Podcasts about Company town

Wir springen in dieser Folge ins 19. und frühe 20. Jahrhundert und sprechen über eine Sache, die vor allem, aber nicht nur, in Kohlebergwerken Verwendung fand: Scrip, also Geldersatz, der Dinge vereinfachen sollte, Menschen aber auch in Abhängigkeiten führte. Wir schauen uns dafür vor allem die Gruben in den Appalachen, dem Gebirge im Osten der USA an, wo der Firmenladen, der Company Store, und die Firmenstadt, die Company Town, eine ganz eigene Lebenswelt hervorbrachten. "Another day older and deeper in debt" aus dem berühmten Lied "Sixteen Tons" dient uns dabei als Orientierungshilfe: wie sah das Leben in so einer Stadt tatsächlich aus, und wie wurden die Bergleute und ihre Familien daran gebunden? //Erwähnte Folgen - GAG456: Bierkriege – Tatort Geschichte Crossover – https://gadg.fm/456 - GAG87: Die Einführung von Freigeld und das Wunder von Wörgl – https://gadg.fm/87 - GAG56: Piggly Wiggly und die Geschichte des Supermarkts – https://gadg.fm/56 - GAG376: Nagelmackers und der Orient-Express – https://gadg.fm/376 // Literatur - Fishback, Price V.: Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890–1930. 1992. - Hilton, George W.: The Truck System, including a History of the British Truck Acts, 1465–1960. 1960. - Hirsch, Susan Eleanor: After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman. University of Illinois Press, 2003. - Shifflett, Crandall A.: Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880–1960. 1991. - Stendhal: Le Rouge et le Noir. 1830, Deutsche Ausgabe: Rot und Schwarz. Chronik aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und herausgegeben von Elisabeth Edl. Carl Hanser, 2004. - Tan, Elaine S.: „Scrip as Private Money, Monetary Monopoly, and the Rent-Seeking State in Britain“. In: The Economic History Review 64/1 (2011), S. 238–257. Das Episodenbild zeigt Papierscrip im Wert von 3 Dollar. //Aus unserer Werbung Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/GeschichtenausderGeschichte //Geschichten aus der Geschichte jetzt auch als Brettspiel! Werkelt mit uns am Flickerlteppich! Gibt es dort, wo es auch Becher, T-Shirts oder Hoodies zu kaufen gibt: https://geschichte.shop // Wir sind jetzt auch bei CampfireFM! Wer direkt in Folgen kommentieren will, Zusatzmaterial und Blicke hinter die Kulissen sehen will: einfach die App installieren und unserer Community beitreten: https://www.joincampfire.fm/podcasts/22 //Wir haben auch ein Buch geschrieben: Wer es erwerben will, es ist überall im Handel, aber auch direkt über den Verlag zu erwerben: https://www.piper.de/buecher/geschichten-aus-der-geschichte-isbn-978-3-492-06363-0 Wer unsere Folgen lieber ohne Werbung anhören will, kann das über eine kleine Unterstützung auf Steady oder ein Abo des GeschichteFM-Plus Kanals auf Apple Podcasts tun. Wir freuen uns, wenn ihr den Podcast bei Apple Podcasts oder wo auch immer dies möglich ist rezensiert oder bewertet. Wir freuen uns auch immer, wenn ihr euren Freundinnen und Freunden, Kolleginnen und Kollegen oder sogar Nachbarinnen und Nachbarn von uns erzählt! Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

Zuby is a British rapper who spent his childhood on a Saudi Aramco compound—a sprawling corporate community complete with schools, recreation, housing, and services. We discuss what it was like growing up in a place where one company effectively functioned as the local government, and whether company towns deserve their bad reputation. Then the conversation takes an unexpected turn. Having also lived in Dubai, Zuby reflects on how one of the world's most diverse and immigrant-heavy societies manages to maintain remarkably high social trust, low crime, and social cohesion. What can Dubai teach us about community, culture, and governance? And what assumptions do Westerners make about diversity that may not hold true elsewhere? It's a conversation about company towns, global cities, social trust, and the strange places that challenge our political priors.

the expansive growth of Elon Musk's business empire in Texas, specifically focusing on the development of SpaceX's Starbase and the Boring Company's presence in Bastrop. The reports detail the official incorporation of Starbase as a city, a move intended to foster a dedicated community for employees while sparking debate over local autonomy and corporate influence. Significant attention is given to environmental concerns and legal challenges raised by activists regarding the impact of rocket launches on protected wildlife habitats and public beach access. Furthermore, the texts examine the financial side of these ventures, including multimillion-dollar tax breaks sought by SpaceX for its manufacturing facilities and the opening of Ad Astra, a specialized private school. Critics and supporters alike weigh in on the economic benefits versus the social costs of these modern company towns, drawing parallels to historical industrial utopias. Together, the sources provide a multifaceted view of how tech-driven expansion is reshaping the legal, educational, and ecological landscape of the Lone Star State.

What actually happens inside a real company town hall meeting? In this episode, I break down our full 2025 debrief, the honest wins and losses we discussed with the team, and how we're casting vision for 2026. From reviewing production numbers and leadership lessons to tightening systems and raising standards, I'm sharing exactly how we align the entire company before heading into a new year of growth. Lawntrapreneur Academy (The #1 Resource for Starting, Growing and Scaling a Successful Lawn & Landscaping Company). - https://www.lawntrepreneuracademy.com/  Granum Academy Bootcamp Tour (use BRIAN25 to save!): https://www.Granum.com/Brian LMN & Coffee - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89495679453?pwd=m0wKa6prJWrARKClJKolBaJjl00OYn.1 Coast Pay Fuel Card: www.CoastPay.com/Brian

In this episode of the Econ Dev Show, Dane Carlson sits down with Jessica Huble, Assistant Director of Redevelopment for the City of Sugar Land, Texas, to explore how a landlocked, master-planned suburb is rethinking growth, housing, and economic sustainability. The conversation dives into Sugar Land's unique history as a company town built around Imperial Sugar, the creation of a dedicated Department of Redevelopment, and why single-family housing alone cannot support a city's long-term finances. Jessica explains how community engagement, honest trade-off conversations, flexible planning, and city-led redevelopment of the historic Imperial site are shaping Sugar Land's next chapter, offering lessons for any community facing limited land, changing markets, and rising expectations. Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! 10 actionable takeaways for economic developers If your city is landlocked, every acre decision is a long-term financial decision Single-family housing alone will not sustain municipal services over time Create space for redevelopment before crisis forces it Be honest with residents about trade-offs, not just benefits Sales tax strategy matters just as much as property tax in many states Avoid being overly prescriptive in RFQs and redevelopment plans Lead with outcomes and identity, not tenant wish lists Community visioning works best when residents are asked real questions Historic assets should inform the future, not freeze it Cities that fail to adapt risk losing relevance, not just revenue Special Guest: Jessica Huble.

