Hey everyone: Chris here posting the episode today, Bill is off to see AC/DC. One time I went to a Catholic funeral mass where “Dirty Deeds” was played in church, LOUD, so I think I’ve already had my best possible AC/DC experience.
We talk about another dumb week at city council, where it seems Charles Luster is doubling down on his campaign to run on humans experiencing substance-use issues being a vector for litter. Moe Bergman for one is more than happy to follow him down that line of inquiry. Shocking, I know!
Next up is what I guess we can most accurately call a postmortem on the DOJ report, and the death of any momentum whatsoever to hold the police department responsible for the many concerning patterns and practices described therein. The new police department will be the old police department, except we’re gonna spend more money on surveillance technology. Maybe we’ll get some VIP passes to Axon Fest?
BREAKING NEWS, company towns are back baby! The vote to incorporate Starbase, TX, which we discuss to close out, was a huge success (for SpaceX). If you were excited to live at 69 Memes Street in a town where the aesthetic can only be described as “None of our fathers loved us”, you can start counting the days.
By the way, according to a highly academically rigorous investigation (3 minutes on Wikipedia) not only was Hopedale a factory town, but so too were Southbridge (American Optical) and Whitinsville (Whitin Machine Works).
This is where Bill will hopefully add a link to 8 Hours For What We Will, a great book about the industrial and workers’ history of Worcester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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