The Best One Yet
🇺🇸 “How Elections Affect Stocks” — Election Day Economy. Gladiator II’s creativity secret. Bandit Running’s disruption.
05 Nov 2024
What happens to the economy on election day?... Less beer, more flight upgrades, flat stocks.We’re about to get the biggest movie day in 2 years… Gladiator II, Moana II, & Wicked (#WickiGladiOna…2).Bandit is now the fastest-growing running brand… because it didn’t copy Nike, it copied Hermes.Plus, the 4th episode of our new show drops Tuesday: The untold origin story of The Jeep — The car that saved the world. 🚙 Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen. Episodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.—-----------------------------------------------------GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy. Tuesday, November 5th. 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. Yeah, it is. It is election day. I voted, you voted, Jack voted, we all voted. In fact, half of the country has already voted. Oh, curious what we're thinking about voting?
Well, Jack and I left our political thoughts on our personal handles of Instagram. But it's a big day. Today's show is the best one yet. So Nick, let's jump right into it. Three stories. What do we got for the pod, Jack? For our first story, curious what happens to the stock market on election day? It's actually huge. So Jack and I will tell you how election day affects the whole economy.
Spoiler, less beer, more selfies. For our second story, this month after the election, we're about to experience the biggest movie moment since Barbenheimer. Wicked, Gladiator 2, and Moana 2 all hit theaters the same week. It's WikiGladawana. We got to work on that. What's that called? A portmanteau? It's WikiGladawana. We're rolling with the check. We decided.
But in this movie story, we found the ultimate rule for creativity. And it applies to everyone. And our third and final story is the fastest growing running brand right now. It's Bandit Running. But Bandit running isn't copying Nike. Bandit is copying Hermes. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today, Jack. Perfect mix.
Tonight, one of the great, albeit complicated, systems of democracy gets to work. The U.S. presidential election. Because there's only one office voted on by all 330 million Americans. President of the United States. And who do we entrust to conduct the most important of our elections? We trust ourselves. It's about you, me, our neighbors. We run elections together.
Jack and I jumped in T-boy style to our election infrastructure. And honestly, it's so amazing UPS would be impressed. In the most recent nationwide election in 2022, we operated 94,793 different polling places in America. And in those 94,793 polling places, there were 645,219 people, mostly volunteers, who ran the election with patriotism and coffee.
That's according to a report written by Congress every two years. Jack, can you please repeat that for us over there? Our elections are run by 650,000 Americans across nearly 100,000 different polling places. Now, we don't have a central election authority because we divide that power across the states.
And within those 50 states, we also divide power across hundreds of counties and thousands of municipalities. So besties, you add up all those numbers and the result? The elections, they take longer. And the fact that our elections take longer, that's not something to be suspicious about. It's something to be impressed by. It's impressive, and yet trust in our elections is at an all-time low.
We think that's due to misinformation. So here's some information to combat that. First, 650,000 of us are running this election. Second, we have almost 100,000 polling places across the country where those volunteers are working hard. But Jack, we should point out, what about the people who voted early? How do they fit in? Glad you asked.
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