🔮 “The Predictions Pod” — SpaceX’s Olympics, Starbucks’ Library, OpenAI’s company town.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
#1. SpaceX’s Olympics
#2. Starbucks’ Library
#3. OpenAI’s company town
To kick off 2026, we whipped up our 7th annual “3 big business wishes” for the coming year. These ain’t *just* predictions — they’re wild wishes that if you think about it, make a ton of sense. Predictions sprinkled with razzle dazzle & sprinkle dinkle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, January 5th, 2026. And today's part is the best one yet this. Oh, this is a T-boy. |
| 0:12.4 | The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yeties, we are back and we are Tanner than two weeks ago, ain't we, Jack? |
| 0:19.6 | Well, I caught some ice rays on the |
| 0:21.8 | chairlift. That's a real thing. You caught some actual sun rays down in sunny San Diego. And good |
| 0:27.0 | news, besties, because our first pod of 2026 is already our best pod of 2026. And stocks are already |
| 0:33.2 | at an all-time high for the year. That's literally true. It's a true story because today is our |
| 0:39.3 | predictions pod, our three big business wishes for the new year. Nick and I don't have a crystal ball, |
| 0:44.4 | but we do have a crystal bull. So Jack, our three big business wishes, what do we got on today's |
| 0:50.5 | pod? Our wish number one is that Open AI should build an entire town with homes, data centers, |
| 0:56.4 | and nuclear power. |
| 0:57.7 | An AI company town, call it Samland, because AI ain't just an industry. |
| 1:02.8 | AI is a way of life. |
| 1:04.4 | Our second big business wish of the year is that Starbucks should launch a chain of libraries. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | That's right. |
| 1:10.8 | Latte libraries. Bestie, Starbucks needs a a chain of libraries. Yeah. That's right. Latte libraries. |
| 1:12.4 | Bestie, Starbucks needs a turnaround plan for 2026, and a library is the ultimate third place. |
| 1:17.9 | And our third and final big business wish of the year. |
| 1:21.3 | SpaceX should host the Olympics in outer space. |
| 1:24.8 | SpaceX, they're IPOing in 26. |
| 1:27.7 | Why not host an Olympic event in 28? |
| 1:30.5 | But yetis, before we hit that wonderful and wild mix of business wishes. |
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