Episode 204 Our Howie Holidays… of Work

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Let's remember Howie's 1958 holiday, the one that turned out to be “I Must Work More!” In this Episode 204, Our Howie Holidays… of Work, I explore just some of the forces that try to convince us to stop worrying, but to never, ever stop working.

In this episode, I read: Jacob Goldstein's comments made on the podcast You Are Not So Smart; and from Benjamin Hunnicutt's book Kellogg's Six-Hour Day. I played: a video from the Bank of England concerning broad money creation; and from a recording of Michael Hudson relaying key moments in his life (I wish I could remember where I got it!).

At the end, I also play an old audio montage about money creation, something I originally assembled in 2011, built of clips from early C-Realm Podcast episodes, and last heard on this show back on Episode 8: The Buck Starts Here. In order of vocal appearance, we find in the montage: C-Realm host KMO; John Michael Greer (from #262: Assume the Can is Open), Ellen H. Brown (from #102: A Vocabulary of Control); Thomas H. Greco (from #265: Legal Tender and the Credit Clearing Function); Dmitri Orlov and Richard Heinberg (from #266: A Black Hole of Debt); Charles Eisenstein (from #272: Emperor of What); and Doug Lain (who has not articulated the tidbit himself as far as I am aware, but I included his voice as well) (from #269: A Better Laugh Track). Ably backing those voices was Ga'an's "Servant Eye".

I open the show with Henry Giroux explaining how lies are perpetrated by the moneyed right, backed by KMFDM. I close with Julie & Rolf and the Campfire Gang.

Addendum: Listener and old friend Bleak Nemesis did a little digging and found the Michael Hudson interview I have. I followed Bleak's Stitchup link and found what seems to be a now-defunct show called Left Out. According to the link: "This autobiographical interview was conducted at Peking University on May 7, 2018 by Lau Kin Chi of the Global University for Sustainability."

I still don't know how it got on my computer, but now we know more!

Episode 203: KSD Unquieting Hearts For Profit

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We last left the six-hour workers at the Kellogg's factory when the war ended in 1946. What new challenges to their shorter work shift will confront them next? That is the question for this Episode 203: Unquieting Hearts For Profit.

In this episode, I read from: Benjamin Hunnicutt's book Kellogg's Six-Hour Day. I also mentioned in passing a book I found pretty darned interesting: Daniel Pink's Drive.

I play: Pee Wee Herman's observation about people with large posterior impediments; KMFDM's "Attack," which backed Dmitri Orlov; and I close today's show with Mistle Thrush's "It's All Like Today".

Episode 202: Right In The Heartballs

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We humans are hyper-social critters. For that reason, it can be difficult for us to discover which of our ideas social pressures unknowingly impose upon us. Changing our minds can thus require a kick implied in this Episode 202: Right In The Heartballs.

In this episode, I read from: David McRaney's newer book How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion; the Wikipedia pages for both the Ashe Conformity Experiments and the Overton Window; the political blog Bending Left, written by thereisnospoon; and the website for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

The voice of Joseph G. Lehman, the current President of the Mackinac Center gives us an intro into the Overton Window; and D. L. Myers intones the portentous utterance of the Powell movement. KMFDM's "Attak" opens the show backing Noam Chomsky's mention of the Powell Memorandum itself. I close today with Julie and Rolf and the Campfire Gang doing "Over the Rainbow."

[Oh, and yes, this episode is posted a couple days late, due to the heat wave and its deleterious effects on electronics. I'm as sorry as I can be over the weather and my inability to control it.]