☘️ “Split The G” — Guinness’ viral surge. North Korea’s Bitcoin heist. Hollywood’s conserva-pivot.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

266-year-old Guinness just hit all-time-high sales… because of one viral drink-tivity.

A secret North Korean hacker team just stole $1.5B of crypto… it’s the biggest heist of all time.

Hollywood is pivoting to serve red meat TV to red states… we call it “RonSwonsification.”

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0:00.0	This is Nick.
0:01.9	This is Jack.
0:02.7	It's Thursday, the new Friday, March 13th.
0:05.7	And today's pod is the best one yet.
0:08.0	This is a T-boy.
0:09.5	The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
0:13.2	Stocks rebounding like a young Steph Curry over there.
0:16.0	I said Steph Curry, Jack, because it wasn't a big rebound.
0:18.6	It was kind of a small rebound.
0:20.2	I think stocks rose on encouraging inflation data from the month of February.
0:24.6	Inflation.
0:26.6	That's all I got to say about that.
0:27.8	Jack, three stories for today's show.
0:29.9	What do we got on the TV?
0:31.0	For our first story, Guinness.
0:32.8	The 266-year-old Irish beer is glowing as we enter St. Paddy's Day weekend. The reason Guinness
0:40.0	sales are an all-time high? The most fun drink-tivity since he got Smearnoff iced. For our second
0:46.4	story, we need to talk about North Korea's elite hacking team known as the Lazarus Group. The Lazarus
0:53.1	group. Because that team of professional hackers just pulled off the biggest money heist in history.
0:59.1	And our third and final story, Hollywood is making a major pivot.
1:03.7	They forgot to make TV for Trump's America.
1:06.3	Besties, the TV you watch is about to go through Ron Swansification.
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