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The Best One Yet

30 Jul 2025 · 22m · 10 chapters

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⛳ “He’s a 10 but…” — Tea’s red flag dating app. Quince’s $4.5B cashmere. Our 1st Transcontinental Railroad. Happy Gilmore’s cameo strategy.

In short

The episode covers: (1) Tea dating app “green/red flag” feedback for men, but it was hacked twice, exposing users’ intimate DMs and phone-number lookups; the show argues vulnerability requires airtight security and highlights rising “consumer surveillance” issues. Notable examples include a Venmo-request red flag and a comment claiming someone found an assailant via the app. (2) Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s $85B merger, framed as America’s first transcontinental railroad in 2025; expected value $250B, regulatory closure by 2027, and “single-line shipping” to cut Chicago-style train transfers. (3) Quince’s $4.5B valuation for “affordable luxury” (cashmere, candles, caviar), described as a tech/direct-to-factory model with a “caviar strategy” (limited luxury drops like $3,000 rings and $300 caviar) to sell $50 luxury via association.

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Chapters

0:30

Exploring Happy Gilmore 2's Cameos

Delve into the fascinating cameo strategy of Happy Gilmore 2 and its marketing implications.

“For our second story, the biggest business deal of 2025 was announced yesterday.”
5:12

Exploring Happy Gilmore 2's Cameos

Delve into the fascinating cameo strategy of Happy Gilmore 2 and its marketing implications.

“Yeah, and you ever look in a mirror and think, hey, who is that?”
6:17

Exploring Happy Gilmore 2's Cameos

Delve into the fascinating cameo strategy of Happy Gilmore 2 and its marketing implications.

“Ladies, happy schvitz season to all those who celebrate.”
7:26

The Controversial Tea Dating App

Examine the rise and security concerns surrounding the new dating app Tea.

“But tea has now been hacked twice, leaving women feeling exposed.”
11:48

America's First Transcontinental Railroad

Explore the monumental merger creating America's first transcontinental railroad.

“For our second story, choo-choo, America is finally getting its first transcontinental railroad.”
14:00

Railroad Industry Consolidation Insights

Explore the implications of merging major railroad companies in the U.S.

“Back in the late 1800s, we created antitrust laws, ironically, because of railroad monopolies.”
17:02

Quince's Revolutionary Business Model

Learn about Quince's innovative approach to affordable luxury fashion.

“I know he's watching the World Cup matches, Jack.”
18:08

Quince and the Caviar Strategy

The hosts explain how Quince reached a $4.5 billion valuation with a direct-to-factory model and limited luxury drops like caviar and gold bars that make its $50 cashmere feel luxurious.

“For our third and final story, Quince, the affordable luxury brand, just hit a$4.5 billion valuation by selling cashmere sweaters and cute dresses, but also caviar and gold bars.”
23:08

Current Events Overview

A recap of significant news stories affecting various industries.

“because it doesn't make sense to take two Ubers to get to dinner, and it's the same with trains.”
28:00

The Dilemma of Choice Paralysis

Explore the challenges of making decisions with too many options.

“Yes, we whipped up takeaways about this on the pod.”
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0:29This is Nick. This is Jack. And that is causing the real tea. For our second story, the biggest business deal of 2025 was announced yesterday. An$85 billion railroad merger. Besties, forget what you learned in grade school. This is our first transcontinental railroad. And our third and final story. The fashion brand Quince just hit$4.5 billion valuation for cashmere, candles, and caviar. But we think Quince's real innovation, it's actually America's Teemu. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Oh, fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix, Jack. It's been 29 years since Happy Gilmore hit theaters in 1996.

1:10Just tap, tap, tap, tap, tap in that sequel, Jack. Tap, tap, tap-a-roo. Happy Gilmore 2 hit Netflix on Friday, and it's already Netflix's number one movie. Spoiler, don't expect it to be as good as Happy Gilmore number one. Happy Gilmore 2 is like a college reunion. It's fun, but it's not as fun as college was. But did you know that this movie only had a budget of$30 million? $30 million? That's like one-tenth the budget of a Disney movie. But here's what Jack and I find fascinating, Yetis. Happy Gilmore 2 specializes in the greatest financial trick shot in the history of film. Happy Gilmore 2 specializes in the cameo.

