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There are reboots, dark and gritty or comic and winking, of properties that have barely had time to recede into nostalgia. There are sprawling franchises (Marvel, “Star Wars,” “Game of Thrones,” “Harry Potter”) that cater to legions of already devoted fans.

Today’s entertainment marketplace is defined by its faith in the limitless potential of preëxisting intellectual property. “So if we found one story a day,” Firstman says, “we can have eight hundred and seventy years of content every year.”

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Playing “an exec at a streaming service,” he describes how he found “this amazing story,” which is already the subject of “an extremely successful podcast.” His eyes grow wide as he imagines how events that happened in a single day might spawn two TV shows and yet more podcasts. The comedian Jordan Firstman conjured this ceaseless churn in a recent video. Eventually, it will be someone’s job, somewhere, to write the TV recaps. Now it’s a TV show, a docuseries-no, a scripted series-no, a docuseries destined to become the basis for a scripted show.

It’s that story that was all over the news a couple years back, first as a magazine article and then as a podcast, or maybe it was the other way around. You’ve heard it having heard it is the point. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before-or, actually, don’t.

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