Guy's Favorites: What Is Original?

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As we transition to our new host Manoush Zomorodi, Guy Raz looks back on some of his favorite episodes from his seven years hosting the TED Radio Hour. This episode originally aired on June 27, 2014. When is copying flattery, when is it thievery, and when is it sheer genius? In this hour, TED speakers explore how sampling, borrowing, and riffing make all of us innovators.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here, and by now you may have heard that there is a new host of Ted Radio
0:04.4	Hour.
0:05.4	Her name is Manouche Somerodi and Manouche and the Ted Radio Hour team are hard at work
0:09.0	on a bunch of new episodes, which will be coming to you in March.
0:13.3	In the meantime, we're taking a look back at some of our absolute favorite episodes from
0:17.4	the past few years.
0:19.0	And on today's show, did you know that the 1984 song La Di Di by Slick Rick and Duggy
0:24.9	Fresh has been sampled hundreds of times?
0:28.1	But the question is, why?
0:29.6	Why has this one song inspired so many others?
0:34.3	And what's the line between being inspired by sampling and simply copying?
0:39.1	Well, on today's episode, we explore that line in music, fashion, and innovation.
0:44.6	The show is called What Is Original and it originally aired in June of 2014.
0:52.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:57.0	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
1:00.0	Ted.
1:01.0	Ted.
1:02.0	Technology.
1:03.0	Entertainment.
1:04.0	Design.
1:05.0	Is that really what's 10 for us?
1:06.0	I've never known that.
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