Podcast: Apprenti Gone Wild
The Apprenti, after eight episodes, bid goodbye. Going out in style, they lower the boom on Trump, The Apprentice, Allie, Andrea, Sean, each other, and pretty much anything else they can get their hands on.
Sobering up for a few moments, the Apprenti talk about planning and keys to good teamwork as well as the need to do research on your task.
Click here to listen to the last episode.
posted by Riley @ 9:50 PM
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Well, I’m certainly going to miss The Apprenti podcast. So will my wife for whose longish commute I select the best and most entertaining podcasts to place on her iPod. Neither of us have a business background -- she’s an editor, I’m an illustrator -- but the subject of Business -- like economy and medicine and even, alas, engineering -- is one that everyone nowadays must learn at least a little about just to survive, it seems.
But it turns out that Business is a fascinating topic even to us liberal arts types. We’ve just never had it presented in a way more interesting than a spreadsheet or (gawd help us) a PowerPoint presentation. Which is why we’ve both been so taken with the TV show The Apprentice right from Season One: it gave us a look into a world that was pretty much foreign to us except maybe as employees or consumers: the world of business. Admittedly it’s a cornball, TV-style, whimsical version of business, but that’s okay with us; we probably wouldn’t have had the patience to sit through (never mind understand) a Harvard Business School lecture on inventory control or whatever. But if The Apprentice was Biz School dumbed down for the millions of us Business-illiterates, your podcast, The Apprenti smartened it up a bit and helped us see real-life lessons that otherwise would have passed us by.
And so we’re really saddened by the discontinuance of your Apprenti podcast. The two of you greatly enhanced our enjoyment of the TV program by analyzing the behavior of the contestants using ideas that were new and illuminating to the two of us. While, the best we could do would be to shout at the TV screen,”What’s the MATTER with that #@$##! IDIOT??!!”, your intelligent (and often funny) commentary suggested that the contestant may not have been an idiot altogether, but pointed out where the decision may have been wrong. As much fun as it is to shout at the TV, your analyses of management techniques, group dynamics, sales strategies and so on, were probably more useful.
So, we hope you will reconsider ending your podcasts. We have looked forward to listening to them these past seven Mondays. We’ll miss the opportunity to enjoy the insights gained from your hard-won knowledge of business and management without our having to go to the trouble of studying it ourselves. Besides I know I’ll miss Raluca’s voice. (No offense, Riley.)
Having said all that, I must now register my disagreement with your comments on Andrea’s getting fired. I understand your point about how not getting along with the people you work with can cancel out even great competence, but still: by the rules of the game, vague though they may be, Allie should have been the one to go. The team’s loss was a direct result of Allie’s decisions, not Andrea’s mopiness. Besides, if people in real life were fired because they had limited social skills, just how many people would have a job? Twelve?
I am really sad to find out that the two of you are stopping this podcast. I only just found you guys this week! I really hope that you're not ending this for good!
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I really hope you reconsider your decision to quit podcasting. This was by far your best show. And I'll tell you why.
It's because it was unedited and real. I think we got to know more about you, your personalities, and your relationship in this last 20 minutes than in all the other 7 episodes combined.
I would much rather hear 25 minutes of you discussing The Apprentice in this more casual, loose, unedited style than the sterile, all-business, tightly edited shows you were putting out before.
You have something different to offer - which isn't the case with all podcasters. You don't rely on cheap laughs and vulgar language to attract listeners. You take a popular topic and give an academic study of it and how it relates to your own areas of study.
I've enjoyed listening from the beginning and I appreciate the time you've put in. But it would be a real shame to pack it in when you are on the edge of something even better. I'd ask you to try doing another show next weekend and just letting the tape go. The podcasts that I find the most entertaining are the ones with the little umms, uhhs, giggles, and bloopers.
Please reconsider and give us your opinions at least a few more times this season.
I came here to make a comment, but then found that Jon just said everything I was going to. As I've been listening to several podcasts recently, some of the best are from couples who have a particular interest, and you get to see their relationship coming through.
I'll be honest, I listened to all the previous episodes, but this wasn't my favorite podcast...this last one was different...hearing Raluca giggle at things you said made the show fun...before it was a bit too stuffy.
I fully understand the time issue, and also understand that sometimes doing something like this often sucks the fun out of something you enjoy, and that is a very bad thing.
