The Best One Yet
⛷️ “Ski-Pocalypse” — Park City’s ski strike. NYC’s traffic tax. The Birth of Gen Beta.
Tue, 07 Jan 2025
The biggest strike in ski history hit during the busiest ski week of the year… and Vail lost $400M.A brand new generation is being born in 2025: Gen Beta… And we found its 1 defining trait.NYC launched America’s largest traffic experiment: Congestion Pricing… And every city is watching.$MTN $SPY $BTCWant more? Check out the latest episode of our weekly deep dive show, The Best One Yet. This week’s episode is on The Oregon Trail: “Tricking Kids Into Liking School Since 1971” 🐂 Subscribe at 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.
What is the biggest strike in ski history?
For gen beta, we're talking artificial intelligence. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for 2025? For 12 days now, Park City, Utah has been operating at one-fourth capacity because the ski patrollers are on strike. It's a ski-pocalypse! Vail Resorts, they picked the wrong battle. Because when you pick a battle, you gotta crunch the numbers first.
For our second story, it's New York City's congestion pricing system. It's live, $9 per car during peak hours. Whether this epic traffic experiment has a future depends on the silent majority of non-car drivers. And our third and final story, 2025 brings a new generation of children known as Gen Beta. It's the generation born with AI.
Because generations aren't defined by time, generations are really defined by technology. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, the U.S. Congress certified the 2024 election results with Donald J. Trump as the winner. Vice President Kamala Harris played the ceremonial role as president of the Senate.
Four years after the riots at the Capitol on January 6th, there was no violence on this day. Meanwhile, in Canada, by the way, Justin Trudeau just resigned as his liberal party has lost popularity. And second, Fubo, the internet TV provider, is basically getting acquired by Disney. Disney competes with Fubo with its Hulu live streaming service.
But instead of competing, Disney was like, um, let's merge Hulu live and Fubo and we're going to have a new separate company. Fubo stock rose 250% on the Disney news. And finally, according to reports, Turkish Airlines has... A bed bug problem. Passengers have reported bed bugs on flights in 2024 from Johannesburg, Istanbul, and Washington Dulles. DSA, I'm going to need another pat down, please.
Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Dylan Steinfeld from lovely Atlanta, Georgia. Push and play.
Yetis and besties, we learned in the Air Jordans episode of The Best Idea Yet that Jordan secured a $2.5 million sponsorship with Nike in 1984. But do you know which athlete secured the first ever million-dollar sponsorship?
It was none other than six-time Bowler of the Year bowling legend Don Carter, who in 1964 inked a $1 million deal with Ebonite International, now a part of Brunswick Bowling Products.
A bowler got the first $1 million deal. I mean, Jack, there's big money in that bowling, man. Yeah, there's big money in bowling. Yetis, you'll look fantastic for T-Boy Tuesday. And remember, after the show, we've got the perfect thing teed up for you right now. A fresh episode of The Best Idea Yet about the Oregon Trail. We dropped a link in the episode description.
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