Mikhail Gorbachev

Tom Darbyshire, the writer of the 1998 Pizza Hut commercial starring Mikhail Gorbachev, shares the background of the commercial and its significance 24 years later.

Today on Mountain Money (01:53) Jesse Jenkins, an assistant professor of engineering at Princeton University, helps us understand the economic implications of the environmental provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.Then (22:52) Tom Darbyshire, the writer of the 1998 Pizza Hut commercial starring Mikhail Gorbachev, shares the background of the commercial and its significance 24 years later.Finally (43:33) this summer the Chateaux Deer Valley held a ceremonial ribbon cutting showcasing the Forbes Four-Star luxury property’s $3 million transformation. Jeannie Lambert, Corporate Director of Marketing for the Stein Collection, joins us this morning to talk about the improvements.