🍻 “Barley Legal” — Oktoberfest’s beer cartel. The Fed’s rate-a-palooza. College football player payroll. +Nuclear tease
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That's a tease. Was that a spoiler? We'll
share more in a second. More coming soon. In the meantime, Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's T-Boy. What do we got on the buddy show in business? For our first story, Oktoberfest starts this Saturday, but the big controversy isn't beer, it's the business. Is Oktoberfest actually the world's oldest cartel? For our second story, the Federal Reserve Bank just raised interest rates for the first time in three years. That's huge because the bond market matters more than the stock market, and we can explain it with the Beatles. And our third and final story, we just got college football's biggest secret, the payroll of the top 68 teams. There's a reason the freshmen are trading dorms for off-campus mansions.
No joke. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What a mix of stories. Love the mix on today's pod, Jack. Last week, we made history. And tomorrow, you'll get to witness that history. Because on Friday, we will publish the first ever podcast recorded inside a nuclear reactor. Six feet from electrons smashing into neutrons. Whatever
that
means, we pushed record. Pretty sure that's not what happened to the electrons or the neutrons, but good try. What an episode. It was fission, there was fusion, and one very nervous sound engineer.
What is the overall theme and why is Oktoberfest called a beer cartel?
Yeah, who didn't realize what they signed up for. But Nick and I, we trusted the science and we survived to tell the tale. And besties, that's why last week we were on a top secret mission down to Texas that we hinted about. We flew to Oklo's isotope nuclear reactor in Lockhart,
just outside
Austin. And we interviewed the co-founder CEO of this $8 billion next generation nuclear business. And we did it all while staring down into a 35 foot deep nuclear core. Should we touch that? No, we shouldn't. Don't touch that button, Jack. Nick and I went full Oppenheimer because we've been fans of Next Generation Nuclear for years, haven't we? Yeah, Jack actually wrote a whole paper about it back in grad school, didn't you, man? Eight years later, Nick, I just checked it out. It has 6,000 views. Not too shabby. Not too shabby, but besties, this company, they're turning nuclear into a lifestyle brand. Oklo, it's the Lululemon of nukes. And now, besties, you have been with us for years, so, like, you remember our viral Waymo episode, right,
Dad?
Three years ago, we recorded the first podcast inside a Waymo robo-taxi. True story. Well, now we've recorded the first podcast inside a nuclear reactor. And, yetis, you really should subscribe to our YouTube for this one because this is our most visual episode yet by far. Now, yetis, in the meantime, enjoy today's three fantastic pop biz news stories like you get every day. Because I got a feeling they're going to start a chain reaction. Astorting manana. Jack,
let's get on to the story. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick. that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show start the show
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For our first story,
Oktoberfest starts this weekend, but it's not the beer that's on tap. It's a Supreme Court lawsuit. Because this German beer festival may actually be an illegal cartel. All right, Jack, I'm checking the calendar here. We got April Fool's Day.
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