General Mills ($GIS) podcast mentions

1. Yeah, it's true that there are 5 major companies that make all the hearing aids. As a consumer, it's not always obvious because there's, it's kind of like the cereal aisle where, you know, it seems like there's a lot of choice and, but actually it's like Kellogg's and General Mills. It's a similar dynamic in, in the hearing aid industry where there's 5 big companies and they make 97% of the products. So it's like, it's, it's honestly, it's a particularly bitter pill to see that hearing aids are both expensive and haven't gotten better at the pace that we think consumers—

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2. I mean, General Mills, I—

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3. So we're talking about the big food companies. You have General Mills, Smucker, Nestlé, you know, smaller pure play like Freshpet in the US, obviously on the retail side. Amazon is a big online player. You know, Chewy, obviously you have Petco, you have PetSmart, which is, you know, a private company. Yeah. So it's every— everything that, you know, what you want to spend on.

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4. So many years later, Anthony, you were working for the food company General Mills. For listeners who are not familiar with the company, describe the range of things the company does and what your role was at the company.

   Shankar Vedantam · Hidden Brain · Blowing Up Your Life · 2026-09-07

5. So Anthony, your experience at the lumberyard and at General Mills can show how a single moment, whether that's a mistake or a conversation, can get us out of the usual way we run our lives, which is most commonly on autopilot. I want to talk about how sometimes these moments that give us clarity can grow out of very small thoughts and feelings. You'd like to tell the story about a famous leader in the world of English soccer. Set it up for me. Who was this leader and what was his public profile?

   Shankar Vedantam · Hidden Brain · Blowing Up Your Life · 2026-09-07