The Best One Yet
✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
19 Dec 2024
Americans are sick of tips, but Holiday tipping is universally loved… so we share our holiday tip rules.Databricks’ just had the biggest startup fundraise ever… because they put AI in baseball.Nissan & Honda may be merging… because the world’s biggest carbuyer stopped buying.Plus, we present “The 12 Days of Dupe-mas”.And we called the brand new AI phone number: 1-800-CHAT-GPTWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Pez: The candy invented to stop smoking 🍬. 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.—-----------------------------------------------------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, December 19th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. Here's the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh, well, this isn't a top thing.
Stocks had their second worst day of the year. S&P 500 fell 3% yesterday.
The reason was the big Fed meeting. Classic. Our central bank cut interest rates yesterday, as expected, but signaled that next year there would be fewer cuts than we hoped for.
More on that later in the pod. In the meantime, Jack, you're looking fantastic in your T-boy merch, and we've got three fantastic stories.
What's on today's show, man? For our first story, everyone is sick of tipping. Except for one kind of tip. Holiday tips. So Jack and I will tell you who we're tipping this holiday season and how much we're tipping them. Three tipping rules. For our second story, it's Nissan and Honda. The two Japanese car rivals are reportedly in talks to merge.
Because the biggest car buyer in the world has stopped buying cars from the world. And our third and final story is Databricks. Databricks just announced the biggest startup fundraise ever. $10 billion. $10 billion because Databricks used AI to win a World Series in baseball. True story. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Jack, fantastic mix of stories.
Love the pre-holiday mix. We just talked to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And we did, we did, we did. And what did we learn, Jack? The cost of the 12 days of Christmas just hit an all-time high. The price of a partridge in your pear tree? That's up 16% from last year. Geese prices are up 15% compared to last year.
Hens a-laying? Jack, that's going to cost you 7% more this year than last.
What's the deal with all these birds? Let's blame the avian bird flu. I think it's the avian bird flu. Overall, buying all the things included in the song, The 12 Days of Christmas, will cost you $49,000 this year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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