The Best One Yet
☄️ “The 4 Frontiers” — Space Inc.’s Trump jump. X’s Venmo-y Visa deal. Royal Caribbean’s value meal.
29 Jan 2025
Space stocks surged as Trump pledged to reach Mars… so we’re introducing the 4 Final Frontiers.X announced a Venmo-like deal with Visa… but it all comes down to the Beyonce of Banking.Royal Caribbean is up 8x since 2022… because cruises are the value meals of vacation.Plus, if you’re sick, Progressive Soup just invented the first chicken noodle cough drop…$RCL $V $RDWWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Red Bull ⚡Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks to listen. 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 Wednesday, Salute Jay Wednesday, January 29th. 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. Well, Jack, we're back, baby. Stocks rebounded Tuesday after freaking out on Monday. Yeah, the panic from China's DeepSeek AI app has eased a bit.
Now, Yeti's Nvidia stock is still down 10%, but the rest of the market thinks a low-cost AI provider, even from China... is a potential good thing. Just like we said in yesterday's pod, actually. But in the meantime, Jack and I found three fantastic stories for you. Jack, what's on today's T-boy? For our first story, Twitter just turned into a financial firm.
Yes, they did.
Because X is partnering with Visa. But there is one golden anchor that everyone in finance really wants. And X doesn't have it yet.
No, they don't. No, they don't.
For our second story, there's one stock beating Bitcoin since the pandemic, and it's Royal Caribbean Cruises. A Americans are going gaga for cruises because the cruise is the value meal of vacations. And our third and final story is the biggest winner of the Trump presidency so far, the space industry. Space.
Trump has started a new space race, so we need to tell you about the four final frontiers. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. How's that for alliteration? We got three Fs in that final one, Jack. Not too shabby. Could we buy a consonant? But Nick, right now, every family I know has at least one sick person in it. Well, Jack, it makes sense. It is peak runny nose season.
Schools are teaming up with tissues these days. So chances are you could use a bowl of soup or maybe a cough drop right now. But yetis, if that's the case, Jack and I have some fantastic practical news for you. And what is it, Jack? Progressive Soup Company just invented soup drops. Get this. It's not a cough drop and it's not a soup. It's a soup drop. Let's explain. It's a lentil lozenge.
It's a corn chowder cough drop. It's a matzo ball of menthol. We'll take two more. Now, Progressive is selling these things starting with their chicken noodle flavor. But you open up the aluminum can of soup with a can opener, and instead of soup, you got two dozen candies in there. They're a little like cough drop-y kind of candies, but it's soup.
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