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2. Knows What Art is Pegged to Gold Standard

3. Has No Idea Who Shel Silverstein Is

      John Scanlan - Let's Get Wasted

Let’s Get Wasted

There is nothing more ubiquitous in human existence than waste.  To live is to produce refuse.  And there are so many kinds of waste:  Human, household, digital to name a few.  But what is waste really?  Turns out, the definition is pretty fluid.  In this episode I talk to John Scanlan, author of “The Idea of Waste” to get to bottom of this garbage pile.  What I find there is shocking.  We discuss fatburgs, cardboard furniture, sealed crap pegged to the gold standard, Henry Ford, and of course Shel Silverstein.  

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