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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Dogs Playing Poker

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7720 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/podcaster Katie Goldin for a look at why ”Dogs Playing Poker” is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, you're about to hear episode 94 of secretly incredibly fascinating.

0:06.2

Nine, four, some running a membership drive from now until episode 100.

0:11.0

And I have a pretty simple request with this.

0:13.3

Would you be willing to tip?

0:16.1

And I'm talking about that super simple, easy, $1 kind of tip.

0:20.8

Like $1 for a barista giving you a coffee.

0:23.4

$1 for a bartender giving you a beer.

0:26.0

$1 for that valet or bellhop grabbing something at a hotel.

0:30.5

And I'm talking about U.S. dollars, but there's probably a similar amount in your currency.

0:34.9

And it's probably a coin.

0:36.8

Really, congratulations to all of you with the

0:39.0

coins, especially Canada. A loony. Fantastic. Lunes, what a bird. Really good. Point is, you've probably

0:45.4

tipped a barista or a bartender, $1 for giving you one drink that you consumed really fast. What if you

0:53.0

tipped your podcasters in a similar way?

0:56.1

And gave them that tip for making a whole hour of podcast or whatever length. In this show's

1:01.6

case, that hour has a bunch of moving parts. There's research and tight editing and guest booking

1:06.0

and just a lot going into making that as awesome as it can be.

1:13.9

I think it's a good system to do that kind of tipping for that kind of work.

1:19.5

And a surprisingly small fraction of listeners, way less than 10% of listeners,

1:22.6

are willing to provide that tip and do that thing.

1:26.9

I'm running this membership drive to give you more benefits than ever.

1:28.5

If you do that, visit siftpod.fund to see those benefits and to back this thing. And thanks for listening. I'm thrilled

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