Good morning for your daily show, I'm Kyle Hege. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. And on today's episode, we see if Neil and Toby can remember the brilliant things they said throughout the year. It's Thursday, December 26th. Let's ride. Hey, that's my one.
So today we have a very special episode of the podcast with a game called Who Said It? And this is actually our second annual time we've done this. The rules are very complex, all right? So stick with me here. I'm going to read a quote from the podcast that was said during 2024 and you're both going to guess.
who said it. So crazy stuff going on. So I'll read the quote, you to discuss who you think said the quote, maybe you agree, maybe you disagree, and then bonus points if you can tell me the context of the quote. And if you can name a specific episode and date,
But it was said, you might win a brand new car or something. We encourage you to play at home, so feel free to pause the show, think to yourself who said it, or better yet, play it out loud near your commute, get everyone guessing who said it as well. And it's the only time this year that all three of us, I believe, have been in the studio at once. The government said it's too powerful when we get together, so they let us do it once a year. Do we have a designated survivor? Oh no, I don't know. We'll have to talk to the producers about that.
And I just want it before we start, I just want to thank Ray, our producer, for going through hours and hours and hours of footage for finding these quotes and to you, Kyle, for hosting. Of course. This is one of my favorite episodes. So let's make it a good one. Are you all ready to play, who said it? Let's do it. All right. Quote number one.
It does feel like the layoffs of early 2024 do have some AI tinge to it. When you listen to these CEOs doing their layoff announcements, it's more strategic focused on reorganizing. It's not like the layoffs of 2023. Weird use of strategic there. Yeah, but pretty insightful. So I think me.
I think, I think me. I think it's Neil as well because I would have used strategically, not strategic. Okay. So you would have used it properly. Yes. So Neil did say this. Yeah. Now this was on a pretty special episode. Do you remember what episode this was from?
Wait, so these layoffs have a tinge AI? Oh, I know what you're talking about. It's when we interviewed Mark Zuckerberg. Exactly. It was the year of Zuck. It was the Mark Zuckerberg interview. And I think you were talking about should people be worried about AI taking their jobs. So Zuck, thank you for that really great quote. And you are correct. Neil had that insightful wisdom. Number two, if I were a betting man in this scenario, I think Warner Bros relinquishes the TV rights for the NBA because it's so expensive.
I'm a betting man. Let's say Toby. Yeah, the question is, who is the bigger draft Kings addict? I know. I am. First of all, Toby bets on different types of things, not the NFL like I do. If I were a betting man,
well okay so it was a stuff like that i know i don't but also it was correct though they did relinquish the rights even though they are fighting for them still they still know they they settled that it's gone if they're if so it is correct which means i must have said it
The answer is, Toby. Let's go. If you are using your correct heuristic, if it's right, Toby probably said it. The NBA TV rights rougher grabs between major media companies. This was from May 10th, episode 320. OK, yeah. So the NBA is leaving TNT. Goodbye. Although inside the NBA, they did really come to an agreement. So those boys will still be on your TV screen, which is what we all wanted. We're still going to have Sir Charles on TV, which is great news. All right. Number three.
quote, you want to bring tourists to your neck of the woods, but you also want them to behave responsibly and be respectful of the businesses. What a thoughtful quote here. Who sounds like me? Yeah, this is either two, two things. Well, we did a lot of stories this year about countries kind of cracking down on tourism. One was like Milan started these rules of like quiet hours after a certain time. There was also
People in Barcelona, I have a guess that this is what you're referring to. We talked about protesters in Barcelona firing water guns at visitors at restaurants. There's one wildcard though. Remember Amsterdam put out a call banning British men from specifically visiting the city. So there was a lot of stories. Yeah, that was certainly the year was over tourism. I guess we got sidetracked here. I think I said it. Yeah, Neil said it.
Okay, so the guess is Neil said it is about overtourism mainly abroad. You're wrong on both accounts. Well done, guys. Toby said this. And it had nothing to do with Europe and international travel. It was Miami launches ad campaign to deter spring break. You all were thinking too intellectually. Yeah. I mean, it is overtourism. Got to look closer to home. Wait, say the quote again?
