Also On This Episode

This episode features a couple of clips from the not very good NBC sitcom Welcome to Sweden, as well as from a very classily produced BBC Newsnight segment juxtaposing the dueling narratives about Sweden that you routinely find in the media. I only excerpted the utopia bits, but the whole segment was quite good. Music I talked over included the theme for NPR's All Things Considered, "You've Got Your Troubles" by Billy Strange, "A Remote View" by Sambassadeur, "Magellan" and "Book of Swords" by Felt, "Your Last Goodbye" by Floyd Cramer, "Goodbye" by Goat, "Sad Baby" by Haley Bonar, and "Before Cologne" by Ben Folds.