The Best One Yet
🚽 “No Door?” — Hotels’ Disappearing Bathrooms. Davos’ T-Day. Amazon’s Maxxing Store. +See-through Lulu
22 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, January 22nd, 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, I already blew out my breakfast birthday cupcake candle. It's already happened. Wait, this is your Brown birthday, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Nick played lacrosse at Brown University. No big deal.
And guess what his jersey number was on that team? 38. Yes. Which is the birthday you're celebrating today. It's your Brown birthday. Jack, I see what you did there. Always round up. But we got three fantastic stories for today's pod. Jack, what do we got for the birthday tea boys? For our first story, have you noticed that hotel bathrooms sometimes don't even have a door anymore?
The disappearing hotel bathroom door. It's actually a microcosm of our economy. For our second story, Davos just had the biggest day in its 55-year history, including President Trump's big speech and his tariff cancellation. There's more drama in Davos right now than a Bravo series reunion, so Jack and I, we're not there, but we dove in.
And our third and final story is Amazon, because it's building the third biggest store in America, just outside Chicago. Bigger than Walmart, twice the size of Target, this thing is 230 Starbucks. But Amazon's very big box mega superstore isn't actually about buying, it's about returning. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix.
Love the mix for the new Friday, Jack. Happy birthday, Nick. I do have a present for you. But it is not Lululemon leggings. Yeah, I'm going to ask for a hold on the Lululemon butthug and leggings, Jack. Because Yetis, Lululemon has done it again. They're recalling leggings because they're see-through. Oops, I did it again.
Shares of Lulu are down 6% because the new Get Low leggings are just a little too low.
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Chapter 2: Why are hotel bathrooms disappearing doors?
According to Bloomberg reporting, Lululemon stopped the sales of their Get Low leggings just two days after launch because they didn't pass the quote-unquote squat test. Basically, you sat, they showed. You stretched, the seam stitched. While you were resting, the pants were revealing. And Lululemon actually has a long history of being short on material.
Or to whip out a thesaurus jack on being transparent when they should have been opaque. 18 months ago, we covered it on this pod. They had to pull their breeze-through leggings for unflattering fits that resembled a whale tail. 2013, Lulu lost 60 million bucks in sales on a sheer pants recall.
And who could forget the original CEO got booted from the company after a scandal that began with see-through leggings. Ah, well now Lulu is dealing with glute gait yet again. And we're not sure who is more hurt. wearers or shareholders. Yeah, and as a shareholder here, I am feeling hurt. Yetis, if you're in a changing room right now, don't forget the squat test.
And yes, this applies to khakis too. If you know. They ripped. You know. Full disclosure, one time I was wearing a suit on a business trip and it failed the squat test.
thank god nobody noticed that's why you do it in the mirror jack that's why you do it in the mirror jack let's hit our three stories 15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the 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 because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show the
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For our first story, strange phenomenon.
Hotels are getting rid of proper bathroom doors. And this disappearing hotel bathroom door phenomenon is actually a microcosm on the travel industry, post-pandemic business norms, and even our housing crisis. Basically, our whole economy. You see, Yetis, Jack noticed this the last time he was visiting San Francisco. And over the long weekend, I noticed it at our hotel down in Carmel, California.
The closets have gotten really small in hotels. The desk is really small. But hang on a second. Does my bathroom not even have a door? We're sorry, but that's a trend. No longer is there a fully closable opaque door between the restroom and the bedroom. And yes, we just said opaque for the second time on the pod. Sometimes instead of a bathroom door, hotels are installing a curtain.
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