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Can people aspire to less? — ft. Biff Butler
This week on Crack It in an Hour, special guest, and friend of the pod Biff Butler brings Simon, Maria, and Jesse a hefty question: how do we get people to aspire to l...
How do we get more people to thrift?
This week on Crack It in an Hour, Romain brings a deceptively simple question: how do we get more people to go thrifting? With Gen Z embracing secondhand while adoptio...
It's time to say "Hi" to your neighbor
When did saying “hi” to the person next door get so weird?Maria brings Jesse and Simon a deceptively simple problem: people are talking to their neighbors less. Has te...
How do we revive the library — ft. Brooke Lonegan, Audible
This week on Crack It in an Hour, Brooke Lonegan, Head of Creative Strategy at Audible, brings Simon and Jesse a challenge hiding in plain sight: how do we make people...
Let's make hot air balloons cool
This week on Crack It in an Hour, Simon brings Maria and Jesse a problem that sounds quaint on the surface but gets weird fast: how do we make hot air balloons cool? S...
How do we get the world to wear sunscreen?
Romain brings us a problem that should already be solved: how do you get people to wear sunscreen? The danger is obvious. The solution is cheap, available and easy to ...
2 Problems: Breaking up friendships & Penalty shootouts.
In this first-ever two-problem episode, Romain and Jesse tackle two surprisingly complicated questions. First: how do you end a friendship that’s become toxic? Unlike ...
Crack It Quick | Timothée Chalamet — ft. Sylvain Tron, CYLNDR Studios
Live from Cannes at the PayPal Ads Studio, Sylvain Tron from Cylndr Studios drops a deceptively juicy question on the table: does Timothée Chalamet have a branding pro...
Crack It Quick | Male loneliness — ft. Maria Galleriu, 72andSunny
Maria Galleriu from 72andSunny joins the crew live from Cannes (at the PayPal Ad Studio) and drops a heavy one on the table: the male loneliness epidemic. She comes ar...
Crack It Quick | Financial literacy — ft. Gareth Kay, Coinbase
Crack It on the Croisette continues at Cannes Lions, live from the PayPal Ads Studio — and this time the challenge comes from guest Gareth Kay of Coinbase. His questio...
Crack It Quick | Aging out — ft. Kirsten Rutherford, Doordash
Crack It heads to the Croisette in Cannes for a fast 20 minutes at the PayPal Ads Studio — and this time the challenge comes from guest Kirsten Rutherford, Executive C...
Why don't people celebrate their birthday?
In a society where we’re not having enough fun, birthdays feel like a layup. They come around every year, they’re personal, they’re a reason to get together and celebr...
How do we improve networking?
Networking is responsible for countless jobs, partnerships, friendships, and business opportunities. It’s also one of the most universally disliked activities in profe...
What happened to dressing up?
The global athleisure market is on its way to $900 billion. Formal wear? About $4 billion. Comfort won. But at what cost? This week, Romain brings the problem: how do ...
Don't be tardy for the party!...Or maybe do.
Being late seems like one of those small everyday annoyances, but it turns out there’s a lot more going on under the surface. On this episode Simon brings the topic of...
3 Problems: Cooking, email and plane boarding.
We're back with only our second-ever lightning round — three hosts, three problems, 20 minutes each. Nobody knows what's coming. Jesse kicks things off asking why we c...
Can cable TV make a comeback?
Cable TV peaked at 105 million households in 2010. Today it's in less than 34% of American homes — and yet, somehow, streaming has become the new cable. Complicated bu...
Let's party, people!
House parties are dying. The data is real, the stats are wild, and somehow Romain is the one mad about it. In this episode, Romain tasks Simon and Jesse with figuring ...
We need to laugh more.
When did everything get so serious? In this episode Simon tasks Jesse and Romain with trying to get the world to laugh more. In a time when people are feeling more lon...
Three problems.
On this episode of Crack It, we try something new baby!!!!! Instead of spending the whole episode on one problem, Jesse, Simon and Romain each bring their own and give...