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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

The Regular Kind

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The status quo and the mass market continue to conspire to keep us from having nice things.



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

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, you can hum it.

0:13.7

Da da da da da. Harder question. Here are three versions.

0:20.3

This one from Gustavo Dudamel.

0:47.0

This one from Ben Zander, and this one from the Great Arturo Taskinini. Which one's right? They can't all be right. Which one's right? They can't all be right. Which is the correct speed, the correct tempo, for the opening of Beethoven's fifth.

1:00.0

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, you heard it on television in every hack-kneed example of classical

1:17.4

music.

1:18.4

It was performed by the NBC Orchestra.

1:21.5

Of course, that's the regular version. Except as Dudamel and Zander

1:26.6

would point out to you, it really isn't. Hey, it's Seth, And this is a Kimbo.

1:35.0

And now a word from Zip Recooter, our presenting sponsor.

1:44.0

What do eyebrows have to do with making the right decision?

1:46.8

A whole lot actually.

1:48.2

Hey there, I'm Ian Siegel and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Zip Recruiter, the smartest way to hire.

1:54.0

Being an entrepreneur and owning a business has been a dream of mine since I was a kid,

1:57.7

and I've learned a lot of interesting things while turning that dream into a reality.

2:01.2

Like how to tell if your big idea is really a big idea. Hint, it involves

2:05.2

eyebrows. More on that later in the show. I founded Zip Recooter because I knew there was a smarter

2:10.1

way for businesses to find talent. Today companies of all sizes and industries use zip recruiter to fill their hiring needs.

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