🥤 “The Switzerland of soda” — Dr Pepper’s mystery strategy. Delta’s free wifi wager. Your job’s sneaky non-compete.
Millennials are killing soda, except for one brand: Dr Pepper. Delta just launched free high-speed wifi in the air — it’s not a perk, it’s a signal. And when you got hired, we bet you signed a Non-Com...
9 Jan 202320min
🦁 “Long Live The King” — The Lion King Musical’s record. Craft Beer’s flavor fatigue. Bed Bath & Beyond’s bankruptcy.
The Lion King Musical just had the best week of ticket sales in the history of Broadway — So we’re looking at the economics of the Broadway show. Craft Beer is the only area of alcohol whose sales shr...
6 Jan 202319min
🚢 “I live on a cruise ship” — Storyline’s cruise condos. Tylenol’s cough cocktail. Roku’s binge TV.
You can buy a condo on Storylines’ new cruise ship — because it’s a floating town for full-time residents to live in… forever. Johnson & Johnson is loving this extra heavy cold, cough, and flu season ...
5 Jan 202319min
🦾 “McBot Burger-Flipper” — McDonald’s robo-restaurant. Tesla’s worst day. Google’s “code red.”
McDonald’s just opened its first ever robot restaurant… and it will forever kill the “soggy fry problem.” Google just issued a “Code Red” warning about its most important product (when Google goes Cod...
4 Jan 202319min
💏 “The NYE surprise hookup” — Netflix’s Nike kiss. Southwest’s dirty secret. Our 2023 stock market prediction.
The first surprise new relationship of 2023? Netflix and Nike — Workout and chill. Southwest suffered the worst airline breakdown in history because of its dirty secret: Technical Debt. And 2022 was o...
3 Jan 202321min
BONUS 🔮 “Predictions Pod” — Our 3 Big Wishes for 2023
To end 2022, we whipped up our annual un-zuckably bold pod of the year — Our 3 big business predictions for 2023:Budweiser should launch the 1st zero alcohol bar chainAmazon should launch a theme park...
26 Des 202221min
BONUS 💝 “Best of 2022” — Our 3 Favorite Stories of the Year
From Zuckings to Suckflation, Smeals to Funa… it was a wild year. So we whipped up our 3 favorite business stories of 2022:Airbnb became a Party Pooper with a PurposeKFC created its 1st chicken nugget...
19 Des 202219min
🎁 “Never ever pay $9.99” — The 99 shopping rule. Avatar’s $2B tickets. Taco Bell’s french fry strategy.
Macy’s first priced something $0.99 in 1880 in a catalog, now every retailer does — but that means they’ve rounded the price up, not down. Avatar 2 is Disney’s blockbuster of the year, but it’s probab...
16 Des 202220min
