🥤 “Vending Machine-Gate” — Poppi vs Olipop. NY’s Texas Stock Exchange. Netflix’s podcast move.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
Poppi & Olipop’s rival sodas are the biggest drama in biz… because of $25K vending machines.
Texas gets its 2nd new stock exchange in a year… The New York Stock Exchange is goin’ South-By-Southwest.
Netflix is looking into launching podcasts… because there’s nothing hotter than a habit.
Plus, Ikea just got into dating… it’s “Mattress Matchmaking.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the Real Friday. February 14th Valentine's Day. And today's party's the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Celebrate the wins. What a week. But can we talk about that meal last night, man? At hand of the wood? |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, that was so good. |
| 0:21.9 | I want two. |
| 0:22.5 | I wanted three of everything. |
| 0:23.3 | I got the tagliotel, which you should have ordered. |
| 0:25.6 | I had huge regrets after that. |
| 0:27.0 | You regret. |
| 0:27.4 | Any time the restaurant says we have homemade pasta, order the pasta. |
| 0:30.9 | Honestly, we should have worked on our menu strategy. |
| 0:34.5 | In all seriousness, Nick, thank you for coming to Vermont. I feel incredibly loved. |
| 0:39.8 | You were my three-day doula. Give me a great dose of friendship before my third baby's coming. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm your doula dude, Jack. I got your back. I'm there. I was ready in case I had to cut an umbilical |
| 0:49.2 | court. Nick woke up at 3 a.m. Eastern time to catch a 5 a.m. flight to fly to San Francisco, and now he's |
| 0:55.8 | recording the pot. Anything for the show, Jack. Anything for you, man. Three stories for today's |
| 1:02.0 | show. What do we got on the pot? For our first story, the biggest drama in business right now |
| 1:06.2 | is Oli Poppaw versus Poppy. It's a prebiotic soda scuffle, and it all comes down to a $25,000 |
| 1:12.7 | vending machine. For our second story, guess who's about to get their second new stock exchange |
| 1:17.7 | in the last year? Who is it? Texas is. Texas! The New York Stock Exchange is about to go south |
| 1:23.3 | by southwest. And our third and final story. The next big podcast platform is reportedly going to be Netflix. |
| 1:30.8 | Netflix is looking into podcasts because there is nothing hotter than a habit. |
| 1:35.9 | But yet is before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:39.0 | Fantastic mix of stories. |
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