The Best One Yet
BONUS 🍿 “The Entertainment Pod” — Our Best Entertainment stories from 2024
24 Dec 2024
(Tom Cruise jumped on a chair when he heard this episode):#1. Netflix just gave itself the biggest Christmas gift of all… NFL football on Christmas Day. (5/17/2024)#2. Sabrina Carpenter dropped 7 versions of the same song… because the music industry took a strategy from the ice cream industry. (7/22/2024)#3. The fastest-growing genre in books is “Romantasy”... Romantic Fantasies are driving book sales with pixie dust. (7/15/2024)Share this episode with your buddy in LA… or DM it to Oprah.We’ll be back on Monday, January 6th, with our regular TBOY podcasts. But look out for more bonus pods from us dropping over the holidays.And if you crave more business storytelling from us? Check out our weekly deepdive show: “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 The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen.—-----------------------------------------------------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. And today's entertainment pod is the best one yet. The top three entertainment stories you need to know today. Besties, this is episode two of our holiday bonus week. I guess you could say it's the sequel of our holiday bonus week, Jack. I like what you did there because this episode is the best of entertainment. All of it.
Our best stories of the year on media, music, and film. So yetis, send this episode to your buddy who lives in lovely Los Angeles. Better yet, send it to your buddy who's always quoting Maximus Decimus Meridius. Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? You will be entertained by our three stories. Jack, what are three stories for today's bonus pod?
For our first story, we're going back to May 17th, when Netflix just gave themselves the biggest Christmas gift of all, NFL football on Christmas Day. But Netflix isn't ready to buy football rights. Netflix is renting them. For our second story, we're going to July 22nd. Why did Taylor Swift drop 34 different versions of the same album?
And Jack, why did Sabrina Carpenter drop seven different versions of the same song? Because both were inspired by the ice cream industry. Music was inspired by ice cream. And our third and final story. We're going to July 15th when we covered the fastest growing genre in books. This is wild. Romantasy. Romantasy. Romantic fantasies are driving book sales with Pixie Dust. Steamy hot Pixie Dust.
I knew you would make things weird. I was ready with that octave. But yet he's before we had that wonderful mix of stories. You're going to want to lick that book.
I don't.
I'm sorry. You never say lick on this podcast. Great mix of stories. The most fascinating entertainment trend of this year. It wasn't licking. It was kissing. It was kissing. Actually, it was a lack. of kissing. Because get this, Hollywood is in a kissing recession. It turns out on-screen kissing in movies has fallen 40% since the year 2000. We're talking about a smooch scarcity.
A snogging shortage. And we did a whole story on that this year. Not enough kissing. We actually covered a wild range of pop business stories from La La Land over to Broadway. Rotten Tomatoes gave our coverage two thumbs up. We're very proud of it. For example, Deadpool and Wolverine had the best box office sales ever for an R-rated movie.
While Wicked was so popular, it caused a shortage of the color green. True story. No surprise though, the whole summer was filled with sequels. Moana 3 Part 2, the prequel to the sequel. Dune III, before the Dune. We even studied romcomonomics because there were big profits in romcom movies. Hey, McConaughey, there's a new chin in town. Yes. His name's Glenn Powell.
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