🤳 “500 Followers = $500” — Min-fluencers’ big moment. iPhone’s $18/mo lease. Spidey’s power couple. +KFC’s secret recipe
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, July 29th. And today's pod is the best one yet, and this is the T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh, we got a meat and potato earnings day, baby. Stocks popping in anticipation. Meta and Microsoft announced today. Apple and Amazon announced tomorrow. That's $10 trillion of value. We'll get it all in the pod, but in the meantime, if you thought yesterday's show was the best one yet, which we did... This show, even better. Jack, what do we got on the T-boy? For our first story, Apple's newest product isn't the product, it's how you buy it. It's a lease. A lease, the $18 a month iPhone. It ain't an iPhone killer, that's an Android killer.
For our second story, do you have less than 1,000 followers on Instagram? You could be a minfluencer. Congrats, and we'll tell you how you can turn your mini-influencer, minfluencer everyday lifestyle into money. Or let's be honest, you're probably a nano-influencer. You itty bitty influencer. And our third and final story. No one is having a better year than Tom Holland and Zendaya, Gen Z's power couple. Those two have uncorked Hollywood's best year since 2019 in two different ways. But besties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories... What a mix on the pod. Love the mix. No one else is doing that mix, Jack. The greatest business secret in history. What is it, Nick? It's got to be the TikTok algorithm.
But much more interesting than the TikTok algorithm is KFC's fried chicken recipe. Ah, I love herbs and spices, but no idea what about, no idea what order. Colonel Sanders invented this recipe 86 years ago in Kentucky, but it's been top secret classified corporate information since. I'm sorry, pause the pause, Jack, because not for long. That's right. The original KFC corporate headquarters just went up for auction, which includes the Colonel's diary with the OG recipe. So some fried chicken super fan will soon get their hands on KFC's secret sauce. They stole our recipe, Jack. Will they post it to Wiki links for all of us to see? Or are they going to sell it to New York Times cooking for a pretty penny?
We'll see. But KFC is not the only highly protected business recipe. Jack and I naturally whipped up a list for you. First, you got Coca-Cola. Same secret soda recipe since 1886. Although they did remove cocaine in 1903. True story. True story. Or WD-40. They're the best-selling industrial lubricant in human history. But the formula is entrusted to just one person at corporate headquarters. Oh, Jack, I'm sorry. You smell that? Chanel No. 5. Most famous fragrance in humanity. 80 expensive ingredients. They're all locked in a vault in France. Hey, you want to get them? Not possible. But the biggest secret in business history, it's got to be that TikTok algorithm. Yeah, I think it's the TikTok algorithm. Even Zuck doesn't know what's in that thing.
Yeah, at least that's what he told Congress, Jack.
Yetis, let us know if we missed the top business corporate classified secret in business history. Let us know in the comments.
Don't tell the lawyers. Just drop the answer in the comments. And please include the measurements, the grocery list, and whether we should pre-thaw anything the day before. Your secret's safe with us. Jack, let's hit our three stars.
15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm.
What’s the KFC secret‑recipe auction and which other corporate recipes are famously guarded?
Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
Apple just unveiled the first ever iPhone lease for just $17.99 a month. It's a potential Android killer, and it shows the key strategy of Apple in the post-Mag7 era. Yeah, but the plumbers do the plumbing. Now, Yetis, think back a couple decades ago. Your first iPhone, it felt like a luxury splurge. You probably still have that fancy box you opened it up in, up in a shelf or in a drawer somewhere.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:09
2
What’s the KFC secret‑recipe auction and which other corporate recipes are famously guarded?
3:09–10:40
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What is Apple’s new $17.99/month iPhone lease and how does it work?
10:40–17:22
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How could Apple’s lease become an Android killer for price-sensitive buyers?
17:22–22:51
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Why is Apple outsourcing financing and AI in its post‑Mag7 strategy?
22:51–22:55
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