1:47Ah, the cameo. Happy Gilmore 2 has more cameo appearances than any other movie we could find. And we triple-checked IMDb. 60 different celebrity cameos. This is a marketing hack. Because the celebrities in the film, they post on social. But it's also a cost saver. Because you don't have to pay Eminem for those 30 seconds he was on camera. No, you don't. In fact, Jack and I counted 14 different pro golfers in this movie. From Lee Trevino to John Daly to Scotty Shaffler. In fact, there are more pro athletes in the cast than in the Olympics. Reggie Bush, Sean Avery, Taylor Swift's boyfriend. Aw, music?

2:23Happy Gilmore 2 stars enough singers to win a Grammy. Bad Bunny, Kid Cudi, Post Malone. In fact, the Happy Gilmore cameos are also kind of like a family reunion, right Jack? Because Adam Sandler's wife and kids were in Happy Gilmore 2. But Ben Stiller's three kids are also in the movie. There were four influencers, including Alex Earl. Two chefs, including Guy Fieri. Even the host of Jeopardy somehow snuck into the cast. Who is Ken Jennings? Get this, Nick. The daughter of the CEO of Netflix, she made the movie too. Oh, but the wildest appearance of all. Who is it, Jack? The real life Happy Gilmore.

3:03That's right. Adam Sandler's character is based off a real childhood friend. From the University of Vermont. Besties, Happy Gilmore 2. It ain't just a movie. It's a case study in frugal filmmaking with 60 different cameos. The only one who didn't make Happy Gilmore 2 is that Mista Mista lady. Remember her? Oh, yeah, Jack, but I think they just killed her. I think we just killed her. Chubbs be proud. Let's hit our three stories.

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7:25For our first story, tea has hit number two in the app store as women want the tea on the men they are dating. But tea has now been hacked twice, leaving women feeling exposed. And this feels like a trend. Yetis, Bumble pioneered the women's first dating app. Women make the first move. While T is the successor to Bumble in some ways. It's kind of like the sequel, because it's basically borrowed the business model of Yelp, and it's put it on dudes. Now, to be clear, T is not a dating app in the traditional sense. T is an app where women can go to give honest feedback about the guys that they've dated.

8:05If you've had a relationship with someone, you can give them a red flag, you give them a green flag. So women on T are hunting for green flags because those are the guys you want. But then T added more features and unfortunately yellow flag was not one of them. True. It's not just red flags and green flags as you scroll through guys. You can enter a guy's phone number that you got on a first date and use the T app to find out if he's married. You can reverse photo lookup, see if he's catfishing you by using a picture of someone else. Basically T has digitized the Whisper Network. It's techified the boyfriend tea.

8:40Call this the gas business model. Yeah, why's that? Gossip as a service. So just like a Yelp review, as you scroll through dudes on the app, you would see comments reviewing what they're like. For example, he sent me a Venmo request after our first date. That's probably a red flag at this point, Jack. True. But Nick, there's like serious reviews. This is doing good work. There's one comment I saw on Instagram. I found the guy who assaulted me on this app and was able to warn three other people about it thanks to T. Yetis, this is powerful stuff. And that is why 4.7 million women have downloaded this app and it hit number two in the app store.

9:17Now, some people who download the app have been frustrated by the wait list. Yeah, human staff have to verify the app to ensure that real human women are using it. So you tried to download the app two weeks ago, but your application is still pending. But the T users are even more frustrated because T has been hacked. Twice. Women shared intimate information to this app, including DMs among women who both dated the same guy. Now we should point out the app claims that everything is secure and everyone is anonymous. But it's not hard to piece together a woman's ID based on the hacked data that's now on the dark web.

9:53Yet he's had it all up and that's not T, that's a leak. And it comes at the worst time for this startup. T has entered the zeitgeist. Yeah, T, it was just taken off. It had momentum. It was rocket shipping with PR buzz over the last week. And now the brand has been dented just as it was rising. And Jack, why is this so particularly painful for T? I mean, this app depends on you being vulnerable. If vulnerability is the product, security must be the foundation. Jack's spoken like Uncle Ben from Spider-Man. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies is over at T. Problematic product, market fit.

10:32Yetis, Jack and I have noticed a trend recently. Consumer surveillance is surging. In some cases, the surveillance is good. Good point. Because surveillance is accountability, which improves people's behavior. Yeah, like the astronomer CEO. He got outed for an affair at the Coldplay concert or Predators outed in the T app. But Nick, does the T-app mean second chances are over? Like if a guy gets caught picking his nose, is he never going to get a date again because of his red flags on the T-app? If you split the check, you may never get married, is what you're saying, Jack. No reformed bad boys are going to emerge from this T-app.

