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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: *Bonus* Stories From A Shanty Town
Description: Stories From A Shanty Town
For almost a year, Shaughnessy lived with a group of homeless squatters on a vacant lot in Canada. Their shanty town was called Tent City, and every day was an act of survival. He chronicles this endeavor in a book called Down To This. We discussed all sorts of things, including the use of violence as a method of communication, the spectrum of unique personalities he encountered, what the most important survival skill is, and how this skill would be useful in the zombie apocalypse.
Images from Hungover and Down To...