🐝 “BeyTok” — Beyonce’s TikTok. Wordle’s board game. Big Tech’s fear managers.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Beyonce has finally joined TikTok, but the real story here is how TikTok’s beating Google. The NYTimes and Hasbro are turning Wordle into a physical board game, because they’re playing chess while their copycats play checkers. And Big Tech’s management style is taking a page from old school Jack Welch: Less “Cool Mom,” more “Hunger Games.” $HAS $NYT $GOOG $META Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick, this is Jack.
0:02.4	Welcome back, it is Monday, July 18th, and today's pod is the best one yet.
0:08.3	This is a T-boy.
0:09.6	It's a T-boy, stocks they pop before the weekend, not too shabby.
0:13.1	I popped a red eye flight back to Vermont before the weekend too.
0:16.4	Okay, let me add this up, Jack.
0:17.9	You now have a twisted ankle, a red eye, and you got sunscreen in your eye.
0:22.0	Damn you, SPF!
0:23.7	It gets us every time.
0:25.6	Jack, what's our first story to kick off the week?
0:27.6	The newest account on TikTok is Beyonce, finally.
0:31.4	Because she dominates Millennial Tech, but she kind of forgot about Gen Z Tech.
0:36.4	For our second story, Tesla, Google, and Facebook have a new management strategy, discomfort.
0:42.2	Goodbye, cool mom.
0:43.6	Hello, Hunger Games.
0:45.1	Our third and final story is that the New York Times just partnered up with Hasbro
0:49.3	to make Wirtle a physical board game.
0:51.8	Okay, Jack, I think I got the word.
0:53.1	I think I got the word here, does here it is.
0:54.5	T-O-U-C-H?
0:57.8	All green.
0:58.6	Green tiles all the way.
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