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The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Reservations for 1 have jumped 29% in 2 years... because restaurants are microcosms of the economy.

US Steel built the Empire State Building & Willis Tower… but its epic $14B deal got stock-blocked

Spirit Halloween just collab’d with Chipotle on Halloween… because products are now protagonists.

Plus, there’s a political divide between brands… Frosted Flakes are Democrats, but Frosted Mini-Wheats are Republicans.

Seattle tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-best-one-yet-hotline-live-presented-by-audible-tickets-1002624325347

WSJ Brand preference by politics: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republican-democrat-brands-quiz-election-2024-fe9d1673

YouGov brand preference by politics: https://sherwood.news/business/brands-liberal-conservative-divide-yougov-survey/

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday.
0:05.0	September 6th. And today's party is the best one yet. This is a T-boy.
0:10.0	The top three pop business news stories you need to know today.
0:13.8	Yeah, it is our live hotline show on personal finance in Seattle.
0:18.2	Jack, how are the tickets looking?
0:20.0	They already sold out.
0:21.1	So we found 50 more tickets and we dropped the link in the episode description.
0:27.0	Thank you to all the Yeti's joining us in the Pacific Northwest and selling out the show in like literally minutes.
0:32.0	But again, there's a few more tickets available.
0:34.4	We found some seats for you.
0:35.5	Your move, Macklemore.
0:36.8	Your move.
0:37.8	Jack's three stories for today's show.
0:40.3	What do we get on the pod, man?
0:41.6	For our first story, we're covering a new trend solo dining the number of restaurant reservations for one person are up 29% because restaurants are really the microcosms of our economy.
0:54.4	For our second story there's one company behind the Empire State Building,
0:58.2	Willis Tower, and the New Orleans Superdome.
1:00.7	US Steel.
1:02.3	US Steel's 1515 billion deal just fell apart. And we'll tell you the wild history.
1:07.8	And our third and final story is the spiciest Halloween costume of this season, the Chipotle Burrito.
1:14.4	Spirit Halloween just collabed with Chipotle and that tells us something about society.
1:20.6	But yet is before we hit that wonderful mix of stories,
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