🧀 “Return of the Rat” — Chuck E. Cheese’s $1B comeback. Hotelification of offices. Disney’s sports streamer airballs.

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 $WBD Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks Episodes 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/@tboypod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod  Anything else: https://tboypod.com/  Subscribe to our new (2nd) show… The Best Idea Yet: Wondery.fm/TheBestIdeaYetLinks Episodes 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.