🧀 “Return of the Rat” — Chuck E. Cheese’s $1B comeback. Hotelification of offices. Disney’s sports streamer airballs.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Chuck E. Cheese is back from bankruptcy… with a brand new babysitter strategy.

Pools, massages, bars… Offices are getting “hotelified” for the 2025 Return-to-Office push.

Disney, Fox, and Warner’s joint sports app, Venu, just shut down… and the NBA tells us why.

Plus, it’s Planuary… Our New Year’s resolution is to plan the whole year this month (we’ll tell ya how).

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, January 13th. And today's pod is the best one yet.
0:08.4	This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
0:13.4	Yeties today, like every day, Jack and I are going to make you the most interesting person at the office, aren't we, Jack?
0:18.9	Wow, bold promise, but I think we can deliver.
0:21.2	You're going to look and sound fantastic.
0:23.3	Three stories for today's show.
0:25.0	Jack, what do we got, man?
0:26.1	For our first story, Chuckie Cheese is back from bankruptcy, and now they're selling
0:30.6	a pizza subscription.
0:31.8	Chuckie Cheese has a brand new strategy.
0:34.1	It's not low brow, it's high brow.
0:36.7	For our second story, how are employers getting
0:39.6	you back in the office for 2025? Well, Jack, it's with pools, massages, and bars. Yeties, this is
0:45.9	the hotelification of your office. And our third and final story. The biggest live sports app in years
0:52.6	just shut down days before it was set to launch.
0:55.5	And former Duke Blue Devil, JJ Reddick, is telling us why. But yeties, before we hit that wonderful
1:01.0	mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. I love your sweater, by the way, Jack. This year,
1:05.4	I'm going to do some kind of exercise every day, even if it's just stretching. Jack, this year,
1:09.8	I will eat vegetables every day, even if it's just tomato sauce Jack, this year, I will eat vegetables every day,
1:11.6	even if it's just tomato sauce. Nick, this year, I will start a blog on going paleo while learning
1:17.2	Spanish. Yeties, right now you are feeling peer pressure to announce your wild New Year's
1:23.3	resolution. So we whipped up the best resolution yet. We got your back. First, Jack and I are big
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