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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

This stinks

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

I mean it. It stinks.



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

This stinks. I mean it. It really smells. It's putrid. I can't stand it. It's disgusting.

0:08.0

Hey, it's Seth. And this is a Kimbo.

0:14.0

But first, here's a message from our featured nonprofit, The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

0:27.8

Find out more at Bostonfill.org. dot org. This is really hard. You're doing great, Ken.

0:44.0

This is a notorious.

0:50.0

This is really hard.

0:52.0

You're doing great, Ken. This is a notoriously difficult piece to conduct, in case you're wondering.

0:58.0

So do it again, and I want to see really what it is your trial. You look as though you're waiting for them to teach you instead of for you to teach them.

1:07.0

So be really sure. You have to be so secure at the beginning.

1:14.0

What was the first sense? I mean even if we just start with the mythological five senses,

1:18.0

what was the first sense?

1:20.0

It was probably a combination of smell and touch that the amoeba floating along the

1:28.5

protozoa all those weird little creatures they collide with the outside world, and they need to know what

1:36.3

the outside world is telling them.

1:38.8

They need to sense danger.

1:41.0

They need to figure out what's food and what's not.

1:44.0

And so for millions of years, we've been evolving from that simple idea.

1:49.0

The turkey vulture really smells.

1:53.0

Compared to every other bird in the animal kingdom,

1:56.0

the turkey vulture has the best developed sense of smell.

2:00.0

Its olfactory region in its brain is many times bigger than that of any other birds.

2:06.2

A turkey vulture from 150 feet in the air can spot a dead chicken.

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