#1. SpaceX's Olympics#2. Starbucks' Library#3. OpenAI's company townTo kick off 2026, we whipped up our 7th annual “3 big business wishes” for the coming year. These ain't *just* predictions — they're wild wishes that if you think about it, make a ton of sense. Predictions sprinkled with razzle dazzle & sprinkle dinkle.Hit us up @tboypod to let us know what you think of these predictions… and to let us know yours.——————————————Buy tickets to The IPO Tour (our In-Person Offering) TODAYAustin, TX (2/25): https://tickets.austintheatre.org/13274/13275 Arlington, VA (3/11): https://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/shows/341317 New York, NY (4/8): https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000637AE43ED0C2Los Angeles, CA (6/3): https://www.squadup.com/events/the-best-one-yet-liveGet your TBOY Yeti Doll gift here: https://tboypod.com/shop/product/economic-support-yeti-doll NEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW:Want more business storytelling from us? Check our weekly deepdive show, The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of the products you're obsessed with. Listen for free to The Best Idea Yet: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/NEW LISTENERSFill out our 2 minute survey: https://qualtricsxm88y5r986q.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dp1FDYiJgt6lHy6GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Linkedin (Nick): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/Linkedin (Jack): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ About Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today's top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, The Best One Yet is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are hospitals becoming modern company towns for physicians? Explore the parallels, risks, and emerging alternatives for independence.