It was, you want to bring tourists to your neck of the woods, but you also want them to behave responsibly and be respectful of the businesses. I think Miami Spring Break was getting a little out of hand. Miami Beach, they basically tried to cancel Spring Break. Yeah, but if you go to Miami Beach, you're not trying to behave responsibly. That's the whole point. That is the whole point. I have been to Miami Beach during Spring Break and people do not behave responsibly. We'll move on from that. Number four, this one's nice. We're breaking 85 in golf this year.
I mean, that's that's me. That has to be me because Toby had probably hasn't shot over an 85 in like 15 years. So that's my goal. And I think I did. I shot an 84. So that's good. Hell yeah. Congratulations. Do you remember when you shared this, though, Neil, you are correct.
No idea. It was your New Year's resolution, the first episode of 2024 and you pulled it off. That's huge. Huge news on the podcast. I remember Stockbridge Country Club in Massachusetts. He had a great golf year. A long putt for 84 and you just synced it on 18. I don't remember. I probably flailed into the end there.
All right, we're moving on to the next quote. This one is pretty serious. We've never seen anything like this in the history of financial markets when a company's earning a report has become as important as the jobs report or the inflation report or a Jerome Powell press conference. Who said it and what was this quote about? I think it's Neil and Nvidia, right? The two ends right there.
feeling good, the double N, N squared. You are correct. You got nailed that one. It was Neil Nvidia. You probably said that a million times on this. A million. It was the most important company of the year, the most important stock in the world. Each earnings report was a massive event. They had a watch party here in New York City at a bar over it. I would say, you know, certainly Nvidia's earnings may be, we may have hit peak Nvidia earnings, I think.
But for a time there, over the summer, it was quite insane. It was fun. The numbers were gaudy. We were really mad that we didn't come up with the idea of hosting a watch party either. It was a little bit of a nerdy event for sure. The people who, during, like, before the workday is over, goes to a bar in Manhattan just to watch, you know, Nvidia's earnings drops. It was a fun time. But yeah, unless they somehow double revenue again, which seems unlikely, it probably won't be as big of an event, but still, you know,
A gang bust of a year for them. It would be really fun if you all did like earnings report watches with people. Neil has wanted to do like college game day ask for like the jobs report or something like that. If you have it, can I just got to be on the panel? You're on it. You're on it. You're Pat McPhee. We'll get Nick Saban in the house too. All right. Next quote, I probably account for 50% of global sales of briars. Me?
You don't need priors. I used to eat a lot of briars chocolate ice cream, but I don't see it anymore. It got super expensive. So I would say that quote refers to me from age eight to 16. Okay. What is this inflation has taken away your law? Yeah. What is this in reference to though?
So it was March 20th, so it was earlier this year, and it was about parent company Unilever trying to sell its ice cream businesses. Right. Oh yeah. And it was also, they cited too that it was so hot that it was bad for the ice cream business. There is like an ideal temperature in the summers. If it gets too hot, people don't want to eat ice cream because it just melts there. So that was the first time ever considered the fact that it could be too hot for ice cream. It's probably good we're getting corporate interest aligned on not having climate change. Yeah, ice cream business. Ice cream companies are going to
are going to fight this. Wait, let's go around here. What's everyone's favorite ice cream brand? Ben and Jerry's. Well, flavor. There's a Maricone dream. That's really good. If I'm not doing Ben and Jerry's salt and straw, now that it's in New York City. Right. And that is a Pacific Northwest staple. That's a bougie answer for sure. Delicious as well. I grew up on 80s, which not a lot of people did. My uncle used to work for them. It's E.D. Y. Posphorus.
