108: Popularity, Going Viral, & Hit-Making
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Today we're talking about popularity, hits, and going viral. How does popularity "happen" in the digital age. We discuss one-hit wonders, Sarah's obsession with Angry Birds, and the science of making something popular. We also interview Derek Thompson, the author of Hit-Makers: Popularity in an Age of Distraction.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:13.9 | Hello friends! Welcome once again to the Friggin' Farkest! |
| 0:17.9 | The Fibuganapakas! The Fiskanapakas! |
| 0:20.9 | This is my Pakistanis! This is my Pakistanis! |
| 0:23.5 | That's my improv to song! I just thought, fly not stop! |
| 0:26.8 | Fly stop! I just keep going! |
| 0:28.6 | It's so funny, those Patreon shoutouts that you do. |
| 0:31.7 | Oh, that's because that's what it sounds like. |
| 0:33.7 | He's so good. |
| 0:35.7 | Oh, it's so cool! |
| 0:36.7 | Lots of one song and I just keep singing different verses and different with different words for every Patreon shoutout. |
| 0:43.5 | Today we are doing episode 107 and it's like kind of an homage in a way to one of our book club books, hitmakers. |
| 0:53.6 | So we're talking about... |
| 0:55.6 | I'd say one of my top five favorite books in the last five years. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, it's tremendous. |
| 1:02.7 | Tremendous. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, if you're not in the book club you can join, it's on our website, thebrinkanipakas.com. |
| 1:09.7 | We usually like Sarah will pick a book and I'll pick a book and then we have meetings every month with our members. |
| 1:16.9 | And we try to get as many author interviews as we can. |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.9 | And we have an interview with the author of Hitmakers at the end of this episode, Derek. |
| 1:26.1 | Thompson, he's tremendous and so smart. |
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