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Tech reporter Brandon Lingle and host Greg Jefferson discuss Port San Antonio's plan to land the Air Force cyber command, the Air Force One debacle in San Antonio and SpaceX's new company town in South Texas. Suggested reading: Boeing can't hire, keep enough mechanics for Air Force One work in San Antonio Starbase lockdown: SpaceX city blocks public roads, raising legal questions Port San Antonio snubbed: Abbott vetoes $50M for military cyber campus UTSA was key to Abbott's Texas Cyber Command pitch. So why was it cut from the bill? Sign up here for our ENside Politics newsletter: https://www.expressnews.com/newsletters/ensidepolitics/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello Interactors,I was in Santa Barbara recently having dinner on a friend's deck when a rocket's contrail streaked the sky. “Another one from Vandenberg,” he said. “Wait a couple minutes — you'll hear it.” And we did. “They've gotten really annoying,” he added. He's not wrong. In early 2024, SpaceX launched seven times more tonnage into space than the rest of the world combined, much of it from Vandenberg Space Force Base (renamed from Air Force Base in 2021). They've already been approved to fly 12,000 Starlink satellites, with filings for 30,000 more.This isn't just future space junk — it's infrastructure. And it's not just in orbit. What Musk is doing in the sky is tied to what he's building on the ground. Not in Vandenberg, where regulation still exists, but in Starbase, Texas, where the law doesn't resist — it assists. There, Musk is testing how much sovereignty one man can claim under the banner of “innovation” — and how little we'll do to stop him.TOWNS TO THRUST AND THRONEMusk isn't just defying gravity — he's defying law. In South Texas, a place called Starbase has taken shape along the Gulf Coast, hugging the edge of SpaceX's rocket launch site. What looks like a town is really something else: a launchpad not just for spacecraft, but for a new form of privatized sovereignty.VIDEO: Time compresses at the edge of Starbase: a slow-built frontier where launch infrastructure rises faster than oversight. Source: Google EarthThis isn't unprecedented. The United States has a long lineage of company towns — places where corporations controlled land, housing, labor, and local government. Pullman, Illinois is the most famous. But while labor historians and economic geographers have documented their economic and social impact, few have examined them as legal structures of power.That's the gap legal scholar Brian Highsmith identifies in Governing the Company Town. That omission matters — because these places aren't just undemocratic. They often function as quasi-sovereign legal shells, designed to serve capital, not people.Incorporation is the trick. In Texas, any area with at least 201 residents can petition to become a general-law municipality. That's exactly what Musk has done. In a recent vote (212 to 6) residents approved the creation of an official town — Starbase. Most of those residents are SpaceX employees living on company-owned land…with a Tesla in the driveway. The result is a legally recognized town, politically constructed. SpaceX controls the housing, the workforce, and now, the electorate. Even the mayor is a SpaceX affiliate. With zoning powers and taxing authority, Musk now holds tools usually reserved for public governments — and he's using them to build for rockets, not residents…unless they're employees.VIDEO: Starbase expands frame by frame, not just as a company town, but as a legal experiment — where land, labor, and law are reassembled to serve orbit over ordinance. Source: Google EarthQuinn Slobodian, a historian of neoliberalism and global capitalism, shows how powerful companies and individuals increasingly use legal tools to redesign borders and jurisdictions to their advantage. In his book, Cracked Up Capitalism, he shows how jurisdiction becomes the secret weapon of the capitalist state around the world. I wrote about a techno-optimist fantasy state on the island of Roatán, part of the Bay Islands in Honduras a couple years ago. It isn't new. Disney used the same playbook in 1967 with Florida's Reedy Creek District — deeding slivers of land to employees to meet incorporation rules, then governing without real opposition. Highsmith draws a straight line to Musk: both use municipal law not to serve the public, but to avoid it. In Texas, beach access is often blocked near Starbase — even when rockets aren't launching. A proposed bill would make ignoring an evacuation order a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by jail.Even if Starbase never fully resembles a traditional town, that's beside the point. What Musk is really revealing isn't some urban design oasis but how municipal frameworks can still be weaponized for private control. Through zoning laws, incorporation statutes, and infrastructure deals, corporations can shape legal entities that resemble cities but function more like logistical regimes.And yet, this tactic draws little sustained scrutiny. As Highsmith reminds us, legal scholarship has largely ignored how municipal tools are deployed to consolidate corporate power. That silence matters — because what looks like a sleepy launch site in Texas may be something much larger: a new form of rule disguised as infrastructure.ABOVE THE LAW, BELOW THE LANDElon Musk isn't just shaping towns — he's engineering systems. His tunnels, satellites, and rockets stretch across and beyond traditional borders. These aren't just feats of engineering. They're tools of control designed to bypass civic oversight and relocate governance into private hands. He doesn't need to overthrow the state to escape regulation. He simply builds around it…and in the case of Texas, with it.Architect and theorist Keller Easterling, whose work examines how infrastructure quietly shapes political life, argues that these systems are not just supports for power — they are power. Infrastructure itself is a kind of operating system for shaping the city, states, countries…and now space.Starlink, SpaceX's satellite constellation, provides internet access to users around the world. In Ukraine, it became a vital communications network after Russian attacks on local infrastructure. Musk enabled access — then later restricted it. He made decisions with real geopolitical consequences. No president. No Congress. Just a private executive shaping war from orbit.And it's not just Ukraine. Starlink is now active in dozens of countries, often without formal agreements from national regulators. It bypasses local telecom laws, surveillance rules, and data protections. For authoritarian regimes, that makes it dangerous. But for democracies, it raises a deeper question: who governs the sky?Right now, the answer is: no one. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 assumes that nation-states, not corporations, are the primary actors in orbit. But Starlink functions in a legal grey zone, using low Earth orbit as a loophole in international law…aided and abetted by the U.S. defense department.VIDEO: Thousands of Starlink satellites, visualized in low Earth orbit, encircle the planet like a privatized exosphere—reshaping global communication while raising questions of governance, visibility, and control. Source: StarlinkThe result is a telecom empire without borders. Musk commands a growing share of orbital infrastructure but answers to no global regulator. The International Telecommunication Union can coordinate satellite spectrum, but it can't enforce ethical or geopolitical standards. Musk alone decides whether Starlink aids governments, rebels, or armies. As Quinn Slobodian might put it, this is exception-making on a planetary scale.Now let's go underground. The Boring Company digs high-speed tunnels beneath cities like Las Vegas, sidestepping standard planning processes. These projects often exclude transit agencies and ignore public engagement. They're built for select users, not the public at large. Local governments, eager for tech-driven investment, offer permits and partnerships — even if it means circumventing democratic procedures.Taken together — Starlink above, Boring Company below, Tesla charging networks on the ground — Musk's empire moves through multiple layers of infrastructure, each reshaping civic life without formal accountability. His systems carry people, data, and energy — but not through the public channels meant to regulate them. They're not overseen by voters. They're not authorized by democratic mandate. Yet they profoundly shape how people move, communicate, and live.Geographer Deborah Cowen, whose research focuses on the global logistics industry, argues that infrastructure like ports, fiber-optic cables, and pipelines have become tools of geopolitical strategy. Logistics as a form of war by other means. Brian Highsmith argues this is a form of “functional fragmentation” — breaking governance into layers and loopholes that allow corporations to sidestep collective control. These aren't mere workarounds. They signal a deeper shift in how power is organized — not just across space, but through