From murky coffee, Washington, DC. Jay Caragay is away on assignment.A fascinating and insightful chat with Bryant Simon, Director of American Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, who is working on a book about Starbucks Coffee. Enjoy the first stereo podcast we've uploaded, and enjoy the new intro music ("Portafilter Remix" by Zachary Carlsen, general manager, murky coffee capitol hill).
1 hours 3 minutes and 47 seconds
MP3 format, 58.5 MB in STEREO... WooooOOO!!!
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i'd love to hear more from this guy. Good luck Bryant.
ReplyDeleteAWESOME interview ... can't wait for this book.
ReplyDeleteFantastic interview. After leaving Starbucks after being there for a year, it was interesting for me to hear global perspectives of Starbucks and coffee shops.
ReplyDelete“Just another fucking love song”... It may turn out to be a good read, and Nick I thought the interview was great with good challenging questions. But really I can't help feeling Bryant is all wrapped up in the “Corporate America is going to mean the end of a world where we are allowed to think for ourselves” conspiracy theory. Apologies for that mouthful. The working title in itself is there to grab sales, for his publisher, and himself… “Consuming Starbucks” but you know what? Why not? It’s very hard to swallow the Bryant and his publisher don’t want this on the NYT best seller lists and that would be hard if the prose turned out too generic to generate any real momentum for itself. i.e. it would turn out to be more of a text book than a best seller. I can’t help thinking though that what Bryant has to say is more of a comment on the gullibility of “Community” than what corporations are trying to make us believe is Community.
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha ... just heard the remix
ReplyDeleteVery enjoyable listen; I appreciated his perspective on the structured arrangement of social space of sbucks stores.
ReplyDeleteGreat interview, I'd love to hear another one as he gets closer to finishing his book.
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