The sharing economy explained in just two minutes. A Florida meth lab is a threat to dolphins. And the failure of hashtag diplomacy.
This episode of The 9pm Edict heads to the United States, at least in some strange warped sense.
There’s a story of a meth lab in a Florida hotel room, and we encounter both an episode of Hannity on Fox News and a “sharing economy guru” on the BBC.
There’s also mention of Glassholes harassing a New York restaurant, a bread line in San Jose. and a plan to reverse the California Aqueduct.
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[Credits: Photograph: Caltrain at San Jose Diridon Station by Stilgherrian, 16 May 2014. The 9pm Edict theme by mansardian, Edict fanfare by neonaeon, all from The Freesound Project. Numbers station recordings from The Conet Project at the Internet Archive. Orlando meth lab story from WFTV9 Orlando. Hannity extract from Fox News. Rachel Botsman interview from BBC World Service’s Global Business. Uber discrimination clip from WNYC’s On the Media. Photograph of Stilgherrian taken 29 March 2009 by misswired, used by permission.]
One thing to note about Hannity: on good days the show only has about 1.2 million viewers. That’s less than 0.5% of the American population, and the viewership skews old.
Conversational discussions are usually found on the radio. Hannity does a show there too, but plays second fiddle to the better known Rush Limbaugh.