it.This kind of sovereignty is easy to miss because it doesn't always resemble government. But when a private actor controls transit systems, communication networks, and even military connectivity — across borders, beneath cities, and in orbit — we're not just dealing with infrastructure. We're dealing with rule.And, just like with company towns, the legal scholarship is struggling to catch up. These layered, mobile, and non-territorial regimes challenge our categories of law and space alike. What these fantastical projects inspire is often awe. But what they should require is law.AMNESIA AIDS THE AMBITIOUSElon Musk may dazzle with dreams full-blown, but the roots of his power are not his own. The United States has a long tradition of private actors ruling like governments — with public blessing. These aren't outliers. They're part of a national pattern, deeply embedded in our legal geography: public authority outsourced to private ambition.The details vary, but the logic repeats. Whether it's early colonial charters, speculative land empires, company towns, or special districts carved for tech campuses, American history is full of projects where law becomes a scaffold for private sovereignty. Rather than recount every episode, let's just say from John Winthrop to George Washington to Walt Disney to Elon Musk, America has always made room for men who rule through charters, not elections.Yet despite the frequency of these arrangements, the scholarship has been oddly selective.According to Highsmith, legal academia has largely ignored the institutional architecture that makes company towns possible in the first place: incorporation laws, zoning frameworks, municipal codes, and districting rules. These aren't neutral bureaucratic instruments. They're jurisdictional design tools, capable of reshaping sovereignty at the micro-scale. And when used strategically, they can be wielded by corporations to create functional states-within-a-state — governing without elections, taxing without consent, and shaping public life through private vision.From a critical geography perspective, the problem is just as stark. Scholars have long studied the uneven production of space — how capital reshapes landscapes to serve accumulation. But here, space isn't just produced — it's governed. And it's governed through techniques of legal enclosure, where a patch of land becomes a jurisdictional exception, and a logistics hub or tech campus becomes a mini-regime.Starbase, Snailbrook, Reedy Creek, and even Google's Sidewalk Labs are not just spatial projects — they're sovereign experiments in spatial governance, where control is layered through contracts, tax breaks, and municipal proxies.But these arrangements don't arise in a vacuum. Cities often aren't choosing between public and private control — they're choosing between austerity and access to cash. In the United States, local governments are revenue-starved by design. Most lack control over income taxes or resource royalties, and depend heavily on sales taxes, property taxes, and development fees. This creates a perverse incentive: to treat corporations not as entities to regulate, but as lifelines to recruit and appease.Desperate for jobs and investment, cities offer zoning concessions, infrastructure deals, and tax abatements, even when they come with little democratic oversight or long-term guarantees. Corporate actors understand this imbalance — and exploit it. The result is a form of urban hostage-taking, where governance is bartered piecemeal in exchange for the promise of economic survival.A more democratized fiscal structure — one that empowers cities through equitable revenue-sharing, progressive taxation, or greater control over land value capture — might reduce this dependency. It would make it possible for municipalities to plan with their citizens instead of negotiating against them. It would weaken the grip of corporate actors who leverage scarcity into sovereignty. But until then, as long as cities are backed into a fiscal corner, we shouldn't be surprised when they sell off their power — one plot or parking lot at a time.Highsmith argues that these structures demand scrutiny — not just for their economic impact, but for their democratic consequences. These aren't just quirks of local law. They are the fault lines of American federalism — where localism becomes a loophole, and fragmentation becomes a formula for private rule.And yet, these systems persist with minimal legal friction and even less public awareness. Because they don't always look like sovereignty. Sometimes they look like a housing deal. A fast-tracked zoning change. A development district with deferred taxes. A campus with private shuttles and subsidized utilities. They don't announce themselves as secessions — but they function that way.We've been trained to see these projects as innovation, not governance. As entrepreneurship, not policy. But when a company owns the homes, builds the roads, controls the data, and sets the rules, it's not just offering services — it's exercising control. As political theorist Wendy Brown has argued, neoliberalism reshapes civic life around the image of the entrepreneur, replacing democratic participation with market performance.That shift plays out everywhere: universities run like corporations, cities managed like startups. Musk isn't the exception — he's the clearest expression of a culture that mistakes private ambition for public good. Musk once tweeted, “If you must know, I am a utopian anarchist of the kind best described by Iain Banks.” In a New York Times article, Jill Lepore quoted Banks as saying his science fiction books were about “'hippy commies with hyper-weapons and a deep distrust of both Marketolatry and Greedism.' He also expressed astonishment that anyone could read his books as promoting free-market libertarianism, asking, ‘Which bit of not having private property and the absence of money in the Culture novels have these people missed?'”The issue isn't just that we've allowed these takeovers — it's that we've ignored the tools enabling them: incorporation, annexation, zoning, and special districts. As Brian Highsmith notes, this quiet shift in power might not have surprised one of our constitution authors, James Madison, but it would have troubled him. In Federalist No. 10, Madison warned not of monarchs, but of factions — small, organized interests capturing government for their own ends. His solution was restraint through scaling oppositional voices. “The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed...and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.”— James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (1787)Today, the structure meant to restrain factions has become their playbook. These actors don't run for office — they arrive with charters, contracts, and capital. They govern not in the name of the people, but of “efficiency” and “innovation.” And they don't need to control a nation when a zoning board will do.Unchecked, we risk mistaking corporate control for civic order — and repeating a pattern we've barely begun to name.We were told, sold, and promised a universe of shared governance — political, spatial, even orbital. But Madison didn't trust promises. He trusted structure. He feared what happens when small governments fall to powerful interests — when law becomes a lever for private gain. That fear now lives in legal districts, rocket towns, and infrastructure built to rule. Thousands of satellites orbit the Earth, not launched by publics, but by one man with tools once reserved for states. What was once called infrastructure now governs. What was once geography now obeys.Our maps may still show roads and rails and pipes and ports — but not the fictions beneath them, or the factions they support.References:Brown, W. (2015). Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. Zone Books.Cowen, D. (2014). The deadly life of logistics: Mapping violence in global trade. University of Minnesota Press.Easterling, K. (2014). Extrastatecraft: The power of infrastructure space. Verso Books.Highsmith, B. (2022). Governing the company town: How employers use local government to seize political power. Yale Law Journal.Madison, J. (1787). Federalist No. 10. In A. Hamilton, J. Madison, & J. Jay, The Federalist Papers. Bantam Books (2003 edition).Slobodian, Q. (2023). Crack-Up Capitalism: Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy. Metropolitan Books. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Residents of Boca Chica, Texas, have voted to turn their community into a new official city called Starbase. This new municipality is tightly controlled by SpaceX leadership and most residents are SpaceX employees, which has raised concerns about the reemergence of company towns. In this Upzoned episode, Abby is joined by our Chief Technical Advisor Edward Erfurt to discuss the Strong Towns perspective on this story. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES “Elon Musk's company town: SpaceX employees vote to create ‘Starbase'” by Nick Robins-Early, The Guardian (May 2025). Abby Newsham (X/Twitter). Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom.

