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📹 “The Next TikTok” — Whatnot’s $5B shop app. TikTok will be banned in 5 days… but its replacement is Whatnot: It’s Instagram + eBay + MTV. Plus, the #1 candy in America was invented by a frog salesman… It’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and it’s the next episode of our weekly deepdive show The Best Idea Yet 🥜 To hear more on Reese’s PB cups, subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaY...

  “The hotelification of office buildings” — Pools, massages, bars… Offices are getting “hotelified” for the 2025 Return-to-Office push. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK: ...

🔥 “LA’s Fire Hero” — Watch Duty’s #1 app. As Angelenos deal with the wildfires, Watch Duty has hit #1 in the App Store… One app is saving lives. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:&n...

⛰️ “51st State” — USA’s Greenland deal. Trump proposed buying Greenland… so we looked into how/if/when it’s possible. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter: https://tbo...

🌹 “META goes MAGA”— Mark Zuckerberg is ending fact-checking on Instagram & Facebook… because Trump won the election. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter: https:/...

⛷️ “Ski-Pocalypse” — The biggest strike in ski history hit during the busiest ski week of the year… and Vail lost $400M. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter: https://...

#1. Apple iTush — Apple will launch a smart toilet (aka “iTush”) to expand its push into health. #2. Disney Airlines — Disney will acquire Spirit Airlines to bring its cruise strategy to the skies. #3. Home Depot Homes — Home Depot will sell mail-order homes to fix the housing market. To kick off 2025, we whipped up our 6th annual “3 big business wishes” for the coming year. These aren’t just pred...

Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet here: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/ Episodes drop every Tuesday, free to listen to wherever you get your pods. Break out the bubbly, turn on the jets, and hop into our Hot Tub Time Machine: we’re going back to the origins of the Jacuzzi. The world’s most iconic whirlpool has become a symbol of status and luxury—think Scarface’s bathtub. But its roots a...

Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet here: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/ Episodes drop every Tuesday, free to listen to wherever you get your pods. It’s simply the most popular sneaker in history. With $7B in annual sales today, Nike and Michael Jordan’s shoe deal changed sports, fashion and marketing forever - But it never would’ve happened without skilled negotiating by MJ’s Mom. Origin...

#1. Wells Fargo launched a credit card you can pay rent with… but they underestimated how Savvy Millennials would use it. (6/24/2024) #2. An Olympic gold medal winner has a day job — as an investment banker… so we’ll tell you the secret to a successful side hustle. (8/7/2024) #3. Legendary Wall Street investor Larry Fink wrote a whole letter about DINKs… so we need to talk about your retirement pl...

(Warning: You’re gonna need 8 napkins for this episode): #1. Haribo Gummy Bears is now the biggest candy business on earth… because it’s done the same thing for 100 years. (1/22/2024) #2. The hot new IPO this year? It’s Bubble Tea… Boba tea chains are IPO’ing for billions, but Bubble Tea may face a Bubble Tea Bubble. (5/6/2024) #3. While all the other food chains struggled this year, one didn’t: S...

(Tom Cruise jumped on a chair when he heard this episode): #1. Netflix just gave itself the biggest Christmas gift of all… NFL football on Christmas Day. (5/17/2024) #2. Sabrina Carpenter dropped 7 versions of the same song… because the music industry took a strategy from the ice cream industry. (7/22/2024) #3. The fastest-growing genre in books is “Romantasy”... Romantic Fantasies are driving boo...

(ChatGPT says these are the best AI stories in the whole business news industry): #1. Every dating app stock is down this year except for 1: Grindr… because Wall Street fell in love with Grindr’s AI wingman. (7/1/2024) #2. Scarlett Johansson lawyered up after OpenAI tried to rip-off her voice… it’s move fast and break things all over again. (5/22/2024) #3. We found a social network with zero human...

The stock market just had its worst week of 2024… we explain what determines stocks in 2025. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter &nbsp...

✉️ “How much should I tip?” — Nick & Jack’s Holiday Tip rules. Americans are sick of tips, but Holiday tipping is universally loved… so we share our holiday tip rules. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV F...

 🚗 “Hot Wheels > Barbie” — Mattel’s Hot Wheels sales are up 14%, selling 700M… because Hot Wheels defied inflation.  —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter...

🛸 “$UFO” — Drone stocks’ mystery surge. There’s a drone mystery in the New Jersey skies… So we found 3 drone stocks surging. Merch: tboypod.com/shop   —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK &a...

🌶️ “Creator media” — Hot Ones, the chicken wing interview show, sold for $82M… it’s a changing of the guard in media. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter: https://tbo...

♟️ “Pawn Stars — Chess’ “random” disruption. Chess has a new World Champ… but traditional chess is getting disrupted by random chess. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newslet...

 “ The CEO killer controversy” — The UnitedHealthcare CEO killer has been charged with murder… but it also revealed pent up frustration with healthcare. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK &...

🍿 “1-click movie” — OpenAI just launched Sora: text-to-video Gen AI… It’s turning Hollywood into an app. Check out our Sora AI videos on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod   —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1...

🫶 “Eras Tour receipts” — After 149 concerts, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour just ended… and we got the financial receipts. 🏀 Plus, the biggest endorsement deal of all time is Nike’s Air Jordan shoe... but it was banned by the NBA. The surprise origin story of Air Jordans is the next episode of our new show The Best Idea Yet. Click here to listen: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks   “The Best Idea Ye...

Shaboozy’s “A Bar Song” just set a music record… but it’s a biz lesson on breaking genres. —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter  ...

🪙 “$100k Bit-mitzvah” — Microstrategy owns 2% of all the world’s Bitcoin… and Bit just hit $100K for the 1st time ever. Want more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Polaroid : Invented (sort of) by a 3-year-old 📸  Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen. —------------------...

🎧 “AI podcast Hosts” — Spotify Wrapped just dropped… and it created an AI generated podcast to tell you about it.  —----------------------------------------------------- OUR 20 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/5RllMBgvDnTau8nnsCUdse?si=015d199a54174883 OUR 45 MIN SHOW:  https://open.spotify.com/show/3i8EH1J4TUS85GNUQDQeTV FOR MORE NICK & JACK:  Newsletter: https://...