Season 4 Finale: Stories We’re Watching This Summer and a Mega-Round of Recommendations
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Youngme , Mihir , Felix , Rebecca , and Rawi share the stories they will be watching this summer, before doing a mega-round of recommendations for things to read, watch, listen, and do.
Each week, the hosts give their recommendations for reading, watching, and more. Here are This Week’s Picks:
After Hours T-Shirts (by Moon Girl Landing)
@timotechanut (Tik Tok)
Long Distance Footpaths in England, Wales, and Scotland
Condiments and Lambrusco
Mare of Easttown (HBO Max)
W. B. Yeats (Faber Poetry)
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:07.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
| 0:14.0 | Please visit survey.prx.org slash after hours to take the survey today. That survey.prx.org slash after hours. Thanks. |
| 0:27.0 | HBR presents |
| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone. You're listening to after hours. I'm young me. I'm me here. I'm Rebecca. I'm Felix. I'm rally and we have the whole band. |
| 0:51.0 | Look, the whole band is in the garage. Look at us together. What a motley crew we are. |
| 0:56.0 | Could be our self-professor moon. Rebecca, you always looked so good, so glamorous, but I was speaking about these other colleagues. |
| 1:05.0 | If we were a band, what would the title of our band be? |
| 1:12.0 | Probably a good title for a band. Put that one's taken rally. You want a new title for a band. I thought it was going to be the moonbeams. |
| 1:19.0 | No, maybe the riffraff. The riffraff. |
| 1:25.0 | It's good to see you guys. This is our last episode of the season. I know. It's sad. This is going to be a fun episode, though, because I thought we'd do two things. |
| 1:33.0 | One is, I wanted to go around and ask each one of you the stories you are paying particular attention to this summer. |
| 1:41.0 | And then I want to do a mega round of recommendations. How does that sound? |
| 1:45.0 | Fabulous. Excellent. Let's go. Let's do it. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay, Rowie, we're going to go in alphabetical order and your last name. |
| 1:58.0 | Please say you get to go first and share with us the story you are paying attention to this summer. |
| 2:04.0 | So I'll tell you what I'm most excited to watch is there are all of these innovations in public-private partnerships at the local level. |
| 2:14.0 | Over the past 10 years, but really magnified by the pandemic in terms of their impact and in terms of their importance. |
| 2:24.0 | At the city level, people are trying to figure out new ways to connect business and public policy with mayors, with city leaders. |
| 2:33.0 | And things like education, should we be doing more skills-based training? How should we support small business? |
| 2:42.0 | How can we support local entrepreneurs? And there are some really interesting examples of this. |
| 2:48.0 | So the Lawrence partnership nearby us in Massachusetts, the career-wise Colorado initiative, which is about skills-based training for high school students. |
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