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🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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A love for craftsmanship, design, and baseball brings music legend Jack White and design entrepreneur Ben Jenkins together. In 2016, Jack White became an investor in Ben Jenkins's sporting goods brand, Warstic. Today the company does so much more than manufacture artisan baseball bats.
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0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
0:08.0 | Us designers know, I think we have weapons at our disposal that non-creative people don't have. |
0:12.0 | I'm too far into the art side of it, but I'm not selling my pieces and selling that at art galleries either. |
0:18.0 | It's sort of like, this is for nobody, but me. |
0:24.0 | From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. |
0:31.0 | For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, |
0:36.0 | how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. |
0:41.0 | On this episode, we hear from musician Jack White and designer Ben Jenkins about their business collaboration. |
0:47.0 | Baseball vets are a really simple thing, I bet I could figure that out. |
0:50.0 | I'd seen these baseball bats, and I remember thinking, oh wow, I'm going to be an obvious idea, of course. |
0:57.0 | Hey, it's Adam Grant. |
0:59.0 | The new season of my Ted Podcast's Work Life is out now. |
1:03.0 | The past few years have been full of changes to how we work. |
1:06.0 | There's so much more we can rethink about our jobs. |
1:09.0 | Join me as I dive into the science of making work not suck. |
1:13.0 | This season, we'll explore how to fix your meetings, bust bureaucracy, |
1:17.0 | and make the most out of your breaks and vacations. |
1:20.0 | Listen to Work Life with Adam Grant, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
1:27.0 | Jack White has been on the music scene for over two decades, |
1:31.0 | first in the band Goober and the Peas, then in the duo The White Stripes, |
1:36.0 | then The Rock on Tears, and The Dead Weather. |
1:40.0 | He's also released his own solo albums and produced music for artists including Loretta Lin and Beyoncé. |
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