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To kick off 2024, we’re presenting our top 3 money stories of 2023. So whip out your wallet, Venmo your Cash App, and DM your broker, let’s hit our first ever money pod… 1) Rent or Buy, a story from September 21st: To Rent or To Buy - that is the question — If Shakespeare was alive today, should he rent a house or buy a house? 2) Aretha Franklin’s Will, from July 13th : When singer Aretha Franklin...

A bonus episode featuring 3 of our top pop-biz news stories from 2023 on the entertainment industry. So toss on some PJs, hit the couch, and grab the 7 different screens around you, let’s hit our entertainment pod… 1) The Lion King, from January 6th: Disney’s Lion King Musical set a Broadway Record — Because on Broadway you can’t make a living, but you can make a killing. 2) iMessi (7/18): Lionel...

A bonus episode featuring 3 of our top pop-biz news stories about the She-conomy. The #1 force in the economy this year? It’s women. So we whipped up the 3 most interesting stories on the year that she ran the financial world… 1) The She-conomy, from July 28th — We found the 3 female forces that turned the economy into the she-conomy. 2) Natural Cycles, from Sept 20th: Our most commented-on story...

A bonus episode featuring 3 of our top pop-biz news stories on the car industry from 2023. So fill up that tank, charge that battery, and wax that chassis. Let’s jump into our 3 car stories… 1) Mercedes from June 20th: Mercedes created the first ever AI car with ChatGPT — Mercedes just gave birth to The Companionship Economy. 2) Jeep from August 1st: Jeep’s got a surprise new enemy: The Ford Bronc...

A bonus episode featuring 3 of our top pop-biz news stories on the fashion industry from 2023.  So toss on a cute top and iron those jeggings, let’s jump into our 3 Fashion stories… 1) Lulelemon, from May 9th: Lululemon showed us the rise of Dupes — In fashion, Dupes aren’t a scarlet letter - they’re a badge of honor. 2) Aldi, a story from March 29th: The German grocery chain, moved from food...

A bonus episode featuring 3 of our top pop-biz news stories on the food industry from 2023. Grab a napkin and pull up a chair, let’s jump into the 3 stories spork-first (or is it fpoon?) 🤤… 1) The Grimace Milkshake, from July 5th: How McDonald’s made a drink go viral — The Grimace Shake makes the marketing case for chaos. 2) Goldfish Crackers, from April 24th: How Goldfish became a billion-dollar...

Get our 25 Best Takeaways yet by subscribing at  tboypod.com/newsletter . We got the Annual Report from “Klaus Industries” (yeah, Santa’s company), so we jumped into the business — Santa’s got a strong supply chain, diverse market of 2 billion customers, and an $11 trillion opportunity. The stock market began the year with Recession-worries, but it’s ending with all-time highs — We’re looking...

  TBOY Merch Drop : Get The Best Gifts Yet at  www.tboypod.com   Build-A-Bear is having its best year ever, despite its friction-full buying experience — Because soft is security. Nearly 200 countries just pledged to “transition away from fossil fuels” to conclude the big UN climate conference — So why did Exxon Mobil’s stock rise?  And Netflix just became the 1st streaming com...

The Hallmark Channel produced *40* new movies for this holiday season — And Hallmark’s movie biz has the greatest ROI in all of Hollywood. Google was just told by a jury that its App Store fees are illegal — And we calculated that Google’s App Taxes bring in more profits than all but 15 companies in America. And the Excel Spreadsheet Championships just ended in Las Vegas — So we’re looking at how...

SmileDirectClub hit a $9B valuation by cutting out the dentalman… but it just shut down — The lesson? Some industries simply aren’t tech. And prob never will be. Pinterest uses data to predict next years trends, and they’re right 80% of the time —   The 2024 predictions say we’re not waiting for milestones, we’re celebrating inch-stones. And Shohei Otani’s spot in the Dodgers lineup cost...

Pantone named Peach Fuzz the color of the year… for 2024 — So we’re looking at the strategy of PreTRENDing: If you predict a trend, does that make it more likely to become a trend? Elon Musk’s SpaceX just hit at a $175B valuation — So we’re looking at how America’s most valuable startup found a space with zero competition (literally). And Rent The Runway was just eclipsed by Urban Outfitters’ clot...

The newest restaurant chain in America is “CosMc,” a McDonald’s spin off — It’s taking on Starbucks… and it looks like McDonald’s cousin. GameStop just authorized their CEO to use company money to buy stocks — They turned their CEO into their Chief Investment Officer (and gave him a whole lotta cash). And the # of job applications with take-home assignments is up 87% since 2019 — More companies ar...

