2019 Awards Episode!
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai hand out their “awards” for 2019, including best/worst trend of the year, their sleeper award, comeback of the year, most under-reported story of the year, most over-hyped story of the year, and person of the year.
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You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:09.0 | We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
| 0:14.4 | Please visit survey.PRX.org slash after hours to take the survey today. |
| 0:21.0 | That's survey. |
| 0:22.1 | PRX.org |
| 0:23.4 | slash after hours. Thanks. |
| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone, you're listening to after hours I'm young me and I'm here with |
| 0:47.8 | Felix and we hear hey guys the holidays are upon us. Yes. |
| 0:53.0 | Are you guys ready? |
| 0:54.0 | Definitely not. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm way behind. |
| 0:56.0 | Last year didn't you guys have the little elf on the shelf? |
| 1:00.0 | Of course we did and we did again this year. |
| 1:02.0 | Although there is a noticeable |
| 1:03.4 | decline in their excitement about finding Elf on the shelf. |
| 1:06.3 | You realize when they're 16 and 18 years old, they're going to just be faking it on |
| 1:10.9 | your behalf. |
| 1:11.9 | That may already be happening actually. |
| 1:14.0 | It's like, oh, dad, with his elf on the shelf again. |
| 1:17.2 | You just totally shattered my whole world, |
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