Beans Clock - 50th Episode Extravaganza
It's our 50th episode! Sort of. There's an asterisk. But it's sort of our 50th episode!
To mark the occasion, Dan and Kasia are tackling their own logo, the Cursed Objects avatar and icon: the beans clock. They take on the politics of time, and discuss the use of the clock to discipline people into docile worker-drones. They learn the helpful unit of time measurement "pissing-while" and why some people thought the clock was "the devil's mill".
Other vital questions: Why did Hugo Chavez put the clocks back by 30 minutes as an anti-imperialist gesture? What is it like to experience time being…
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