Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
If you wrote a list of all the things you own in your house, how long would it be? We surround ourselves with possessions, but at what point do they start to possess us?
Original Air Date: September 05, 2020
Guests:
Angelo Bautista — Eula Biss — Adam Minter — Giles Slade — Clare Dolan
Interviews In This Hour:
The Magnum Opus Of Pointless Stuff — 'A $400K Container For A Washing Machine': An Author Grapples With The Inherent Ickiness Of Homeownership — The Global Garage Sale — Why Stuff Doesn't Last Anymore — A Museum Of The Mundane
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's Anne. |
| 0:02.0 | If you wrote a list of all the things you own in your house, |
| 0:07.0 | how long do you think it would be? |
| 0:09.0 | Scary thought, huh? |
| 0:11.0 | Well, this week on to the best of our knowledge, |
| 0:14.0 | we're thinking about stuff, personal possessions. |
| 0:18.0 | In a time of Amazon deliveries, |
| 0:20.0 | IKEA furniture, floating landfills, Marie Kondo, seems like we're all either consuming or being consumed. |
| 0:30.1 | This episode, why do we have so much stuff? |
| 0:47.1 | Music stuff. It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 0:53.8 | And I'm Angela Batista. So, Anne, I went on a little field trip and I just have to talk about |
| 1:00.0 | it. Have you ever heard of The House on the Rock? |
| 1:03.0 | Yes. People have been telling me about it since I moved to Wisconsin 30 years ago. It's like |
| 1:08.0 | a big tourist attraction, you know, a house on a really big rock. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, yeah. Everyone told me to go check it out too, but they wouldn't really tell me much else about it. |
| 1:17.0 | They would say it was built by this man named Alex Jordan. |
| 1:21.5 | Wow. |
| 1:22.9 | He spent decades building it, but they don't really say much else. |
| 1:26.6 | Can I go up? |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. spent decades building it, but they don't really say much else. Can I go up? So what is the thing about the house on the rock? |
| 1:34.3 | Well, I expected this architectural house tour, which it was at first. |
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