đ âSloppy Soundtracksâ â Spotifyâs AI purge. NFLâs 3 huge sales. Starbucksâ McDonald moment. + Anthropologieâs $1K rock.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 âą 9.5K Ratings
đïž 26 September 2025
â±ïž 25 minutes
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Summary
Starbucks is decaffeinating itself, closing 400 stores⊠but thereâs hope for Starbs at McDonaldâs.
3 NFL teams just sold at record prices... They sold to Private Equity, but what about fan shares?
Spotify deleted 75M AI songs, while AI slop is slowing your work day⊠Welcome to the AI Garbage Truck Era.
Plus, Anthropologie is selling a rock?⊠For $1,000?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday. September 26th and today's pod. Today's pod is the best one yet. It's a T-boy. Nick and I are whipping up the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Now, yet he's last week. I told you how Jack called ahead on Molly's and my first date night after our baby and had a drink waiting for us when we got to the restaurant. Champagne, not Prosecco. Oh, yes. Champagne. Uh-huh. We wee. But Jack, I came up with a term for this. We're going to call it to the cocktail call ahead. Nice. The cocktail call ahead. So Bessie, if you are celebrating to win this weekend and you want to make a buddy feel fantastic |
| 0:39.2 | on Saturday, do the cocktail call ahead. And then Venmo Nick and me, because I'm talking to my lawyer right now. We're trademarking cocktail call ahead. We'll get you a shout out on the pod. But, Jack, three stories for today's tea boy. It's so good. What do we got on the pot? For our first story, this month, three NFL |
| 0:55.2 | teams are being sold at record high prices, the Giants, the Patriots, and the Bears. Oh my. Oh my. |
| 1:01.7 | But instead of the private equity patriots, Jack and I want to see the people's patriots will explain. |
| 1:07.9 | For our second story, Starbucks just announced their biggest store closure ever. |
| 1:12.8 | Sadly, you may actually lose your local starbs. |
| 1:15.3 | But Jack and I think Starbucks turnaround is going to work out, and it begins at McDonald's. |
| 1:20.9 | And our third and final story is the biggest surprise problem at work these days. |
| 1:24.9 | Yep. |
| 1:25.3 | AI slop. |
| 1:26.4 | In fact, Spotify just announced they deleted |
| 1:29.3 | 75 million AI tracks. Wow. So Jack and I think every company is about to have a new job. We call it |
| 1:36.8 | AI garbage truck. But yet he's before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of |
| 1:43.2 | stories for the end of the week, Jack. |
| 1:44.4 | How much would you pay, Nick, for a rock? A rock, like a regular old rock. I'm thinking a dollar, less than a dollar. Honestly, I'm probably not paying for a rock, Jack. I mean, full disclosure, I had a rock collection and a nice tiger's eye. All right, so noted, I'm going to get you a rock tumbler for Christmas. This will make it, make it, make it happen. |
| 2:00.2 | But get this, Yeties. |
| 2:01.6 | Over at Anthropology, a store owned by urban outfitters, they're selling rocks for |
| 2:06.7 | a thousand dollars each. A thousand bucks for a rock, not a tiger's eye, not a quartz crystal, |
| 2:12.4 | just a big old, ordinary, heavy rock. Why is anthropology selling rocks? |
| 2:17.8 | And why are they charging a grand for a stone? |
| 2:20.4 | Well, we jumped in T-boy style, and it all began with a TikTok video this month that got 12 million views. |
| 2:26.3 | Phoebe Adams was playing a prank on her boyfriend. |
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