Podcasts about mass consumption

Episode Summary:In this episode of Explaining History, Nick explores the rise of the "Consumer's Republic" in post-war America. We examine how the dream of the suburban idyll—white picket fences, gleaming appliances, and mass car ownership—became a central pillar of US identity and stability.Drawing on Lizabeth Cohen's A Consumer's Republic, we delve into how corporate and political elites consciously steered American citizens away from collectivist politics and towards a highly individualized "politics of consumption." Nick discusses how suburbia was not just a place to live, but a tool for managing the economy, creating a new "mass middle class" out of the industrial working class.But beneath the surface of this "happy-go-spending world," there were darker currents: racial exclusion, environmental costs, and the fragility of an economic model built on endless growth. Was the golden age of suburbia a unique historical accident? And what happens when the dream of upward mobility begins to fade?Key Topics:The Consumer's Republic: How consumption became a civic duty.Suburbia as Utopia: The role of magazines like Redbook in selling the suburban dream.Mass Home Ownership: How government-backed mortgages created a nation of property owners.The Politics of Prosperity: How affluence was used to defuse class conflict.Books Mentioned:A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth CohenGrand Expectations by James T. PattersonExplaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the past to the present. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and share.▸ Support the Show & Get Exclusive ContentBecome a Patron: patreon.com/explaininghistory▸ Join the Community & Continue the ConversationFacebook Group: facebook.com/groups/ExplainingHistoryPodcastSubstack: theexplaininghistorypodcast.substack.com▸ Read Articles & Go DeeperWebsite: explaininghistory.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the Summer of 2023, my friend Eliza Kent & I sat down to record this podcast episode on each other's writing projects at the time. We've met around four years ago through Instagram's wide writing community, read through each other's novels to sending each other a poem here and there. With parallels in our creative career, we've witnessed each other writing & publishing each a fiction novel (Devil & A Half, Eliza Kent & It was her, Bonnie Orbison) and a poetry collection (You Were the Graveyard, Eliza Kent & Pretty Tennessee, Bonnie Orbison).We discuss how poetry isn't made for mass consumption and cannot become the fast fashion of writing, every fictional character needs an obsession, how the genre and tone of your novel will influence your moods and how our sexuality already was mirrored in our writing, even though we still were unsure about it.Main lesson we learned from our friendship is that publishing or sharing your writing with someone is not only helping you to let go of those feelings you wrote on, but also helps you to look objectively on the entire situation.✨ Eliza can be found on Instagram as @lizalikesbugs & her books are linked above✨Enjoyed listening to this episode? You know what you do ... (make sure to subscribe and share this episode with all of your friends and leave a review, so more people can tune in to my conversations with my legends, xoxo)gain access to our Music & Film Club: all proceeds go to running this podcast & funding giveaways as well as in the future the production of short films. join today!this podcast episode is hosted, edited and produced by bonnie orbison → support her continuous work on her paid Substack or get one of her books ⚡️⚡️⚡️managed by the cry loungethe podcast theme song by e.b. sollisvideo clips of this episode and anthems-of-the-day on our Instagram @bonnieslegends

PREVIEW OF TODAY'S PARROT TALK. FOR THE FULL EPISODE SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES. The Mass Consumption Industrial Complex poisons Americans with their highly processed food and diabetes water. They add ingredients that make their products addictive, so you the consumer can be fat, "happy" and stupid.  The Mass Consumption Industrial Complex are also best friends with Big Pharma.  So the longer you are addicted to soda, the more likely you will need Big Pharma to save  your life from diabetes and other auto immune diseases.  Big Pharma wants you on drugs like statins, Metformin, insulin,  and Ozempic.  Neither are interested in your health and this also seems true for most presidential candidates. Well, except for Robert F Kennedy Jr.  He seems to be the only candidate willing to expose Big Pharma and the Mass Consumption Industrial Complex. In a recent interview he discussed how the rates of diabetes and auto immune diseases have drastically increased over one generation.  It is no secret that Mike Parrott is not a huge fan of RFK Jr, but on this instance he agrees with him.  Mike breaks down RFK Jr's interview, and he also discusses how Fin Air is now weighing passengers prior to their flight.   On this episode Mike will share his reasons he is not a huge fan of RFK Jr.  This includes which issues he disagrees with, and why Mike still considers him a classic liberal, not this Red Pilled version we se today.  He also reveals how the Mass Consumption Industrial Complex keeps us fat and stupid.     

