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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

76 - Conrad Schmidt

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In addition to writing Workers of the World Relax!, Schmidt created the international clothing-optional World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) in 2004.


In 2003 Schmidt was a coordinator for the Work Less Party of British Columbia, a political party which advocates a 32-hour work week and reduced consumerism.


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0:00.0

I

0:04.0

Quit my job this moment

0:07.0

I don't want to work no more

0:12.0

McDonald's and taco back up modern day slave

0:19.0

My friend

0:22.0

Get you a big fat sack of yeah, yo can't see my kids can't see my wife

0:27.0

I can't see a way to control my dog

0:30.0

Oh, love and man breaking down parties super time

0:36.0

Afro man talking about something we all know and and hate which is wage slavery

0:44.0

Anybody's got a job is essentially working within the slave

0:50.0

Paradigm the slave model you you sell your time time you'll never get back time

0:57.0

That is precious and very finite none of us know how much we've got but we're selling it for a price and who sets the price and how's the price

1:09.2

Get set and is that price even approaching anything that we could possibly call fair?

1:14.5

I don't think so and today's guest doesn't think so either he's the head of the I think it's the work less party and the author of a book called

1:24.3

Workers of the world relax you're gonna dig this one

1:29.3

But before we get into that that song is called fuck McDonald's in Taco Bell and it's Afro man check it out

1:36.0

He's very good my other favorite Afro man song is I think it's called Mississippi

1:41.3

very funky tune

1:43.3

But before we get into

1:45.6

Bad mouthing business. Let's take care of some business ourselves here first of all

1:50.8

Last episode I talked about club W and I hadn't tried it yet

1:55.7

They kindly sent me three bottles of wine. I tried two of them last night and I've got to tell you they sucked

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