Sep 22: Confab #62
This show has been in the vault for more than three months. Rachele, Sara, Ben, Melissa, and I tackle James H Kunstler's book, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape. You have to ask yourself how a society as advanced as the United States can happily squander our future on a lifestyle that is so obviously unsustainable. Cheap fossil fuels have enabled suburban and rural sprawl to a degree that we may not be able to divest ourselves of it quick enough to survive. Fuel costs have and will increase. Not by 10% or 30%, but by 400% or 10,000%. Yet, we continue to primarily waste the precious resource on commuting between our low-density communities and our necessarily high-density work places.
This show was recorded during the September 18, 2008 Confab.
Our guests:
You can listen to the show here. (33.1 MB MP3, 57:52 minutes)
Sep 8: Confab #61
Two show founders -- Gavin Shearer and Keith Vaitkus -- are back on the couch to talk with Rachele and me about a variety of topics. Do you trust Western medicine more than alternative medicine? Do you think that a job title can define inappropriate office attire, even within a knowledge worker workplace? Do you think you should skip a twenty-year high-school class reunion? We consider all of those topics, and more. It was nice to get some of the original Confab gang back together.
This show was recorded during the August 14, 2008 Confab.
Our guests:
You can listen to the show here. (36.9 MB MP3, 52:41 minutes)
Sep 1: Confab #60
We continue our last show with more history about the guests. As if you care. Either way, we had fun. As mentioned before, this sort of show is just a little bit narcissistic. We promise to get back on-track with some more compelling content in future shows. In fact, we're all reading the same book for a show in September -- even though our last book club show involved a discussion about cannibalism and other very dark matter.
This show was recorded during the July 24, 2008 Confab.
Our guests:
- Rachele Cawaring
- John Costello
- Will Kelley-Kamp
- Albert Kim
- Richard Huff
You can listen to the show here. (51.5 MB MP3, 56:10 minutes)
