Episode 41: Internal Class Struggle

To celebrate a year of co-hosting, Knut and Chris discuss what it was like to grow up alongside people with more money, and one seminally Norwegian solution for evening out financial inequality. Chris also celebrates making Knut uncomfortable for the second episode in a row. Skype is a 🍆.

To celebrate a year of co-hosting, Knut and Chris discuss what it was like to grow up alongside people with more money, and one seminally Norwegian solution for evening out financial inequality. Chris also celebrates making Knut uncomfortable for the second episode in a row. Skype is a 🍆.

Links:

The Crown (TV Series 2016– ) - IMDbDinner For One - YouTube — (which Chris refers to as The Christmas Sketch — Norwegians traditionally watch this at Christmas, and so, with thanks to listener Ellis, do Germans :)Jane Austen - WikipediaShakespeare in the original Klingon - YouTubeKabelstrekksangeren - Svend Helstrup - NRK (1979) - YouTube — Singing a song about pulling the cableStar Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - IMDbDet beste fra Bedre sent enn alvor (Vol 2) — (Spotify link) — sorry, despite Chris saying this is in English, it is of course in Norwegian. Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (Dirty Uncle Bertie) - YouTube — Sketch chosen at random but strangely fitting, given this week's discussion of The Crown and class.Brødrene Dal og professor Drøvels hemmelighet Episode 1 del1 - YouTube — (sorry, English-language listeners. One day YouTube will get on this and sort out automated transcripts in one's language of choice) Rugrats (TV Series 1990–2006) - IMDb — Not this.Our Gang - Wikipedia — (not Rugrats)Store norske leksikon — "It's the best dictionary and encyclopedia of the world, like Wikipedia but with better design" — Norwegian Guy."Help, we're in the toilet paper industry!" — (And not, as Google Translate suggests, the darling industry 🙄)Karpe Diem - Au Pair (Offisiell video) - YouTubeBolia | New Scandinavian Design — "Somewhere in the spectrum of the middle class"Top tales of interpreters — The chief interpreter nervously punched the intercom button and yelled to the German interpreter, “We’re not getting any sound from you!”

Came the reply, “I’m waiting for the verb!”Bank ID, the verification system that makes daily routine financial transactions in Norway possible and (hopefully) secure — What this Google-Translated page sadly doesn't show you is the wonderful passphrases that BankID for mobile uses, consisting of adjective + noun. The pairings are often amusing, sometimes apparently on purpose (like during national security month [yes, this is a thing] and at Christmas)Horse_ebooks - Wikipedia