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The little company town was located smack in the middle of the country's most productive tree-growing land; so, in the 1980s, the company drained its lake, bulldozed it into a pile, torched it, and replanted it with trees. (Valsetz, Polk County; 1920s, 1950s, 1980s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1611c.valsetz-company-ghost-town-418.html)

First, Elon Musk's company town Starbase—governed by his head of security. The history of company towns, explain why these exploitative models have long been problematic, and speculate on why Musk is reviving this outdated concept to further his corporate ambitions. Next, the CIA's handling of JFK documents. Then we're joined by Jefferson Morley (@jeffersonmorley), writer of the JFK Facts Substack, re Trump's plans to release more JFK files and revisit lingering questions about the JFK assassination. https://jfkfacts.org/https://jfkfacts.org/

The world's richest man is developing a company town outside Austin, Texas. Like the industrialists who came before him, Elon Musk may learn it's hard to create (and sustain) a utopia. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members An aerial view of Elon Musk's Snailbrook community in Bastrop County, Texas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode: 1275 Merthyr Tydfil, a window into the squalid conditions after the Industrial Revolution.  Today, let's visit Merthyr Tydfil.

In this episode: Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell joins the podcast to talk about Florida's 2024 elections — including some stunning local results in which voters in Orlando chose a pair of grassroots activists over tourism- and developer-backed alternatives who had outspent them by as much as 8-to-1. It's the dawning of a new day in what has historically been one of the nation's biggest company towns. And it further established Orlando as a blue island in a statewide sea of red. Show notes: For more about Florida's elections — both in Orlando and across the state — make sure to read Scott's most recent column in the Sentinel. And check out more of his work here.To understand what made these Orlando races so important, and why they will have statewide repercussions, see these pieces from Seeking Rents: Voters in Orlando have a chance to loosen the tourism industry's grip on taxpayer money Candidates in Orlando split over new rules to save rural land from suburban sprawl Questions or comments? Send ‘em to Garcia.JasonR@gmail.comListen to the show: Apple | SpotifyWatch the show: YouTube Get full access to Seeking Rents at jasongarcia.substack.com/subscribe

Smart "Village" Comes to USA in Form of TechnofeudalismEven Corporations are Spying on You & CANCELLING You FROM SPACEGovernment Outsources BigBrother to a Corporation — FLOCKRanked Choice Voting — Good or Bad?David Icke Exposes Tucker Carlson & His "Big Daddy" ComplexThe Elephant in the GOP Room — COVID VaxINTERVIEW G Edward GriffinTOPICS by TIMECODE(2:00) Trick or Treat — Laws Against Adult Chaperones Even Sneaking a Piece of Candy (10:09) Smart "Village" Comes to USA in Form of Technofeudalism$7 BILLION "City Within a City" — a giant factory town - in PhoenixHolland's "15-Minute Cages", the push for Smart Cities escalatesTWILIGHT ZONE — the remaining elderly in a Japanese village with NO young people make child puppets to keep them company.  A picture of the population collapse in Japan(35:52) Even Corporations are Spying on You & CANCELLING You FROM SPACEInsurance company uses satellite surveillance to cancel a couple's homeowner insurance after 20 yrs, based on FALSE ASSUMPTIONS.  The insurance company refuses to reconsider(40:03) Government Outsources BigBrother to a Corporation — FLOCK"Incredibly intimate details" in the Flock public/private partnership for warrantless surveillanceIn the same way government pretended social media censorship was not directed by government (although it WAS), a massive national & international surveillance network is rapidly being funded by government that pretends it's not warrantless surveillanceEven small rural towns are being flooded with 100's of surveillance camerasHow the information being used and abusedHow you can personally opt outHow you can minimize Flock in your community even if you can't stop it(1:01:15) Ranked Choice Voting — Good or Bad? What is Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and why are political parties demonizing it? (1:05:48) David Icke Exposes Tucker's "Big Daddy" ComplexDemocrats offer us the Nanny State.  The MAGA audience cheers when Tucker offers a vision of President Trump as Big DaddyAre we children?Is government our family?Does Big Brother/Mother/Daddy love us?(1:18:18) The Elephant in the GOP Room — COVID VaxThe George W Bush family proudly displays the UNI-PARTY. YouTube soft-censors Rogan/Trump while Rogan SELF-CENSORED and MAGA wants to hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil about Trump's pandemic measuresmRNA vax DEVASTATES livestock with death and illness(1:44:33) INTERVIEW G Edward Griffin Author and documentary filmmaker, G Edward Griffin joinsHow did he get into documentary filmmakingWhat caused him to change his mind about the UNWhat does the author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island" think about the future of money?Now that we've seen how BigPharma & the FDA have acted during the "pandemic" are we ready to learn about alternative cancer treatment from his book "A World Without Cancer"The free online Red Pill Expo coming up at RedPillExpo.orgIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Smart "Village" Comes to USA in Form of TechnofeudalismEven Corporations are Spying on You & CANCELLING You FROM SPACEGovernment Outsources BigBrother to a Corporation — FLOCKRanked Choice Voting — Good or Bad?David Icke Exposes Tucker Carlson & His "Big Daddy" ComplexThe Elephant in the GOP Room — COVID VaxINTERVIEW G Edward GriffinTOPICS by TIMECODE(2:00) Trick or Treat — Laws Against Adult Chaperones Even Sneaking a Piece of Candy (10:09) Smart "Village" Comes to USA in Form of Technofeudalism$7 BILLION "City Within a City" — a giant factory town - in PhoenixHolland's "15-Minute Cages", the push for Smart Cities escalatesTWILIGHT ZONE — the remaining elderly in a Japanese village with NO young people make child puppets to keep them company.  A picture of the population collapse in Japan(35:52) Even Corporations are Spying on You & CANCELLING You FROM SPACEInsurance company uses satellite surveillance to cancel a couple's homeowner insurance after 20 yrs, based on FALSE ASSUMPTIONS.  The insurance company refuses to reconsider(40:03) Government Outsources BigBrother to a Corporation — FLOCK"Incredibly intimate details" in the Flock public/private partnership for warrantless surveillanceIn the same way government pretended social media censorship was not directed by government (although it WAS), a massive national & international surveillance network is rapidly being funded by government that pretends it's not warrantless surveillanceEven small rural towns are being flooded with 100's of surveillance camerasHow the information being used and abusedHow you can personally opt outHow you can minimize Flock in your community even if you can't stop it(1:01:15) Ranked Choice Voting — Good or Bad? What is Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and why are political parties demonizing it? (1:05:48) David Icke Exposes Tucker's "Big Daddy" ComplexDemocrats offer us the Nanny State.  The MAGA audience cheers when Tucker offers a vision of President Trump as Big DaddyAre we children?Is government our family?Does Big Brother/Mother/Daddy love us?(1:18:18) The Elephant in the GOP Room — COVID VaxThe George W Bush family proudly displays the UNI-PARTY. YouTube soft-censors Rogan/Trump while Rogan SELF-CENSORED and MAGA wants to hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil about Trump's pandemic measuresmRNA vax DEVASTATES livestock with death and illness(1:44:33) INTERVIEW G Edward Griffin Author and documentary filmmaker, G Edward Griffin joinsHow did he get into documentary filmmakingWhat caused him to change his mind about the UNWhat does the author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island" think about the future of money?Now that we've seen how BigPharma & the FDA have acted during the "pandemic" are we ready to learn about alternative cancer treatment from his book "A World Without Cancer"The free online Red Pill Expo coming up at RedPillExpo.orgIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

