The Dislike Club (finale/ABC version)

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this program (which originally aired on the ABC last December) your host makes his final attempt to build the ultimate anti-social-media-social-platform. Things continue to decline: the phone in the hand becomes the phone on a stick in the hand. And we meet a controversial blogger who overnight becomes one of the internet’s most disliked people. Plus, of course the real dislike club. Thanks to our sponsor http://www.parachutehome.com/theory

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**** the DISLIKE CLUB Finale was commissioned by RADIOTONIC from the ABC’s Creative Audio Unit. For best enjoyment listen to the whole six part series, but this installment stands on its own

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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1:16.0	Head over to radiotopia.F.M slash donate and make your gift today. Thank you so much for listening and supporting this show. So, During the Ming Dynasty, every winter solstice, the Emperor would travel to the temple of heaven and make a sacrifice.
1:53.7	It was believed that the smoke from the burning calf would reach the heavens.
1:59.1	Ceremonial scrawls were also burned on the altar, but only after they were read by an orator.
2:05.3	The orator would stand on the heaven heartstone at the center of the temple.
2:09.9	The marble walls surrounding the heaven heartstone would amplify the orator's voice. The I traveled to the Temple of Heaven, but just as I was about to mount the Heaven
2:24.8	Heartstone and send my voice to the heavens, I was rudely shoved aside by what I thought
2:30.1	was a blind tourist with a cane, but there was a cell phone attached to a stick.
2:36.5	Then this man jumped under the heaven heartstone, ripped off his sunglasses, brandished
2:40.6	his stick at the sky sky and took a selfie. I could hear the shutter
2:45.8	clicking away as he marched off with his stick outstretched in front of him. I
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