🍦 “Fo-Sho” — 16 Handles’ return. Paramount’s hostile takeover. Sephora’s football strategy. +Bieber’s iPhone diss.

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, Tea Boy. Tuesday, December 9. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a Tea Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. I mean, Jack, the mix is so good. What do you say we get right to it today, man? For our first story, The Empire Strikes Back. Dun dun dun. Paramount has upped the ante to acquire Warner Brothers. Yesterday, we told you Netflix was buying Warner Brothers, but today, Paramount is attempting a hostile takeover. For our second story, Sephora's makeup sales are at an all time high right now, thanks to the same strategy that works in football. And it's the only strategy that works if you're trying to sell something. And our third and final story, pink berry t c b y 16 handles. Delicious. Nick, you notice more froyo chains popping up around you? I kinda wanna lick the podcast right now. Oh, boy. We'll explain why frozen yogurt is the hottest food of this winter, and it's not just nostalgia. Don't make a lick sound right now. I was going for something. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix of stories for t boy Tuesday, Jack. They've got some awkward times going on over at Apple. Yeah. You see, Apple stock is at an all time high, but everybody is leaving. Last week, Apple's chief lawyer announced they're retiring. And their chief designer said he's ditching for Meta. And Apple's AI business is still MIA. But the worst business story for Apple of the year so far is Justin Bieber? The Canadian singer songwriter Justin Bieber just dropped a diss track on Apple. Alright, Jack. Pause the pot. You gotta sprinkle on some context for us, please. Over the weekend, Bieber complained on social media of his most hated iPhone feature, that little dictation button. Ah, the dictation button. In iMessage, why is the talk to text button right next to the send button? No. It's on top of the send button. If you first push talk to text, it becomes the send button. And so apparently, every time Bieber goes to send a text message, he accidentally records himself in a very unscripted moment. So as he posted on Instagram and x yesterday, Jack, if I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time, I'm gonna find everyone at Apple and put them in a rear naked choke hold. Translation, if Apple doesn't issue a software fix, Bieber is gonna start wrestling them. It sounds like he's gonna spank them. I don't know what a naked choke hold is, Jack. Me neither. But why did Apple stock fall 1% yesterday, Nick? Oh, Jack. Blame it on the Bieber bash. We have never seen Bieber more bitter, baby. So to quote Bieber himself, hey, Steve Jobs. Where …