On this week's podcast, we're going more local than we've ever gone before, discussing the pleasures and perils of the company town. Here to be our local guide through this topic, and discussing his forthcoming paper, “Governing the Company Town” is Brian Highsmith — a former student of David's, Ph.D. candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University, an academic fellow in law and political economy at Harvard Law School, and an affiliated senior researcher at Yale Law School's Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law. We begin this conversation by discussing what the company town was and what it wasn't, legally and historically. Highsmith proposes that Madison's theory of factions is the best conceptual framework to understand company towns, while Sam pushes back on company towns as being uniquely subject to private power. After we engage in a bit of democratic theory, David presses Highsmith on whether the answer to bad localism is good localism, and how we might regulate the municipal race to the bottom. Give the pod a listen and find out. This podcast is generously supported by Themis Bar Review. Referenced Readings Federalist 10 by James Madison Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian “The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down” by Rachel Corbett “Regulating Location Incentives” by Brian Highsmith “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative” by Flora Lewis

After World War II, uranium became one of the most sought-after elements in the world — and in the sparse canyons of the four-corners region, uranium company towns began to spring up and sell the ore to the U.S. Government. The 1950s were the golden years, when rich “uraniumaires” bought private jets and anybody could go from country rags to riches. But before long, the uranium rush would come crashing down. And one town, named Uravan, would disappear entirely. Find referenced studies and stories, along with photos, at ⁠www.aleccowan.com/boomtown⁠ In this episode: Howard and Caren Stephens, former Union Carbide employees and residents of Uravan Bill Barnes Jr., former Union Carbide mill worker and resident of Uravan Eva Fernandez, former Uravan resident Bob Ince, a one-time uranium miner whose family operated mines in Gateway, CO Michael Amundson, professor of history at Northern Arizona University

Rerun. Hersheypark was created as a recreation ground for the workers and families who staffed the Hershey chocolate factory in Pennsylvania when it opened on 30th May, 1906. But visitors from across the State soon came to marvel at its playgrounds, boating lake and band-stand… and, before long, the environs began to morph into the chocolate-themed amusement park it remains to this day. Its success exemplifies the ‘Company Town' phenomenon: at one point, 3% of the USA's entire population lived in a town that was owned and run by the company that they worked for. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how caramel, not chocolate, first paved the way to Hershey's success; debate whether Hersheypark was a philanthropic gift to his employees, or a cynical bid to keep them from leaving; and explain to Americans why Brits would prefer an attraction with less butyric acid…  Further Reading: • ‘More Than 110 Years of Hersheypark Happy' (Hershey, 2022): https://www.hersheypa.com/about-hershey/history/hersheypark-history.php • Milton Hershey, The Man Who Built A Chocolate Empire (All That's Interesting, 2022): https://allthatsinteresting.com/milton-hershey • ‘From Sweet To Sweeter: The Legacy of Hersheypark' (Hersheypark Enthusiast, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJlIYlPo38 ‘Why am I hearing a rerun?' Each Thursday and Friday we repeat stories from our archive of 800+ episodes, so we can maintain the quality of our independent podcast and bring you fresh, free content every Monday-Wednesday…  … But

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Hour 3 of A&G features... Our guest, WaPo columnist Josh Rogin on China's embrace of antisemitism... Speculation on Biden's future... Why did Lloyd Austin hide his medical condition? The effort to combat extremism in the US Military.  Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 of A&G features... Our guest, WaPo columnist Josh Rogin on China's embrace of antisemitism... Speculation on Biden's future... Why did Lloyd Austin hide his medical condition? The effort to combat extremism in the US Military.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 of A&G features... Our guest, WaPo columnist Josh Rogin on China's embrace of antisemitism... Speculation on Biden's future... Why did Lloyd Austin hide his medical condition? The effort to combat extremism in the US Military.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pauline describes the Company Town structure and gives examples of the good, the bad, and the massacre. Find the show on Twitter or Instagram or Tumblr. Send requests to be a guest expert or enthusiast to QuickBitesPod@gmail.com

Sean and Glenn catch up on exciting things happening in Austin and the unique challenges stemming from the city's recent growth. Glenn is the Director for Business Development at Broaddus Construction and also hosts the BoomATX podcast. Glenn shares his take on accommodating Austin's growth and how the city should heed the influence of people like Elon Musk. To Glenn, most of it comes down to supply and demand: the question is if Austin can allow companies to provide the supply.   Timecoded Guide:  [00:00] Start of episode  [10:18] Housing Prices in Austin  [14:05] Elon Musk in Austin  [16:09] The “Company Town”  [21:36] The Future of Housing in Austin  [25:24] The Robin Hood Recapture    Is Elon Musk making a positive development in this market?   Glen thinks that Musk has already positively contributed to Austin's development. With his speed to the market in Tesla's manufacturing and plans to expedite downtown Austin transportation infrastructure, Glen thinks that the city should continue to allow Musk to build and develop in and around Austin.   “We should be encouraging it and allowing him to do it. For some reason, the city and public entities are all for all options until it's not their option.”    What do you see as the future of housing in Austin?   Glenn says that, as developers have no incentive to discount their costs, they can provide as much housing as the city allows but can only sell at the market rate. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of people moving to Austin, Glenn says that Austin simply needs more housing of all types. The challenge in meeting the demand and providing more supply are things like zoning, permitting, and city approvals, Glenn says.   “What has been able to get approved and zoned and under construction is such a long runway that's built into the limited supply we have, and, like I said, there's just no shortage of people wanting to move to Austin.”    What are your thoughts on the Robin Hood Recapture?   The Robin Hood Recapture Law is a Texas House bill that aims to recapture excess local property tax from wealthier school districts and supply other school districts with funds needed to reach state entitlement. Glenn says that a lot of money collected from property taxes in wealthier districts does not go back into education. He says that while it may not be easy, Robin Hood Recapture is the simplest way to address affordability in Austin.   “We're paying two times as much to educate our kids in Austin, that we're getting services going out for the local area, that's a good chunk of money, that doesn't put more money into the pool to fund education across the state.”  ----------  Links:  Keep up with Glenn on LinkedIn.   Tune in to the BoomATX podcast.   Visit Broaddus Construction at their website.   If you enjoyed this podcast, check out more episodes on Audible, iHeart, and Youtube.   Learn more about the Bukowski Law Firm and the Greater Texas Podcast on our website and Youtube channel. 

