. There's UberX, there's UberBlack, there's UberXL, and there's Uber All Natural. So, Fessy, if it's not the overwhelming whiff of that driver's all-natural pheromones.
2:41It's the nasal punch of that Febreze. Just wait until the Waymo robots get hooked on Abercrombie cologne, Jack. I think we could tweak the algorithm to avoid that, Nick. You know what? I'm going to bring my own Yankee candle into my next Uber ride. But Jack, let's say that what we're doing. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is a norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go.
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4:56So what did we learn, Jack? Families are willing to pay more for lemonade. So you set it up on Park. Yeah, we did it on Park. Besties, no one gives you financial lessons in life. You end up figuring most of it out as you grow up. But we love Monarch because it's like a financial advisor in your pocket. Because every minute, it's tracking your savings, spending, investments, and more. For instance, Monarch's goal tracking feature shows if you're on track for that summer trip to Santa Fe. And it tells you what percent of your income is going somewhere that's a surprise. I open Monarch all the time because it takes the mental load off tracking my finances.
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5:50For our first story, four movies this fall and winter feature a very unique new villain, real-life tech CEOs. Filmmakers are vilifying our tech leaders because power corrupts. Wow. What does power reveal? Ooh. But yet is, you may have noticed the water cooler gossip last week. It was the surprise three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary. The comedian Nathan Fielder spent three days with convicted fraudster and former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes just days before she was sent to prison. What Jack and I find fascinating, it's not the memes that have spawned from that really wild, shocking surprise trailer.
6:28Although those were hilarious. Or the fact that Elizabeth Holmes can hold a stare without blinking for seven straight minutes. What fascinates us is the trend that that film solidifies. Because get this, over the next month, three movies will premiere in theaters featuring CEO villains. And a fourth hits theaters on Christmas Day with the CEO as the villain. By the way, shout out to our mid-classmate, Alison Grant, for spotting the trend in a LinkedIn post. We'll share a link to that post in the show notes. In the meantime, no spoilers or Zuck will block us. But Jack, why don't we dive in T-Boy style and sprinkle on more context to this trend?
7:00These four movies coming soon to theaters show that the newest franchise isn't Marvel. It's Silicon Valley. Yeah, it's Silicon Valley, and it begins with The Social Reckoning. The Social Reckoning is Andrew Sorkin's sequel to The Social Network, starring Kendall Roy. I mean, Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg. Real Life Zuck is probably having an entire division of meta tweaking the algorithm right now to suppress coverage of this film, by the way. Yeah, because while The Social Network was a takedown of Mark Zuckerberg himself, The Social Reckoning is a takedown of Facebook. Ah, so that's the Facebook sequel.
7:32But the next movie is one single word. It's called Musk. Musk is a four-hour documentary about Elon by the Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney. You see, Gibney did the OG documentary on Elizabeth Holmes and the famous documentary about Enron back in the day. And this documentary features two women who've had children with Elon Musk, one of whom says on camera that Elon offered her$40 million to not be in the documentary. Looks like she turned down 40 mil. The third movie we want to tell you about, though, is called Artificial. This one's got Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. This feels like the social network, but instead of chronicling Zuck's invention of social media, it's Sam Altman's invention of artificial intelligence.
8:15Now, interestingly, Amazon was the owner of this movie just a few months ago, but then they dropped it. And why is that, Jack? Because Amazon became an investor in OpenAI and didn't want to take down the leader with a movie they were producing. By the way, the final 10 seconds of the trailer of this movie that dropped last week, they look like they're out of a horror movie. These are all basically horror movies. Yeah, they are. Oh, but then, Jack, there is one final one called You Can See Everything. With Elizabeth Holmes as Elizabeth Holmes. And Nathan Fielder as Nathan Fielder. Artificial premieres Christmas Day.
8:47The other three we just mentioned all premiere in October. But Jack and I gotta pause the pod and ask, why has tech become the new default Hollywood villain? It's because of our takeaway. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies looking at these wild four big tech movies? An even better villain than evil banks is evil tech geniuses. Hey, Eddies, we're going to remix Uncle Ben's famous line here. With great power comes great screen time. Big banks had the power to devastate our country in the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. So, 15 years ago, Hollywood raced to chronicle those crimes with a few big movies.
