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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

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Just past my house near the Sawmill River, I passed about a dozen dinosaurs, lying in the sun, relaxing, as they often do on a fall day.

0:12.0

Of course, they weren't the as they were often do on a fall day.

0:13.2

Of course, they weren't the kind of dinosaur you just pictured.

0:17.5

They were birds.

0:19.4

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

0:24.0

We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor, Lenovo.

0:34.0

My name is Moody Spati and my small business is Lizziz kitchen, a modern Lebanese restaurant.

0:40.0

My story starts in Lebanon. I was born and raised there, but I immigrated to the U.S. in 2006. Upon coming

0:47.3

here, I really missed a lot of the food, the culture, and the memories that are made and

0:52.3

shared around the kitchen table.

0:54.0

And I realize that if I wanted to experience the flavors and traditions I left behind,

0:59.0

that it would be up to me.

1:01.0

Because for me, cooking is culture, its heritage, and it's a huge part of who I am.

1:05.7

So I decided to share that culture by offering up one simple dish, hummus.

1:10.3

I saw crazy sales by selling hummus, those sales got me asking where do I go from here

1:15.8

Stay tuned to hear the rest of my story and see how one decision made a difference

1:21.7

Yes, of course, birds are dinosaurs.

1:26.0

If we carve up all the animals on the face of the earth and all the animals that there used to be

1:32.4

the way Linnaeus did, we discover that the lineage of birds goes straight back to the dinosaurs.

1:40.0

But we don't call them dinosaurs anymore.

1:44.0

The reason is simple, because if I say I saw a dinosaur lying by the side of the road,

1:50.0

you're going to visualize an allosaurus, a brontosaurus, a tyrannosaurus rex.

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