🧙 “Wicked’s Green” — Wicked’s color strategy. Froot Loops’ dye drama. Europe’s startup bruise.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.7 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Wicked’s opening weekend doubled Gladiator II… and it’s thanks to Wicked’s color strategy.
Kellogg's Froot Loops just became a political debate… because of RFK Jr. and artificial flavor.
Northvolt was Europe’s biggest startup ever… but it just went bankrupt.
Plus, Butterball turkey is the biggest turkey seller in America… and the only one with a hotline.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, November 25th. 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. And to all those enjoying the Thanksgiving nine-day weekend, stay in those sweatpants. We see you and we hear you and we got you. To those of you working like we are, |
| 0:26.6 | it's just T-minus 72 hours until that turkey day. And Jack and I will be here with you the entire time. |
| 0:31.9 | Jack, we got three fantastic stories for the show. What's on today's T-boy? For our first story, |
| 0:38.5 | Wicked Gladiator 2 in their opening weekends at the box office. But it was all driven by a single color, |
| 0:44.7 | wicked green the color. For our second story, it's North Vault. North Volt was Europe's biggest startup ever. It had raised $15 billion. But this startup just went bankrupt, and that |
| 0:50.3 | tells us all a whole lot about Europe. And our third and final story is Kellogg's Fruit Loops. |
| 0:56.3 | Fruit Loops. |
| 0:57.2 | Nick, a billion bowls of Fruit Loops cereal have been sold. |
| 1:00.3 | But Jack, Fruit Loops just became the biggest debate in all of politics. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a wild one. |
| 1:06.0 | Tukin, Sam, you're about to get regulated. |
| 1:08.6 | But yet is, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:11.9 | Fantastic mix of stories for Thanksgiving week. |
| 1:14.4 | I love the mix today, Jack. |
| 1:15.9 | But, Nick, there's a lot of hotline phone numbers out there, aren't there? |
| 1:19.0 | Yes, there are. |
| 1:19.9 | There's 911 for emergencies. |
| 1:21.9 | There's 1-800 flowers for flowers, and I'm pretty sure a movie phone is still a thing, Jack. |
| 1:25.9 | But the most critical hotline number is actually only open one day a year. |
| 1:30.5 | And that number is the butterball turkey hotline number, isn't it, Jack? |
| 1:35.6 | Get this yet, he's butterball. |
| 1:37.1 | It's the largest turkey brand in America. |
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