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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Coincidence and grilled cheese

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What are the odds? Pretty good, actually.



Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.


You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com.


To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button. 



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0:00.0

In the late 1930s, according to Time magazine, something extraordinary happened.

0:07.5

A street sweeper named Joseph Figlock, working in Detroit, recovering from the depression, making ends meet, was sweeping

0:16.9

an alley.

0:17.9

And a baby, a little baby, fell out of a fourth floor apartment.

0:22.2

Breaking its fall by landing on Figlock.

0:24.6

Figlock was injured, the baby was fine.

0:27.4

Just over a year later, while he was sweeping that same alley, the very same baby a year older fell out of the very same window

0:39.8

on top of Joseph Figlock again again injuring him, again breaking its fall, and the baby was fine.

0:47.0

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

1:02.0

First, here's a word from our featured nonprofit, Mobile Clinic, Haiti.

1:08.0

Hi, I'm Jody. My friend Samuel and I started a mobile clinic in his neighborhood in City Silly Haiti to help people with diabetes and hypertension.

1:11.0

Without this mobile clinic, people can't access treatment.

1:14.7

This means that awful complications are all too common.

1:17.9

Seth taught me that better is a dream worth dreaming and sporadic care is simply not good enough. Treating these conditions saves lives and we want to make sure we can keep it running all year long. Hope you can help. To find out more, visit mobile clinic Haiti.org.

1:32.0

The thing about coincidence... visit Mobile Clinic Haiti.org.

1:38.0

The thing about coincidences is that we love to talk about them. People don't really want to hear our coincidence,

1:42.0

but we feel like we need to discharge what happened to us by telling other people.

1:48.0

A couple weeks ago, Alex Peck told me the story of Sourcroughts and the Captain James Cook and I confess that I had not

1:57.0

thought of Captain Cook since I was in high school. But it was a great story I

2:02.0

double-checked it on Wikipedia and blogged about it.

2:05.0

The very next day I was surfing around someone who told me something about tea tree oil

2:12.0

and I was, well where's tea tree oil and I was well where's tea tree oil come from?

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