Taylor Swift just became the 1st entertainer to win Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” — So we’re looking at “T-Swift, Inc.” and why Taylor could IPO.  Red Lobster offered endless shrimp for $20… and lost a ton of money because of it — So we jumped into the psychology of the Freebie. And the biggest climate conference of the year, COP28, just highlighted a critical number — We have the rati...

Walmart has produced a 23-episode TV show for the holidays — But this Rom-Com is really Rom-Commerce, because every product on the set is for sale. Grand Theft Auto finally published the trailer for GTA 6 — But modern video games don’t make money, they collect taxes. And how much money do you need to be happy? Millennials say $500K/year… which is 3x more than any other generation — So we jumped in...

**Merch Drop Alert** Get your holiday TBOY merch today at  www.tboypod.com/shop  (it’s our best drop yet). The band KISS is launching holograms of themselves to star in future concerts — But ABBA is already doing this… and it’s sold $150M worth of tickets already. Alaska Airlines is acquiring Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9B — To get to Hawaii, you’ll have to go through Alaska. And Bitcoin ha...

McDonald’s just announced 50 changes to the iconic Big Mac — It’s a huge risk… and it reminds us of a quote in an old Sicilian novel. Rover, the dog-walking app, was just acquired for a shocking $2.3B (that’s ½ a Lyft) — Because Rover pivoted to puppy sleepovers… and away from Mitt Romney. And one of the world’s greatest investors passed away at 99: Charlie Munger, the architect of Berkshire Hatha...

There’s a shocking new rival facing dating apps: Non-dating apps — Tinder, Match, and Bumble are out, Yelp, Strava, and Duolingo are in. After a 4-year wait, Tesla delivers the very first Cybertrucks today — But Tesla’s Cybertruck was designed like high fashion, not like a pickup truck.  And Mark Cuban is selling the Mavericks… and quitting Shark Tank — Because Mark Cuban is whipping open “Th...

Tickets for tonight’s TBOY Live Show in San Francisco:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shack15-live-the-best-one-yet-tickets-755859846147?aff=oddtdtcreator The newest Influncer trend? Blue Collar workers on TikTok — Because the more digital our lives, the more physical our desires. Sports Illustrated got caught publishing an article written by a fake journalist — So we whipped up Rule #47 for A...

Shopify won Black Friday and probably Cyber Monday too, even though you never saw them — Shopify shows the value and the drawbacks of white labeling. The new trend in the workplace is fabulous instagrammable offices — When HR strategies change, so do our office designs. And Indefy is the VC-like finance firm investing in emerging musicians — It’s the new biz model of music: It’s never been bigger,...

This Thanksgiving you might have noticed the miracle weight loss drugs for the first time — So we looked at what a post-Ozempic world might look like. The most popular promo this Cyber Monday? Buy One Get One Free (BOGO) — But watch out for the terms and conditions on BOGO (they’re sneaky). And UNC just won the national championship in Field Hockey with a 23-year old coach — There’s a managem...

Amazon is about to host Black Friday NFL football on Prime — This is the Holy Grail of American Capitalism. The most controversial dish at your Thanksgiving table? It’s cranberries, specifically canned cranberries — So we have to tell you about Ocean Spray’s wild (and surprisingly legal) cranberry monopoly. And the latest twist in the OpenAI drama? The coup has turned into a mutiny — 97% of OpenAI...

Remember last week when Snoop Dogg announced he’d given up smoking? — Turns out it was a wild marketing move that just pumped one stock up 15%. 1K acres of Napa wine country just sold for $400M — Because Chardonnay isn’t just a grape, it’s also an insurance policy. And there’s a strange trend this corporate earnings season: A drop in compliments — CEOs are getting fewer kudos, kindness, and compli...

OpenAI shockingly fired the man responsible for its $90B valuation: Sam Altman — But 48 hours later, it’s scrambling to rehire him, because AI requires real intelligence. The winner of the big Formula 1 race in Las Vegas wasn’t a car, it was a drink — Red Bull’s racing team turned a cost center into a profit center. And The Gap’s stock just had its best day in its entire history, jumping 30% on Fr...

The US Post Office just revealed that it lost $6.5B this year — So we’re going to tell you the story, the history, and business model of the mail service… that we all own. For the 1st time ever, you can now buy cars on Amazon.com — Amazon will sell Hyundai cars, but only because Hyundai will put Amazon in its cars. And the creator of “Anchorman” just launched a TV show on TikTok — Because TikTok i...

The biggest show on TV? It’s crime drama NCIS — The $8B TV show doesn’t win awards, but it gets rewards. Today is Starbucks’ most profitable day of the year: “Red Cup Day” — But also today, Starbucks’ barista union is staging a “Red Cup Rebellion.” And the startup making the biggest moves so far this fall: It’s Marc Lore’s Wonder – Wonder has pioneered a new category in food, “Fast Fine Dining,” b...