Mailbag Episode: Questions from Listeners
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai answer questions from listeners and end up discussing everything from the U.S.-China trade dispute to Disney, CVS Health, short-termism, and how to express an opinion persuasively.
Some recent picks:
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Ingredients: A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives and 25 Food Products (Dwight Eschliman)
- Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
- Chernobyl (HBO)
- Fleabag (Amazon Prime Video)
- “The Best Green Salad in the World” (The New York Times)
You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:09.0 | We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
| 0:14.4 | Please visit survey.PRX.org slash after hours to take the survey today. |
| 0:21.0 | That's survey. |
| 0:22.1 | PRX.org |
| 0:23.4 | slash after hours. Thanks. |
| 0:27.0 | HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm young me and I'm here with |
| 0:47.4 | Felix and me here hey guys hey Felix hey feel like hey young me so this is exciting |
| 0:51.2 | this is our much promised mailbag episode. |
| 0:54.8 | Yes. |
| 0:55.8 | What is the sound effect for a mail bag episode? |
| 0:58.0 | It's unclear. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, I guess, yeah, it's not clear. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm excited to do this one because it's kind of I feel like it's a little bit of an |
| 1:04.8 | opportunity for us to say thank you to all of our incredible listeners all of you |
| 1:09.8 | guys out there have been so amazing in your engagement and your kindness to us |
| 1:15.6 | we're just overwhelmed by it. I think we've all received a lot of love individually |
| 1:19.0 | as we travel around but also the quality of the questions just indicates a level of engagement that's really fantastic so we are really appreciative. |
| 1:26.4 | And it's an interesting experience because you meet people I met on a few occasions I met someone and the person is a stranger because we never met but somehow |
| 1:35.6 | the person has a sense that he or she knows the three of us which is an interesting feeling. |
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