Yeah, if anyone's done a crossword puzzle, 80s is in pretty much all this a lot. Yeah, and it is underrated, I will say. I just never meet anyone who actually eats it, but since I had the familial tie, I was an easy family. Going back to American dream, someone, so Stephen Colbert, that's Stephen Colbert. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. I was talking to someone from Montclair, New Jersey. They saw he went to a supermarket and bought
American American dreamy bought his own ice cream. That's like Michael Jordan's right there. Also we're doxxing Stephen Colbert on that. It's a well-known fact. Oh my goodness. All right. We're going to move on to the next quote. Every media company now has a streaming platform. So how do you stand out these days? It's having live sports.
Oh, I mean, it's a pretty generic quote. Let's be. I know. I think I've heard a pin and I'm every single person. The first part, I thought it was going to be in reference to Chick-fil-A launching a streaming service. But then I think it is like a Netflix thing bidding on live sports. They made a ton of inroads into that. I'm going to give you the date and maybe that helps you identify what they're specifically talking about. It was an early episode, January 16th.
I was here on January 16th. That seems a little. That was in reference to the Mike Tyson, Jake Paul launch. No, this is no. Yeah, that's way too early for that. Well, I'm saying they announced it, you know, it just happened. But or the Christmas Day NFL games still seems to. Either way, we have not, we're not answering the question. I'll take it, but I don't think it's in reference to those sporting events. Oh, WWE rights. Maybe it was WWE.
It was peacock streaming the chief dolphins AFC wild car game and Neil said it. All right. Neil said it. All right. I love this next quote. This is a classic case of the over engineering that has gripped our society.
Why can't we just have a low tech vending machine? What was wrong with the former system where you put in a quarter, you type F3, and you get a snack. Someone is on their philosophical society level. Seriously. Quote here, who said it? If I remember correctly, Toby did a Toby's trends on people acquiring vending machines as a side hustle. So that's the only thing I can go off of. So that's what I'll say.
And I guess we are railing against vending machines getting to, oh no, Toby's trends. It was the facial recognition technology at certain colleges that people were like freaking out about. Like why does our vending machine need facial recognition? And it still was me though.
an incredible call. It was Toby and you nailed it. It was about the facial recognition technology on college campuses. You all have, you have like very good memories. Two vending machine stories this past year though. That's pretty good. It was either in video or vending machine. That's all we're talking about. Okay, next quote, this is what you've always seen in music. People pushing the boundaries. This is why music is an awesome medium.
A deep quote here. Someone did the research on this one. Music pushes the boundaries. It does, I mean, it's probably, it's probably me. But I can't. Because Toby likes music, but he doesn't like wax poetic about it. Okay, well, let's try to think of the context though. Yep. I mean, there could be so many things. I don't think we would say that, you know, the Drake Kendrick Lamar beef was necessarily pushing the boundaries of music. So maybe process of elimination, that is not it.
I'm drawing a blank here, you gotta help us out. So it was February 2nd, Toby actually said it, which this is why music is an awesome medium, that feels Toby-coated. Yeah, it doesn't really mean much. It was Beyonce announcing your country album during the Super Bowl. Okay, I feel better about it now. A throwback to the public. All right, I love this one too. Bring a megaphone, especially if you're a podcaster.
Bring a megaphone, especially if you're a podcaster. I have no idea. Bring a megaphone. Give us a hint. It's like a field day. All right, get the calendar out. It's April 30th. And this was in reference to an extracurricular activity that one of you two did outside of the studio. That's exactly what I said. Toby hosted field day. Wait, wait, it was an April? Yep. It's my sister's wedding. Because I was, I hosted field day at my sister's wedding.
You all nailed it. There we go. Exactly. Toby said it. Toby lost his voice hosting Bill Gates during his sister's wedding. So if you brought a megaphone, you wouldn't have to yell. I literally couldn't talk like the day before the podcast, but you know, that was my Jordan flu game. I played through the pain. Have you found yourself in like loud music situations where you're yelling and you realize you have this next day and you're like, I think I'm just going to shut up a little bit. Well, first of all, music is a wonderful medium. It is.
