The Best One Yet
💸 “$3,600 per Fam” — Tariff Day’s price tag. Tinder’s AI flirt-bot. Nintendo’s Mario Kart Metaverse.
03 Apr 2025
It was T-Day: Tariffs, Tesla, & Trump… We got an update on all of ‘em (and why it’ll cost you $3,600/year).Tinder launched a Flirt-bot… Because AI’s most powerful use is training pickup lines (seriously).Nintendo’s Switch 2 is its biggest launch in 8 years… and Mario Kart is getting social.Plus, we found a Skier’s Arbitrage: It’s cheaper to fly to Japan for a weekend of shredding than staying here in the states…$NTDOY $TSLA $SPYWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… 📱iPhone: The Device Steve Jobs Didn’t Want to Build. 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 Birkenstocks 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 Thursday, the new Friday, April 3rd, 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. But first, yetis, we got some wild new data from Spotify that we got to share with you. It turns out only 82% of you who listen to this show actually follow this show. So 18% of you owe us a follow right now.
So pause the pod right now if you're listening on Spotify and tap follow. Yeah, that way you won't miss any episodes, which, by the way, today's episode happens to be the best one we've ever done. So, Jack, three stories for today's show. For everyone following T-Boy, what's on today's pod? For our first story, yesterday was tariff day.
$3,600.
And we'll explain how we got that number. For our second story, Tinder just launched an AI chatbot to let you practice spitting game to a potential date. We call this hottie the flirt bot. And it actually highlights a key use case of AI. For our third and final story, after eight years, Nintendo finally launched a new video game console yesterday. It's called the Switch 2.
But here's the wild part. It is not as powerful and it's not as well funded, but it just might be more fun. fun but yetis before we hit that wonderful mix of stories fantastic mix of stories today love the mix over in japan they have a bizarre and wild problem that i wish i had here in vermont right now too much snow because get this in one single day last month japan got 50 inches of snow
That's a national record. We did the math. That's two inches every single hour, man. Oh, my God. This year, Japan's ski resorts have two and a half times more snow than they had last year. And we should sprinkle on some context that Japan's light, deep snow is legendarily known as Japow. It's a champagne snow. It's every dude's dream to ski Japow someday.
Now, while all that snow is actually a huge challenge for any resort, you know, that's a lot of snow to shovel. It's a huge opportunity for any skier stateside not satisfied with our snow. Because get this, it's actually cheaper to fly 6,000 miles over to Japan than to ski most mountains here in America.
We repeat, it's cheaper to go and ski Japan's Japow right now than it is to fly to one of the American resorts and ski here. It turns out Japan is now an arbitrage opportunity for skiing and snowboarding. Nick and I crunched the ski math. Yeah. Let's look at Vail, Colorado as our example. Okay, Jack.
Over in Vail, that's $700 for the flights from San Francisco, $300 for the lift tickets every day, and a four-star hotel is going to cost you $1,000 a night. So a ski weekend to Vail is $3,300 a night. Now, Jack, let's do the ski math for Hokkaido, Japan. Round trip flights from San Francisco are $1,000. Lift tickets are just $50 a day. And a four-star hotel is just $500 a night.
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