Neil Freiman

was about 50% below the historical 30-year average, allowing only 11% of terrain to be open in December.

Vale stock didn't totally get hammered from the reveal since the slump was already priced in by investors.

But over the last year, shares are down nearly 25% as Vale looks for ways to improve from a pizza corporation to french fries.

The Northeast, there's a lot of snow.

Put some respect on the Green Mountain's name in Vermont.

As of mid-December, more than 100 inches of snow had fallen near Jay Peak in Vermont versus 30 to 60 inches in Utah.

When you're from the Northeast like me, we have a little bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to our ski mountains.

People head out west to Utah and Colorado where they say the snow is so much better and the runs are longer and the mountains are bigger, which...

may be true, but at least for one year, Vermont's time to shine is now.

And the more people who go to your ski mountain, the worst experience it is.

So, yeah, glad we're podcasters and not CEO of a ski company.

But I actually did pose this question to my group chat.

I was like, yesterday, after we were talking, like, how would you grow?

You're a ski mountain CEO.

You're a Vail CEO.

How do you grow this business?

Very interesting question.

Let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines.

Spotify wants to put something else on your release radar, a price hike.

The music streaming service announced that it's going to be hiking the price of its U.S.