This is Nick. This is Jack and this is Snacks. Daily welcome back. It is Monday, December 13th.

Think you look fantastic. Jack, I'm loving the flannel you got on. Final week of the pop. Final week of the pop before the Christmas holidays.

Where are we just doing Thanksgiving? We were. We'll tell you more Snackers about our Christmas plans. We got a few bonus episodes coming.

Dropping your way, little spoiler alert. By the way, what's this pod like our best one? Yeah. It's the best one, yeah. For our first story.

If you're a skier or snowboarder, you already know. Yeah. The epic pass is 20% cheaper this season. Vail resorts is a case study in pricing powder. Not pricing power.

Pricing powder. I'm just so proud you mentioned powder on the past. Second story, what do we got? We've already used the fell off the bike and pulled the hammy analogies to describe Palatine's stock track.

Jack and I are running out of muscles. So Thursday night, Peloton stock got some method makes the sex in the city. Where are 3rd to final start? We noticed that Costco stock jumped 5% before the weekend because get this snackers Costco has created America's perfect profit.

Puppy before he hit that wonderful mix. Hey perfect mix to start the week. I love this mix. Hortuz almanac weeknight. Yep, things are running out of because the pandemic jack and I have been keeping track for you all year long.

This week it's cream cheese. It's cream cheese. Jack we got a scarcity of spread. We got a shortage of the smear butter. Yes, cream cheese. No. Now of all the things I miss in New York City. One is definitely the vast variety of cream cheese is that every daily has those huge balls.

Just a tank of lactose. He go up. They've got like an espresso flavor. They got a like potato flavor. Jack the one that always concerns me. I like locks, but I don't like the salmon cream cheese combo like mixed in too much fish to dairy. You don't have pre mix, but these deli is they separate the spreads from the customers with a thick sheet of glass like it was the Mona Lisa. They're protecting.

But here's the thing snackers in New York City pick a bagel classic bagel change just ran out of cream cheese this weekend according to some heavy hitting reporting from the New York Times. The balls are totally empty like you can't even like cookie dough style like it last little bit from the corners. Yeah, Zeyn bars. What's going on over here? There's no particular reason we could find for the cream cheese shortage.

Just like the general supply chain excuse people reading cream cheese and they're not enough trucks to like bring you the cream cheese real problem New York City not enough cream. But snackers here's the real real problem with the cream cheese shortage cream cheese isn't just for bagels a cream cheese shortage causes a cheesecake shortage too. That's right snackers 85% of any cheesecake. It's probably cream cheese in there.

Let's look at another New York City institution juniors famous Brooklyn cheesecake Jack what's going on across the river they had to shut down their factory last weekend. Yeah, they can't make any more cheesecake because they're out of cream cheese.

We got cascading crises caused by cheese cream. The takeaway here the cream cheese shortage is kind of like the butterfly effect and physics right because a shortage of cheese causes a shortage of cream cheese which causes a shortage of cheesecake which causes a hurricane on the other side of the world. Now I'm just hoping that big peanut butter big butter big Nutella comes in and saves the day.

In the meantime we're going to hit our three story.

For our first story in March, they're resorts slashed the price of their epic pass for skiing by like a whopping 20% we were curious and this is a perfect case study in pricing.

If you're curious like what the snow conditions are there and you want to like a diagnosis you got a text Jack is hope you like is it milkshake powder or does it look more like champagne powder is this mashed potatoes. I'm like it's knowing outside you know it's cold out I'm not sure how many base layers I should use in the meantime they're resorts they're ironically like a based in Aspen you know the in you attempt like 100 different words for snow.

There are actually not based in Aspen that be awkward they're based just outside of Denver about two hours for Balsky resorts and this company.

They're resorts they got one profit puppy here's what it is the epic pass and this is pretty epic because it's one pass that lets you ski and ride all season at over 30 resorts and they got one rival over it.

Now both of these ski passes cost the same price for you about a thousand dollars and both offer way more mountain terrain than you are ever going to be able to ski and get to I've had the icon like four years in a row.

I've only used it for four mountains and they have like 40 you get to the mountain you're like I want to do the back ball.

Oh it's a tram to a lift to a helicopter to get to the back ball.

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