This week we look at Krystal talking to music expert Anthony Fantano @TheNeedleDrop about how AI created a Drake song that went viral, the FBI accidentally kidnaping the wrong man at a hotel, a CNBC reporter who hosts a show called "Capital Connection" caught on camera with a billionaire in her room, Max Alvarez from The Art of Class War, Jordan Chariton reports on the scene in Kalamazoo, Michigan where a paper mill dumps toxic air, James Li looks into Elon Musk's new company town, and Spencer Snyder gives us 3 Reasons Why Buzzfeed Closed.To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and SpotifyApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we look at Krystal talking to music expert Anthony Fantano @TheNeedleDrop about how AI created a Drake song that went viral, the FBI accidentally kidnaping the wrong man at a hotel, a CNBC reporter who hosts a show called "Capital Connection" caught on camera with a billionaire in her room, Max Alvarez from The Art of Class War, Jordan Chariton reports on the scene in Kalamazoo, Michigan where a paper mill dumps toxic air, James Li looks into Elon Musk's new company town, and Spencer Snyder gives us 3 Reasons Why Buzzfeed Closed. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl   Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://thinkfuture.com | In this thought-provoking episode of "ThinkFuture," host Chris Kalaboukis delves into the contentious topic of whether corporations should provide free housing, food, and healthcare for their employees, as was once common in "company towns." As the landscape of employee welfare and corporate responsibility evolves, Chris explores the historical context, modern examples, and the potential implications of this concept. He discusses the pros and cons of company towns, examining the impact on employee well-being, work-life balance, and community development. Chris also addresses potential drawbacks such as the concentration of power, economic dependency, and the risk of exploitation. He investigates how some modern corporations have adopted or adapted these practices, and considers the potential for a resurgence of company towns in the 21st century. Join Chris in this stimulating episode as he navigates the complex debate surrounding company towns and their role in shaping the future of work and employee welfare. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Elon Musk plans to set up a company town; The Rick Smith Show reminds us of the dark history of company towns. Then, on America's Workforce Radio, Tim Burga, President of the Ohio AFL-CIO, tells us about new legislation to improve safety on the railroads. Next we go to Brazil, for a report on 39 workers rescued from modern slavery on the Solidarity Center Podcast. From the FairWork podcast, a discussion with Heather Berg about how the internet has changed sex work. Our final segment today is from the new season of the America Works podcast, which introduces us to Jude Bejarano, a cement plant worker in Evansville, Pennsylvania Please help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @RickSmithShow @AWFUnionPodcast @SolidarityCntr @TowardsFairWork @librarycongress Edited/produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

In episode 1438, Jack and guest co-host super producer Becca Ramos are joined by hosts of Endless Thread, Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson, to discuss… Elon Musk Wants To Build A Utopian Company Town... What Could Go Wrong? The Most Divisive Political Issue in America: Daylight Savings Time, R.I.P. Chewing Gum and more! Elon Musk Wants To Build A Utopian Company Town... What Could Go Wrong? Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia—His Own Town Residents of Elon Musk's ‘space city' say he destroyed quiet beach town The Most Divisive Political Issue in America: Daylight Savings Time Bill to Make Daylight Saving Permanent Re-Emerges From the Dark Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent The political war around daylight saving time takes a nasty turn R.I.P. Chewing Gum Bursting the bubble: how gum lost its cool LISTEN: Ninguém Dorme by TroyBoi, Tropkillaz, & MC LanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Flush with cash from his sale of Zappos to Amazon, Tony Hsieh is writing big checks. He has some 350 million dollars to invest — and just a year into this bold experiment in social engineering, his efforts to transform downtown Vegas into the happiest place on earth seem to be well underway. Did his vision for a tech utopia really work wonders on this city? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The little company town was located smack in the middle of the country's most productive tree-growing land; so, in the 1980s, the company drained its lake, bulldozed it into a pile, torched it, and replanted it with trees. (Valsetz, Polk County; 1920s, 1950s, 1980s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1611c.valsetz-company-ghost-town-418.html)

“The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”― Upton Sinclair, The JungleIn this bonus episode we hear from Matt, who was recently fired from an Amazon Warehouse in Campbellsville, KY for attempting to organize a union with his coworkers in response to brutal working conditions that involve walking more than 20 miles per shift, temperatures that can rise as high as 100* in workspaces, breaking bones, and more. The abuse of Amazon doesn't stop in the Warehouse though… this company is attempting to turn the whole country into one big company town from the sounds of it: Amazon Care health services? “Affordable housing” for workers who get evicted as soon as they aren't working for the company? Data ownership that links employee data with customer data and healthcare data? Clearance to GOVERN their own townships?---✊Make sure to support Matt by contributing to or sharing his retaliation fund: [https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/1f94594f-a62a-4a3b-bf7f-88e92b69442a](https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/1f94594f-a62a-4a3b-bf7f-88e92b69442a)

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The Pella Corporation, manufacturer of windows and doors, is headquartered in a small town in Iowa. When a shortage of housing and amenities hindered its ability to hire and grow, the company decided to tackle some of these problems themselves. WSJ's Charity Scott tells the complicated tale of a modern company town. Further Reading:  - Facing Labor Shortages, Pella Reinvents the Company Town in Rural Iowa   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The classic black-and-white photos from early decades of the American West often fail to capture the diversity of the people who came here. Chinese migrants helped build the railroads and were big in gold mining. Basque people from Spain became known for sheep herding. The first Filipino cannery workers arrived around the turn of the last century. Now, Oregon archaeologists are on the surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in a now-vanished lumber company town.