And second of all, sometimes I do, I feel the voice straining if like you go and socialize too hard and you gotta, you know, tell me. This is the way I make money. Protect the money, man. Protect the money, man. I think from a corporate risk standpoint, we need both of those. Right, ensure our votes are vocal. Yeah, we gotta talk to someone about that. All right, next quote, that's one of the problems with, by now, pay later. When you make these purchases, you can't build credit through them. Really good analysis here. Who said it?
I remember this story too. It was just about a report that it was this huge blind spot in terms of like creating credit reports is that by now, pay later, didn't contribute or hurt your credit score. So it was just like this lurking beast of a thing. Right. So I'm recalling it phantom debt. Phantom debt. So who broke down phantom debt? I think it was me. I think I introduced that story. So I'm going to say. Let's go with Toby. It was Neil.
Oh my gosh. I need to just learn to read your face. Yeah, I think I'm giving it away. Yeah. You are looking at each other too much. I think what happens is one of us introduces the story, so they think that's who said it, but it's probably the person who replied to the story that we got it. With a nice clue. So we have to invert our thinking here. Okay. Yes. Okay.
Next quote, I just say, quote, you know your deal is stupid. It's going to go to zero because it's a bad idea. It doesn't mean you're a bad person. Take it behind the barn and shoot it and try something else. I'm the only one that tells the truth. That would be Mr. Wonderful. Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank. We interviewed him on Black Friday and he was pretty unsparing in his criticism of his fellow sharks on the show.
It was pretty fun to see him in a podcast setting because he is the exact same as how he is on the show. He also has his phrases. He loves saying, take it behind. I don't want to see the behind his barn. There's a lot of entrepreneurs face to face. And so it was part of his Lexicon and he busted it out in our interview as well. Did you end up taking any of his advice to get into to watches?
I mean, I have looked. I have paralysis by analysis because Mr. Wonderful is also a big watch collector. No surprise there. I wore my Apple Watch in and he was just going in on the fact that Apple Watches have no soul. You need to get into more collecting of these art pieces. And he gave me a few names. But then I looked up the price tag and I got a little nervous. So I'm still rocking the Apple Watch. Well, if Rolex, Patek, Grand Seiko, they're listening. He's like five levels deeper than those brands.
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Okay, another really insightful quote here. Let's guess who said it. Talk on de-dollarization is something that gets on my last nerves. People keep saying no one is going to use the US dollar. The US dollar is going to explode. If the US dollar explodes, the rest of the financial system will explode, including crypto. There needs to be less fear-mongering around it. It's got to be you, Kyle.
No, no, no, no. I, it's Kyla Scanlon, I think. It's our interview with Kyla. That's, cause we talked about de-dollarization with her, and it seemed a little bit more insightful than what we came up with, so. Juan, I just have to say, I'm honored that Neil, her de-dollarization, he goes, that was Kyle. You're just, you're more opinionated than we are. So I would never say something like this gets on my last nurse. Yeah, I know. That's, that's insightful. It was, was it Kyla Scanlon? It was Kyla Scanlon. A really good interview you all did, and apparently she, de-dollarization, gets on her last nerves.
That was probably one of our favorite interviews of the year because Kyle is an economist, but she also can speak very colloquially about these things. So she can say things like de-dollarization gets on my last nerve because she thinks about that stuff. And it has been a little bit more of a talking point in recent months. I mean, as we're recording this, some of the BRICS nations have floated the idea of decoupling their economies from the dollar.
Kyla just needs to go in front of you know these these nations and say it doesn't make sense to de-dollarize but yeah that one was if you haven't listened that interview I highly recommend going back because that was one of our best of the year agreed very insightful breakdown their total net for next year we need to take a quote from this episode
It's just a medic quote. It's going to be a medic quote. All right, moving on to a next quote. I think COVID changed people's perspectives on trade work. As businesses shut down, people realized that trade work and skilled trade workers were reliable, well-paying jobs that weren't going away.
I think this was a Toby's trends of like plumbers and electricians being just more and more in demand because they have these hard skills and it was like part of the disillusionment with going to college because why would you go to a four year institution, get all this debt when you could go into a trade and immediately start making money. It's like a two year institution.
