Bonus Episode: Coronavirus News and Industry Bailouts
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the latest coronavirus news, debate whether the airlines deserve a bailout, and share some of their personal reflections on the crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. I believe in rethinking ideas we've taken for granted to learn how to live better. |
| 0:14.1 | In my new podcast, Rethinking, I ask today's greatest minds, how they think, and what assumptions |
| 0:20.1 | we should all reconsider. Listen to rethinking wherever you get your |
| 0:23.4 | podcasts. |
| 0:25.8 | HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm young me I'm me here and I'm Felix Felix me here and I missed you last time I know it was heartbreaking not to be there. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, it wasn't the same. |
| 0:55.0 | It wasn't the same, Felix, not at all. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, not true. |
| 0:57.0 | Not at all. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay. |
| 0:59.0 | So if you are a regular listener of this podcast, |
| 1:02.0 | you know we normally record once a week but |
| 1:05.0 | since there has been so much news we've gotten a lot of requests to post episodes |
| 1:09.0 | more frequently so consider this a bonus episode and although we can't commit to doing this every week, we'll try to do it when we can. |
| 1:16.0 | The plan for this episode is, one, we're going to talk about some of the economic headlines from the last couple of days with a specific focus on the idea |
| 1:24.7 | of industry bailouts. And then two, we're going to try to make some time for some general |
| 1:30.6 | reflections and observations about what we see happening in the world. |
| 1:34.8 | And as always, we're not public health experts. |
| 1:38.4 | Much of the most important information obviously centers on public health questions. |
| 1:44.0 | We're not going to touch this not because it's not important, |
| 1:47.6 | but because that's not where our expertise is. |
| 1:50.3 | That's right. |
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