The Best Idea Yet 🛁 Jacuzzi: Legend of the Life-Saving Tub

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Break out the bubbly, turn on the jets, and hop into our Hot Tub Time Machine: we’re going back to the origins of the Jacuzzi. The world’s most iconic whirlpool has become a symbol of status and luxury—think Scarface’s bathtub. But its roots are humble, starting with a family of seven Italian immigrant brothers. Over three generations, they pivoted one technology from airplanes to agriculture to the 1st-ever modern hot tub. It’s also the story of overcoming tragedies, and a devoted father trying to save his young son’s life. Find out why family businesses actually end… why half a pivot is more like a flinch… and why the Jacuzzi is the best idea yet.

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0:00.0	Yet is Happy New Year. Jack and I, we are still on vacation, but we whipped up something special for you to kick off 2025.
0:08.8	Today, we're serving up an episode of The Best Idea Yet.
0:12.0	The Best Idea Yet, our weekly deep dive series where we cover the incredible, untold stories behind the most viral products of all time.
0:20.7	And this one is the story of
0:21.9	jacuzzi. Because Hot Tubbs is just the start of what these seven Italian American brothers created.
0:28.5	We repeat, this is on jacuzzi because you have no idea the story behind jacuzzi.
0:34.1	Now, after this episode's over, subscribe to the show, the best idea yet,
0:38.1	to get episodes just like this every Tuesday. To make it easier, we'll put a link to the show
0:42.5	in this episode description. In the meantime, Jack, let's hit chakouzy.
0:52.2	What are you doing this weekend? What am I doing this weekend?
0:55.7	I mean, honestly, I know what you're doing this week.
0:56.6	You're going up to Napa.
1:00.4	You probably love popping up to Napa.
1:01.6	Yeah, would you pop up?
1:04.2	That is like a verb of choice.
1:05.0	You're so right.
1:06.2	You know what's funny?
1:11.5	Like, when you're driving up to Napa and everyone's envisioning what it is, like this wine mecca of the world.
1:11.8	Yeah.
1:18.3	The first whiner that you pass, when you make a write-off of 101, it says the jacuzzi winery.
1:19.4	It's got to be a typo.
1:22.3	Well, you know, I saw that at first and I was like, well, this sounds like a fun idea.
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