The Best One Yet
✨✍️ “The Hire Hack” — Storytellers’ job pop. Siri’s Google girlfriend. Don’t Fight the Fed. +Peak Pizza
13 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday T-Boy, Tuesday, January 13th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. All right, Jack, you remember that driving range I took you to in the Presidio in San Francisco the other week? Yeah. I found a better one. What? Lincoln Park Golf Course, right?
Yeah, I self-upgraded on this one. I owe you a better round next time. I'm sorry about that. Were there more coyotes? Because that determines the quality of the golf course in San Francisco. I never found that ball, and we'll never know what happened to it. I hope you just found your own golf clubs instead of your mother-in-law's like you used to. I got a spray. I bring a spray with me now.
Jack, three stories for today's team boy. What do we got on the pot? For our first story, Apple just surrendered the AI war to Google because new series coming out later this year and she'll be Gemini powered. Siri is breaking up with ChatGPT because Google has built a Cinderella castle. For our second story, if you're looking for a job right now, we have the perfect hiring hack of the year.
It's actually the oldest hiring hack ever because the top skill in every industry right now is storytelling. And our third and final story. The Trump administration launched a criminal investigation into the chairman of our Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. Jerry Powell, but finance people on both sides of the aisle have raised their hand and said, I object. So Jack and I will explain.
But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What? A mix of stories for T-Boy Tuesday. Love the mix, Jack. I just found a fascinating list on the internet. Most common restaurant types in America. You ready for this? Okay, sprinkle on the takeout context for us, please. Chinese restaurants is number five. Mexican restaurants is number four. Burgers, number two.
No, burgers are number one.
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Chapter 2: What recent changes have occurred with Apple's Siri and AI technology?
Coffee shops are number two. But number three. Pause the pod. It better be pizza, Jack. Pizza. 75,000 pizzerias in America, according to IbisWorld. But that's a problem, Yetis, a pizza problem, because pizza is falling fast. According to the Wall Street Journal, we are past our pizza peak. That's right. The Wall Street Journal published America is falling out of love with pizza.
The honeymoon, it's over. Now, to sprinkle on some more context, Nick, pizza's success in America was its delivery advantage. For decades, pizza dominated the Yellow Pages in your phone book. The pizza is so boxable, they even invented their own pizza box for the pizzas.
Chapter 3: How is storytelling becoming a crucial skill for job seekers?
But in the delivery app age, that advantage has been neutralized. In the past, pizza restaurants had their own delivery drivers on staff. But now every restaurant has delivery drivers because of the delivery apps. And in this economy, an $18 family-sized pie from Domino's doesn't taste like value like it used to. I'm sorry, Jack, but the carb to cash ratio, it's just still too low.
It just leads to the sad news. Pieology Pizzeria, Bertucci's, Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza and Wings. Oh, boy. Each filed for bankruptcy last year. R.I. Pizza. Besties, this is the great pizza. Pause the pipe.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of Jerome Powell's criminal investigation?
apocalypse. I think it's more of a pie equilibrium because we're still eating pizza, just a little less than the past. Mama mia, Jack, someone's got to call Maria on this one. I thought you were going to say Michelangelo, but let's go with Maria. Hey, Donatello, let's hit our three stories.
15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack,
that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show start the show first a quick word from our sponsor
For our first story, Apple's Siri just broke up with open AI and is hooking up with Google instead. Apple intelligence powered by Google. This is why Google is now worth more than Apple is. thinking about some fairy tales here, but yet he's the biggest tech since the internet. It's been a gigantic swing and a miss down in Cupertino. We're talking about AI.
Yeah, we are.
Because in June of 2024, which was already late back then, Apple finally unveiled Apple Intelligence, their take on artificial intelligence. Here was the vision. Siri was going to become fluent in AI powered by chat GPT. And how did that look, Jack? Never came. No, it didn't. We're on the iPhone 17 and it's still not here.
So to finally, finally make Siri AI fluent, Apple just confirmed this week they're tapping Google's Gemini and Google Cloud. Huge win by Google to become the large language model that powers the world's iDevices. That's why for the first time since 2019, Alphabet's market cap is now larger than Apple's. That's right. The timing couldn't be freakier, right, Jack?
Google's valuation hit $4 trillion yesterday for the first time ever. It's just the second company to ever hit that milestone. Jack, this is like LeBron leaving Cleveland, not taking his talents to South Beach. He's taking them to Menlo Park. But also South Beach. Because Google's powering like everything now in the background. That's a fair point.
Now, besties, this is why Jack and I find this fascinating. It brings up an underappreciated part of business. Because anything that's the default on an iPhone, that's tech's golden ticket right there. I mean, Jack, if you were the default, that's an immediate profit puppy, baby.