(Jul 13, 2022) The area around Lake Placid, Keene, and Au Sable Forks is the heart of tourism in the Adirondacks. But one company shaped that landscape for nearly two centuries. The story of the J&J Rogers Company. Also: State officials have released police body camera footage of the deadly shooting in Saranac Lake last month.

Elizabeth Huff, Sugar Land, Texas director of economic development shares fascinating insights about how the town is propelling cool engaging community projects.

This episode features "Company Town" written by Aimee Ogden. Published in the June 2022 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_06_22 Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?

Hersheypark was created as a recreation ground for the workers and families who staffed the Hershey chocolate factory in Pennsylvania when it opened on 30th May, 1906. But visitors from across the State soon came to marvel at its playgrounds, boating lake and band-stand… and, before long, the environs began to morph into the chocolate-themed amusement park it remains to this day. Its success exemplifies the ‘Company Town' phenomenon: at one point, 3% of the USA's entire population lived in a town that was owned and run by the company that they worked for. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how caramel, not chocolate, first paved the way to Hershey's success; debate whether Hersheypark was a philanthropic gift to his employees, or a cynical bid to keep them from leaving; and explain to Americans why Brits would prefer an attraction with less butyric acid…  Further Reading: • ‘More Than 110 Years of Hersheypark Happy' (Hershey, 2022): https://www.hersheypa.com/about-hershey/history/hersheypark-history.php • Milton Hershey, The Man Who Built A Chocolate Empire (All That's Interesting, 2022): https://allthatsinteresting.com/milton-hershey • ‘From Sweet To Sweeter: The Legacy of Hersheypark' (Hersheypark Enthusiast, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJlIYlPo38 For bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/Retrospectors We'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/Retrospectors The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill. Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Sophie King. Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John and Chris shoot the shit, talk about NFTs on instagram, and then tackle an absolutely demented reading series about a marvel studios company town     //  outro: https://youtu.be/IeqtAB1WgEw     //  thanks so much for listening! pls rate and review us on apple podcasts, it really helps ppl find the show. hang out with us in midsposting on facebook www.facebook.com/groups/2185905738310960/ follow us on twitter @weedpod and instagram @beepbeepleaf love u, beep on

We're starting to think that the Scots did everything first. At least, that's how it feels when the ever-fascinating actor/writer Brian McCardie joins to teach us a little bit about New Lanark, a ‘Company Town' and proto-socialist utopia that was a century ahead of its time. The town may be in the “middle of nowhere” but it was also at the center of early labor reform and innovation. More on Brian: Brian McCardie is a Scottish actor and writer best known for...well...a lot of different things, his CV is a mile long. Listeners might recognize him recently from Jimmy McGovern's 3-part drama, Time, where he acted opposite Stephen Graham and Sean Bean. Or, less recently, from Line of Duty, Speed 2, Rob Roy and a whole host of others. SOURCES: to come SOCIALS: Follow Under The Kilt at @underthekiltpod on Twitter & Instagram CREDITS: Original Theme: Tyler Collins aka “Two Metre Man” Additional Music: Garreth Spinn Original Art: Sarah Cruz Producer: Kathleen Mueller Mason SPONSORS: Direct sponsorship inquiries and other questions to underthekiltpod@gmail.com

Gabriel Scheare moved to Chile to fulfill his libertarian vision. Over the past several years, he developed Fort Galt, a community for those who want to live freely. Now amidst endless lockdowns and a rewriting of the Chilean constitution, he is returning to his native Saskatchewan to build community through a Company Town, Frenly Park. This episode offers insights on living truthfully and freely.

Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, teacher, and immigrant living in Toronto.   Madeline Ashby has worked with Intel Labs, the World Health Organization, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, Changeist, and others. She has spoken at SXSW, FutureEverything, MozFest, and other events. Her essays have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, The Atlantic, MISC Magazine, and FutureNow. Her fiction has appeared in Slate, MIT Technology Review, Clarkesworld, and multiple anthologies. She is a member of the XPRIZE Science Fiction Advisory Council and the AI Policy Futures Group at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. She is the author of the Machine Dynasty novels. Her novel Company Town was a Canada Reads finalist. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

From company towns to the 1893 World's Fair and the birth of the City Beautiful Movement, to the birth of the Garden City Movement in the book Tomorrow:  A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, planning theory and ideology really started to take shape in the final decades of the 1800's. Pullman, Illinoishttp://www.pullmanil.org/town.htm#:~:text=The%20model%20industrial%20town%20of,of%20Pullman's%20Palace%20Car%20Companyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicagohttps://www.history.com/news/5-famous-company-townshttps://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/historyculture/a-brief-overview-of-the-pullman-story.htmhttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-from-factory-town-to-national-monument-brief-history-of-the-pullman-historic-district-20150218-htmlstory.html 1893 Chicago World's Fairhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnhamhttp://www.architecture.org/learn/resources/architecture-dictionary/entry/worlds-columbian-exposition-of-1893/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chicago-worlds-columbian-exposition-1893/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition City Beautifulhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful_movementhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/City-Beautiful-movementhttps://www.nypap.org/preservation-history/city-beautiful-movement/ Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reformhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Cities_of_To-morrowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howardhttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/05/ebenezer-howards-three-magnets

Week 4 continues with Dan and Janice sitting in the back of Evangeline trying to figure out Marfa Texas. This is a town that, on paper, seems taylor made for the two of them: It's a small high desert town filled with beautiful, old adobe brick homes that also has a expansive art scene. Towns like this don't come around much and there's a lot about it that they love. And yet. This is the longest episode of The Hitch so far this season, because there's a lot to figure out. On this episode you get not just one but TWO analogies of places that Janice and Dan have lived and also extensive descriptions of the art, architecture, and feel of this very unique desert town. Join us in Marfa on today's episode of The Hitch! Follow along on Instagram @tincanevangeline Follow Dan on Twitter @dansinker Follow Janice on Twitter @janicedillard