The Best One Yet
📺 “XXXL TV” — The 100-inch TV Boom. Calm’s election night win. Boeing’s return-on-union.
06 Nov 2024
TVs are getting gigantic, but prices are falling… Huge-screen TVs illustrate the biggest law of innovation.Boeing’s epic airplane strike is over… so we calculated the ROU: Return on Union.Calm won election night… The meditation app turned Election Night into its Super Bowl.Plus, there’s no feeling like voting — It’s the greatest American tradition (even beats Thanksgiving)... And we hope you got to experience it too.Looking for a long-form listen? Check out our new episode on The Jeep — The car that saved the world. It’s our latest episode of The Best Idea Yet. Listen here: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks Episodes 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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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Ceviche Wednesday, November 6th, 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. Now, yetis, as of this recording Tuesday afternoon, we do not know who was elected president yet. As we mentioned yesterday, it could take days before all the votes are counted.
So Jack and I spent the whole day preparing three fantastic stories for this show, including one on election night coverage. Jack, three stories for the T-boy. What do we got? For our first story, one winner of election night, it was Calm, the meditation app. Calm turned election night into its Super Bowl. And you can too. For our second story, it's Boeing.
Boeing's epic worker strike is finally over. They're back to making airplanes again. So Jack and I found the data to calculate the ROI of worker unions. And our third and final story. We're in the middle of a big TV boom. A huge TV boom. We don't mean stuff to watch on TV. We mean the TV itself. Because the 100-inch television is surging while its price is dropping.
Because big TVs capture the biggest law of innovation. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. Incredible. Whipping this up on election day, Jack, by the way. Wonderful work. There was one line Nick and I heard yesterday that kind of bothered us. Hey, I heard someone say, we're stuck choosing between two terrible presidential options.
Look, Yeti's, political candidates are never perfect, even when you really like one of them. The reality, it's that all candidates got flaws. All of them do. Now, Nick and I have only been old enough to vote for president five times in our lives. Jack and I did the math. We've been on Earth for nearly 14,000 days, but on only five days could we actually vote for president. But you know what?
Each one of those five times we casted our presidential vote, each of those five times was special. It was so special that we can remember every detail from each of those times. Like, Jack, take me back. First memory, voting, what do you got? Well, before I voted, my parents used to take me into the voting booth, and I found that to be an extremely special occasion.
My dad would tell me which two lines to connect, and he would let me have the honors. And then they'd, like, move the curtain, and it was like a moment of calm, probably, while you're just in there with your family. Might technically be voter fraud, but let's overlook that, okay, for a second. I remember the first time I voted, walking into the public school gymnasium and you could smell it.
I can still smell what that sweat was like from that gymnasium floor. You could see light coming in and it was just, it was a surreal experience. During the pandemic, I voted from this random town where I was living in an Airbnb. It was like a really small town and the whole administrative building was one room.
Well, this time, Jack, I still remember the weight of the Sharpie pen I used for the mail-in ballot. You remember the pen you use. I voted about a week ago, but yesterday on the way home from the studio, I stopped by a voting station just to experience the camaraderie. Because the people waiting online are voting for different people, but they're all fortunate to be there.
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