The Best One Yet
🏒 “Booty Check” — Heated Rivalry’s $$$ surge. Apple’s AI “iPin”. Dimon vs. Trump. +Soft Partying
23 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday, the real Friday, January 23rd, one, two, three. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Jack, I got two out of my four birthday wishes so far. Not too shabby for the birthday. Yeah. Okay. Well, stocks rose. We're almost at a record high. There you go. Okay, good.
And guac was not extra. Yes, it was. Okay. I know you're a Chipotle shareholder. Trisha and Daniel, yetis from Boulder, Colorado, sent me a Chipotle gift certificate. So the guac- No way. Was an extra. First time in economic history. That is a legendary move. Yeah. Dan from Denver? Dan from Denver with the extra guac. That's awesome. But three stories for today's team boy.
What do we got in the pod? For our first story, we just got a leak on Apple's first AI hardware device. And it's not glasses or a bracelet. It's a wearable pin. Boom! Apple's iPin. That is your next iPhone. For our second story, HBO's heated rivalry is boosting ticket sales for real-life hockey by 75%. The hit gay romance is causing a Taylor Swift effect on ice. But for hockey...
And our third and final story. It's the biggest showdown in the world right now. It's not the United States versus Greenland or Europe. It's Donald Trump versus Jamie Dimon.
Chapter 2: How is HBO's Heated Rivalry impacting NHL ticket sales?
JP Morgan's legendary CEO just got sued by the president.
Chapter 3: What features will Apple's AI wearable, the iPin, have?
And this lawsuit might actually affect your credit card. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, what a mix of stories before the weekend. Jack, the best mix. 2026 is the year of soft partying. Soft partying. That's the headline over at the Business Insider. I've gotten a little soft with my parting, to be honest.
So I wanted to jump in T-boy style and see that I'm actually on trend here. Yeah, we poured a couple of whiskeys and got curious about this one. Get this, Zillennials are still going out together this weekend. That's a fact. But instead of going hard and then having a hangover, You're going soft. We're talking meaningful, elk-free, in-real-life connections, baby.
The kind of thing you would have found super lame in college, but that sound amazing today. Okay, listen to the events we discovered. There are book clubs doing takeovers of entire bars this Friday night. Instead of dance clubs, young people are doing dance clubs. classes together. Instead of pulsing at the club until 2 a.m., you're plunging with friends at 2 p.m.
Saturday morning, not Saturday night. There's actually a social club that does cold brew, cold plunges. True story. It's called Coffee and Chill Club. Sip a nice lattes with your friends while sitting in ice with your friends. You're going to want to bring an extra towel and an extra napkin. Get this.
New York City's biggest sauna, Othership, they're open until midnight because that's the new nightlife. You're not schvitzing to cure your hangover. You're just schvitzing. Never had a hangover. The steam room. It's the new happy hour. And it's not work hard, play hard. This is work hard, party soft. 2026 is the year Van Wilder became Van Milder. If you know, you know. I said decaf.
I just need it decaf. Let's enter three stories.
15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list.
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Chapter 4: What does 'soft partying' mean for social gatherings in 2026?
If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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For our first story, Jack, call a plumber because we got a leak.
Apple is reportedly building an AI wearable next year. We call it the iPin. Because in 2027, everyone will be wearing devices with cameras and microphones that see and hear everything. But first, congratulations to our buddies over at Apple, just voted by Fortune Magazine, the most admired company in America. For the 19th year in a row. This is the most boring list ever.
But Nick, the last successful product Apple actually launched was AirPods 10 years ago, 2016. So to remain admired, Jack, Apple needs something good. I need something new. I'm going to need something A-I-E. And the answer, according to reporting from the information, is a wearable pin that Apple's working on. It's the size of an AirTag. Nick and I call it the iPin. Ah, the iPin.
This thing will have a microphone and two cameras, and those will feed Siri with information about you all the time. The result? A personal assistant, Siri, who knows what you've heard and seen all day because it's pinned right there on your cute top, and it sees and hears everything. For example, like Jack, you could say, hey Siri, where is my car parked in the airport garage?
She knows the answer because she saw it. She was there when he parked it. Or hey Siri, when did my boss say that report was due again? Siri knows the answer because she heard it. She was there in the room. Or hey Siri, did these capris make my butt look big? What do you think? She's going to give you an honest answer on that one, Jack, if I know Siri and if I know her looking at you.
Well, this whole story reveals the next era of tech hardware. wearables as witnesses. Wearables as witnesses. Yetis, the future will be recorded with microphones and cameras on your clothing. Now that sounds kind of freaky, like a surveillance world we're entering, but it also offers you some really nice benefits as a consumer. Yeah, you don't want to be wearing those capris maybe.
We're already kind of seeing this, Jack, right? Like Meta shipped 4 million Ray-Ban glasses last year with built-in cameras recording everything. Google invested in Warby Parker last year to build out the same thing, AI smart glasses. Amazon acquired Bee last summer, a clip-on pin or bracelet that is always listening to you.
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