🍦 “Fo-Sho” — 16 Handles’ return. Paramount’s hostile takeover. Sephora’s football strategy. +Bieber’s iPhone diss.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Paramount is messing with Netflix’s Warner Bros Deal... It’s a Hostile Takeover.
Sephora’s sales are all-time-high’ing… because beauty is a game of inches.
16 Handles frozen yogurt is back… Because Froyo was a victim of its own success.
Plus, Justin Bieber is hating on this one iPhone feature… and it’s messing with $AAPL stock.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick, this is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, December 9th. 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. I mean, Jack, the mix is so good. What do you say? We get right to it today, man. For our first story, the Empire Strikes Back. |
| 0:20.0 | Paramount has up the ante to acquire Warner Brothers. |
| 0:23.1 | Yesterday, we told you Netflix was buying Warner Brothers, but today Paramount is attempting a hostile takeover. |
| 0:29.1 | For our second story, Sephora's makeup sales are at an all-time high right now, thanks to the same strategy that works in football. |
| 0:35.8 | And it's the only strategy that works if you're trying to sell something. |
| 0:39.9 | And our third and final story, Pinkberry, TCBY, 16 handles. |
| 0:45.5 | Delicious. |
| 0:45.9 | Nick, you notice more Froyo chains popping up around you? |
| 0:48.5 | I kind of want to lick the podcast right now. |
| 0:50.2 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:50.9 | We'll explain why frozen yogurt is the hottest food of this winter, and it's not just nostalgia. Don't make a lick sound right now. We'll explain why frozen yogurt is the hottest food of this winter, and it's not just nostalgia. |
| 0:57.2 | Don't make a lick sound right now. |
| 0:58.7 | I was going so close. |
| 1:00.1 | But yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:03.6 | Fantastic mix of stories. |
| 1:05.1 | Love the mix of stories for Teaboy Tuesday, Jack. |
| 1:07.1 | They've got some awkward times going on over at Apple. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, you see, Apple stock is at an all-time |
| 1:11.6 | high, but everybody is leaving. Last week, Apple's chief lawyer announced they're retiring. |
| 1:17.5 | And their chief designer said he's ditching for meta. And Apple's AI business is still MIA. |
| 1:21.6 | But the worst business story for Apple of the year so far is Justin Bieber? The Canadian singer-songwriter, Justin Bieber, |
| 1:30.7 | just dropped a disc track on Apple. All right, Jack, pause the pot. You got to spring on some |
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