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Looking Back at Old Episodes: Dana, Life in the Blood Box, and Titles
from 2017, A Year Of Love And Peace · #76
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4 minThey review the show's back catalog, recalling original co-host Dana, early episode titles like 'Life in the Blood Box' and 'Kiriyaku,' and joking about how the episode descriptions and titles are uniformly gloomy and undescriptive, plus a tangent about a factory harassment story and automation replacing human workers.
- 34:24The show's description from 2017 promised technical difficulties, wedding food, Hillary Clinton jokes, and mortgage stories—and that's basically still the entire format.
- 34:55Dana, the original co-host, had to be removed because she kept getting verbatious and involved, so they brought in Shannon instead.
- 35:32Tim defends making fun of Shannon on the podcast, noting she works at a podcast network and should expect the roasting.
- 35:59Discussion of widespread sexual harassment at a Ford plant involving both men and women with no corporate accountability.
- 36:28Tim wonders if companies will automate jobs with AI and robots to avoid sexual assault accusations and HR problems.
- 37:12Tim compares a hypothetical automated future with no jobs to Mad Max Australia, imagining people in trailers with nothing left.
- 37:34Episode 26, 'Life in the Blood Box,' came up in the retrospective of past shows.
- 38:24Kyrie Irving interview and Russ Baker's Trump-Russia investigation episode were called out as big episodes, though the Russia angle turned out to be fruitless.