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The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

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

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The number of Americans playing chess has shockingly doubled in just 6 months — and it’s all because of one website’s wild strategy. Meta surged 14% after its earnings because tech has a new favorite “word du jour.” And sports apparel giant Fanatics has 90M users, but it’s making a major pivot before its IPO: From t-shirts to sports bets.$META $GOOG $MSFTTake our weekly pop-biz pop-quiz at go.tboypod.com Want merch, a shoutout, or got TheBestFactYet? Go to: www.tboypod.comFollow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypodAnd now watch us on YoutubeLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday April 28th and today's pod is the best one yet. It's a tea boy.
0:10.2	You know what day it is. It is quiz Friday. Oh, it is quiz Friday. Yet it's you can play our one minute weekly pop quiz at
0:17.5	T-boy pod.com check it out one minute weekly pop quiz in the meantime Jack. What's our first story for the show?
0:23.3	The number of Americans playing chess has shockingly doubled in the past six months because yet
0:28.5	you're not playing chess. Uh chess.com is playing you for our second story.
0:34.5	Metastock jumped 14% yesterday after its earnings report showed that Zuck has a new favorite word.
0:40.7	There's a new word to sure and it is not the metaverse and our third and final story.
0:46.1	The sports apparel company Fanatics is making the biggest pivot in business.
0:50.5	This is wild. They're going from sports shirts to sports bets and soon sports TV.
0:57.5	Allegedly but yet he's before we hit that wonderful man. Just the perfect mix to go into a weekend with and I love
1:04.0	what you drop there man. We just got the spring report that we're always waiting for every spring.
1:09.0	The highest paid internships in America. Bloomberg just tallied up who's paying the biggest bucks for temporary work this summer.
1:17.0	And yet is you're going to want to sit down stand up and check your savings account again. These ain't no unpaid internships.
1:22.5	These are some extra pay internships. These are the guac internships. They cost extra extra extra.
1:31.0	What do we got Jack? Who is on the list at JP Morgan Chase in New York City. They're paying $7,200 a month to summer interns.
1:38.5	$7,200 bucks a month and that is only number 19 on the highest paid interns list.
1:44.0	Twitter is allegedly paying $7,300 bucks for interns this summer.
1:48.0	Okay Elon and that is number 17 on the highest paid interns list.
1:52.0	Facebook is higher than both of them. Mark Zuckerberg is paying summer interns $8,200 per month.
1:59.0	But here's the wildest part. That is not even the highest internship.
2:03.0	The highest paid internship in America makes Zuck's pay look like a stipend.
2:08.0	The highest paid internship in America? It's stripe. It's stripe with the highest paid internship.
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