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Chapter 5: Why is the pizza industry facing challenges in the current market?
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Everyone is opted into you. So Google winning this golden ticket, default AI provider on all Apple devices. It reflects so many things. Jack and I thought like each of these could be its own takeaway, right Jack? The first thing this story reflects is that antitrust is dead. Totally.
A federal judge let Google off the hook last year for being a monopoly, so now Google is brazenly expanding its monopoly into new monopolies. Okay, so that's Google. The other point here is that Apple is kind of waving the white AI flag right now. Nick, we're four years into the AI race. Apple was the most valuable tech company, but Siri still speaks AI like a toddler does.
Jack, this is the second rival Apple's had to tap in order to improve AI on its iPhones, man. And yet AI is still not really on our iPhones. Okay, the third thought Jack and I had here was like, open AI, it's continued the cold streak. Open AI used to be so hot, but now it's like, hey Siri, turn off Jack GPT, turn on Gemini instead.
Ever since Thanksgiving, Sam Allman's been peeing the pants on an awkward Code Red situation out there. Every percentage point of market share OpenAI is losing, Google seems to be gaining. But besties, the biggest thing this story represents is that we all had it wrong when it comes to Google and AI. Google's moat didn't get crossed by AI. AI became another Google moat. All right, Tinkerbell.
So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Google? In Google's castle, email was the first moat. Search was the second moat. And now AI is becoming the third. Yeti's Gmail controls 75% of the US email market. Google search is even more powerful with 90% of its market. 90 plus. Yeah. And then came ChatGPT. We all thought that it would finally neutralize Google's internet advantages.
Remember what we were saying, Jack? Like instead of checking Gmail, you'd let ChatGPT act like your assistant and summarize that giant bachelorette party email chain. And instead of searching the web, you'd let ChatGPT search the web and find that Hanukkah gift for your mama. But it looks like we're all wrong because Google overcame OpenAI's threat and built their own chatbot just as good.
And Google built that chatbot into Chrome, into Chromebooks, into iPhones now. You want proof? Last week, Samsung announced that Gemini would power the native chatbot on all Samsung devices. This week, Apple just announced the same thing. Combined, what percent of American phones is that, Jack? All Apple phones. All Samsung phones? That's 70% of the American smartphone market, powered by Gemini.
Besties, Google just became the default diva again. First for email, then for search, now for AI assistance. Google, they got enough moats to make Cinderella jealous. I think your fairytale geology is off. I think you're thinking of Rapunzel, Jack. For our second story, this month is the hottest month of the year for switching careers and applying for new jobs.
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Chapter 6: What does the shift to Gemini mean for Apple's AI strategy?
This spring, the president escalated, though, from name-calling and scapegoating to threatened indictments. Now, to sprinkle on some context— America created the Federal Reserve in 1914. We gave it independence to insulate it from politics. And why do we do that, Jack? It's a unique institution.
So that the Fed does what's best for the economy, not what's best for the president's approval ratings. Well, fast forward to today, and now the Trump administration has escalated their frustration with our Fed chair to an unprecedented level. To a criminal investigation. The DOJ has subpoenaed Jerome Powell's Fed and threatened an indictment of him.
That's according to Powell himself, who set the narrative on Sunday night in a press release and a video. A video that kind of looks like the hostage video, to be honest, but a very intense video nonetheless.
According to Jerome Powell, the criminal investigation into him is about his testimony to Congress last year about renovations of historic Fed office buildings, which have gone way over budget. That's right. It looks like it comes down to architecture and interior design. But the Fed chair, Jerry Powell, says that is a false pretext.
The real reason he's being investigated is, let's let him explain.
The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve. setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president.
Basically, he didn't bend the knee to President Trump. He didn't drop interest rates fast enough. Now, besties, we should point out, cost overruns of a government construction project are not something that usually gets the Department of Justice's investigations. And Powell's term ends as Fed chair in just four months. So why investigate him now?
Well, the most likely scenario it looks like is President Trump is punishing Jerry Powell for not taking those orders to cut interest rates faster. Now, this could go nowhere. Politically motivated indictments, which this certainly looks like it is, are often thrown out quickly by the courts. And it also could backfire on President Trump.
When Jerome Powell is done as Fed chairman, he can retire or he can stay on the Federal Reserve's board. And you know what? Now Jerry Powell is more likely to stay just to prove how independent the Fed should be. Like the stubborn neighbor who doesn't mow his lawn just because he can. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies watching the Federal Reserve? Our future could go two ways.
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