The Best One Yet
🥯 “Shmear Me” — PopUp Bagel’s boom. Zuck’s Smart Oakleys. Stargate’s $500B Hollywood name.
23 Jan 2025
Zuck’s reportedly launching smart Oakleys this year… and a smart watch and airpods next year.PopUp Bagels is the fastest-growing bagel chain in America… and they prioritize inconvenience.“Stargate” is Sam Altman’s new $500B AI project… it would be the most expensive thing we’d ever build.Plus, the medals handed out at the Paris Olympics? They’re losing their gold. $DNUT $META $MSFTWant 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.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, January 23rd, and today's pot is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. I mean, Jack, I don't want to brag, but the birthday stock bump continued. Yeah. Fox should recognize again. Some say it's Trump's presidency. Others say it's my birthday week.
We don't really know the reason why. We'll leave that to you to decide. We'll leave that to CNBC. In the meantime, Jack, three stories for today. T-Boy, what do we got? For our first story, OpenAI just announced an AI megaproject that is more expensive than the Moonland. It's called Stargate, and it shows the power of Hollywood branding. For our second story, it's pop-up bagels.
This is the fastest-growing bagel chain in America, and Michael Phelps is an investor. But yet is, if you want to buy their bagels, first, you must follow their rules. And our third and final story. Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly launching smart Oakleys this year. Folkleys. And AirPod rivals next year. No, not Folkleys. AI Smart Oakleys. Zokeleys. Because Zuck is Dragon Apple.
That's why Zuck is launching Zokeleys. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stars. Fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today, Jack. It's been 100 days since the Paris Olympics. Not possible. Actually, it is possible. And we have a weird update 100 days after the closing ceremonies. Get this, Bettys. The Olympic medals are breaking. We'll explain. We will.
Yetis, remember that the Paris Olympics was basically one giant French fashion show. And the luxury brand LVMH, the biggest company in France, made the medals for the Olympics. LVMH, they own the jewelry giants Bulgari, Givenchy, and Christian Dior. Decent pronunciation, Jack. And so LVMH designed the gold, silver, and bronze medals. We covered it on this pod, actually. We did.
In fact, LVMH spent 15 days for each medal. They made each medal by hand. And they used a secret trade varnish that was 100 years old to protect each and every medal. But here's the news. 100 days after the Paris Olympics, hundreds of those medals have lost their color. Specifically, the medal on the medals completely wore off.
So the gold medals are losing their gold and the bronzes are losing their bronze. I mean, Jack, I'm looking at it right now. Every metal just kind of looks metal. It looks metallic. It doesn't even look silver. It just looks dull, gray metal, like under the hood of some old Volkswagen. Like you dug it up out of the dams, Jack. The situation is so bad, the IOC is replacing these metals ASAP.
And Jack, why are all the metals from the Olympics just looking like metal? Turns out the EU banned one particular chemical last year. Which happened to be a secret ingredient in that.
that varnish so lvmh says it's not their fault they're blaming the regulators oh besties add it all up and we'd say typically that it's what's on the inside that counts but when it comes to a gold medal it's what's on the outside that counts i mean it's really only what's on the outside that's all that matters jack let's see that three stories
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