The Ghost in the Codec
Into the Zone
Pushkin Industries
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? Fast forward two decades, to our much noisier world. Hari finds a writer and a musician who’ve discovered their own ways to find a voice within the static.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.8 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm a creator. |
| 0:14.6 | Ideas hit fast. I have to keep up. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm a gamer. If I'm lagging, I'm losing. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm a student. Cramming's my cardio. |
| 0:22.0 | I own my business. I run numbers and the room. |
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| 0:43.1 | Lenovo, Lenovo. |
| 0:47.2 | Jan Marseleck was a model of German corporate success. |
| 0:50.9 | It seemed so damn simple for him. |
| 0:53.9 | Also, it turned out, a fraudster. Where does the money come from? |
| 0:58.7 | That was something that I always was questioning myself. But what if I told you that was the least |
| 1:03.5 | interesting thing about him? His secret office was less than 500 meters down the road. I often ask |
| 1:09.7 | myself now, did I know the true Jan at all? |
| 1:14.0 | Certain things in my life since then have gone terribly wrong. |
| 1:18.3 | I don't know if they followed me to my home. |
| 1:20.9 | It looks like the ingredients of a really grand spy story. |
| 1:25.2 | Because this ties together the cold war with the new one |
| 1:28.4 | listen to hot money |
| 1:33.2 | agent of chaos |
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