I'm going to do the rule we just talked about. If I introduce it, it usually means it's Neil because he responded to the story. You guys are two in your own heads now. Shoot. It was Toby. It was about Gen Z skipping college and going to trade schools. All right, moving on. This one's very fun.
because it starts with, it is just club bangers, one after another. I was listening to it midday yesterday and I was like, I really shouldn't be listening to this right now because I need to get on a dance floor right now. I think I said that about the Charlie XCX album.
I don't even remember you saying that. Literally Neil saying about you two were talking about the song in the summer. This wasn't referenced to Charlie XCX and it was Neil. Well done. Club bangers. I would say pressure too. Very pressure. Yeah. You absolutely nailed the brat summer. That is funny though that you
Because you do listen to Charlie XCX. You did go through kind of the song in the summer era. I exhausted that album pretty quickly. It's kind of like one note pretty intense stuff. And I think I like some more mellow things just to balance it out. But luckily there was insane amount of amazing music this year, Charlie XCX. You had a braggle era and now you're moving on. Yeah, that's fair. Next quote. This is really just an example of how TikTok can play into spreading some not so sound financial advice.
I mean, this was about tax advice spreading on TikTok where people were saying you could like write off your little small white puppy as a guard dog and just saying a lot of interesting things on TikTok. I'm sure that happened, but it's not correct. There was one trend that went pretty viral on TikTok and it- Oh, is it the bank glitch?
And bank glitch is very close. I think that's what it is. Like the infinite money code out of the chase ATM. Yes. So is the viral chase ATM trend where people were basically committing check fraud when you broke it down. Yeah. Who said it though? Was it Toby or was it Neil? Say that again.
This really is just an example of how TikTok can play into spreading some not so sound financial advice. Toby. Not so sound sounds like me. You guys know yourself while it was, Toby. I would have done that in just one word. He needs three. I like not so sound. Yeah.
Yeah, Neil is all about brevity. What an evergreen quote that is, though, because Dave talked constantly spread. You could have not so sound financial advice. You could have said that on any episode during the year. By the way, actually, when I do not so sound, it's because in my head, I want to, like, say a much
harsher word. And I have to dial it back. And so what comes out is this hedged word of not so sad. Just say what you mean. Lean in, Toby. We're doing a writing workshop right now. Right. I know. It is. But I remember thinking like I'm about to say like a curse word on air. Let's dial it back. Not so sound comes out. So that is why, you know, sometimes those phrases emerge. So if you're listening at home and you hear Toby say not so sound, just know he's actually. You want to say something else.
All right, next quote, I think people are looking at the broad candy market and seeing people are innovating in the candy sector. They're not innovating as much in the chocolate sector, and that's why you're seeing people lean towards candy instead of chocolate. Okay, someone went to business school before this quote. I did not go to business school, but I think I said it. I know what it's in relation to. Do you know what it's in relation to? No, but first say you said it.
Again, I introduced this story because I think it's about Walgreens where it unveiled this peelable mango candy that kind of set the internet on fire. And we started saying that a lot more innovation is happening in the candy versus chocolate. You can see sales rising in candy falling in chocolate. So I think it's in relation to the Walgreens mango store. But who said it, Toby? I'll take credit for it.
It was Toby, Neil, incorrect. And this was candy maker shifting towards Halloween gummies, first chalk. Similar concept of the sour gummies are just like the biggest growth area in the confection industry. This was an incredible breakdown. I want to see this on a memo that's distributed to Mars or Hershey's
All you got to do is scroll through TikTok. That's what you see. All these candy brands are just so big on there right now. Also, cocoa prices are at all time high, so maybe it's just by you have to innovate on the gummy side of things because chocolate's just so expensive. Constraints create innovation. Next quote, theatricality is critical. People know it's scripted, but it doesn't matter because we're all hardwired for narrative. And even though we know it's scripted, we're going to feel those emotions.
