Hello and welcome back to even more news the first and only news podcast. My name is Katie Stole.

Hi Katie stole. What a sing song intro. Hello. Welcome to me to the show. I'm Cody. Hi Cody.

Joining us today we're very excited to welcome labor journalist and author of the critically acclaimed book Fight Like Hell, the untold history of American labor. You guessed it. It's Kim Kelly.

Hello.

Hi glad to be here.

Oh, we're happy to have you here. It's been a minute since we chatted. I think it that was worst you're ever even last time we talked.

I believe in no man. I'm like, it's just been a minute since I've done anything normal. I think so this is.

Is this normal? Is this normal now? It is the common normal. Yeah. Yeah. Talking into the computer. Talking into the computer screen.

Trying not to look at my own self. Don't do it. Don't do it. Katie. Don't do it. Oh, good. The propane guys here. Let's see how much they'll charge me.

Propane's very expensive. Don't know why. My house is eating. I'm like a 17th century whaler. My house is heated by oil. So every couple of months I got to call J Cardulo down in South Philly to show up with a big old truck with a big hose and pump oil into the big tank in my basement.

And I call all the money in the world.

That is a new one to me. Obviously it's not a new one in terms of people's energy sources, but I have not heard of someone's house being heated by oil. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's something we should face out. Yeah, my land was like, yeah, when the boiler or whatever, when the tank breaks, we'll get an electric one. But I think it's been there for 30 years and it is hanging on.

Yeah, just got out of here. Some steel toe boots and kicking a bunch. Climate sabotage. You gotta blow up your pipe. It starts to come here. Yeah, exactly.

Okay. Okay. This is fun. I have a good feeling about this episode. We got a good vibe going. But first we got to celebrate some holidays. We get to celebrate some holidays. March 23rd near Miss.

Day near Miss. Day is celebrated on March 23rd each year. What would you do? If you huge asteroid was about to hit planet Earth on March 23rd 1989 and asteroid about the size of a mountain came very close to colliding with your thankfully, it was a near miss.

Happy that day to everyone who celebrates. That's nice. Okay. We survived. We survived. We did it by existing and gravity to care the rest.

Uh huh. I imagine the near miss was actually like hundreds and hundreds of miles probably. Probably like it was like enormous unfathomable distance.

I read this. And all right, here we go. I think that a near miss doesn't have to only be applied to an asteroid. I think that we all have moments in our life that were near misses.

And those can be good or bad. Maybe this can be a moment of reflection. You didn't get hit by that car. You didn't get that job. But maybe that was for the best. Maybe it was for the past.

Am I taking this too far? No, I think that's the purpose of the day, right? Is to take something that happened in the world and then apply it to your everyday life. You take. You take the metaphor and then you extend it to. It's certainly the purpose of this segment. Okay. Also March 24th.

The day that you are listening to this probably hopefully National flatmates day.

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