The Best One Yet
💨 “Fart-coin” — Crypto’s Silk Road pardon. Neko’s $2B body-scanner. Video Games’ Spiderman mistake.
24 Jan 2025
Trump pardoned the crypto founder of Silk Road… after launching his own Fartcoin. We’ll explain.Spotify’s CEO co-founded a body-scanning startup to save your life… and it just hit $2B.EA’s video game stock had its worst day in 17 years… because of 1 huge graphics mistake.Plus, the hot new Dry January trend is Cannabis Cocktails (replace ABV with THC).$EA $SPOT $BTCWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… 🎸 The Fender Stratocater: The Guitar That Invented Rock ‘N’ Roll.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.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday, the real Friday, January 24th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This one is a T-boy. Nick, for only two months, you are older than me. My birthday is in March. Then we'll be the same age again. Well, Jack, I hope you keep the birthday bounce continuing. Stocks are still at record highs.
I think they're going to just stay at record highs until my next birthday. Not too shabby. Should we get into our three stories? We have three fantastic stories. Let's hit them before the weekend, baby. For our first story, the biggest winners in crypto since Trump became president are fart coins. Fart coins.
We'll explain Silk Road, Trump's meme coin, and how they're all affecting the crypto crowd. For our second story, Spotify's CEO actually co-founded another company. He's got a side hustle. It's a body scanning startup that could save your life. It's called Necco, and it scans your entire body inside and out, and it just hit a $1.7 billion valuation.
And our third and final story is Electronic Arts. EA, the video game, just plummeted 17% in its worst day on the stock market in 17 years. And it's all because of Spider-Man's spandex. Literally. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories for The Real Friday. Love the mix. If you're doing dry January, there's only one week left. That's it.
Pretty soon you can replace that seltzer for a Smirnoff. That's not how I'm ending my dry January. It's more of a wet slide, Jack. Either way, there's a new alcohol alternative that's emerging that you need to know about. And it's called Cannabis Cocktails. Cannabis cocktails are replacing ABV with THC, and this category is surging. Here's the news. What do we got, Jack?
As of January 1st this year, you can legally order THC-infused non-alcoholic drinks at bars and restaurants in 24 states. Hey, bartender, I'll take one mellow mojito. And one chronic culotta. Did you ask for a ganja gimlet? Was that you, Jack? I think it was you. You'll take two of them.
One that we noticed is a brand called Pamos, which makes a canned margarita, but they swapped out tequila for weed. This brand is three years old, but they already passed 30 million bucks in annual sales. Now, here's the key when it comes to cannabis cocktails. They contain about 10 milligrams of THC per drink. That's the part of the cannabis that gets you high.
10 milligrams of THC is only about a third of a typical marijuana joint. So that's enough to make you socially high, but not make you fully stoned. And that is the cannabis cocktail advantage over regular non-alcoholic drinks. Exactly. Unlike mocktails, cannabis cocktails still give you some kind of buzz. Just a different kind of buzz.
But still not an alcoholic buzz, which a lot of people want to avoid for various reasons. So, yetis, if you're enjoying dry January, let us know this weekend if you order a dank daiquiri over there. Because the non-alcohol category just got a whole lot more interesting. Hey, bartender, one weed whiskey sour. Hold the weed. Hold the whiskey. Hold the whiskey.
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