Bob and Maureen discuss the political complexities of social media with guest Jon Leidecker of the notorious sound collage group Negativland. Along the way they touch on the automation of automobile production, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of the 1960s and 70s, and Maureen's experience as a crash test driver for General Motors. 

Maureen tells the story of a nightmarish battle for access to fresh water for Detroit's poor that lasted more than a decade, and how the recent intervention of Governor Gretchen Whitmer turned the tables. Along the way Maureen recounts the rise of car manufacturing in Detroit, the creation of this country's first black middle class, how automation and globalization destroyed all that, and what it is actually like to try to raise a family with kids in a house that has no water.

Bob introduces Maureen Taylor, chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization. They recount their meeting in the woods in upstate New York, and how Maureen designated Bob her Ambassador, charged with informing people around the world about poor peoples' struggles in Detroit. Maureen recounts stories of the Covid pandemic from Detroit.