9:24Too Big to Fail, Margin Call, Big Short. They're all villainizing finance. But finance has limited villain potential. because nobody knows who the CEO of Lehman Brothers was. Morgan Stanley who? But everyone knows the CEO of Meta and SpaceX. Besties Finance has handed the baton of power to tech, from bankers to tech bros, from suits to sandals. And here's why the tech CEOs are better villains than bank CEOs ever could be. You see, tech has shown that it is vastly more profitable and more powerful than finance ever was. Tech has given birth to ungodly riches and the ability to influence our elections with algorithms.
9:57Bank CEOs, yeah, they could be fired by the board. But tech CEOs, they own super shares that make them answerable to no one. Incredibly well-known, incredibly powerful, incredibly rich, and controlling our whole country. Yeah, in Hollywood, that's called a profit puppy. I was going to say a villain. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, both, both, both. Besties in the 70s, the villain was Jaws. In the 80s, it was the evil emperor. And in the 90s, it was T-Rex. In the 2000s, it was bankers. But in the 2020s, it's tech CEOs. For our second story, Yetis, if you want to wear the newest shirts from Lacoste, sorry, you can't.
10:33Unless you're at a hotel and you order them through room service. Lacoste's room service fashion line is trying to train people to pay more. But first, happy New York Fashion Week to all those who celebrate. Well, Nick and I have some fashion trivia for you. What's the first article of clothing to slap a logo on it? Why don't we tell you the story of Lacoste? Because before Lacoste was a fashion brand, it was a tennis player. Not just any tennis player. The world's number one tennis player in 1926. The seven-time Grand Slam champion, RenĂŠ Lacoste. And after the Frenchman won Wimbledon, the French Open, and the U.S.
11:08Open, he got the nickname Le Crocodile because of his relentless. What a great sports nickname. The Crocodile? What a great flex, Jack. Well, that name stuck. And so his artistic buddy sketched him a crocodile that he wore on his blazer as a stitching. And in the year 1933, when he teamed up with a knitwear company, Rene put that crocodile on a shirt and put it up for sale. Ah, voila. That is how Lacoste was founded 93 years ago. And how clothing got its first logo. True story. The Vineyard Vines Whale, the Tommy Bahama Marlin, the Puma Puma. They can all thank Lacoste for paving the way on your shirt.
11:42Even the giant Abercrombie & Fitch moose from 2006 all dates back to the Lacoste crocodile. The crocodile walked literally so that that moose could run, Jack. Now today, Lacoste is owned by a Swiss fashion company and it generated$3 billion in revenue last year. $3 billion in revenue? That's more than Birkenstock sandals. It's almost as much as Levi's jeans. But if you want to buy the latest Lacoste t-shirt, you gotta call the front desk. Yeah, because Lacoste's latest collection is only available via hotel room service. It's a seven-piece collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist Michael McGregor.
12:18It includes polos, t-shirts, hoodies, pajamas, and a robe. The kind of stuff you'd wear at a hotel. Okay, but pause the pod, because it is only available at 19 Hoxton hotels worldwide, the trendy, goop-approved chain of hotels. But it's even more exclusive than you think, because they're not selling it to anyone in the hotel store. They're only selling it on the room service menu. Besties, what we're saying is if you want that new Lacoste polo, you gotta be back in the room, you have to have booked the room, and then you gotta call down to the concierge. Yeah, could I please have a burger, medium rare, truffle fries.
12:50You want a soda? Yeah, a soda. And one of those Lacoste polo shirts in size medium. Yeah, room 603. This is the only shopping experience delivered on a silver platter where you could be naked when you open the door. Now, the irony here is that Lacoste's room service strategy is both exclusive and inclusive. It's obviously exclusive because you can only get the Lacoste shirts at one boutique hotel chain. But it's inclusive because anyone can book a room in that hotel. So the result, well, these Lacoste room service robes are now selling for four times the price on resale platforms. Although if you buy it secondhand, beware.
