The Best One Yet
☂️ “Make it Rainnn” — Rainmaker’s rain startup. Dick’s Foot Locker palace. UnitedHealth’s worst month ever.
16 May 2025
TBOY Live Show Tickets to Chicago on sale NOW: https://www.axs.com/events/949346/the-best-one-yet-podcast-ticketsFoot Locker surged 80% on deal with Dick’s… but the wilder story is Dick’s sports palaces.Rainmaker got $30M to play God and make it rain (literally)... We got the history of human-made rain.UnitedHealth just had its worst month ever… And now it’s made every health stock sick.Plus, why did Rihanna put caviar on chicken?... Because caviar is cheaper than ever.$FL $DKS $UNHWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.About Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today’s top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, TBOY Lite is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell.GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts NEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ Our 2nd show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly.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 Friday, the real Friday, May 16th. 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.
Hey, you know what's not a T-Boy? Someone at the T-Boy studio spilled lasagna on my pants. That tomato sauce doesn't come out easy, dude. No, it does not. And it may have been me. Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pod?
For our first story, Dick's Sporting Goods is acquiring Foot Locker for over $2 billion. But the real story here is the Palace of Sports. For our second story, UnitedHealthcare is the biggest health insurer company. Check. The biggest employer of doctors. Double check. And the biggest healthcare stock in America. And yet, in the last month, it's fallen 50% on a wild investigation.
And our third and final story, we're going to make it rain. Make it rain! Rainmakers actually doing that, both literally and figuratively. So we are looking at this cloud seeding startup because a cloud is a terrible thing to waste. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What a mix of stories before the weekend. It's Friday, the real Friday.
So Jack and I want to tell you about a new trend you may see this weekend. Caveat. Caveat. Now, first of all, Who decided I'm going to eat fish eggs? Well, Jack, that person would be proud because caviar is now being served on everything. That's the news. The new trend Nick and I are seeing is what we're calling caviar contrast.
Caviar, the most expensive topping there is, is being served on the cheapest food there is. We're talking fish eggs on fast food. We're talking salmon roe on Snickers bars. That's why Rihanna posted a video of her eating caviar on her chicken nuggets. Hailey Bieber put caviar on her In-N-Out burger. Jack, there's a restaurant down the street called Sorrel. They're putting caviar on cheesecake.
That last one makes sense, actually. Yeah, that one actually kind of works. Why is caviar popping off? Because caviar is actually cheaper than it's ever been. Fish eggs are defying inflation. And it all began back Caviar companies couldn't sell to restaurants because of the lockdown. So they dropped their prices and sold to people directly, no restaurant markup. Plus, now China's selling caviar.
Shocker, made in China caviar is half the price. Which is why your buddy Timmy is now bumping caviar over at brunch. So yetis, look out for the caviar contrast craze. Jack, is that a caviar on your Kit Kat bar? No, but caviar is now served at Costco for 50 bucks an ounce.
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