A bunch of Eastern European friends blabbing about history, books, labor issues and such. Episodes every other week, on Wednesday.

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Episode excerpts (in order of their appearance):

S02 E04 - Our Beef with Amazon - Past & Present Labor Exploitation https://rss.com/podcasts/totallyunrelated/280246/

S01 E03 - Bad(ly Written) Relationships - A Primer to Why We Can't Have Nice Things https://rss.com/podcasts/totallyunrelated/130650/

S02 E09 - The Chocolate of Our Growing Discontent- Kraft's Cadbury Takeover & Poiana https://rss.com/podcasts/totallyunrelated/354255/

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After the fall of the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europeans had high hopes for the future of their respective countries as they sought to emulate a Western liberal democratic model. A few decades down the line, disdain and resentment have soured the mood. Diana and Irina use Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' book The Light That Failed to discuss the shift in mood towards liberalism since the 1990s, whom people (should) blame for this and how all this fits into the larger puzzle of current events.

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Diana and Larisa continue their conversation on the minefield that is the recruitment process. What are some of the most annoying or straight-up awkward questions people trying to get hired are likely to encounter? And what creative ways might your future supervisor expect you to use your socks? Find out by listening to this here episode!

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Many red flags can pop up during job interviews. Some of them reveal a lot of unpleasant things about how your future workplace. Larisa and Diana discuss some of these warning signs and how to avoid wasting your time with employers that mistreat their workers, ask them to perform several roles for meager pay or simply stunt their growth in positions that offer no prospects.

Music

Lo-Fi Hip-Hop 03 by WinnieTheMoog

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This episode is all about the practical benefits that a basic understanding of science can bring to your health and well-being. Diana and Irina talk about how being able to distinguish between legitimate sources and quackery can improve your daily life and sometimes even save you from a lot of pain, or weird juicing overdoses.

Visit Irina's

Web page: https://irinamateies.ro/

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/IrinaMateie%C8%99Nutri%C8%9BieOncologic%C4%83

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Lo-Fi Hip-Hop 03 by WinnieTheMoog

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Diana and Irina take a reluctant look at the weird world of political fanfiction. If politics is show business for ugly people, why are some people so eager to get them naked and involved in (sticky) situations?

Reading:

McDreamy, McSteamy and McConnell, by Samuel Ashworth, Longreads, September 2019

Maggie x Ronald: Dribble-Down-Economics, by Isaacdoesart, maybejude

Music:

Late Night Radio by Kevin MacLeod

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V for Varoufakis | NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE mit Jan Böhmermann Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afl9WFGJE0M&ab_channel=ZDFMAGAZINROYALE

Diana and Adel discuss Warren Farrell's unfortunate oeuvre from 1993, in which he does a Weininger and discovers that women are bad, actually. We learn that men are the most secretly oppressed group out there, their needs neglected for millennia, and plagued by the many dangers of female attractiveness.

On the plus side, the episode also includes some random banter on the topic of pies and balls. In that order.

Music:

Lo-Fi Hip-Hop 03 by WinnieTheMoog

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Trains are great and we need more of them. But you know what's not? Railway scandals! Diana and Adel learn about the Strousberg affair, a 19th century railway scandal that acted as a catalyst for a major financial crisis and signaled the less than auspicious birth of the Romanian railways.

Trigger warning for Bismarck and the Long Depression (cries in Millennial tears). Monarchy fanboys/girls/nbs might also want to proceed with caution.

Sources:

Lessons from the Long Depression, by Steve Davies, Institute of Economic Affairs

Crisis Chronicles: The Long Depression and the Panic of 1873, Thomas Klitgaard and James Narron, Liberty Street Economics

Money, Morals, and the Pillars of Bismarck's Society, Fritz Stern, Central European History, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, March 1970 , pp. 49 - 72

Bierce, Eminescu and Their Investigations of the Railway Business, Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Ephemerides ; Jun2013, Vol. 58, Issue 1, pp. 119-132

Music:

Lo-Fi Hip-Hop 03 by WinnieTheMoog

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Diana and Irina continue their discussion on the healthcare system in Romania. What's med school like and what lies beyond? Lots of weird anecdotes and difficult career choices, it would seem. How bad is corruption within the health system and has anything changed in the past decade? How could we start to fix some of the issues within the system and - most importantly - can 90s euro-dance sensation Dr Alban help us?

Music:

Lo-Fi Hip-Hop 03 by WinnieTheMoog

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Diana and Irina talk about the pros and cons of the healthcare system in Romania. What role do the public and private sector play? What is the nature of a true emergency? And why is the privatization of the healthcare system the ultimate wet dream of the Romanian political class?

Music:

Lo-Fi Hip-Hop 03 by WinnieTheMoog

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