The Talking TED Talks Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and author of Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy O’Neil discuss:
- Cathy O’Neil’s recent TED Talk
- The world of TED Talk conferences
- The industry of highly paid speeches, including Obama’s recent $400K speech for Cantor Fitzgerald
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello. |
| 0:12.9 | Oh, Frabges week. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to the TED Talks. |
| 0:18.3 | What was that? |
| 0:21.5 | It's a Frabges week. And you know why this is a Frabges week? Is that a word? That's a word. Okay. What is... Sounds like I'm like Harry Potter? No, it's not Harry Potter. Jordan, you know where Frabges comes from. I have no clue, but I am looking it up. I'm a trusty laptop. So Dan, the new producer, is waving his arms. Delightful. |
| 0:40.1 | Dan knows where Frabges comes from. It's the Jabber one. My bad. My bad. It means delightful or joyous, apparently. Oh, Frabges' day, she giggled. Jordan has his laptop open and he's Googling. I am researching right now. Anyway. |
| 0:54.6 | It is a frabjust, and as any and all long-time listeners of Slate Money know by now, it is a frabious week because who is back in the studio? |
| 1:03.7 | Kathy O'Neill. |
| 1:04.8 | Welcome back. |
| 1:06.0 | Hey, it's great to be here. |
| 1:07.0 | Hot off your Canadian triumph. |
| 1:10.6 | Oh, my God. It was amazing. It was amazing. So this is the |
| 1:13.6 | Talking Ted Talks edition of Slate Money. Your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. Kathy has given her TED talk and she is here to give us a post-mortem of just what on earth goes on at this place. I was thinking even more as a victory lap than a postmortem. A victory lap. There you go. We do have Jordan Weissman. Hello. We do have Anna Shemansky. Hey there. And we are going to be talking about TED Talks as a kind of as a thing. |
| 1:45.6 | We're going to talk about talks as a thing because, you know, there's certain Obama types who are like back in the news for forgiving talks. |
| 1:55.2 | And so this is just going to be the Talk Talk, Talk, Talk. |
| 1:59.1 | But yeah, Kathy, congratulations. Thank you. Thanks. So, nice. Talk talk. But yeah, Kathy. Hi. |
| 2:01.3 | Congratulations. |
| 2:02.6 | Thank you. |
| 2:03.1 | Thanks. |
| 2:03.4 | So you gave your TED talk. |
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