🐭 “Mouse Trap” — Disney’s epic shareholder vote. Billie Eilish’s anti-AI letter. Amazon’s Just-Walk-Out shutdown.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Disney’s Shareholder Day included an epic vote to determine the future of the company — CEO Bob Iger prevailed, but the activist investor won too.
Billie Eilish, Nikki Minaj, Pearl Jam, and 200 other artists wrote an open letter asking tech platforms to cease using AI to steal their work — But can the tech genie be put back in the bottle?
And Amazon’s most ambitious new technology was supposed to be “Just Walk Out” — But now they’re shutting that business down, because it was more trick than magic.
Plus, new work data should that Thursday is the new Friday (literally).
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday. Literally. April 4th and today's |
| 0:07.4 | pod is the best one. Yeah, you'll see what we mean in a minute. The top three pop business |
| 0:11.5 | news stories you need to know today. |
| 0:13.2 | Okay, but first, Jack, happy National Burrito Day to all those who celebrate. |
| 0:17.5 | I am absolutely treating myself to some carnitas today. |
| 0:20.8 | I mean, Jack, made thy Barbecoa love thy carnitas. The only issue I hope |
| 0:24.5 | Chipotle stacked up some extra tortillas. That'd be so disappointing if I went there |
| 0:28.4 | on Burrito Day and couldn't get a burrito. But yeah he's remember even though it's |
| 0:30.8 | Burrito Day guac is still extra. |
| 0:33.5 | It's always extra. |
| 0:34.7 | That's a PS Act. |
| 0:35.7 | If you know, you know. |
| 0:36.7 | But first story for today's T-boy, what do we gotcha? |
| 0:39.9 | For our first story, Disney just got through its most awkward day since the goofy movie. |
| 0:45.3 | Who survived the big Disney shareholder vote? |
| 0:48.8 | Jack and I will tell you who. |
| 0:50.4 | For our second story, Amazon is killing its ambitious Just Walk Out store concept. |
| 0:55.2 | Amazon just walked out on Just Walk Out. |
| 0:58.7 | And our third and final story, Nicki Minaj, Billy Elish, and Pearl Jam, all just asked the music industry to stop using |
| 1:05.8 | AI to steal human creativity. |
| 1:08.0 | America's biggest music stars just ask the music industry to put the AI genie back in the bottle. |
| 1:14.0 | Can you put the genie back in the bottle or is this a tooth-pasted tooth situation? |
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