Oh my God. It sounds like WWE. Yeah, that's where I went first, but I have no idea what this is in relation to. So I'll give you a hint. It's not either of you. Okay, that makes our hardwired for marriage. Yeah, it sounded way too smart for us.
Who else do we talk to this? And let me give you another clue. Is it Kyle? No. Macy did a really cool video where she was actually selling these in New York. Oh, hot dogs? Yep. Warmer. This is the CEO of competitive eating.
Ding, ding, ding, George Shea. Yeah. You did an awesome interview with Hot Dog's Eating Contest host extraordinaire George Shea. Right. And he loved the theatricality. Wow. He definitely likes the theatricality. That was super fun. That was a very insightful episode because he does, anyone who's seen the Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, he does these world famous introductions where he literally
wax is poetic about each one of these competitive eaters. And he takes it very seriously. He understands human nature very deeply. So even though it seems like this kitschy Fourth of July show, he thinks about it a lot. That also was one of our favorites. You personally were very excited for that one. It's such a cool interview. Yeah. And such a cool story. So here's the question. Is Joey Chestnut going to be back?
at Nathan's on Coney Island next year. You all seem like the experts. I hope so. I know. If he doesn't go back, it will slowly lose his relevant. I feel bad for our boy, George, because he signed that he had this marketing agreement that went south with or not in South, but just like was a conflict of interest with impossible foods and Nathan's. And so he ended up doing like a Netflix show with Kobayashi instead. So he's got to come back though. Well, we'll have George Shabak on it to break this down next year. Last quote.
When I think of this story, I just think to myself, man, this is totally going to be a movie one day because it's soaked with drama and so many important issues of our time tied into this one man. Sounds like me. Who's the one man? This story.
Wow. Give it to us one more time. Okay. When I think of this story, I just think to myself, man, this is totally going to be a movie one day because it's soaked with drama and so many important issues of our time tied into this one man. I don't actually know what it is. You got a hint for us? It's an app founder. The app allows you to send messages.
Pavel Durov, Telegram. Nailed it. Whoa. Yeah. That's really good. He was arrested in France. He said a pretty wild year. Yeah. He was, yeah, because Telegram is like this sleeping giant in the social media world. It crossed a billion users. It's very popular in, I mean, certain communities like Ukraine, Russia,
encrypted but yeah paul doo rob has like a ton of kids he's very into you know like the longevity biohacking yeah and he is just a incredible figure and probably will get a movie are we saying Neil said it though i think he'll set it Neil did say i guess i mean of course
That's a good question. I laid on the drama with that, Koko for sure. Yeah. But he is a pretty fascinating character. Super interesting. All right, special last question. Oh. Who said it? Let's ride. I think, wait, we all said it. At some point, you have 99% market share. Yes. But I said it once, you know, a few weeks ago. Yeah. I said it on this episode. And then you said it on this episode.
Look at that. What a beautiful moment. We're all coming together at the end. Exactly. So I will announce the winners, and I'll say the real winners are the audience, because I want to give a shout out, literally, to you both and the entire team at Morning Brut daily. If you think about all of these quotes,
All of the stories you covered over the past, like, you know, 300 plus days, it's pretty remarkable. And I think you've just created such an awesome show. People absolutely love this. And I see you all waking up at 4 a.m. every day to make this happen. So Kudos to you. It was really fun to go through all these stories again.
It really is crazy. We are professional talkers. All we do is spit out quotes like this. Some of them better than others, so thank you, Kyle, for helping host us. Thank you, Ray, for picking out quotes that make us look relatively good. And thank you for filling in, Kyle. So, of course. Neil and Toby, thanks for playing our second annual Who Set It Game. I guess I'll see you back here in about 365 days. Let's do it.
Let's roll the credits now. Emily Milliron is our executive producer. Raymond Liu is our producer. Olivia Graham is our associate producer. Yuchena Waugu is our technical director. Billy Menino is on audio. Heron Makeup had no memorable quotes this year. Devin Emery is our chief content officer. And our show is a production of Morning Brew. Thanks for listening. Great show today, Kyle. Let's run it back again next year.
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