The Best One Yet
🧀 “Return of the Rat” — Chuck E. Cheese’s $1B comeback. Hotelification of offices. Disney’s sports streamer airballs.
13 Jan 2025
Chuck E. Cheese is back from bankruptcy… with a brand new babysitter strategy.Pools, massages, bars… Offices are getting “hotelified” for the 2025 Return-to-Office push.Disney, Fox, and Warner’s joint sports app, Venu, just shut down… and the NBA tells us why.Plus, it’s Planuary… Our New Year’s resolution is to plan the whole year this month (we’ll tell ya how). $FUN $DIS $WBDSubscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinksEpisodes drop weekly. It’s The Best Idea Yet.“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.
Full Episode
This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, January 13th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yetis, today, like every day, Jack and I are going to make you the most interesting person at the office, aren't we, Jack? Wow. Bold promise, but I think we can deliver. You're going to look and sound fantastic.
Three stories for today's show. Jack, what do we got, man? For our first story, Chuck E. Cheese is back from bankruptcy and now they're selling a pizza subscription. Chuck E. Cheese has a brand new strategy. It's not lowbrow, it's highbrow. For our second story, how are employers getting you back in the office for 2025? Well, Jack, it's with pools, massages, and bars.
Yetis, this is the hotelification of your office. And our third and final story. The biggest live sports app in years just shut down days before it was set to launch. And former Duke Blue Devil, JJ Redick, is telling us why. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. I love your sweater, by the way, Jack.
This year, I'm going to do some kind of exercise every day, even if it's just stretching. Jack, this year, I will eat vegetables every day, even if it's just tomato sauce. Nick, this year I will start a blog on going paleo while learning Spanish. Yetis, right now you are feeling peer pressure to announce your wild New Year's resolution. So we whipped up the best resolution yet. We got your back.
First... Jack and I are big fans of pie January. Pie January. It's like dry January, but instead of no alcohol, it's only pie. Pie January. Like instead of cocktails, you eat key lime pie. Instead of pinot, it's pecan pie. Pie January. Trust us, it's going to take off. We're also fans of a resolution called spendvesting. Every week, look at your credit card statement.
One of the things you spent on, invest in the equivalent. For example, if you bought a $100 pair of sneakers, you should then invest $100 in Nike stock. If you spent $17 on a Netflix subscription, buy $17 of Netflix stock. And that is spendvesting. But besties, by far. Jackson, my favorite of favorite New Year's resolutions. What is it, Jack? It's a word that we invented. Planuary. Planuary.
You plan every month of the year in January. You plan your vacations, your goals, your life, your business for the whole year this month. We basically turned our whole whiteboard into a physical calendar with all 365 days. Planned it. For example, April 19th weekend, Nick, what are you doing? I got a trip to Santa Barbara already planned. Fourth of July, long weekend.
I'm staying at the chalet with friends. June 18th, we're doing a guest interview with an epic CEO. The week before Thanksgiving, we're doing a live T-boy show in a surprise city. Plan, plan, plan, plan. Oh, Jack, you are having a baby in like two months. That's on the plan. So I'm setting up a bassinet in February. And Jack, I already booked my colonoscopy. First one ever, baby.
Five months from now, Nick put it on the counter. For some reason, he invited me. Just so I'm aware. You're welcome to join in the room, but really it's for full transparency, Jack. Can you give me a referral promo code after Nick for 50% off? So besties, Jack and I are doing planuary because we always love our favorite Yogi Berra quote.
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