11:07But besties, we've noticed there's even more surveillance happening right now. Like at our Chicago live show, we actually had an encounter hanging out with a Yeti who was wearing meta Ray-Ban glasses. We didn't realize it at the time, but our entire interaction was recorded with video and that guy posted it on Instagram. I just saw it today. Well, how about AI listening devices? The ones we've said are going to come out from Sam Altman next year. People could have a listening device in their pocket recording you and you'd have no idea what was happening. So Basties, each of these products has great market fit, but it introduces sticky new social issues because everything's being recorded.

11:41Potentially problematic product, great market fit.

11:48For our second story, choo-choo, America is finally getting its first transcontinental railroad. Nick, this is actually the biggest business deal of the year. It's Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. Yeti's 1869, America's West and East Coast were connected at Promintery Point, Utah. Two railroad companies met in Utah in a post-Civil War moment of unity for the country. We all learned about it in sixth grade. The famous golden spike was spiked into the ground. But in 2025, it's not railroad workers uniting the country. It's bankers. Yeah, and they're not smacking a golden spike. They're grabbing a golden pen.

12:32Because Union Pacific Railroad is paying Norfolk Southern Railroad 320 bucks a share and a combination of cash and stock to merge. Yeah, we did the multiplication math for you. That is an$85 billion with B deal. And this combined massive coast to coast railroad company, it's going to be worth$250 billion. Sit down, stand up and punch your ticket again. This is the biggest merger of 2025 and it's a railroad deal. The numbers are bigger than a locomotive. After this deal is closed, we're talking 100 ports linked by 50 ,000 miles of rail across 43 American states. Everywhere but the six New England states and North Dakota can buy a ticket at this combined railroad and go anywhere in the country that they want.

13:19And yetis, this is huge because railroads carry 28 % of U.S. freight and 40 % of long-haul cargo. America doesn't run on Duncan. It runs on railroads. No, no, no, Jack. America doesn't run on Duncan. It runs on Choo Choo. We went over that. It's Choo Choo. We promised our sons we're going to say Choo Choo. But besties, this deal, it is as big as a train and yet it is as slow as Amtrak. The executives buying this deal expect it won't close until 2027. That's how long it will take to get regulatory approval. So Jack, I got to ask, why is this epic train deal going to take so long? Because it looks, smells, and sounds like a monopoly.

14:02Yeah, get this yetis. Back in the late 1800s, we created antitrust laws, ironically, because of railroad monopolies. So the suits behind this billion dollar deal are already speaking in code that they think Trump will like. Yeah, these railroad execs have literally said, we are re-industrializing America. They said they have guaranteed jobs for anybody that's unionized. They've said we will transform the U.S. supply chain and unleash the industrial strength of American manufacturing. Now, do these train execs really believe that? Or are they just trying to find ways to cut costs, boost profits, and make a bigger bonus?

14:39So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in the railroad industry? It doesn't make sense to take two Ubers to get somewhere. And it doesn't make sense to take two trains either. Now, Yetis, Jack and I are not fans of consolidation. We are fans of competition. But we don't think this consolidation will hurt competition. No, we don't. Because the two railroads in question, they don't compete with each other. Interestingly, the railroad industry is highly regional. Norfolk operates east of the Mississippi. Union Pacific operates west. They each have their own separate territory. So merging won't reduce competition.

15:13But it will reduce cumbersome. Cumbersome, because shipping something by rail from New York to LA requires a changeover in Chicago, Kansas City, or St. Louis. You literally got to put the stuff in a different train because you've reached the end of the Norfolk Railway and have to get onto the Union Pacific Railway. That is costly, both in time and money. Like, you know, when you switch from New Jersey Transit to Long Island Railroad just to get to the Hamptons. Getting from Jersey to Montauk would be a lot quicker and more efficient if those rail lines merged. Besties in a rail, this is called single line shipping.

15:46And that's the money savings that this merger wants to achieve. Doesn't make sense to take two Ubers to get to dinner. Doesn't make sense to take two trains either. Choo-choo, Jack. Choo-choo. Now, a quick word from our sponsor. This episode is brought to you by Bill, the intelligent finance platform that helps businesses scale with proven results. Yet he's paying and getting paid? That is a pain for small and medium-sized businesses. Jack, did you send the invoice? Did they see the invoice? Did you remember to remind them to see to pay or remember to pay the invoice? If you drop the ball in any one of those steps, you don't get paid.