13:23You might find a little torn open ketchup packet in the pocket. And someone may have worn that when they were naked. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Lacoste? Reframe the product to retrain the customer. Yetis, over the years, the polo shirt, it's been devalued. From fashion flex to cheap everyman attire, we've all got one. Every brand has a polo shirt. It's lost its cachet. Plus, we grew up buying like 12 packs of Ralph Lauren Polos at TJ Maxx for 15 bucks each. A factory outlet. Well, that is bad news for Lacoste, as Polo is their hero product. If Polo shirts are considered cheap and abundant, it's tough for Lacoste to charge a high price.
14:00But Lacoste has recognized that if you reframe, you can retrain. Retrain the customer from thinking a Polo is a$15 shirt to a$150 one. Because Besties, a room service only shirt, that is a premium product by association. You now associate Lacoste with a$400 a night awesome hotel, an indulgent meal, and that mimosa that came with it. Yes, there's also some if you know, you know playing into this. And yes, it's a good story to tell how you actually got that robe when you were ordering room service. But Lacoste is reframing the polo to retrain your price expectations. So we'll order a burger medium rare, and we'll see you after the break.
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16:27Gab, tech insteps, independence for them, peace of mind for parents.
16:36For our third and final story, Friday's inflation report means there's a 90 % chance that the Fed raises interest rates this week. Who does that affect the most? The tens of millions of Americans held hostage by their mortgage. Oh, yetis. On Friday, we got the celebrity inflation report. It's the one everyone's holding their breath just for a picture of. But on Friday, this celebrity looked horrible. It was a good look. The Consumer Price Index said that in August, prices rose 0.4 % from the month before, 3.4 % from the year before. Egg prices were dropping, but beef prices, oh, they were popping.
17:11But overall, this is an energy story. Gas, it's like$4.25 a gallon. Reminder, 2 % inflation, that is healthy. But anything above that, like 3.4 % inflation, that is bad. But Nick, on the day before that, on Thursday, the producer price index was even worse. It said that prices for companies and businesses are up 5.4 % from the year before. And the key contributor, again, energy, diesel energy, because semis and freight trucks use diesel instead of gasoline. And the unrelenting war in Iran has diesel prices at$6 per gallon, which is the highest of all time. Yeah. Oh, here in California, five stations have now maxed out their price sign, like physically maxed it out.
17:52They can't go any higher, Jack. You know the prices? They only have like four digits,$9, 99.9 cents. They're maxed out. They can't raise the prices unless they like put a cardboard box up there with Sharpie marker prices. And diesel? Yeah, that's the inflation you pay at the grocery store, not the pump. Because if trucking costs more, then tomatoes, tuna, and tortillas eventually will cost more too. On Friday, Saudi Arabia shut down a pipeline after multiple attacks, and that's just going to send diesel prices even higher. Now, here's the problem with all that. We now have the perfect storm of reasons for high interest rates to rise even higher.
18:26Actually, it's not just a perfect storm, besties. We think it's actually a perfect cushion, and we'll explain. On the one hand, there's a whole bunch of reasons for rising prices that we just mentioned. And in addition to the war in Iran messing with energy, you've got new tariffs on Canada that'll raise prices on things we buy from the Canucks. Well, last month in Jackson Hole, our new Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, said that he is committed to getting to a 2 % inflation target. And he signaled that he would raise interest rates to help get inflation down to 2%. Now, here's where the cushion comes in.
18:55Because even though prices are popping, so are jobs. Yeah, in August, 162 ,000 jobs were added. Unemployment is down to 4.1%. The jobs market seems to be doing just fine. And that gives our Fed chairman the cushion he needs to raise interest rates and not worry about the jobs market right now. Raise interest rates to tame the monster of inflation. Because the Fed knows our jobs market is strong, it can handle higher interest rates. So, add it all up, Esses, and it's a no-brainer that the Fed's going to raise interest rates, and they will do it this week. On Wednesday, there's a 90 % chance the Fed raises interest rates according to futures markets.