But, maybe you just try a few more less-edited or un-edited version of this variety...I would enjoy them very much.
Good luck in whatever you decide!
I'm disappointed that you're ending the podcast, but since you think that the candidates from this season are so terrible, maybe it's for the best.
I just began listening to your podcast about three weeks ago, when I downloaded and listened to all of them because they are so good.
My wife and I are English professors and very much appreciate your interest in crossing academia and popular culture. We are also critical theory types (Riley, I was an art-semiotics concentrator at Brown), but knew nothing about organizational sciences and project management theory, which we find intriguing.
That said, we hope you will continue to do the podcast. The TV show's failings do not have to mean a lessened opportunity for you two to be informative, thought-provoking and entertaining, as you have been.
Maybe if you don't continue to do the weekly podcast you can do occasional podcasts or one after the season ends, commenting on the whole ball of wax.
In any case, we thank you, Raluca and Riley, for your excellent podcasts.
Ok well I went on the website to ask a question then I saw this unfortunate post. Well I have to say that Im quite disappointed too. I discovered the TV show thanks to your podcast (french engineer student) and the combo show+podcast was really a nice entertaining picture that added colors to my grey management courses (ok I do exagerate a bit but after reading all previous comment I can't hardly say less ;)
Anyway thx for the podcasts/article till now and hope Ill hear from you soon.
Finally my question, I just watched "The Miracle in the Ant" from Google video and skipping the fact that it was quite disappointing (intelligent design propaganda movie instead of a documentary about social structure in a low intelligence per indidual specie) it still made me wonder, have you ever heard about study regarding work organisation amongst those type of animal society ?
I mean how does the management work, how are orders spread, how is the genesis of the structure made regarding the study of the environnement (like they have choices to do regarding the ressources availability). Those tasks are highly distributed and I was wondering how do they actually manage to do that without a so called management. (Sorry for the off-topic question btw :-x)
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Have a nice day :)
If you're taking a vote, I vote for more shows from you two.
Hello Guys -sorry to see you leave before the finale. Not the best of seasons, for sure... suppose the show has run it's course when the bloggers depart (with Lex dropping her major blog as well).
I'll be here till the end with the Live Blog finale, and next year if they continue. NBC is going to be revamping their whole line up... so maybe it is the end...
All the best to y'all !!
Stephen
www.apprenticeviews.com
Wow. Such fanmail. How can you turn away from your adoring crowd?
Unless, of course, you want to do a podcast on some other savory aspect of popular culture. I'm all for that, too.
Miss you. Thinking of you. Desperate to finish with school.
This is an awesome podcast!!! Sad to hear you guys are halting production. I suggest maybe doing a special edition for the final episode or for the entire season! I'm sure a lot of fans will enjoy that.
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Whatever you have in mind to achieve with this blog, Human capital treated as capital human on tv reality shows....it is hot stuff to talk about. I read the comments and you are fabulously looking in the picture. go Romania and I wish you all you desire!! Your future holds what you deserve.
Both you and Riley are smart people.
Now, that's capital! just stick it to values. what is the absolute value though? How do we measure things in order to compare. When you talk about markets that resource is called money. When you talk about a show delivered with semi-open content guidelines and semi-open format that resource is called audience = market, which leads us to money again.....the talent is measured in results and good results are measured in many ways. I studied
managerial engineering and my thesis was about knowledge management and learning-organization (LO) models.
People is the greatest resource ever and we can balance things out just giving the best of us in what we do. The best of us in performing toward our goal. Planning is everything. Especially in business!
Keep the challenge up! Overdeliver after underpromising and have fun getting there. Everyday. Good Luck!
I don't have the cable and maybe NBC
is on the public TV. The point is that I have never heard of saw a single episode of "the Apprentice". I don't live in the US so no Trump on tv.
I like the way you write. Keep it up! And remember of me when you are famous and go to Italy on your visits home.
Ciao da Napoli.
Anonimo
Ithink Mr. Trump should screen his applicants better as that fit what he represents...sleeping around, havcing affairs while married, leaving their spouses, having affairs with co-workers and or employers such as Ms. Stephanie Schaeffer did recently in leaving her ex-spouse recently for a man old enough to be her father. But of course Mr. Trump practices these types of morales himself so why not take on an apprentice of this type.
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