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18:04This is a job for Indeed Sponsored Jobs For our third and final story, Quince, the affordable luxury brand, just hit a$4.5 billion valuation by selling cashmere sweaters and cute dresses, but also caviar and gold bars. And like Shein, Quince is really a tech company. This is America's T-Mobile, but luxury. Now, yeah, it is a funny thing. Last week when we were in Chicago, I gave Jack a gift for my half birthday. It's just the kind of guy I am. I thought I was the people pleaser. You're giving me a gift for your half birthday? So I gave Jack a yak sweater because you said you wanted one, right?

18:45I did. Now, we didn't know it at the time, but Quince, the maker of that yak wool sweater Nick got me, was about to make news. The$50 yak wool sweater. Yeti's Quince is a fashion startup that just raised 200 million bucks at a$4.5 billion valuation. That means this fashion brand is right up there with Skims, Viore, and Christian Louboutin in valuation. On the public side, they're about half the size of The Gap. They're almost as big as Levi's jeans though. A seven-year-old disruptor is biting at fashion's heels. Now, the name of the brand is Quince, which is sort for quintessential, as opposed to quinceanera, which Jack thought it was short for.

19:24I totally mispronounced it. I thought it was quince. But basically, Like this cashmere covered unicorn is affordable luxury. It's kind of like an Everlane studied abroad in Milan. Exactly. The pandemic was big for Keats. You mean Quince. Right, Quince. Revenue 15X'd in 2021 and revenues are expected to hit half a billion dollars this year. How would you describe Quince though, Jack, if you haven't seen your yak wool sweater? If Jenny Kane and J.Crew had a baby who was raised by Amazon. And went to boarding school in Ojai, California. But what Nick and I found fascinating about Quince is that their business model is unprecedented in American apparel.

20:01In fact, the more we looked at their business model, Quince isn't really a fashion company. It's a tech company. A tech company ensconced in linen. First of all, Quince is based in San Francisco. Second of all, half of their employees are software engineers. I got to ask Jack, what does a brand selling maxi dresses need so many coders for in San Francisco? They're DTF. That's why. More on that in a second. Let's sprinkle on some context. A typical apparel business like The Gap plans for a season, orders from a factory, and then keeps those cute tops in a warehouse as inventory. But Quince doesn't do that at all.

20:39They're asset light. They only tell the factory to make a dress if someone has ordered it. So the way Jack and I see it, they're not a direct-to-consumer company like Casper Mattress. They're a direct-to-factory company. They're DTF. Quince's technology cuts out an extra middleman to stay as lean as possible, which means there's no wasted clothes, no wasted waistbands being made at Quince. Only waistbands people have ordered online already. And that's how you get a cashmere sweater down to 50 bucks. A$50 luxury company. It sounds like an oxymoron. But it also sounds like something we've seen before, right, Jack?

21:15Yeah, China, Xi 'an, and Timu, they pioneered this direct-to-factory concept. But Quince is doing it in America, and they're doing it with luxury. So Jack, what is the beige cover takeaway for our buddies over at Quince? Quince's other innovation? The caviar strategy. Yetis selling$50 cashmere and luxury dupes? That's also a risk for Quince. It's a risk to the brand because no matter how high quality they say that cashmere is, for just 50 bucks, you might think it's cheap cashmere. So here's the key. To preempt that risk, Quinn's makes a strategic move. Limited luxury drops. For example, they're currently selling a$3 ,000 diamond ring on their website.

22:01Yeah, last month, Quinn sold$4 ,000 gold bars on their website. And over the holidays, they sold a$300 tin of the highest grade caviar. I'm sorry, Jack, is that Royal Ocetra caviar? All of those luxury products sold out, and Quince doesn't plan to restock them, but that's not the point. That's right. The point is to have you associate Quince with caviar, even if they don't sell caviar year-round. If you saw an article that said Quince is selling caviar, you're going to associate Quince with luxury, and believe that that$50 sweater is in fact luxury. That is luxury by association, or as Jack and I call it, the caviar strategy.

22:43Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for Saviche Wednesday? The T app helps women catch red flags about potential dates, but it also got hacked. The consumer surveillance industry. Potentially problematic products. Great market fit. For our second story, the number one and number four railroad companies announced they're merging. It'll be the first ever transcontinental railroad. And the biggest deal of the year. because it doesn't make sense to take two Ubers to get to dinner, and it's the same with trains. And our third and final story is Quince. It's America's luxury she-in. It comes direct from factory and has a$4.5 billion valuation.