The supreme object of the 20th century, the automobile's development as both transportation technology and cultural totem is literally the story of American capitalism. In the first episode of a six-part series, we examine the life and legacy of Henry Ford, whose Model T took the nation by storm after its debut in 1908. As Ford rises to an unprecedented position of wealth and power, his virulent anti-semitism and destructive business impulses threaten his company's dominance of an emerging mass market in the 1920s.  The Model T's rise and fall as the nation's most popular commercial product gives us a chance to examine the dark forces at the heart of the progressive era, connecting Ford's business innovations (the assembly line, the $5 day, etc) to the racism and hypernationalism that plunged the world into depression and war. The series will continue with Parts 2-5 on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nostalgiatrap Sources/inspiration for this episode include: Paul Ingrassia, Engines of Change: The American Dream in Fifteen Cars  100 Cars That Changed the World: The Designs, Engines, and Technologies That Drive Our Imaginations William Knoedelseder, Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit  Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America 

In this episode Tami, Taryn, and Rob read 3 different ‘micro-histories’ and geeked out on the idea of what ‘Micro-histories’ are and how much they love them. This is a terrific episode for everyone who likes to take a deep dive every now and then! What is the definition of a Micro-history? Mono-histories Seattle Public Library Article on Mono histories  Deep Dives A History on any single person, place, event, or object. Looking at the world through that one 'thing' and how it influences the world.  Wikipedia Definition: Microhistory is a genre of history that focuses on small units of research, such as an event, community, individual or a settlement. In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simple case study insofar as microhistory aspires to "[ask] large questions in small places", according to the definition given by Charles Joyner.[1] It is closely associated with social and cultural history. Books We Read For This Episode Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America's Most Iconic Cheese by Gordon Edgar Stiff by Mary Roach The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything by Ruth Goodman    Books Mentioned The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell American Cheese by Joe Berkowitz  Milk by Mark Kurlansky Grunt by Mary Roach  Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption by Dr. Stephen D. Rosenberg   Sites Mentioned Tillamook Creamery Olympia Brewing Company - Olympia beer was discontinued in Jan 2021 Cabot Cheese Jasper Hill Farm Cheese  Quickes Cheddar, Exeter England Westminster Dog Show    Media Mentioned Raiders of the Lost Ark    What Micro-History Would You Like To Write Rob - The Domestication of Pets and Looking specifically at Dogs Taryn - Harvey House Restaurants (along the Santa Fe Railroad) Tami - History of State Fair Food (Food)

In episode 35 we take a hard look at the explosion of Clubhouse, how it might be a sign of the times and a sign of the top. Also what impact the tech market has on bitcoin and what impact bitcoin has on the tech market. Is one a leading indicator of the other. Is bitcoin a leading and a lagging indicator of tech stocks? If so can you play that advantage to your own advantage as an investor?We also drink and rate beers (as we do) from Overtone with their "Weapons of Mass Consumption", 3Ravens and their "Juicy IPA" and Boaz continues his lent beer challenge. All this and more in today's Booze, Booms & Busts, episode 35

Note: Bob and Ben start off talking about the Covid-19 outbreak and plans for upcoming episodes of this podcast. We shift to our discussion with Dr. Cohen at about 10:30. The suburbanization of the American landscape after World War II left the country's older urban centers in crisis. Revitalizing cities was no easy task, and many of the most inspiring plans for reconstructing America's urban space went unfulfilled. These visions may have never come to fruition, but Lizabeth Cohen says there is much to learn from the visionaries. In this episode Dr. Cohen joins us for a conversation about post-WWII America, the pros and cons of biography, and her new book Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, which recently won her a second Bancroft Prize for American History. Dr. Lizabeth Cohen is Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. Cohen's previous books include Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer, and A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Note: Bob and Ben start off talking about the Covid-19 outbreak and plans for upcoming episodes of this podcast. We shift to our discussion with Dr. Cohen at about 10:30.  The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.  

