The Best One Yet
🐸 “Find Your Muppet” — Sesame Street’s Cocomelon threat. Saratoga’s viral facial water. Signal’s user error.
27 Mar 2025
A gym-fluencer did a 3:52am sparkling ice facial… and Saratoga Water’s stock jumped 6%.Sesame Street is facing 3 major threats… Bluey, Cocomelon, and Ms. Rachel.The Atlantic’s journalist shared more screenshots… but we got curious about the chat app, Signal.Plus, one movie Director spent $11M of Netflix’s budget on Ferraris, mattresses, & crypto…$PRMB $WBD $NFLXWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Goldfish Crackers 🧀 Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.“The Best Idea Yet”: The untold origin stories of the products you’re obsessed with — From the McDonald’s Happy Meal to Birkenstock’s sandal to Nintendo’s Susper Mario Brothers to Sriracha. New 45-minute episodes drop weekly.—-----------------------------------------------------Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts FOR MORE NICK & JACK: Newsletter: https://tboypod.com/newsletter Connect with Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/ Connect with Jack: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/ SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, March 27th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Here's the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Stocks are down, but T-boy's up. And we whipped up, honestly, three best stories we've ever done. Jack, what's on today's show?
For our first story, Saratoga water has more attention than forever right now. after it went accidentally viral. Here's the playbook on what a brand should do if it goes viral by mistake. Speaking of mistakes, for our second story, it's Signalgate. That was the story of the day again yesterday, as the scandal escalated with more screenshots.
So Jack and I looked at Signal itself, and we were reminded of a wise thing our IT director once told us. And our third and final story is Sesame Street. Sesame Street is in trouble the day after Elmo got grilled by Congress. But the bigger issue here is that Cookie Monster is getting competition from Coco Mellon. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
I like three stories, Nick and Jack. I love three stories today. The biggest drama of the year. What is it, Nick? Jack, it is ironically happening over at Netflix. Here's the tea. Yep. Seven years ago, Netflix greenlit Carl Rentsch to direct a new TV series. Carl Rentsch said he needed 11 million bucks to finish that TV series.
So Carl invited Netflix executives over to his home to tell them that he was over budget. So Netflix wired this director $11 million to finish the filming on that film. But seven years later, he didn't finish the filming, did he, Nick? No, he didn't, Jack. And why is that? That Netflix sci-fi series still isn't streaming either, is it, Nick? No, it is not. And why is that, Jack?
Because the director spent all $11 million personally on gambling, crypto, and five Rolls Royces. Oh, we got the receipts. Literally, we have the receipts. Because Netflix has pressed charges. Get this, besties. This director spent $652,000 of Netflix's money on wristwatches. He allegedly spent $180,000 on kitchen appliances. And $300,000 on luxury bed linens.
Actually, he spent $700,000 on two luxury mattresses.
Yeah, one of which was filled with horse mane hair. Real thing.
I didn't know a mattress could get that expensive. If you gotta ask, you can't sleep on it. He spent $5.4 million on designer art deco furniture. Plus $400,000 at the Four Seasons Hotel. But our personal favorite? Yes, Jack? He spent $1.1 million to pay lawyers to preemptively sue Netflix. Netflix, we couldn't spend that much money if we tried, and we promise we'll never sue you.
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