The Best One Yet
🧱 “MEGOs” — Mattel’s LEGO dupe. Utah’s online bouncer. Pizza’s stuffed crust strategy.
07 Mar 2025
Mattel is launching their own version of LEGO bricks… What will win, brand or price?Utah will make you show an ID to download Instagram… It’s a Social Media Bouncer (aka “The McLovin Rule”).The economics of stuffed crust pizza are wild… so why’d Domino’s take 30 years to make one?Plus, we’re dropping a Snooze Pod… We read 1 shareholder letter to help you fall asleep for Daylight Savings.$PZZA $DOM $MAT $METAWant 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.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday, the real Friday, March 7th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Three stories at the intersection of business and pop culture. But yeah, remember those tariffs we mentioned to you about Canada and Mexico? What happened, Jack? Well, Trump paused some more of them yesterday. He delayed them until April 2nd.
Despite the move intended to appease markets, stock sank another two full percentage points. More tariff whiplash, more market negativity all week long. My neck, Jack. My left neck. It's starting to hurt me. But Jack, three stories for today's tea boy. What do we got on the pot? For our first story, Mattel is brazenly knocking off Legos.
Yes, they are.
Mattel's Legos look exactly like Legos Legos. Mattel just dropped a Lego dupe. We call it Megos, and we know who's going to win. For our second story, Utah is the first state in the nation to require age verification with an ID before you can download an app. Utah is the first ever social media bouncer. And our third and final story.
After 30 years, Domino's finally made their first stuffed crust pizza. And the way that Pizza Hut responded to that pizza is priceless. Literally. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, no one else is doing that mix. Love the mix of stories, Jack. This weekend is the twice annual Daylight Savings Time. We are springing forward, so you are losing an hour of sleep.
The good news is that sunset's going to happen an hour later. The bad news is you're not going to have an hour of sleep on Saturday night. Yeah, we're losing an hour. It's gone. And you're going to need a deep slumber Saturday night to compensate for that. But besties Jack and I, we got your back. We have a plan to help your circadian slumber this Saturday night.
We have a dream to help you dream this weekend. And it's the exact opposite of a typical T-boy episode. It's not going to wake you up like our daily show. It's going to make you... It's a T-Boy bonus episode this Saturday, specifically designed to help you fall asleep. This is a financial lullaby, if you will. It's our second ever snooze pod. And it will be the sleepiest one yet.
We're talking melatonin for your mind. We're talking Ambien for your ears. We're turning Wall Street into Wall Sleep. So Yetis, tune in this Saturday where we will read the entire shareholder letter of one surprise company. Word by word. Line by line. by line. Number by number. Your bed sheets are going to sound like spreadsheets. But in the meantime, don't drift off quite yet.
No, stick with us right now. We still got a show for you yetis because we got three fantastic stories. Let's hit them, Nick. Jack, let's wake them up.
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