🏟️ “Football = Housing” — Stadiums’ apartment strategy. Nutella’s Americanization. Hotels’ junk fee ban.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Washington DC’s football stadium is a new “Arena-Hood”... because football can fix the housing crisis.

Nutella is pivoting to peanut butter in America… because nothing divides economies like nuts.

Hidden Junk Fees are officially illegal… so we’ll tell ya what to do when the hotel drops a “Resort Fee.”

Plus, the 10 fastest-growing baby names in America… are made-for-LinkedIn.

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Soviche, Wednesday, May 14th, and today's party's the best one yet.
0:08.1	This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Well, Yiddies, it's official.
0:14.8	Stocks are now up in 2025 thanks to the trade war cooldown. The S&P 500 is now down just 4% from its all-time high.
0:24.4	Not too shabby and great timing too, because we've got three fantastic stories for you.
0:29.5	Jack, what's on today's T-Boy?
0:31.1	For our first story, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia are all getting new multi-billion-dollar stadiums with apartments.
0:39.3	True story.
0:40.3	We call them arena hoods.
0:42.3	Arena hoods.
0:43.3	Because the solution to America's housing crisis may actually be American football.
0:48.3	For our second story, Nettella has a wild new plan to expand in the United States,
0:53.3	Nutella peanut butter.
0:54.5	Because the greatest economic divide between Europe and America is nuts.
0:59.6	Literally, actually, it's nuts.
1:01.0	And our third and final story, as of this week, hidden junk fees are now illegal.
1:06.6	So Jack and I will tell you what to do when that hotel surprises you with the $50 a night resort fee.
1:14.0	Well, it's illegal now, so.
1:15.7	Destination fee?
1:16.8	Yeah.
1:17.1	I would like to speak to a manager, please.
1:19.2	But Yeties, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
1:22.0	Fantastic mix of stories.
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