The Regular Kind (E)
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 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 podcast at akimbo.link.
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 | I have two questions for you and the first one sort of easy. |
| 0:04.0 | What's the most famous recognizable piece of music worldwide ever? |
| 0:10.0 | If you said Beethoven's Fifth, you're probably right. |
| 0:13.0 | You can hum it. |
| 0:15.0 | Harder question. |
| 0:17.0 | Here are three versions. |
| 0:20.0 | This one from Gustavo Dutamell. |
| 0:23.0 | This one from Ben Zander. |
| 0:32.0 | And this one from the great Arturo Toscanini. |
| 0:42.0 | Which one's right? |
| 0:52.0 | They can't all be right, which is the correct speed, the correct tempo for the opening of Beethoven's Fifth. |
| 1:01.0 | Most people pick the third one. |
| 1:04.0 | It's the regular kind, the way it's supposed to be. |
| 1:08.0 | And it turns out that if you grew up in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s or 80s, |
| 1:13.0 | you heard it on television in every hackneyed example of classical music. |
| 1:18.0 | It was performed by the NBC Orchestra. |
| 1:21.0 | Of course, that's the regular version. |
| 1:24.0 | Except as Dutamell and Zander would point out to you, it really isn't. |
| 1:30.0 | Hey, it's Maria. |
| 1:32.0 | And this is a special archived episode of a Kimbo. |
| 1:40.0 | No, the real version, the correct version, |
| 1:44.0 | would probably be the one that Beethoven himself wrote out. |
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