Interview with the TikTok Guy

Post Reports

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

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Summary

Today on Post Reports, an interview with Dave Jorgenson, The Washington Post’s “TikTok Guy.” Throughout the pandemic, he’s been uploading two newsy, funny TikToks a day for The Post’s nearly 1 million TikTok followers.

Dave also has a book: “Make a TikTok Every Day: 365 Prompts for Attention-Grabbing TikToks.” You can check out all of his TikToks here.

A few of Martine’s favorite Tiktoks from Dave:

During the primary for the 2020 election, Dave made TikToks with a bunch of presidential candidates, including Cory Booker and Julián Castro.

You can also check out the sea shanty here.

All of Dave’s delightful quarantine TikToks are in a Twitter thread here.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:08.2	I'm Martin Powers.
0:10.2	It's Friday, August 13.
0:16.8	So I've said some version of those words from the newsroom of the Washington Post pretty
0:21.9	much every weekday afternoon for the past two and a half years.
0:28.2	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, from the newsroom of the Washington Post,
0:33.8	it's Wednesday, March 25.
0:35.8	It's Monday, July 13.
0:37.6	It's Friday, May 28.
0:40.3	And during the pandemic, I have been doing that from my closet at home, which is the closest
0:45.3	thing that I can get to a studio.
0:47.4	And in a lot of ways, I feel so lucky to be able to do my job from home and to keep myself
0:52.2	and the people around me safe, but sometimes working on a thing every day at home from my
0:58.9	little closet.
1:00.6	It makes me feel like I'm losing my mind, which is why I wondered about how my friend
1:05.5	Dave has handled doing something similar.
1:07.5	Hey, hey, hey, what do you think you're going outside for a walk?
1:10.8	That's a corn ticket's pal here.
1:12.6	You're three corn tickets shortened.
1:14.8	This is a clone of garlic.
1:16.2	Hi, I'm Dave Jorgensen.
1:17.6	I make TikToks for the Washington Post.
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