The Stink Tree

How To Do Everything

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🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week we save a marriage and improve the most awkward minute of your day.

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0:00.0	Before we begin this week's show we want to take a moment to tell you about the NPR1
0:06.3	app for your phone.
0:08.0	This week you can find Guy Ra's exclusive interview with Ted Curator Chris Anderson where they discuss the Ted
0:14.6	phenomena and the secrets to giving a great Ted Talk. I think one of those microphones
0:19.6	that hooks on on your head.
0:23.0	Yeah.
0:24.0	That's one of the secrets.
0:25.0	It's the first secret?
0:26.0	Another secret is you make a pact with a demon who helps you get over your stage fright.
0:34.7	That's one of the secrets.
0:36.4	They talk about this?
0:37.5	Yes, the demon gives you the power
0:38.9	to go out onto the TED stage with great confidence
0:42.2	for that skill.
0:44.0	After you die, you pay for it by letting that demon tear the flesh from your body and replace it with
0:51.9	fire for all eternity.
0:53.7	So that's the trade-off.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	You have one really good TED Talk.
0:58.0	Well, the power remains.
1:01.4	You may have a series of TED Talks Talks you could get maybe a three-part
1:05.0	So it could go viral it could be something that millions of people watch.
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