The Best One Yet
🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
06 Mar 2025
Four Loko is the #1 malt liquor in America… thanks to the Japanese philosophy of Misogi.European stocks are shockingly beating American stocks this year… because Europe’s building a military.Warren Buffett just revealed his favorite CEO ever… It’s an RV guy who didn’t have a computer.Plus, Monopoly just launched a fintech version of the game (no more cash money)$BRK.B $LMT $SPYWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… The Doritos Locos Taco 🌮. 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 Super 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 6th, 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. Did you get your birthday spaghetti, Jack? Did you get it? Yes, although it was controversial. My mother-in-law made me spaghetti meatballs like I asked. Nice move.
And then she realized yesterday was Ash Wednesday. Okay. Eating meat was a sin. Didn't realize that. Good thing she's got Sunday confessions, though. Three stories for today's tea boy. Jack, what do we got on the pot? For our first story, For Loco, the notoriously high alcohol and high caffeine party drink, is having a renaissance.
For Loco used to be a lawsuit in a can, but now it's having a comeback, and we will tell you why. For our second story, it's shocking news from Wall Street. Europe's stock market is outperforming America's stock market since the elections. Because Europe's new growth industry is national defense. And our third and final story.
Warren Buffett just wrote a tribute to his favorite CEO of all time, who passed away last year. This guy drives RVs, he doesn't own a computer, and he sold his company to Warren Buffett after sending him a fax. A cold fax. But yet, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories... What a fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today, Jack. Best-selling board game of all time hath disrupted itself.
It's the biggest change in the toy industry since Elmo got tickled. Get this, guys. Monopoly just launched a fintech version of the famous board games. FinTech monopoly. It's actually called monopoly app banking and it's a BYO phone situation. So the famous monopoly money, it's gone. You must use the monopoly app instead. If you want a loan from the banker, that's gone too.
You must apply online instead. Now there's still a physical board and there's still physical pieces that you move around the board. But the rest of this Monopoly game is basically Venmo. Honestly, I kind of love the idea. I'm into it. Because you get to play Monopoly, but without having to keep organized that unruly stack of colorful Monopoly money.
And Jack, the banker is the app, not your little sister who you can't trust not to cheat on the whole thing. It's like Jack Dorsey became Mr. Monopoly and added a square. It feels like a VC is behind this new Monopoly, Jack. By the way, the game has the same goal. You take over the board via ruthless capitalism. But the game has different means.
Pro tip, get a Coinbase account if you want to buy Illinois Avenue. So, Yetis, the newest Monopoly is actually a digital banking app. Because in this economy, even Monopoly is trying to cut some expenses. It's a SaaS company. Savings as a service.
15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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