The Best One Yet
🎩 “Cheat on Anything” — Cluely’s cheating app. Home Depot’s secret garden. The Fed’s Batman independence.
23 Apr 2025
Cluely’s founders got suspended for building an AI cheating app… but now it’s venture backed.Home Depot’s biggest division will shock you… it’s their $20B/year secret garden.President Trump tanked markets Monday for threatening to fire the Fed… so we explained central bank’s independence with a superhero.Plus, using “please” and “thank you” in ChatGPT is costing the company tens-of-millions of dollars…$HD $SPY $CMGWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… The Ninja Turtles 🐢Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.“The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with — From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Susper Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.—-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, so be Jay Wednesday. April 23rd, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Jack, yesterday's breaking news, news was broken on our podcast. If you haven't listened to our exclusive interview yet with Duolingo CEO... You got it. It dropped yesterday on our feed.
They announced chess. That's right. A language app is launching chess. But there's so much more in that interview. Did you hear when he said that Duolingo is addictive and he loves it that way? He argued why his addictive app is a good thing. I hope he was happy he said that. He also described that hilarious Super Bowl commercial where the owl's butt kept getting bigger. That was hysterical.
It's got quite a crazy butt. Oh, boy. So, besties, check out that episode. In the meantime, Jack and I have an infinite streak of the best podcasts yet. So, Jack, what are the three stories on today's Team Boy? For our first story, two Columbia University students got suspended for creating an app to help students cheat. So, they launched that app to the public, and they call it the Cheat On App.
everything app for our second story president trump wants to fire the fed for not cutting interest rates and this is universally considered a terrible idea so we'll tell you why the federal reserve is actually our fourth branch of government and our third and final story home depot has a little secret yeah actually a big secret it's huge a 20 billion dollar a year secret garden That's right.
Home Depot's flowers and shrubs are shockingly its biggest business. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What a mix of stories to come back to. Love the mix, Jack. Feels weird saying this, but Jack, stop being polite. I'm sorry, Jack, but can you please be more specific? Stop saying please and thank you to ChatGPT. because those words are costing them millions. Thank you, Jack.
Get this, yetis. Sam Allman is losing tens of millions of dollars just by processing your politeness. We treat ChatGPT like it was our sixth grade teacher. Even though it's a robot, your mama still taught you manners. So we say things like, ChatGPT, could you please tell me all the emperors of Rome?
thanks or wow chat gpt thank you for listing all those emperors can you give me all of the gladiators of rome please now nick like 20 of those two sentences from you and me were just pleasantries but they require the same energy to process as the root question did what we are saying besties is that your politeness it is expensive and ai actually uses nearly two percent of global electricity
So every extra word in our query has an impact on the grid. Your politeness is adding to your carbon footprint. Now, we asked ChatGPT, what if all 400 million of your users typed please just once per day? And what did ChatGPT tell us, Jack? It would result in $80,000 of extra processing costs. That means one please per user per day, they lose 30 million bucks a year.
It's the most expensive etiquette ever. So besties, instead of chat GPT, could you please tell me all the emperors of Rome thanks? Simply say, all emperors of Rome. Those pleases, they ain't profitable. So mom, earmuffs if you're listening. But not saying please and thank you is actually the polite thing to do. Sam Allman made us do it.
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