Synecdoche

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The space shuttle, Spiro Agnew and the homunculus

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.

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0:00.0	Schenectaky is not a small city near Albany, New York.
0:06.0	Schenectaky is an often mispronounced but important concept about using the part to describe the whole.
0:17.8	For example, the headline could be,
0:20.6	Teeran backs off from negotiations. Does that mean that every single person in Tehran
0:29.6	decided not to be part of the negotiations? Is it referring to Iran the entire country? Or are we
0:37.2	talking about what a few politicians in charge of the government decided to do.
0:44.0	Hey, it's Seth message from our sponsor.
0:57.0	Before we begin with our story of the space shuttle and Spiro Agnew, here's my favorite
1:08.9	mispronunciation of Synectady.
1:11.7	Signakina dody chode. Okay. of Synchotechy. Signa Dody Chody.
1:14.0	Okay, so back to the work at hand.
1:17.0	The Space Shuttle.
1:19.0	It doesn't make any sense.
1:21.0	How did we end up with such an expensive boondoggle of a device
1:28.0	that ended up costing billions and billions of dollars and never achieved its stated goals.
1:35.8	Well, here's how we got there.
1:38.3	In 1969, NASA was literally flying high.
1:42.4	We choose to go to the moon.
1:44.0	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things.
1:49.0	Not because they are easy, but because they had
1:55.0	had achieved their hard.
1:53.6	We had put a man on the moon and brought him back safely.
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