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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Herd immunity and relentless change
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 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 workshops at akimbo.com.
To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.
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| 0:00.0 | It's flu season and a hundred and one years ago this winter the H1N1 flu virus arrived for the first time |
| 0:11.2 | known as the Spanish flu, it infected 500 million people. |
| 0:18.0 | It infected people in the Arctic. |
| 0:20.0 | It infected people on remote Pacific islands. It ended up killing between 50 |
| 0:27.4 | million and 100 million people. That's about 5% of all the people. That's about 5% of all the people on Earth. And the thing is, the flu didn't |
| 0:40.0 | do it on purpose. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey akimbo listeners, this is Alexandra de Palma, the producer of this very podcast you're |
| 1:02.2 | listening to right now. |
| 1:03.6 | I wanted to tell you about another podcast I produce. |
| 1:06.7 | It's called Raising Rebels, and it's a parenting podcast that centers black and POC |
| 1:11.0 | parents, but it's really meant for everyone. |
| 1:14.0 | Each episode features courageous conversations with real parents. |
| 1:18.0 | We just launched season two and we'd love for you to check it out. |
| 1:21.0 | Search for Raising Rebels wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:24.2 | We hope that you'll tune in and share your thoughts. |
| 1:26.3 | We really want to hear from you. |
| 1:27.7 | So you can listen to it by searching Raising Rebels |
| 1:30.3 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:32.1 | Thanks. wherever you want a want. |
| 1:35.0 | What does the flu virus want? |
| 1:38.0 | Well, it doesn't want anything, not in the sense that you want a back rub or a vegan ice cream sandwich. |
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