This episode features a clip from an interview with Henry Catalini Smith on The Local's Sweden in Focus podcast. He is a immigrant from the UK leading the effort to unionize Spotify. Sweden is one of the most heavily unionized countries in the world, but the large tech sector is a strange outlier and he is hoping to change that.
This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan’s album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit from his Live in Houston album, about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.
This episode features a brief clip from The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.
This episode features a clip from the new podcast The Urbanist Agenda from Jason of the great Not Just Bikes (also on Nebula). His co-host for the inaugural episode was Adam Something who shows off his pitch-perfect Slavoj Žižek impression as they talk about living in human-friendly cities.
This episode features a clip from Marc Maron’s latest HBO comedy special, From Bleak to Dark, where he outlines a strategy to win over Christians by rebranding abortion clinics as “angel factories”. It may be a joke, but I think the plan could be just crazy enough to work. Mental note: From now on, always refer to Planned Parenthood and their ilk as angel factories.
This episode features a clip from the podcast The War On Cars where guest, prominent sex columnist Dan Savage, talks about how terrible cars are, and how livable streets activists can win people over to our side. It was a fun interview, and while I’ve always enjoyed his media appearances, prior to this interview I never knew he was a kindred spirit with regard to this topic!
This episode features a bulletin from Sveriges Radio’s daily English language news podcast about how shop workers in Sweden’s trade union think Christmas music poses a health and safety risk. MY APOLOGIES if this episode is triggering for any listeners.