The Best One Yet
💰 “Warren’s Biggest Trade” — Buffett’s cash crush. Tropicana’s carafe controversy. Bluesky’s alt-Twitter.
21 Nov 2024
Warren Buffett’s biggest trade of the year? Cash… The world’s top investor ain’t into stocks right now.Tropicana sales fell 20% because it changed its bottle… again.The #1-downloaded social media app right now is Bluesky… by copying the OG Twitter.Plus, would you buy canned Lake Como air from Italy for $11?... Because one business is selling it.$PEP $KO $BRK.B🧢 The TBOY holiday merch drop ends today Thursday 11/21: Shop now @ www.tboypod.com/shop🎙️ Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of “Levi’s 501s… The World’s 1st Jeans” 👖Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks —-----------------------------------------------------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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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, November 21st, 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. Jack, I hate to say this, so I'm going to have to ask you to say it, man. It's the final day that you can pre-order your T-Boy holiday merch. That's right. The store for this fantastic merch closes at 12 p.m.
Pacific today. After that, the orders get sent to the elves up at the North Pole who will deliver it to you before Christmas. So besties, go to tboypod.com slash shop to snag your T-Boy merch. It looks wonderful. We put a link in the episode description to make it easy for you. And Jack and I have been wearing the same merch sweatsuits for four days straight. So you got to buy the stuff.
A lot of people have been saying that we smell. They smell. But you know what? We do it for the pod. We do it for the show, Yetis. Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pod, man? For our first story, the number one most downloaded social media app right now is Blue Sky. Because Blue Sky figured out how to make an app that is billionaire proof.
For our second story, it's Tropicana Orange Juice. Sales of Tropicana OJ plummeted 20% last month. Because Tropicana made the same mistake they made 15 years ago. We'll tell you what it is. And our third and final story, the stock market is near record highs as everyone keeps buying everything. except for one person. And who is that, Jack? Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett.
Besties, Jack and I will tell you why the world's best investor is sitting on a record pile of cash. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. I love it. I don't think you smell. I don't think either of us smell for the record. I think we both smell great. Actually, I'm pretty sure this product is sweat wicking. Right? It smells good. Yeah, it is.
We've covered a lot of wild companies, brands, and products on this show. Yeah, we've covered olive oil coffee, and we've covered meatballs made out of extinct woolly mammoths. But we just found the most wild business, because one company is selling canned Lake Como air. We repeat, they are selling fresh air from Lake Como, Italy, bottled in a can. It's not water from Lake Como. It's air.
It's not Perrier. It is Perrier, if you know, you know. Now, to sprinkle on some context, Lake Como is a gorgeous place in northern Italy. Full disclosure, this is Nick, and we did our honeymoon there. It was lovely. Stunning cypress trees, magnificent mountains, plenty of pastel all over the place. Jack, I noticed the whole region of Lake Como, it smells like George Clooney, fact.
Isn't that where 007 has his villa in Casino Royale? Yeah, because it smells like George Clooney. But apparently the air there is so nice and so fresh that people will pay for it. In fact, you will pay $11 for that canned Lake Como air. Here's the story. A souvenir shop around Lake Como is selling cans of their famous air for $11 a can.
So you can buy a six-pack of air and bring it back to your six jealous friends in the States. And then you can all pop open the air and pound Lake Como air. That's what you do. You and your buddies can pound a six-pack of Lake Como air. So, yeah, these Jack and I saw this story, and we got to ask, what other air would you can? What other O2 would you bottle? Would you get a whiff of Chicago?
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