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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Labor Unions

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7720 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Matt Apodaca, Heather Anne Campbell, and Nick Wiger for a look at why labor unions are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Labor unions, known for work, famous for strikes. Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun. Let's find out why labor unions are secretly, incredibly fascinating. Hey!

0:34.2

Hey there, folks.

0:39.7

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone. I'm joined by

0:46.6

three incredible guests today. Matt Apodaca, Heather Ann Campbell, and Nick Weiger.

0:53.1

Three incredible guests.

0:54.4

I'm very wealthy in friendship.

0:56.5

Feels good.

0:57.6

Matt and Heather and Nick are the three co-hosts of How Did This Get Played?

1:01.9

Which is a very, very funny Earwolf podcast about the worst and weirdest video games ever made.

1:07.1

And some joy about great games, too.

1:09.6

There's a lot there.

1:12.5

And these three have many, many other things going on too. Matt Apodaca is an amazing improviser. You've probably heard him

1:17.2

guesting on Comedy Bang Bang. Heather's an amazing improviser as well. You can see her on

1:22.4

whose line is it anyway, on TV. Also a wonderful writer. She's been part of The Twilight Zone, Rick and Morty,

1:29.6

SNL, to name just a few. And Nick is co-host of an amazing podcast called The Do Boys,

1:36.3

and they's written comedy for Disney Plus, Hulu, Comedy Central. One of my favorite

1:40.8

funnier die videos of all time. These folks are up to many, many, many things all at once,

1:46.8

and I am so glad they fit in a whole other taping

1:49.7

to come hang out with me about unions.

1:52.9

Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes

1:54.7

and used internet resources like native-land.ca

1:57.8

to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional land of the Canarsie and

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