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🍒 “Pop-Tart Problem” — Red dye’s food ban. JPMorgan’s overdraft idea. Job Referrals as-a-Service. Jan 16, 2025

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From Pop-Tarts to Peeps, Red #3 artificial food coloring is now banned… 40 years too late.

JPMorgan just had its best quarter in 200 years… so it’s time to kill the most hated fee in banking.

There’s a hot new side-hustle that can make you $30k/year… Job Referrals as a service.

Plus, male and female Instacart shoppers pick out food differently… so should you be able to choose the gender?

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🚽 “Lattes & Lavatories” — Starbucks’ policy pivot. LA’s greedy landlords. Planet Fitness’s biggest risk. Jan 15, 2025

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Starbucks’ is trying to save “the 3rd place”... by ending their open doors bathroom policy.

Greedy LA landlords are jacking up rents 100%... but there could be a housing market silver lining.

Planet Fitness stock hit an all-time high… but its greatest risk is “a run on the gym”.

Plus, Philadelphia Eagles WR AJ Brown read a book during a playoff game… now it’s #1 on Amazon.

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📹 “The Next TikTok” — Whatnot’s $5B shop app. Nvidia’s uranium problem. Sonos’ CEO oopsie. Jan 14, 2025

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TikTok will be banned in 5 days… but its replacement is Whatnot: It’s Instagram + eBay + MTV.

Sonos is known for its fancy sounds systems… but the CEO just quit because of 1 big mistake.

Nvidia chips have export restrictions… because in the AI arms race, chips are the new uranium.

Plus, the #1 candy in America was invented by a frog salesman… It’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and it’s the next episode of our weekly deepdive show The Best Idea Yet 🥜

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🧀 “Return of the Rat” — Chuck E. Cheese’s $1B comeback. Hotelification of offices. Disney’s sports streamer airballs. Jan 13, 2025

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Chuck E. Cheese is back from bankruptcy… with a brand new babysitter strategy.

Pools, massages, bars… Offices are getting “hotelified” for the 2025 Return-to-Office push.

Disney, Fox, and Warner’s joint sports app, Venu, just shut down… and the NBA tells us why.

Plus, it’s Planuary… Our New Year’s resolution is to plan the whole year this month (we’ll tell ya how).

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🔥 “LA’s Fire Hero” — Watch Duty’s #1 fire app. Rolls-Royce’s Picasso car. $1T of Gift Returns. Jan 10, 2025

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The #1 in the whole App Store is Watch Duty… a hero saving lives in LA’s wildfires.

Rolls-Royce now sells 100% top-to-bottom custom cars… it’s commissioned art, like Picasso.

17% of Christmas gifts get returned… so we invented a solution: “Reverse Logistics”

This Sunday is the biggest day of the year for dating apps… Swiping is about to surge 70%.

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⛰️ “51st State” — USA’s Greenland deal. Starface’s pimple patch. John Deere’s robo-tractor. Jan 09, 2025

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Trump proposed buying Greenland… so we looked into how/if/when it’s possible.

John Deere’s big tech update at CES?... a robo-self-driving tractor to cut your grocery bill.

Starface has become a $100M startup… by putting star stickers on pimples.

Plus, we’re living in the Panda-conomy… because when Pandas are out, sales surge.

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🌹 “META goes MAGA”— Zuck’s fact-check switcheroo. Tiger’s viral golf league. Alcohol’s 1st warning label. Jan 08, 2025

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Mark Zuckerberg is ending fact-checking on Instagram & Facebook… because Trump won the election.

The Surgeon General said alcohol causes cancer… Will a liquor warning label work?

Tiger and Rory’s new golf league just launched… But it’s designed for screens, not greens.

Plus, the hot new beauty trend of 2025 is egg whites… Frittata Facials are up 1,500,000%.

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⛷️ “Ski-Pocalypse” — Park City’s ski strike. NYC’s traffic tax. The Birth of Gen Beta. Jan 07, 2025

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The biggest strike in ski history hit during the busiest ski week of the year… and Vail lost $400M.

A brand new generation is being born in 2025: Gen Beta… And we found its 1 defining trait.

NYC launched America’s largest traffic experiment: Congestion Pricing… And every city is watching.

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🔮 “The Predictions Pod” — Apple iToilet, Disney Airlines, and Home Depot Homes. Jan 06, 2025

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#1. Apple iTush — Apple will launch a smart toilet (aka “iTush”) to expand its push into health.

#2. Disney Airlines — Disney will acquire Spirit Airlines to bring its cruise strategy to the skies.

#3. Home Depot Homes — Home Depot will sell mail-order homes to fix the housing market.

To kick off 2025, we whipped up our 6th annual “3 big business wishes” for the coming year. These aren’t just predictions, they’re wild wishes that if you think about it, make a ton of sense. Predictions sprinkled with razzle dazzle & sprinkle dinkle.

Hit us up @tboypod to let us know what you think of these predictions… and to let us know yours.

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