The Best One Yet
🥤“The Secret Lives of Coke Zero” — America’s oil record. Coke Zero’s Mormon surge. Starbucks’ Sharpie Marker.
04 Nov 2024
Starbucks is buying 200k Sharpie Markers to put names on cups... we’re calling it “The Sharpie Doctrine”.America just produced more oil in a month than any time in history… USA is the new OPEC.Soda sales are rising for the 1st time in a decade… It’s thanks to Coke Zero and Mormons.Plus, the 4th episode of our new show drops Tuesday: The untold origin story of The Jeep — The car that saved the world… and united the country. 🚙 Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen. Episodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.$GM $KO $XOM $NWL—-----------------------------------------------------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.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, November 4th, 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, looking fantastic over there. Big week. Should we hit the three stories? For our first story, we got Sharpie.
Sharpie sells 200 million permanent markers every year, and they just got an order for 200,000 of them from Starbucks. So we're going to look at the world's first permanent marker and why Starbucks is obsessed with it. For our second story, America just produced more oil in one month than we have in any other month in our history. The USA is the new OPEC. And our third and final story, soda sales.
Soda sales are surging for the first time in a decade. And it's all thanks to Coke Zero, Diet Coke, and Mormon moms. That's right. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Hey, Julie, one more round of dirty soda for the kids. Election day is tomorrow. America is anxious, eager, and divided. And that's why Jack and I wanted to talk about an episode we just did that united us.
It's an episode about the Jeep. The Jeep, because the Jeep is an American creation that saved the world. Yetis, our latest episode of The Best Idea Yet drops tomorrow, and it's on the Jeep. It's on the Jeep because during World War II, the U.S. military asked the U.S. car industry for a favor. Create a vehicle for the allies that can help us win the war. But here's what we found fascinating.
Few know that the Jeep was actually a wild group project. That's right. To create the Jeep, three rival American car companies came together. They put aside their differences and built something unprecedented, baby. The Jeep wasn't just the first SUV ever, which it was. It's also been ranked the most patriotic brand in America the past 20 years. And probably the next 20 years.
And the Jeep surprise story is the fourth episode of our new series, The Best Idea Yet. The Best Idea Yet. The untold origin stories of the products you're obsessed with. So Yetis, tomorrow on election day, after you listen to this show, go make sure you voted. But then after that, if you're looking for a break from political coverage, listen to our new episode on the Jeep.
We dropped a link in the episode description. It's the Jeep, a creation of many Americans from competing companies that saved the world, literally. It's a wild story. We got three fantastic stories in this episode. First, let's hit our three stars. Jack, what's in it?
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. 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. Start the show.
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