The Best One Yet
👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
Tue, 27 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the Ugly Beauty trend?
Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody knows I went on a Paris trip last year, right? Yeah, we heard it in multiple episodes. Well, I shared with Nick all the Google Maps pins of the best spots in Paris. You're like a digital rat tattooey. It was so helpful. More for that on another pod. In the meantime, Jack, three fantastic stories for today's show. What do we got on the T-Boys?
For our first story, the surprise movie winner of the summer, it may be Lilo and Stitch. Because Stitch, a blue alien surfer stuffed animal thingy, has stealthily become Disney's top selling character. For our second story, the House of Representatives passed President Trump's big, beautiful bill last week. So Jack and I are calling it now. This summer is going to have big debt energy.
And our third and final story is a wild new trend. Women are turning into monsters at night to look beautiful during the day. And one podcast is powering the entire monster beauty eye mask trend movement. A lot of nouns there. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What? What a mix of stories to come back to. No one else is starting the week with this mix, Jack.
Welcome back to the office. But a quick work update before you sit at that cubicle. There are two words you may not say because it's Spotify. They have now banned two words from being said in any meeting. Later. and offline. Get this. Every week, Spotify's top team holds a three-hour meeting. Quick side note, that is way too long a meeting.
Oh yeah, a meeting over three hours is legally a corporate retreat. Better have a private chef attending that meeting with like full three catered meals. I'm out of there after 45 minutes, Jack. But back to our story. In these meetings, Spotify has banned later and offline from being said. So you may not say, we'll figure that out later. And you can't say, let's take it offline.
Because you're in the meeting now, so why figure it out later? And you're already online, so why go offline? They call this real-time resolution. And we call this an idea we love. Because raise your hand if you're overwhelmed with follow-up tasks right now. Y'all got the FUF, the follow-up fatigue. I have like four notes on my iPhone that are just various types of to-do lists.
I actually have a note about your notes, but we'll circle back on that, Jack. So Yetis, if you do try to circle back today, or if you try to put a pin on that subject, or if you try to tackle the low-hanging fruit first and then take care of the other action items by EOD, well, Spotify will spank you. True story. Or Daniel Ek will hit you with a Swedish fish. Yetis, we are all online now.
So Jack, let's hit our three stories right now.
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 the 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. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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Chapter 2: How did Lilo & Stitch become a surprise box office winner?
For our second story, the US House just passed Trump's big, beautiful bill on Thursday. If the Senate passes this and it becomes law, then prepare for big debt energy. Yet he's in an absolute nail-biter. Republicans passed a massive budget bill at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter. The score was 215 to 214. That's the scoreboard. Every Democrat voted against it. All but three Republicans voted for it.
And this is called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. And it includes all the policies that Trump campaigned on. If this 1,000-page bill passes the Senate and becomes law... it will add $4 trillion to America's debt. Now, we should point out, Eddie, $4 trillion could buy you every publicly traded company in Germany. I think you could buy every publicly traded company in Germany and France.
Also, with $4 trillion, you could make 8 million Avengers movies. That is insane. There are literally not enough plot lines for that. Hey, yetis, for $4 trillion, we should point out, you could buy every public company in Germany.
Seriously.
Yeah. For $4 trillion, you could make 11,000 more Avengers movies. Superman would be exhausted, but you could make 11,000 of those movies for this kind of money. So what are we actually going to spend $4 trillion on with this bill? Well, Jack, I got the receipts right here. First, we are spending more on the military and border security by a combined $200 billion with a B dollars.
We would also increase the state and local taxes deduction from $10,000 to $40,000, which would be big for people who live in high-tax states. And there's the most viral part about this bill, which is the end of the tax on tips. This bill also would end taxes on overtime income, and end taxes on car loan interest payments, although all those will end in 2028.
But the big one is that this bill extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which were due to expire this year. Now, the extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which benefited corporations and wealthy people the most, cost more than the rest of the bill combined. This is the huge line item. So the total cost of the big, beautiful bill is $5 trillion,
but it's offset by $1 trillion in savings, which means add it all up, carry the one out of the three. This is a $4 trillion bill. Some of the savings are the repeals of clean energy policies passed during the Biden administration. And it's also going to require states to create work requirements for low-income people to receive Medicaid. But overall...
This is a wholesale Trumpification of the U.S. economy. But Jack, before we go, let's go back to that $4 trillion price tag for a second. How many zeros is that? It's a bunch of Avengers movies worth of zeros, Jack. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone in the American economy? This summer, we're going to have big debt energy.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill?
