The Best One Yet
📖 “Holy Profit” — The Bible’s sales surge. Spotify Wrapped’s AI stunt. South Korea’s econ underdog.
05 Dec 2024
Bible sales are up 22% this year... even though religion is down (we’ll explain).South Korea declared (and then undeclared) Martial Law… so we’re looking at their economy.Spotify Wrapped just dropped… but AI podcast hosts stole the show.Plus, the top 10 most-mispronounced words of the year… from Shein to Chappel Roan.$SPOT $NWSA $SCHLSubscribe to the weekly newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter 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.
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nick you don't shake a bottle before popping it do you you're gonna need an extra towel if you do this is nick this is jack it's thursday the new friday december 5th 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 you got it ready is it chilled is the prosecco ready oh wait i'm doing it now you got it now yeah we got a show to do
we are pouring one out because it is spotify wrap today thank you i just spilled all over myself thank you thank you to all the yetis who made us number one in 2024 get this 19 000 of you had t-boy as their top podcast on spotify this year Many, many more listen to us. But for 19,000 of you, we were the number one show just on Spotify. We were your go-to boom. Okay, another wild stat.
You ready, Jack? 31% of our audience is new as of this year. Welcome, besties. Apparently, a lot of you have been saying H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y. Welcome, yetis. So, besties, tag us in your raft, and we'll send you a video personally of us celebrating with a glass of Prosecco right here. Those are some of the top stats we just mentioned, but we posted them all on Instagram. All right, now, Jack.
Pour that Prosecco. Let's hit our three stories. For our first story, it's Spotify wrapped. This is the biggest, most powerful PR campaign of all corporations of all year. But here's this year's key innovation. Artificial intelligence podcast hosts. I don't feel comfortable. For our second story, it's the best-selling book right now. It's the Bible. The Bible.
Americans bought 17 million Bibles this year, up 22%. So Jack and I are asking the holiest of questions. How are Bible sales up if religion is down? And our third and final story. South Korea just experienced political confusion and chaos, but things are now calm. So we are looking at South Korea's economy because it kind of reminds us of Yoda. GDP we have.
But yeah, it is before you hit that wonderful mix of stars. I mean, what a fantastic mix of stories, Jack. I ordered my Prosecco slightly chilled, by the way, just pointing that out. Yetis, you may have heard that the Oxford Dictionary recently announced the word of the year. And that word of the year is... brain rot. Brain rot.
As in, I was scrolling TikTok for so long, I'm suffering brain rot right now. Hey, Oxford, that's actually two words, but we will accept brain rot as the word of the year for 2024. But more interesting to us wasn't the word of the year. It was the mispronounced words of the year. Get this. I mean this. The language company Babbel studied 100,000 hours of live TV footage.
And they discovered the most mispronounced words by the newscasters, the politicians, and the game show hosts. The most mispronounced words. words. I mean, mispronounced. Jack, why don't you kick us off? What are the five most mispronounced words this year? What do we got? The most mispronounced word of this year was the Chinese shopping app, Sheen. Oh, you mean She-in. It's actually She-in.
That's what they said. Yeah. The second most mispronounced word was the actress, Zendaya. It's actually Zendaya. It's mispronounced. It should be Zendaya. Third was the politician, Pete Buttigieg. You mean Buttigieg. I think I'm still mispronouncing it, but that's actually the right pronunciation. You're definitely mispronouncing it. But I'm close enough. I'm close enough. All right.
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