The Best One Yet

To end 2022, we whipped up our annual un-zuckably bold pod of the year — Our 3 big business predictions for 2023:Budweiser should launch the 1st zero alcohol bar chainAmazon should launch a theme park: AmazonLandNike should acquire Major League PickleballYetis, these are bold, expensive, and kinda crazy ideas — but we really wish those stories would happen in 2023.We’re back to our regular daily TBOY pods on Tuesday, January 3rd.Until then, we’re dropping some more bonus material on Instagram @tboypod. if ya know, ya know. Happy New Year! Celebrate the wins.$BUD $NKE $AMZNLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Zuckings to Suckflation, Smeals to Funa… it was a wild year. So we whipped up our 3 favorite business stories of 2022:Airbnb became a Party Pooper with a PurposeKFC created its 1st chicken nugget to capture your window of loyaltyTrader Joe’s launched a $9 facial sunscreen because everyone loves a secretFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram @tboypod for more bonus material we’re droppingPlus, look out for our next holiday Bonus episode… our 2023 Predictions Pod (spoiler: It’s The Best One Yet).$ABNB $YUM $BXLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Macy’s first priced something $0.99 in 1880 in a catalog, now every retailer does — but that means they’ve rounded the price up, not down. Avatar 2 is Disney’s blockbuster of the year, but it’s probably not gonna make any money. And Taco Bell is adding french fries and breakfast in a head-on attack on McDonalds, which means we have a food fight coming. $DIS $YUM $MCD $MFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” just hit number 1 on the Billboard top 100 chart (again) — So we’re looking at the Economics of Mariah Carey. Nuclear Fusion just had a technological breakthrough that could save the planet someday… and you’re the main investor in it. And the 1 winner in the FTX crypto downfall is: QuickBooks.$SPOT $INTUFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More Americans skied last year than ever before — and Vail Resorts’ just told us its favorite kind of skier. Apple’s AirTag is supposed to track products… but they’re being used to stalk people too. Which shows the need for a Chief Evil Officer. And FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas, so we finally know his crimes (allegedly).$MTN $AAPL $BTCFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The final episode of The White Lotus just happened, and it perfectly demonstrates HBO’s drip strategy. The top-selling food category this year? Snacks. But the top-performing food within that food category? Pretzels. And did ya notice a new car company called “KN”? That’s actually “Kia” and it was the biggest and strangest rebrand of 2022.$WBD $NFLX $HSY $M $KRWFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Utah is America’s biggest sweettooth, which is one reason it’s home to Crumbl — the fastest-growing restaurant chain in the country. Lululemon trails only Nike in apparel, because investors want to play with Profit Puppies, not run with Revenue Rabbits. And Microsoft spent $69B to play a video game, but was just told to go to its room.$LULU $MSFTFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amazon’s newest product is a TikTok-style video shopping feed, but it’s not to compete with TikTok - it’s to compete with itself. Campbell Soup stock is up 30% this year thanks to Chunky Soup’s Madden strategy. And Dyson just revealed an air-filtering headset with noise cancellation, but it violates the fundamental rule of product design: You can make an ugly product, but you can’t make the person ugly.$CPB $AMZN $AAPLFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We just calculated that Walmart lost $2.5B this year from shoplifting. The sports apparel brand Fanatics just hit a $31B valuation because it’s borrowing the business model of the New York Yankees. And AutoZone’s stock just hit an all-time high because America’s cars are acting like America’s grandmas.$AZO $WMTFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence chatbot that you can ask any question and it will give a human answer… so we asked it to write today’s TBOY episode. The hottest-growing food right now is “smeals” (snackable meals) — Smeals are a case study in “Category Design.” And Salesforce just lost another key executive (the founder of Slack) because CEO Marc Benioff can be rich or king (but you can never be both). $SJM $CRMFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.