The Best One Yet
👙 “Final Hoot” — Hooters’ Re-hooterization. Facebook’s OG makeover. Canada’s WWII housing solution.
02 Apr 2025
The Hooters founders are buying it outta bankruptcy… but did you know Hooters once had an Airline?Facebook is going back to the OG version… Because the Social Network became a Stranger Network.Canada’s using a WWII playbook to fix their housing crisis… and it’s inspired by Long Island and Everything Bagels.$AAPL $META $EATWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… 📱iPhone: The Device Steve Jobs Didn’t Want to Build. Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.“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 Susper 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. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, April 2nd, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh, Jack and I are coming at you with an update from the Ambies, the Oscars of podcasting, baby. First of all, go right now to our Instagram because we have some fantastic behind the scenes highlights.
Spoiler, we didn't wear tuxes. But I got to say, you look glam over there, Jack. That was impressive, man. I mean, you literally did the glam cam. You know, my first time doing the glam cam, I would do another one very soon. I like that. Now, we didn't end up winning Best Business Podcast. That went to Guy Raz and How I Built This. Incredible.
If you're going to lose to one show, that's exactly the legendary man you want to lose to. But we did win on the red carpet. So check out at T-Boy Pod on Instagram. Yetis, we had a blast. Thank you for helping us almost win that award. And Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got? For our first story, it's Hooters.
The restaurant chain famous for their company dress code just filed for bankruptcy. So we got to talk about the time Hooters launched Hooters Airline. True story. For our second story, Canada's new prime minister just announced a dramatic plan to solve their housing crisis. And it's based on a World War II playbook, and it involves Long Island.
And our third and final story, Zuck is turning back the clocks on your Facebook feed. Instead of a cacophony of videos from people you don't know, Facebook is bringing back the friend. Isn't it cacophony? That's what I said, Jack. Cacophony. Yeah, it is before we had that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. What a mix for a Ceviche Wednesday.
According to our internal T-Boy podcast listener data. You, yes, you are listening right now on an iPhone. But despite how much you think you know your iPhone, you don't really know your iPhone. True, because besties, the true story of how the iPhone was born is barely even known at Apple. Did you know that at first, Steve Jobs hated the idea of the iPhone? Yeah, that's right.
The iPhone, the most influential invention of the last hundred years. The iPhone, the most profitable product of all time. The iPhone, Steve Jobs' creation that changed the world. But the man credited with creating it actively fought against it. And honestly, we had no idea until we did the research for our weekly show. The real origin of the iPhone begins with a guy named Tony. That's right.
And a top secret team over at Apple named Project Purple. And while Darth Vader was Luke's father, the iPod was the iPhone's father. So yetis, check out the latest episode of our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet. Every week we go deep on the untold origin stories of the products you're obsessed with. This week, it's the iPhone. Hey Siri, do you know how the iPhone became the iPhone?
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