19:31Sucks, but the inflation situation has gotten more painful, so we're getting more high-interest rate medicine. The Fed's going to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023. Yeah, but Nick, let's check in on those hostages. Yeah, those hostages, they want to talk. So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies staring at these epically high interest rates? Our housing market is held hostage by rate squatters. Ah, rate squatters. Yeti, half of American homeowners have mortgage rates under 4%. Half of mortgage holders locked in low rates before all the rates started rising in 2022. In this economy, having a mortgage rate under 4%, that's like living in a rent-stabilized apartment.
20:10Pretty good. Having a mortgage under 4%, you're never giving that up. No. A 4 % mortgage for the median-priced home in America is paying$700 less a month than the current 7.1 % mortgage rate holders. That rate you locked in, it's so good, your mortgage means you're not leaving your home. Your mortgage is too good to sell. And that is rate squatting. Empty nesters, they now got a house that's too big, but they won't sell because they don't want a new 7 % mortgage. Or new parents have a house that's too small, but they're making do with it because they don't want to switch to a 7 % mortgage. Like besties, the size, the quality of your house, whether you own or you rent, these are huge determinations of your economic happiness.
20:48And yet the housing market is collateral damage to the Fed's obligation to kill inflation. Tens of millions of us, we got a house that's too big or too small, but we won't sell it because we don't want to lose the low rate. Until interest rates come down, we'll have rate squatters. Rate squatting. It's understandable, and it's holding our housing market hostage. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us to kick off the week? Elon, Altman, Zuck, and Elizabeth Holmes are the villains in this fall's big movies. Evil geniuses are better villains than big banks ever could be. And that's the new Hollywood franchise.
21:23For our second story, Lacoste's new line is only available at Hoxton Hotels through room service. Because Lacoste is reframing the polo to retrain our price expectations. And our third and final story. There's a 90 % probability that the Fed announces an interest rate increase this Wednesday because of high inflation. Which means the housing market will stay hostage to rate squatters. But besties, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Nintendo got a tariff refund that's so huge, Donkey Kong is getting pumped. Nintendo's turning it into a marketing moment. Yeah, they are.
21:59Ever since the Supreme Court overturned much of Trump's tariffs, businesses have been getting refunds, tariff refunds. Nintendo got a$300 million tariff refund, so it's running a two-week 30 % off sale to give it back to consumers. It's-a-me, a refund. Second, Anthropic says that Iran used its AI model to plan an attack on the U.S. Navy. That came out of nowhere. Apparently, it's part of a report from Anthropic on how enemies of ours can use our own American AI against us. Oh, and by the way, Yetis, all these scary AI headlines, they're actually resulting in some congressional action. The House and the Senate do have momentum right now, like never before, to put some guardrails on AI.
22:40For the first time ever. And finally, the CDC has declared the cyclospora outbreak related to that Taylor Farms lettuce to be over. Thank you, CDC. Yetis, you can stop hoarding toilet paper and you can eat your lettuce in peace. Date night at Taco Bell. It's back, baby. Oh, hang on a second, Nick. The FDA actually says that the investigation remains ongoing. So you can go to Taco Bell, but only eat half as much guac? I don't know, Nick. The number of false endings to this explosive diarrhea lettuce syndrome, it's just, it's gotten me exhausted. How exhausted, Jack? Because exhaustion is a symptom of cyclospora.
23:17Now time for the best fact yet, which because it's Monday means T-Boy trivia. This one sent in by Aaron McConnell from Mission Viejo, California. Last week, we did a story on s'mores. how Hershey's is capitalizing on the s'mores brand and sold$250 million of chocolate just for s'mores this year. But do you know where the graham cracker in the s'more actually comes from? The graham cracker was invented 197 years ago by a minister. Minister Sylvester Graham. He created a cracker and he named it naturally after himself. But here's our T-boy trivia. What was the purpose of the graham cracker? What was the purpose of the graham cracker?
