☘️ “Split The G” — Guinness’ viral surge. North Korea’s Bitcoin heist. Hollywood’s conserva-pivot.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K 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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