Can Hertz turn it around? Are Crocs back? Plus, Are Generational Stereotypes Fair?

After Hours

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Youngme, Felix and Mihir discuss whether Hertz can make a comeback, why everyone seems to be wearing Crocs, and whether generational stereotypes are accurate or helpful.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.3	This is The Big Tech Podcast, one important story from Bloomberg's global newsroom
0:12.2	every day.
0:13.2	I'm Wes Casovah.
0:14.2	On The Big Tech, we answer the questions you're asking and we bring you news and investigations
0:18.3	from our reporters around the world.
0:20.4	As we know, a lot of like bank run situations, it's just psychology.
0:24.0	It's contagious.
0:25.0	This is a crazier moment than usual.
0:26.5	If you think of the chatbot as being like a car, these models, they're like the engine.
0:30.8	This is The Big Tech from Bloomberg News and I Heart Radio.
0:33.6	Join me weekdays, wherever you listen.
0:47.7	Hi everyone, you're listening to After Hours, I'm Young Me.
0:50.9	I'm Felix and I'm Me Here.
0:52.4	I'm excited to talk to you guys tonight because we decided we wanted to talk
0:56.5	about comebacks, companies trying to make a comeback.
1:01.1	By the way, do either of you have a personal comeback story that we can use to get ourselves
1:06.2	warmed up for this topic?
1:08.9	You know, I confess, I feel like there's an arc to my entire life which is I get myself
1:13.9	in a hole and then I fight back, you know, I like to get myself in a hole and then try
1:18.4	to fight back.
1:19.4	Well, you've done really well because you're definitely not in a hole now.
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