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Ep. 22: Idols, Brands & The Originality We Worship

age, the podcast from 40 Hearts. One trash can, one word. No idea where it goes. This week the word was IDOLS.

It started on American Idol and a five-year-old who says Moana is a chief, not a princess. An hour later, three people who build brands for a living were calling their own job idol-making, and arguing about whether being original is an idol too.

Reggie Tidwell, Tim Scroggs and Mary Greene, with Linsey Gray, fine artist and designer at Linsey Gray Creative.

In it:

■ Can you be close to someone you've put on a pedestal?

■ What a kid raised on "no other gods before me" did with that…

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