Travis Thul
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28 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Freakonomics Radio · How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update) · 16 May 2025
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Oh, my. Maybe there's a 10% chance that we raised that $300,000. I think that's probably just being an engineer. I think that's the more statistically relevant reality.
But I think, you know, maybe the hope springs eternal in all of us failed and successful entrepreneurs that, you know, we get that visibility and there's somebody out there and says, you know what, this has a potential George Foreman grill style market. Why don't we give this a go, given that the investment is relatively small, given the market size?
If there was a celebrity to link to the ramen now, who would it be? Oh, man. So I'm out of touch with pop culture like I was. Can we get the kid that played Chunk from the Goonies? I feel like that would be a great voice for my generation. Aaron Rodgers, he's very popular, I guess, in New York, which would be a great place to go. Tom Brady, he's still around. Presumably, we could go with him.
What if you go upstream a little bit, like Barack Obama might...
Yeah, Barack Obama did a very good episode with Anthony Bourdain where they were eating noodles in Vietnam. Barack Obama eating ramen out of my ramen maker would be, I guess I could call it a day at that point. I think the Obama now could be a potential kitchen appliance.
Well, you know, if you can't enjoy your ramen the way you want to when you want to, what's the point of it all? What else is there? Well played, sir. Well played. World peace is very important, but I want to assure that when we have that peaceful world, everybody in it can eat ramen now.
I'm going to do this experimental class and I'm going to call it Failure 101.
The 39 cent ramen noodle brick is really a foundational component of what can be a hugely experimental meal. And I say this with all seriousness.
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