🥤“The Secret Lives of Coke Zero” — America’s oil record. Coke Zero’s Mormon surge. Starbucks’ Sharpie Marker.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | 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 |
| 0:22.1 | in order for 200,000 of them from Starbucks. So we're going to look at the world's first |
| 0:27.4 | permanent marker, and my Starbucks is obsessed with them. For our second story, America just |
| 0:33.7 | produced more oil in one month than we have in any other month in our history. |
| 0:38.5 | The USA is the new OPEC. |
| 0:40.6 | And our third and final story. |
| 0:42.8 | Soda sales. |
| 0:43.5 | Soda. |
| 0:44.2 | Soda sales are surging for the first time in a decade. |
| 0:47.7 | And it's all thanks to Coke Zero, Diet Coke, and Mormon moms. |
| 0:52.1 | That's right. |
| 0:53.4 | But, Yuddies, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 0:56.3 | Hey, Julie, one more round of dirty soda for the kids. |
| 0:59.7 | Election Day is tomorrow. |
| 1:02.0 | America is anxious, eager, and divided. |
| 1:04.9 | And that's why Jack and I wanted to talk about an episode we just did that United us. |
| 1:09.8 | It's an episode about the Jeep. The Jeep, because the |
| 1:13.5 | Jeep is an American creation that saved the world. Yeties, our latest episode of the best |
| 1:20.0 | idea yet drops tomorrow and it's on the Jeep. It's on the Jeep because during World War II, |
| 1:24.4 | the U.S. military asked the U.S. car industry for a favor. |
| 1:28.4 | Create a vehicle for the allies that can help us win the war. But here's what we found fascinating. |
| 1:33.9 | Few know that the Jeep was actually a wild group project. That's right. To create the Jeep, |
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