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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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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 | I'm guessing you own something something really really expensive one of the most expensive things you've ever |
| 0:06.4 | purchased but you're not that aware of exactly what it looks like. But before we can talk about that, I want to share the tragic story of Eleanor Velasco Thornton. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll be back in a second to talk about tech adoption and longevity. |
| 0:34.4 | But first, here's a message from our sponsor. |
| 0:38.0 | And then a seven-year-old kid in Texas starts knocking on doors and he's asking for his |
| 0:44.5 | age and dollars. 77, he raises 22 grand. And we said, wow, this is a big idea. |
| 0:53.8 | You know, everybody in the world could care about clean water. |
| 0:56.0 | Everybody in the world has a birthday every year. |
| 0:59.7 | We have enough stuff. |
| 1:00.7 | What if we could turn the birthday into a giving moment into an unselfish day, |
| 1:05.8 | our birthdays so people could live longer and have birthdays? |
| 1:09.9 | To find out more, visit charitywater.org. |
| 1:14.0 | Thornton, who was known as Thorne by her friends, was a secretary with an impoverished background. |
| 1:23.2 | She lived in the early 1900s. |
| 1:26.6 | She was the secretary of John Walter. |
| 1:29.4 | John Walter was an editor at an up-and-coming car magazine called The Car. |
| 1:36.9 | That magazine was owned by the super fancy, |
| 1:41.3 | elite status-focused Baron Montague. Baron John Montague was of course |
| 1:48.0 | married. He was married to Lady Cecil Victoria Constance Care. But when he met Thorne, he fell in love with her. Not only did |
| 1:57.8 | he have an illicit affair with a secretary at the magazine that he ran as a hobby, he also had a |
| 2:05.1 | 1999 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, one of the fanciest cars anyone owned at the |
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