The Best One Yet
🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
05 Feb 2025
“No Buy 2025” is like “Dry January”… But instead of no alcohol, it’s no shopping.Spotify hit all-time high after its 1st full-year profit… because it found musical monopoly.Chick-fil-A’s drive-thru is #1 thanks to military-like precision... Drones, game-tape, & champagne.Plus, the Philadelphia Eagles linemen are the largest in history… and the most profitable.$SPOT $AAPLWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Monopoly 🎩. Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks “The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with — From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.—-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, February 5th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Nick and I are whipping up the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. And Jack, I have my second piano lesson later this afternoon after the recording today. I'm ready to go. It's your New Year's resolution to learn how to play the piano.
Although I've seen you play, you're already pretty good. That That's so nice of you, Jack. I forgot my C chords. I got to work on it. In the meantime, my goal is to play you a Beatles song by the end of the year. How romantic. I'm going to serenade you on this show. But Jack, three stories for today's tea boy. What do we got on the pod?
For our first story, the reason Chick-fil-A is the most successful fast food chain in America is its drive-thru. Chick-fil-A teaches us how to turn a bottleneck into a bottle of champagne. For our second story, Spotify stock surged 11% to an all-time high after reporting its first ever full year of profits. But Spotify is worth $100 billion because Spotify got a musical monopoly.
And our third and final story is the new spending trend of the year. It's going viral online. try to buy nothing buy nothing like you don't buy anything it's called no buy 2025 and after one month if you haven't bought anything we're impressed so the new spending trend is not spending anything and guess what one out of five of you are trying it this year
But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. Wild mix today. The biggest part of the Super Bowl this Sunday is not the chicken wings. Although a record 2 billion wings will be eaten this year. And it's not the TV commercials either. Although a record $8 million was spent per 30 seconds. The biggest part of this year's Super Bowl is the offensive linemen.
Yeah, like the five players on the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line, they are the tallest and heaviest in Super Bowl history. The tallest and heaviest. Get this, Yetis. The starting 5-0 linemen that protect the Eagles quarterback, they average 6'6", 338 pounds. Jack, could you whip up the math over there for us, please? That is 2,028 total pounds of human beef just in those five players.
Okay, Jack, that's not just a ton of dudes. That is literally a ton of dudes mathematically. Each of those eagles is one inch and 26 pounds more than the Kansas City Chiefs offensive linemen. In fact, Jack and I jumped in T-boy style. The Eagles offensive line weighs as much as a hippo, as a great white shark, as four ponies on a scale.
Can you imagine if a fully grown hippopotamus was replaced for an offensive line? Honestly, I'd rather be with the hippo than have five of these guys staring down at me, Jack. The biggest one of these guys is actually six foot eight, 365 pounds. Oh my Lord. He's actually three times the body mass of Simone Biles, the gymnast.
This one Eagles offensive lineman weighs the same as a Harley Davidson motorcycle. By the way, that one dude, he's actually an Australian rugby player. But Philadelphia converted him to play American football. Now, economically speaking, this Eagles offensive line is also the best financial investment in sports.
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