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Stuff You Should Know

Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The world has seen a lot of weird investment bubbles in its time, but few of them rival the fever that gripped the world in the 90s after Beanie Babies took off. Let’s visit this strange chapter in toy history together.

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0:00.0

Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, like Easy Listening, but for fiction.

0:08.0

If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you.

0:16.0

I'm Catherine Nikolai and I'm an architect of Cozy.

0:20.0

Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.

0:24.0

Listen, relax, enjoy.

0:27.0

Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much,

0:29.0

on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:32.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.0

Walter Isaacson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted

0:40.8

to chaos and conspiracy.

0:42.3

I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.

0:49.0

The book launched a thousand hot takes, so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise.

0:53.6

I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on musk as I should be are always

0:58.2

using anecdotes from my book to show why we should be tough on musk.

1:02.0

Join me Evan Ratliff for on musk with of Why We Should We Should Be Tough on Musk with Walter Isken.

1:05.7

Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:09.6

Hello people, if you want to come see us live next year your very first chance to do

1:16.2

it is going to be Seattle Washington on January 24th at the Paramount Theater

1:20.9

isn't that right? Yeah and then then the following day, the very next day,

1:24.8

we're going all the way down to Portland, Oregon

1:27.2

for another show on the 25th at Revolution Hall.

1:30.7

And then after that, the very next day, we're doing another show, Chuck.

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