The Best One Yet
š āMission: iMpossibleā ā Appleās Hoarderās Quarter. The Cars-becoming-Spas trend. Elonās DOGE exit.
02 May 2025
Luxury cars are adding wild mindful wellness featuresā¦ But will anyone pay for an in-car spa?Elon just exited DOGEā¦ So we calculated the $$$-saving scorecard.Apple pulled off a āMission Impossibleā operationā¦ Weāre calling it the Hoarderās Quarter.Plus, who will win the Kentucky Derby?ā¦ The horse whose name begins with āS.ā$AAPL $SPY $MGGYYWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story ofā¦ the Starbucks Frappuccino š„¤Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.āThe Best Idea Yetā: The untold origin stories of the products youāre obsessed with ā From the McDonaldās Happy Meal to Birkenstockās sandal to Nintendoās Susper Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.ā-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) showā¦ The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. Itās 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) showā¦ The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. Itās 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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This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Friday, the real Friday, May the 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. Mark your calendars for Monday, baby. And why is that, Jack? We are announcing our next T-boy live show on Monday. The city, the state, the location, we'll reveal it all on Monday, the next T-boy live.
Wait, did you say it's May 2nd? I said it was May 2nd. Happy birthday, mom. Top of the show shout out. Why not? Jennifer, congratulations over there. Always remember to call your mother. Jack, three stories for today's team boy. What do we got in the pot? For our first story, Apple just pulled off what we're calling the Tom Cruise quarter.
Actually, we're calling it the hoarder's quarter, but it does involve Tom Cruise. For our second story, the hot new trend in luxury cars is mindfulness. Meditations, massages, scented hibiscus smells. Yeti's every car brand now thinks it's a spa. And our third and final story, it's unofficially the end of Doge. Elon Musk just left his Doge task force.
He talked about Buddha, and so we ran the numbers for you. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What? A mix of stories to go into the weekend with. Love it, Jack. Happy Cinco de Burke Derby playoffs to all those who celebrate. That's right, because Yetis, this weekend we got Cinco de Mayo parties. We got the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.
Plus NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs. And the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby. It is by far the biggest weekend of the year for social sports shareholder actions. If you chose this weekend for your wedding, which our buddy Emmy did, you may get some no-shows. But Nick and I want to focus on one of those events in particular, and it's not Emmy's wedding.
No, it is the longest running sports event in America, the Kentucky Horse Race Derby. Since 1875... The Kentucky Derby has happened each and every single year. Including during World Wars and the Great Depression. So we were curious, after 151 years, is there a trend in terms of what horse rins the waste? I think you mean what horse wins the race, but I love what you said, Jack. We were curious.
Can we predict the Derby victor just based on the horse's name? The answer? Yes. Because get this, 13% of Kentucky Derby winners were horses whose names began with S. That's right. Secretariat, Smarty Jones, Sea Hero, SSS. And we're not double counting for the four horses who had double S names. Seattle Slew, Super Saver, Street Sense. How about Sunday Silence?
All of them are Kentucky Derby winners. And statistically speaking, S names win four times more than their share of the alphabet. And this year, Nick, the two horses with the best odds to win? Well, that would be Sandman and Sovereignty.
Therefore, the secret to who's going to win the Kentucky Derby may simply begin with the letter S. But besties, to borrow a line from Warren Buffett, this is not financial advice. the letter S may just be correlation, not causation. So yetis, if you're watching the Kentucky Derby, first of all, it's a six hour event, but it only is the last two minutes of the six hours.
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