🤝 “TikTaken” — TikTok (finally) sold. Diet Coke vs Coke Zero. Madison Square Garden 5.0. +Chimney Sweep Surge
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Why is Diet Pepsi dropping, but Pepsi Zero surging?... Boomers do Diet, Zoomers do Zero.
Penn Station finally got a $7.5B glam-up proposal… But it all depends on hockey & basketball.
TikTok USA was officially sold by China… But this M&A stands for “Messy & Ambiguous.”
Plus, the hot new job during this snow storm is… the Chimney Sweep Surge #MaryPoppins
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, January 26th, and today's part is the best one yet this is a T-boy. |
| 0:09.4 | The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Jack, I got another update for you. |
| 0:13.6 | You know, my birthday wish was for Gwok to be free. Uh-huh. And then some Yeti sent us a gift certificate for free Gwok. |
| 0:20.0 | Amazing. We just got a DM from Chipotle for free guacamole, my friend. |
| 0:26.7 | Seriously? |
| 0:27.5 | Yeah, they're Yetty's over at Chipotle. |
| 0:29.7 | They just broke the laws of economics and made guac not extra for us. |
| 0:34.0 | That is a first ever. |
| 0:35.9 | They've never done this for anybody, Nick. |
| 0:38.1 | Chipotle, thank you for the warm capitalist hogs, Jack. Three fantastic stories for today's show. |
| 0:44.0 | What do we got on the T-Boy? For our first story, TikTok has finally officially been sold. But while |
| 0:49.4 | the U.S. got the chassis, China kept the engine. Because the M&A of TikTok's U.S. business actually stands for |
| 0:55.8 | messy and ambiguous. |
| 0:57.9 | For our second story, why are zero |
| 1:00.1 | sugar sodas surging, while |
| 1:01.7 | diet sodas, pretty much the same thing, |
| 1:04.4 | are dying? Well, because |
| 1:06.0 | boomers do diet, zoomers do |
| 1:08.0 | zero. And our third and final story, |
| 1:10.3 | Harry Stiles is performing at Madison |
| 1:11.9 | Square Garden for 30 shows starting in May. Lovely. Unless the garden gets moved. Get this, Penn |
| 1:18.8 | Station is coming back and MSG is getting the boot. But yet he's before we hit that wonderful |
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