The Mystery of the Shared Earbuds

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What does it take for two different people to find common ground? To answer that, we dig into a nine-year-old mystery. In 2011, two very different guys shared a pair of earbuds on the New York City subway. A photo of them went viral multiple times … but who were they, and what were they really doing? All is revealed. Get in touch! Web: jasonfeifer.com Email: jasonfeifer@gmail.com Twitter / Instagram: @heyfeifer Newsletter: https://jasonfeifer.bulletin.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.9	This is Build for Tomorrow, a podcast about the things from history that shape us and how we can
1:05.5	shape the future.
1:06.7	I'm Jason Pfeiffer.
1:08.1	I want to tell you the story of the greatest photograph I've ever taken.
1:12.5	It's a photograph that's gotten a lot of attention, and I've thought about it a lot since I took it nine years ago.
1:18.1	It's a photo that seems to capture a better world, a world of tolerance and equality that so many people are rightfully demanding right now.
1:25.9	But in truth, it's also a photo I never really
1:28.6	understood and that I made many wrong assumptions about, because I didn't know the people
1:34.1	in the photo, and they had no idea I took it. So anyway, here's what happened. The year was
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