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*PREVIEW* Midwestology 3: Do Not Perceive the Precious Moments Citadel

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Milo is in Australia and the time zone difference is killing us, but in his absence we convened Joe Kassabian and Francis Horton to discuss the American Midwest with Hussein. We cover the strange post-industrial wasteland of pretty much the entire region, the concept of Precious Moments ceramic figurines (Funko Pops for meemaws), and Hussein reads us a list of supposedly foundational Midwest Emo bands that we have 99% never heard of. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/midwestology-3-102918403 *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast*MILO IN AUSTRALIA ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming Australian tour shows here: www.linktr.ee/Miloontour *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0

But now if you go on Henry Ford Museum's website, there's literally just a tab that says Henry Ford

0:05.2

an anti-Semitism. I've told this story so many times about like kids all across the Midwest have to

0:11.7

learn how to square dance because Henry Ford was convinced that jazz was a Jewish plot to weaponize black

0:16.7

music to degrade white culture. Like, yeah, I mean, Hussain, I wanted to say this to Hussain, because

0:21.6

Hussein has a lot of experience with British suburbs, but British suburbs and American

0:25.0

suburbs are such a different vibe because American suburbs, it's so much like, here's the

0:29.3

city limits, here's the county line, here's the dividing line, it's like, we have our own

0:32.6

police force, and also, we can't officially say it anymore post-1965 but if you're black we're going to pull your car over yeah feels like there's sort of i've been very fascinating again this is very much like

0:41.4

maybe like there's my sort of pull towards midwest email like suburban emo kind of comes

0:46.0

comes out of this too but it does sort of feel like the suburbs and like the american

0:50.0

experience is like a lot more um you know i i guess i guess you have like the suburban vote

0:56.1

in the states right and that's like a distinct thing and there's like distinct politics and

1:01.1

there's like a defense of the suburbs and i know that there's like there are like racial elements

1:05.0

like towards that i mean there's more than racial elements to it like they were in they were

1:08.3

designed to exclude non- right people and also like

1:11.9

lots of suburbs were like company company suburbs as well so like it's kind of link between commerce and

1:17.7

like the type and that type of familiar arrangement whereas like and i i don't know too much about

1:23.3

the history of the british suburbs but you don, it's not really talked about in that way.

1:28.5

I think in terms of the British suburbs, I guess you have, like, if you're looking at,

1:32.6

like, distinct types of votes that were distinct types of, like, residents in relation to,

1:38.8

like, political outcomes, I suppose one element of that is, like, the commuter town.

1:45.3

So, like, I grew up in a commuter town, um, which in the sense of like it was a suburb that was like near enough to

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