This week on Terra Informa, we revisit a timely episode from this past summer's coverage of the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Listen as Terra Informer Dylan Hall interviews fashionista and not-for-profit educator Jess Montgomery on the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry.

Introducing Media For Mass Consumption. A new podcast starting November 4th, 2019! Twitter- @badmediapod Email us at badmediapod@gmail.com

In Episode 53, Quinn & Brian ask: How the hell do we pull clean drinking water out of thin air? Our guest is Dr. Shing-Chung “Josh” Wong, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Akron In addition to pursuing bio-inspired materials research, he has worked on mechanical behavior and functional properties of polymers, electrospinning, processing-structure-property relationships, coatings, bio- and nano-materials, and composites. Dr. Wong has authored and co-authored over 70 archived articles in book, journal, and patent literatures, and in 2007, he was selected as a recipient for the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. There are a lot of words you may not understand in that bio – don’t worry, you’re not alone – but the reason Josh is awesome and we wanted him on the show comes down to one simple fact: he has invented some very cool shit that benefits anyone who enjoys being alive on Earth. He comes from a place of such moral integrity, constantly striving to use his capacity for innovation and discovery to help other people... a trait that is almost staggeringly uncommon these days, to our detriment. Trump’s Book Club: Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult by Professor Melissa Schrift Links: Contribute to the University of Akron Foundation (with a note that it’s a gift to support water harvesting research by Professor Josh Wong): https://www.uakron.edu/treasurer/uaf.dot Check out Josh’s water harvester: https://www.uakron.edu/engineering/me/me-news-detail.dot?newsId=c1f0c8d5-a992-468b-bb91-7ba9e3ea4597&pageTitle=Recent%20Headlines&crumbTitle=Engineering%20professor%20to%20present%20freshwater%20research%20at%20ACS%20national%20meeting Brad Meltzer’s incredible books for kids: http://bradmeltzer.com/TV-Kids-and-More/Kids-Books Connect with us: Subscribe to our newsletter at ImportantNotImportant.com! Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Follow Quinn: twitter.com/quinnemmett Follow Brian: twitter.com/briancolbertken Like and share us on Facebook: facebook.com/ImportantNotImportant Check us on Instagram: instagram.com/ImportantNotImportant Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Pin us on Pinterest: pinterest.com/ImportantNotImportant Tumble us or whatever the hell you do on Tumblr: Support this podcast

Are our purchase decisions the biggest weapons of mass destruction? Olly Bolton, CEO of Almond shares ideas on a sustainable, transparent economic framework to help responsible brands build their sales.  For more information visit http://almond.io/.  

Josh talks about San Diego Comic Con 2018, The passing of  Jon Schnepp, why James Gunn was fired, and how to get a free copy of the Indie Comicbook Omega Stike from Reilly Comics. The age old Question: Is Gotham based on New York City or Chicago is finally answered! James Gunn - 5:15 Jon Schnepp 31:52 Free Comicbook 54:25 Physical or digital copy is your choice 

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Josh and Crystal watch the sitcom Friends. This is a sitcom companion podcast so turn on  Season 1, Episode 1 of Friends "The One Where Monica gets a Roommate" and follow along. Listen for Josh to say PLAY to sync!

On this weeks Unregimented, Aaron, Chris, and Rich discuss:  normalizing, fake news and social media, Russian hacks, China, Frank Luntz’s plan to leave the country, the fall of America?, death and black comedy, after death, gamma pulse in the brain, & what makes a good Hitler analogy.  Thank you for listening on iTunes, Google Play,...

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