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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The magical gulf between truth and belief


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.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.



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Here's an easy and fun experiment you can do if you're an undergrad in psych or if you want to get

0:07.8

published in the Journal of Wine Economics, which is owned by the Cambridge University Press.

0:13.0

What you can do is assemble a bunch of wine lovers,

0:16.0

some Somoie's, people who are used to spending a lot of money on wine.

0:20.0

And then you can do a blind taste test. In one glass put a $10 bottle of wine and in another a glass from a hundred dollar bottle of wine. Well this study has been done and it

0:36.6

has shown definitively that people prefer in a double blind study, $10 bottles of wine.

0:46.0

After people see these results, of course,

0:49.6

they continue to buy the wine they used to buy. Hey, it's Arove.

0:55.0

And this is a special archived episode of A Kimbo.

0:59.0

Years ago, I was waiting for a flight from Springfield, Illinois back to New York on United Airlines.

1:12.0

Even though Springfield is the capital of Illinois, it's not a particularly busy route.

1:16.5

And so the planes that fly are fairly small.

1:20.0

The woman in front of me waiting to check in says to the person at the counter, I'm here to check

1:25.6

in for the flight. I am flying first class. And the person behind the counter seemed sort of

1:30.8

puzzled because the plane only had 16 or 24 seats in it and there

1:36.1

were no first class seats.

1:38.0

There were never first class seats and the woman kindly began to explain that.

1:44.0

This caused the passenger to get very upset.

1:48.0

She started to hyperventilate.

1:50.0

She started to yell.

1:51.0

She has agoraphobia, aquaphobia, fear of flying, fear of small places, claustrophobia, every

1:57.6

phobia, and she was told it was a first-class seat, she needs a first- class seat, and she's going to get a first

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