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(preview) How To Blow Up a Podcast

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Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Alex tells us about the book How To Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. FOR FULL EPISODE GO TO PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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0:00.0

it could be argued from this man's perspective.

0:03.0

He talks about in 2007, a campaign he was on in Sweden,

0:08.4

going around slashing the tires of all of the SUVs in the rich neighborhoods.

0:14.2

So they had all these rules about which ones you could slash,

0:18.1

and you would go up to the big fancy houses,

0:20.8

and you'd get their thing with a knife, and just would go up to the big fancy houses, and you'd get

0:21.7

their thing with a knife, and just one night of action could slow the whole world, and you'd leave

0:25.4

a note. You'd leave a note on their windshield that says, sorry, friend, we love you and your cool

0:31.7

way you live your life, but this car is not it, chief. And so people get these, and it was a nonviolent action, but it was covered in the news.

0:42.6

And this is also the focus of the book.

0:45.1

It was effective in that people were fucking pissed.

0:49.1

If you run an effective protest, it is not covered glowingly in the news the next day. There was, I mean,

0:55.9

this is Sweden too. So there was like all the like kind of, you know, lukewarm, a reserved

1:04.4

Swedes up in arms over the slashing of the tires of their escalades and hummers. And a count,

1:10.7

they named, all right, so the group the author was in, named themselves,

1:15.5

keep in mind this is 2007, Indians of the Concrete.

1:19.3

Oh.

1:19.9

With the idea that they were like Native Americans of Sweden, don't think about it.

1:25.5

And they were land backing the SUVs.

1:28.6

And so they were going around doing that.

1:31.6

And the public response was so negative that people named themselves the cowboys of the concrete.

1:36.8

And they promised to scalp and kill the Indians of the concrete if they saw them.

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