🍸“The Spy Who Primed Me” — James Bond’s Amazon deal. Microsoft’s quantum leap. OpenTable vs Resy.

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

James Bond’s creative control was just acquired by Amazon… so we need to talk about “Infinite Scarcity.”

Microsoft just defied physics… it’s a quantum creation that’s not a solid, liquid, or gas.

OpenTable has overtaken Resy for America’s coolest restaurants… all thanks to 1 move.

Plus, Google searches for “Is it safe to fly” are up 20x… so we ran the numbers.

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0:00.0	This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the Real Friday. February 21st. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three stories at the intersection of pop culture and business that you need to know today. Jack, I'm checking the calendars. It is almost IBO date. We are one week from the initial baby offering, aren't we? I know.
0:22.5	February 28th is the due day. It could
0:24.6	come before. Check, if you hit a takeaway
0:26.4	too hard, I may go into labor.
0:30.1	Jack's baby
0:30.7	isn't here yet, but we got three
0:32.5	fantastic stories for today's show. What do we
0:34.7	got, Jack? For our first story,
0:36.8	Amazon has acquired the
0:37.9	creative rights to James Bond. Bond. Double seven is an Amazon employee now. So we've got advice
0:44.2	for Bezos on how to not ruin the James Bond franchise. For our second story, Microsoft just
0:50.7	defied physics. True story. It created something that's not a solid, liquid, or gas.
0:55.0	They found a fourth form of matter.
0:57.2	And Microsoft's Quantum Leap is awkward for Apple.
1:01.6	And our third and final story.
1:03.5	OpenTable has overtaken Rezi as the home to America's coolest restaurants.
1:07.7	Because OpenTable ordered up one bold move. But Yetis, before we hit that
1:12.7	wonderful mix of stories, fantastic mix of stories. Love podden with you, Jack. Great mix today.
1:18.3	The number one thing being searched on Google right now is, is it safe to fly? That's right,
1:23.3	the number of people Googling, Is It Safe to Fly, has soared to an all-time high.
1:31.1	Because there have been four flying incidents in just the last four weeks.
1:36.5	But Jack and I got curious, and so we dove into the data on how safe really is flying.
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