The Best One Yet
🟠“Penny RIP” — End of the Penny. Dunkin’s diss track. T-Mobile’s dead-zone killer.
11 Feb 2025
Trump is canceling the US penny… because our cheapest coin is our most expensive.The biggest diss track in the SB wasn’t Kendrick Lamar… it was from advertisers.SpaceX and T-Mobile just shockingly teamed up… to kill the cell phone dead-zone.Plus, the untold origin story of Ben & Jerry’s… and their most disruptive flavor: Phish Food.$SBUX $TMUS $TWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Ben & Jerry’s 🍦. 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 Tuesday, T-Boy Tuesday, February 11th. 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. Was it too hard to ask you to pick me up from the airport, Jack? You made me take an Uber. I didn't make you. I told you I'd pick you up if you wanted me to. I didn't even think I'd have to ask.
I'm just gonna, we'll sell it at the end of the pod. It's stored for another pod. It is more snowy in Vermont since the week I met you. That is the last time it was this snow. I actually do need to borrow some gloves. But Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the team, boy? Thanks for coming to visit me. Absolutely. For our first story.
Did you see Dunkin' Donuts Super Bowl commercial? I did. It ripped on Starbucks. But the real diss track of the Super Bowl wasn't Kendrick Lamar. It was in the commercials. So we're presenting the do's and don'ts for corporate dissing. Yes, we are. For our second story, President Trump is ending the US penny. He has ordered no more pennies be minted ever again. But the
biggest shocker of this penny pause is that it didn't happen sooner. And our third and final story is the most surprising collab of the year. Oh, yeah. SpaceX and T-Mobile. But can we talk about T-Mobile's winning recipe, please, Jack? T-Mobile leans into the board. Board. But yetis, before we hit that, wonderful mix of stories. And Fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today.
Nick is not just here in Vermont to get some skiing and slurp some syrup in before my baby arrives. Although I'd like to do both of those. No, we are up in Vermont to do some T-boy research. Because today we're dropping an entire 45 minute episode on Vermont's most ultimate brand. We're talking the biggest ice cream company in the world.
And the most fun entrepreneurial origin story we've ever heard of. Bring them out. Actually, we don't have them here, but Ben and Jerry. Although they live around the corner. The true untold origin story of America's favorite ice cream brand. Don't choke on your chunky monkey, Yetis. Today, Yetis, Ben and Jerry's does over a billion dollars a year in ice cream sales.
But Ben and Jerry started as a couple goofball buddies who failed to get into med school. Did you hear that they learned how to make ice cream through a mail order catalog class? Or Jack, how about when they came to the financials, they just made up the numbers? Ben and Jerry's should have gone bankrupt at least 12 different times. And yet, this duo disrupted the entire ice cream industry.
And they remained best friends through the entire journey. And we've admired that entire journey. So Ben and Jerry's is the next episode of our weekly deep dive show, The Best Idea Yet. The Best Idea Yet. The untold origin stories of the most viral products of all time. Specifically, we focused on fish food. Ben and Jerry's fish food. The only ice cream named after a jam band that was named Fish.
So later today, after this T-boy, check out our weekly deep dive show, The Best Idea Yet. New episodes drop every Tuesday morning. Tap the link in the episode description because Ben and Jerry's fish food is simply the best idea yet. But in the meantime, Jack, we've got a fantastic show. So how about I scream, you scream, we all scream to hit our three stores?
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