Everyone Loves A Good Storyteller Because Everyone Loves a Good Story
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show. |
| 0:01.9 | I'm one of those people that Malcolm Gladwell wrote |
| 0:06.8 | about in the book, The Tipping Point that you want. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm what's called a super spreader in Gladwell's book, |
| 0:17.8 | because if you've, if you've never read The Tipping Point, |
| 0:20.6 | I encourage you to do so. |
| 0:22.8 | Gladwell's politics are wack, but his writings are good. |
| 0:27.4 | And the basis of The Tipping Point was he wanted |
| 0:32.7 | to understand how do movements take hold? |
| 0:37.1 | How do ideas germinate and spread? |
| 0:42.0 | Because there's lots of ideas, and they never get off the ground. |
| 0:46.0 | And it might be the George Foreman Grill. |
| 0:50.2 | What do you think about the fact? |
| 0:51.4 | George Foreman made over $200 million on the George Foreman Grill. |
| 0:57.0 | He had made $60 million when they paid him out $137 million. |
| 1:05.0 | And one plug at one time, rather than take it for the rest. |
| 1:08.2 | And they're betting that they're going to make more than that. |
| 1:09.8 | And he's betting they're going to make less than that. |
| 1:11.5 | And he won his money now. |
| 1:13.0 | But how did the George Foreman Grill somehow surpass every |
| 1:19.1 | other household item like that? |
| 1:23.2 | And by the way, George Foreman Grill was first offered |
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