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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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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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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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