23:51Jack doesn't know the answer, but here are the four options. A, was it to fundraise for the church? Like Girl Scout cookies. B, was it to replace communion? Yeah, I wouldn't mind if it tasted better. C, was it to create a new health food brand? I doubt that because graham crackers aren't particularly healthy. Or D, was it to stop sinful desires? Like have this graham cracker as a diversion from committing sins? Exactly, Jack. Like if you're feeling lustful, just have this box of graham crackers. Exactly, Jack. So which answer is it? A, B, C, or D? What do you think? What do you think? I mean, D would be hilarious.
24:22So I'm going to go with D. always go with the hilarious answer jack because that is correct minister graham invented the graham cracker because quote whole grain foods would curb sinful thoughts that is hysterical and i'll never not think of that when having s'mores for the rest of my life i mean having a s'more is a sinful activity yeah that is yeah if you've got a buddy who's doing a little too much sports betting hand him a few graham crackers maybe we'll see how that goes Yetis, you looked fantastic today. Jack, you smell fantastic today. And full disclosure, I actually did have black ice air fresheners in my dorm room in college.
25:01Wait, our dorm room in college? Yeah, I don't think you noticed, Jack, but that's why we got so many people coming to hang out with us. I think it was the natural, oh, the black ice. Would you put them in like your lacrosse shoes? No, no, I put them in the desk. That's a suspect move, man. But besties, next week is our live show in San Francisco, and we want to see you there. We've still got some tickets available, so grab yours using the link in the episode description. September 23rd at the Palace of Fine Arts. Or go to tboypod.com if you know, you know.
25:32And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Eddie Dan Tillman. Belated birthday for this helicopter pilot in the Marines. Thank you for your service, Dan. Happy birthday to Steph Winklauski, who celebrated number 33 on the weekend with hikes, brews, and friends in San Francisco. And Abbas Hussein, happy birthday in Chicago doing logistics. Happy birthday to Kyle Nolan Hill, turning 33 in San Diego. And Chase Knox, we see your birthday also down in San Diego. Happy birthday to Julian Acemail in Seattle. And a happy ninth birthday to Eli Burnett, their last birthday before double digits down in Texas.
26:04Congratulations to Amy Greenhut, who got a new job at the wearables team over at Meta in New York City. And Brooke Morgan is a new dog mom to a black lab named Huckleburgie in San Diego. Congratulations, guys. And a shout out to Brett Corson, who noticed two subjects of TBIY episodes, The Best Idea Yet, Michelin Restaurants, and Hermes Handbags, were both covered in this week's New Yorker magazine. Classy stuff. By the way, season two of The Best Idea Yet, I'm feeling real good about it. No spoilers, no spoilers.
26:35This is Jack, I own Stock of Lyft. Nature raised farms. Yetis, you walk into the grocery store, excited to cross off your list. That empty shopping cart is an ocean of opportunity. Then you get to aisle six and it hits you. Oh boy. Choice paralysis. Yes, we whipped up takeaways about this on the pod. Too many options. It's like a game of chicken. Do I go with that chicken or that chicken? Yeah, the irony of having so many chickens to choose from, you cannot choose. This one's raised on a farm. This one's raised on a prairie. Is this range-free or cage-free? Choice paralysis of all these options.
27:05It makes us feel dumber. So Nature Raised Farms is built on the simple belief that food shouldn't be complicated. Especially chicken. Definitely shouldn't be complicated. But the freezer aisle, it makes it that way. Too many options, too many additives, a lot of random compromises. But Nature Raised Farms chicken is free from gluten, dairy, and soy. Made with no seed oils or artificial ingredients, you know what you're getting. So you can make a simple decision, get on with your day, without stressing about the chicken parm recipe. Because that recipe is really simple, and so should be your chicken.
27:29Nature Raised Farms, it's built on a simple belief. Food shouldn't be complicated.
Hollywoodâs new villains arenât Big Banks, itâs Tech CEOs⌠and 4 new films prove it.
Lacoste is only selling its new polo collection through hotel room service⌠Itâs fancy by association.
The Consumer Price Index came in at 3.4%⌠so letâs talk about âInterest Rate Squatters.â
Plus, the #1 new complaint in your Uber⌠is the smell of that Very Cherry chemical Air Freshener.
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