Chapter 4: Why has Stitch merchandise surged in popularity?
Yes, this big, beautiful bill could stimulate the economy, but investors are more than ever worried about debt. So debt, bonds, interest rates, treasuries, That's why we're calling this moment Hot Debt Summer. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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For our third and final story, the wild new trend for women across America for daytime beauty, become a beast at night. Face masks, mouth tape. Here's why women are monstering themselves for their night routine. Women are experiencing it. Men are observing it. And children are freaking out about it. Because when they go to bed at night, girlfriends are transforming into monsters on purpose.
Get this. According to the Wall Street Journal, it is the monster beauty trend. And what does it mean, Jack? You go to bed looking freaky so you can wake up looking hot. We're talking face masks that make you look like a murderer. Lips covered by mouth tape all night. No heat hair curlers that... Honestly, it would give you nightmares. It's like Mrs. Doubtfire.
Now the goal here is actually pretty clear. Do your skin. Clear breathing to sustain your sleep through the night. And just beautification overall. Basically, high maintenance at night to be low maintenance hot in the morning, and do it all while looking like Jason from the Halloween movies. Yeah, we've got data to back up this trend. Searches for mouth tape have 10x'd in the past three years.
And honestly, full disclosure, even Jack wears the occasional face mask as part of his 42-step nighttime skin routine. It is so moist, it's like a blobby blanket for your face. Yeah. I've never bought one, but I've put the ones on that Alex has handed me. I've seen the pictures and we cannot show them publicly, Jack. But Yetis, this is what Jack and I found so fascinating.
This nighttime monster beauty trend is so big, the Wall Street Journal did two epic stories on it last week. But we found the one brand dominating this trend and the business actually starts with the podcast. That's right. the Skinny Confidential podcast. Lauren Bostic's wellness empire pioneered these extreme beauty hacks that we're talking about.
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Chapter 6: How does the Big Beautiful Bill impact the U.S. economy?
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The Knicks haven't gone this far in the playoffs since I was in first grade in the late 90s, go New York, go New York, go. And for the third time in a row, the Knicks are in the Eastern Conference Playoffs against the Pacers. And finally, we have more details on the OpenAI Johnny Ive AI gadget coming next year. All right.
It's reportedly going to be pocket-sized, contextually aware, screen-free, and not eyewear. Yeah, it's according to a leak to the Wall Street Journal. Now, what does contextually aware mean, Jack? I think it's going to mean that it's listening to everything you're doing. So when you ask it a question, you don't have to provide context. It's already on the same page. It's right there with you.
Also, no screen. Do you think this means hologram? Are we looking at a Star Wars hologram? It's either going to be voice only, like a really, really good Siri, or maybe it has a projector on your hand, or it could be a hologram. Our money's on Princess Leia holograms. Now time for the best fact yet, and because it is T-Boy Tuesday, it is TBIY trivia on Heinz ketchup.
It's officially summer, so you probably poured some ketchup onto a burger last weekend. Actually, 100% sure that ketchup was Heinz ketchup. But do you know why Heinz has the number 57 on the bottle? Hint, it's not the 57th variety of ketchup or of any Heinz product. So why do they call it number 57 on every Heinz product?
Wow, we just did a whole deep dive episode in the best idea yet on Heinz, and we'll tell you the answer on this show tomorrow. Yetis, you look fantastic over there. Jack, I'm so glad we circled back to the takeaways at the very end, you know? Are we going offline? No, we kept things online. Spotify's not going to spank us. No, they're not going to spank us. That's good. That's good.
Yetis, you look fantastic. Remember to drop down and give us five stars and a review. That helps us grow the show. Do it right now so you don't have any follow-ups. Yeah, perfect. And then later, you can HYHTBY. Nick and I will see you tomorrow. Can't wait. And before we go, a shout out to Saurav Bunia from Chicago doing logistics, who's joining McKinsey in San Francisco after graduating.
Congrats, Saurav. And happy birthday to Adam Ross in Seattle, a brand new T-Boy fan. Also, additional shout out, Saurav used a T-Boy story as a case prep for their interviews for McKinsey. Pretty awesome. And finally, a big shout out to Saver Travels. My travel agent actually hooked me up with that epic Paris Google Maps pinning situation. Oh, that Google Maps Paris map was incredible.
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