The Best One Yet
🪷 “The White Lotus Effect” — HBO’s tourism bump. DeepSeek’s copy/paste. The Bacon IPO.
31 Jan 2025
Description: “White Lotus Season 3” is about to debut… and it’ll boost Thailand’s economy by 20%.The biggest IPO of 2025 is a bacon biz… so we devoured the first pureplay pork stock.We now know how DeepSeek caught up to ChatGPT… the ol’ “copy/paste.”Plus, the Utah Hockey Club is choosing a new name… but the fans at the rink decide tonight.$WBD $SFD $MSFTWant 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.“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 Friday, the real Friday, January 31st, 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, I know what's happening this weekend. Is this part one of the Datchler party? Is that what's going on? There we go. Yeah. Okay. I'm having six buddies from college up for a ski weekend.
It's the quiet before having a third baby storm. Remember, four weeks before the due date of a baby, you must go on a bachelor party. It is required by the doctors and we hear it all the time. I don't think it's going to be a quiet before the storm. It's a storm before the storm. But we've got three fantastic stories for today's show. Jack, what's on today's T-boy?
For our first story, White Lotus Season 3 premieres two weeks from this Sunday on HBO. But the White Lotus effect has already arrived in Thailand, and it turned travel existential. For our second story, we now know how DeepSeek caught up to ChatGPT so quickly. The old copy and paste. And it reveals the curse of the first mover. And our third and final story.
The biggest IPO of 2025 so far is a bacon business. Smithfield Foods is now a publicly traded pork stock. Links or patty? Trick question. Both. Jack and I jumped into the world's biggest sausage stock for you. We found some wild stuff. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories, Jack. Shakespeare once asked, what's in a name?
Well, in professional sports, there's actually a lot in a name. Mostly chance. Yeah. And merchandise. But yetis, the Utah Hockey Club finally decides on their permanent name this weekend. Because the newest NHL team, the Utah Hockey Club, still doesn't have a name. But over the next four days, the fans will vote for the new name. And what's the wildest part, Jack?
Only fans in the arena get to vote. That's right. Over the next four home games, fans in the stands are the ones who vote on the team's name. That's it. So if you're in the stands at the next Utah hockey game, you vote on a permanent name for the club. Basically, the future of the franchise depends on 18,000 rowdy and potentially drunk fans.
Well, it's Utah, so I don't know how drunk they'll be, but... But Jack, the three name options, what are they going to be voting on? First is stick with the current name, the Utah Hockey Club. That's the same as the current name. It's bad. The second option is the Utah Wasatch. Which is the name of the local mountain range. It's a Native American term for mountains. It's a pretty good option.
The third choice is our favorite, the Utah Mammoth. Ah, as in the Utah Wooly Mammoth. The Mighty Mammoth. unclear if you add an S for the plural or not. What's the plural of mammoth? Mam-I. But merch opportunities for the mammoth are huge, Jack. Mammoth coats, mammoth milk. How about a Tuscan tonic in the club box?
Jack, this team could resurrect a mammoth for the home games and have it drag the Zamboni across the ice. Funny twist in the story, though. The team originally wanted to be called the Utah Yetis because Yetis are cold and hockey's cold. But they couldn't get the Yeti trademark. And was that? Sorry, Utah. You're going to have to speak to our lawyers. Don't let him have it, guys.
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