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HODINKEE Podcasts

Cara Barrett (Editor, HODINKEE)

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Watches, Paul Newman, Talking Watches, Hodinkee Radio, Leisure, Podcast, Omega, Radio, Society & Culture, Ben Clymer, Wrist Watch, John Mayer, Arts, Horology, Hodinkee, Rolex, Daytona

4.7960 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

From studying art history in Texas to debunking vintage watch myths on the internet, Cara's got tons of stories to tell.

Transcript

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0:19.1

I'm going to All right, so usually this is where I tell you about how I met this episode's guest and why I find them so interesting, you know, why you're listening in the first place.

0:23.7

But this week we can skip all of that.

0:26.8

Gray and I decided that for our next editor profile, it was time we sit down with none other

0:31.0

than Hodinke editor, social media manager,

0:34.0

manager special projects and I don't know what, all around Bright Spot.

0:37.6

I was actually thinking about it, we're both hockey fans.

0:39.6

You know who she is, I think, a little bit?

0:41.6

Who's Kara? She's the glue guy. Oha she's the glue guy oh she's the glue guy so for those

0:45.0

who are not hockey fans a glue guy is someone whose performance on the ice is important

0:49.4

but their real skill set is being the glue in the locker room. They hold the whole thing together.

0:54.4

Yeah, no, that's really interesting. She is definitely the glue guy for this team.

0:58.7

I get most of the glue. Kara and I share a desk. So, uh, you guys are stuck together.

1:02.1

Yeah, for anybody who doesn't know already

1:04.5

from the constant banter car and I share a desk I see a lot of Ms cara barret you know cara has a

1:11.3

really interesting story and it's one I'm glad we can tell.

1:15.0

She doesn't come to watches through journalism.

1:17.5

She didn't even set out to end up in watches professionally.

1:21.0

But she kind of ended up here through an interesting, strange winding road that

1:25.6

started in Switzerland in a certain way, took her to the US, took her to London, back to the

1:31.1

U.S., back to London, you'll hear all about it, but it's a pretty interesting tale

1:35.7

that I think gets it why the watch world is so fascinating.

1:38.6

And that kind of gets at one of my kind of overarching theories

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