🏀 "The $500M High School Jock" — Overtime Sports's teenager league. Sweetgreen's missing salad. Inflation's celebrity report.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Business News, Tech, News, Finance, Business, Pop Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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What if we told you that venture capitalists and NBA players and Venture Capitalists just poured $100M into a sports league purely for high school kids? (They did). Sweetgreen just revealed that it’s so focused on making scalable salads that it forgot to do 1 thing: Make something else. And for the first time in years, prices actually went down - Because Inflation is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.$SG $XOM $CVXFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeWant a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this formGot the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that tooLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, August 11th. And today's pod,
0:06.0	for days, pod for so many reasons is the best one. TV, TV, O-I-A, grab the Palaborz Jack
0:13.0	tap the trees. Nick and I are live, I-R-L on the northeast shore of Lake Champlain. It's an
0:19.6	ab workout doing the pod on a Palaborz. The stock market is so happy that we're potting in person.
0:24.1	Happy in person. The Dow jumped 802 points yesterday. They actually jumped 500 points if you know, you know,
0:31.2	first going. What we got Jack. Over time, League started out as an Instagram account. Now it's a
0:36.4	professional sports league. Over time, it isn't just any sports league. Over time is a professional
0:41.9	high school sports league. For our second store, you know, prices keep going up. Yeah, they keep going up.
0:46.2	For the first time in a while, inflation paused because inflation is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
0:52.8	Our third and final store, Sweet Green, just revealed they're so focused on tossing salads.
0:57.9	They forgot to do one thing. Sweet Green forgot to do something else. But before we hit that
1:04.1	wonderful mix, a wonderful mix to whip up together, Jack. The Wall Street Journal just did a
1:09.3	take down on the Yetties. Yeah, before you freak out, not you guys, not you Yetties, not our
1:14.4	listeners of this. No, the Wall Street Journal has no issue where aware of the listeners of this pod.
1:18.8	Call you the Yetties because you are the best ones yet. What the Wall Street Journal did take
1:24.0	issue with was the cooler company named Yettie. Here was the Wall Street Journal headline.
1:29.6	Does anyone really need a $500 cooler? You've all seen them. Yettie coolers, they claimed to keep
1:36.3	your drinks cold for seven days, even in the harshest, hottest environment. But here's the thing,
1:42.4	besties, you need a drink cold for seven hours, not seven days. Oh great. If I'm deserted in the desert,
1:48.7	my white claws will stay. Here's the problem. You're not in the desert. You're on a glamping trip
1:54.5	for like one night. You're worried about your heated down comforter might run out of fluff. You don't
2:00.0	need something keeping your drinks cold for as long as an ice age. Oh, they can now we're thinking
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