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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

The confusions

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Predicting the future


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

Governor Malibu couldn't get through on the inside. He is in traffic, exaggerator.

0:04.3

Here comes Lonnie on the far outside and Creator is coming too. It is destined in front.

0:10.1

Creator, Lonnie on the outside. Destin and Pre-Gator, these two have gone to the line together.

0:17.7

Too close to call!

0:20.1

In 2006 there was an auction for a thoroughbred horse named the Green Monkey.

0:25.0

It ended up selling for $16 million.

0:30.2

That horse grew up to compete in only three races, of which it won none of them.

0:37.0

Several years earlier, a Kentucky Derby winner named Ferdinand in 1986 was put out to stud in Japan at great expense and ended up

0:48.1

completely failing at the job. A typical successful thoroughbred can earn 50 million dollars selling its services

0:58.8

in parenting new thoroughbreds. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

1:08.0

We'll be back in a second to talk about just how bad we are at predicting the future

1:17.2

and its serious repercussions in all of our lives.

1:20.7

But first, here's a message from our sponsor.

1:24.0

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1:31.0

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1:34.0

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1:37.0

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1:41.0

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1:47.2

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1:52.1

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2:00.0

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2:12.1

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