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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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Stories change the world.
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
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0:00.0 | A TV show from my youth that doesn't hold up very well on reviewing is the man from Uncle. |
0:08.0 | But one thing that does hold up was the logo that they had. It looked a lot like the |
0:20.6 | logo for their parent organization, which I assumed was the United Nations. |
0:27.0 | Hey, it's AJ, and this is a special archived episode of A Kimbo. Special Archives |
0:35.0 | the Kimbo. |
0:40.0 | The United Nations quietly, Persistently saves the world. |
0:42.0 | Saves the world in a lot of ways, ways that we can't go into right now. |
0:47.0 | But I need to say that when they reached out to me and asked if I would come address one of their larger gatherings in New York. |
0:54.4 | I instantly jumped at the chance. |
0:56.9 | So here is a presentation I gave in September 2019, |
1:01.6 | the first half of it, to a group of women's rights activists at the United |
1:07.4 | Nations. |
1:08.4 | Thanks as always for listening. |
1:12.6 | I am, I'm really privileged to be here, but I have to start by talking about a hotel that was just a few blocks |
1:20.2 | from here. |
1:21.9 | 15 or 20 years ago, a woman named Leona Helmsley owned a bunch of |
1:25.4 | hotels in New York City and she was referred to as the Queen of Meen. She had a |
1:31.1 | dog named Trouble and she was indicted for tax fraud. |
1:35.0 | While she was sitting with her lawyer, the fabled Alan Dershooitz, |
1:40.0 | her servant, and she called him her servant brought her an owl and a cup of tea. |
1:47.0 | When she got the cup of tea she noticed that there was a drop of water on the saucer. |
1:54.7 | Looking the servant in the eye, |
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