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The Best One Yet

👸 “How Poppi got Pepsi’d” — Poppi’s $2B Cinderella deal. Apple’s SuperSiri delay. Law Schools’ app surge.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Poppi soda just sold for $2B to Pepsi thanks to 1 rebrand strategy… inspired by Cinderella.

Apple quietly announced its “Super Siri” AI is delayed a year… and Warren Buffett sold.

Law school applications surged by 21% this year… because thinking is AI-proof (we think).

Plus, the untold origin story of… MTV.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, Tea Boy, Tuesday, March 18th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a tea boy. The top three stories at the intersection of business and pop culture. Mark gets closed up for the second day in a row. No news is good news on Wall Street, not too shabby Jack. There's even rumors that egg prices could be coming down soon.

0:22.0

Eggs going down. Stock's going up for Todd is tasting fantastic, Jack. Feels like a teaboy. What

0:27.3

have we got on the pod today? Poppy, the buzzy prebiotic soda was once on Shark Tank asking for a

0:32.7

$2 million valuation. But Poppy just sold for $2 billion to Pepsi thanks to Cinderella. For our second story,

0:40.3

Apple's big AI upgrade for your iPhone, it just got epically delayed. Because Apple's foot

0:46.5

is in Siri's mouth. And our third and final story, applications to law school surged by 21%

0:53.7

this year, and we found three reasons why.

0:56.1

One of them? A JD teaches you how to think, and thinking is AI proof. We think.

1:03.2

But yet, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.

1:06.6

Fantastic mix of stories today, Jack.

1:09.0

You may still be stretching out on a beach with some banana boat.

1:12.5

You may still be kicking it down in Cabo, besties.

1:15.8

But when it comes to spring break, there's one brand most associated to it.

1:20.4

In fact, this brand basically invented, scaled, and turned spring break into a business.

1:25.8

They turned spring break into... Yeah. Spring turned spring break into spring break. That company is MTV

1:32.1

music television. MTV transformed spring break into a national phenomenon. Into a profit puppy. In fact,

1:40.5

we think MTV is the most impactful TV channel in the history of TV.

1:45.4

Fact, no TV channel has influenced culture more than MTV has.

1:49.5

Without MTV, we wouldn't have music videos.

1:51.8

Without MTV, we wouldn't have reality TV.

1:54.5

But did you know that MTV initially refused to play music from Michael Jackson?

1:59.9

They only did it reluctantly because David Bowie

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