⚽ “The Anti-Ted Lasso” — Qatar’s World Cup. Starbucks’ biggest day. FTX’s Madoff moment.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The World Cup begins Sunday in Qatar, a nation of just 300k citizens (half of Vermont) — but it’s dropped $200B for 8 new stadiums. Starbucks’ busiest day of the year was yesterday’s “Red Cup Day”, because holidays beat habits. And FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried just admitted he’s a fraud, so we’re gonna play a little game: Lehman, Enron, or Madoff? $SBUX $BTC $COIN Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday. November 18th and today's pod is the best one yet.
0:09.1	Happy Friday, yet we ripped up a T-boy for you. Jack and I, we got an update. We got some good news for our Taylor Swift's
0:15.0	Swifties out there. I don't know if this is good news, Nick. Okay, well apparently that $400 ticket we mentioned yesterday,
0:20.5	that is a steal. If you got a ticket for 400 bucks, that is a steal. We'll ride with you because yeti Ryan Everhart
0:28.6	found Taylor Swift tickets in Houston for $90,000. What? So we're gonna buy $400 tickets. Jack, what's our first story?
0:38.4	The most expensive world cup in history begins this weekend in Qatar. Get this every minute of soccer is gonna cost $35 million.
0:49.2	For our second story, Starbucks just had their biggest day of the year. Red Cup Day. Starbucks, they don't just make habits, they make holidays.
0:56.8	And our third and final story is about the founder of Crypto Catastrophe FTX. He just admitted he's a frog.
1:04.4	So Jack and I are gonna play a little game, Lehman, Enron, or Maidoff.
1:09.7	Sam Beckman, Fred, come on down. But yeti's before we hit that fantastic mix of stories for this Friday.
1:17.7	Just the perfect mix to go into a weekend with. We got some good stuff this weekend.
1:21.5	Which pants pocket is most perfect for your phone placement?
1:24.9	Hold on to your cargo shorts because we got the result from our week long survey.
1:29.4	With 41% of the vote on Twitter, the winner is the front right pocket.
1:34.3	The front right just fits your phone. Front right feels right, baby.
1:38.0	But don't celebrate the wins quite yet. Front right pocketers.
1:41.6	Oh, they're now back, back, back, back.
1:44.6	Because with 43% of the vote on Instagram, the winner is the back pocket.
1:51.0	Back pocket? That's the snap pocket, baby.
1:53.6	Wait, so on Twitter, most of you put your phone in your front right pocket.
1:57.7	Oh, Jack, on Instagram, most of us are putting our phone in our back pocket.
2:01.9	So Nick and I dove into the data to determine the discrepancy.
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