23:21How do you equate Quince with luxury? Well, you do it with the caviar strategy. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, by now, you've seen the shooting in New York City in Midtown Manhattan on Park Avenue that sadly killed four people. Including a police officer, a security guard, and a top female executive at Blackstone, which is a tenant of the building. Now, the latest update is that the shooter was not targeting Blackstone, the financial firm. He was actually targeting the NFL. That's according to a note he left behind after killing himself. The NFL headquarters are in that building, and the shooter had a history of football brain injuries.

23:59Second, Waymo has chosen its next dancing partner. Their robo-taxis are coming to Dallas. They're coming to Dallas, but interestingly, Waymo's doing it without Uber. Instead, Waymo is partnering with Avis Car Rental? Yeah, Avis is going to handle the fleet management. Basically, cleaning the cars and charging them and making sure they're in tip-top shape. I mean, Jack, how did Waymo not partner with Enterprise? Enterprise comes pick you up. True. Missed opportunity. Either way, Uber is bummed. They thought they were Waymo's fleet manager. You never know who you're going to dance with. And finally, on Monday, we told you about the Sidney Sweeney stock surge.

24:39Sidney did a denim collab with American Eagle, and American Eagle's stock jumped 15%. Well, now that promotion's getting some pushback, because the good jeans theme is a cute wordplay, but it does carry some racial baggage. It sparked claims of eugenics from one side and wokeness from the other. Now, time for the best fact yet. This one is a correction sent in by Sam Barber from lovely Royal Oak, Michigan. Last week at our Chicago Live show, we interviewed Chris Barman, CEO of Slate Auto, and we said on stage that Slate should be the first car company to launch a smoothie collab. Yeah, they got a cool electric car.

25:15They may as well have a cool smoothie to go with it. Well, it turns out Chevy had the same idea. Because in September of last year, they did a smoothie collab with Erewhon. Yeah, Chevrolet is actually the first car company to launch a smoothie. I can't believe I'm saying those words. And yes, they did it with Erewhon. And we're guilty here because we actually covered that Chevy electric Erewhon smoothie on our pod. Yeah, I remember, Jack, because I think we said it tasted like, is that chassis? I think that's a hint of chassis in there. Thanks for the hilarious correction, Sam. Yeah, the leather seats, that's vitamin C right there.

25:49That's vitamin C. Yetis, you look fantastic today. Jack, you are glowing. Do you want to share with them the news? Are you excited about this? Should we let them know? I don't know if we're allowed to. What, that I wore the yak sweater and I look really nice in it? What are you getting at? I was going to say that you and I are making a cameo in Happy Gilmore 3. Revenge of Shooter McAvon. I can't believe we're going to wait to tell everybody. But Grizzly Adams did have a beard. If you know, you know. Yeti's dropped down to give us a five-star review. That helps us grow the show. We love reading them.

26:23Jack and I, we'll see you tomorrow.

26:30And before we go, a happy birthday to Eddie Sidney down in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who also is in an insanely cool, awesome seven-year relationship. Happy birthday to Yashvi Shah in San Francisco, who is turning a sweet 16. Happy birthday, and Yana and Taylor Embry from New York City have a 10-year anniversary on the day a pigeon and four raccoons brought them together in Central Park. Oh, my God. You got to send this to the New York Times as a metropolitan diary. That is an amazing story. It feels like it's a movie. And congratulations to Natalie Chen, who completed the San Francisco Marathon with her best time yet.

27:05And Joanna and Andre from Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Happy anniversary. Hope you're celebrating well. Happy 30th birthday to Eric Monaghan in Framingham, Mass. And a belated 20th birthday to Aditi Shaw hanging out down the street in San Francisco. Happy anniversary to Yana and Taylor in Denver, Colorado. And Lila Tran is turning seven years old all the way down in beautiful San Diego. Happy birthday to Brittany Chibi in Chicago, who is at our live show. Great to see you at Austin Stanius. Happy 37th birthday, hanging out in Cali. And happy second birthday. The big number two to Gia Wadia in Los Angeles.

27:46This is Jack. I own stock in Netflix, Levi, Disney, and Amazon. 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.

28:17It makes us feel dumb. 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, it's really simple and so should be your chicken.

28:41Nature Raised Farms, it's built on a simple belief. Food shouldn't be complicated.

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