Smallworld Podcast Best-of
August
You can find Mt. Holly on Google Maps, one lonely dot near the center
of Shakopee. Zoom in and see that the city resides entirely on the
corner of Third Avenue East and Holmes Street, across from the Scott
County Jail. The town consists of a tidy 1940s bungalow and a single
pine tree. Until very recently, Mt. Holly had but one resident: its
mayor, Mike Haeg. The minuscule municipality experienced a
three-hundred-percent population increase when Haeg’s wife and two
children were granted citizenship by the mayor, also the town’s
leading advocate of population control.
Interview with Mike Haeg, Mayor of Mount Holly.
We discuss the landscape of Mount Holly; living modestly; traveling
abroad in Europe; how Europe helped shape his political views; the
founding of Mount Holly; the citizens of Mount Holly; the state of
Godzilla; how a post on Boing Boing helped spread awareness of Mount
Holly; the ‘I Kissed A Stranger’ project; the city’s major imports and
exports; his early political ambitions; how being the mayor has
reinforced his politics; the upcoming presidential elections; his
political struggle with Ungabunga, a wooden idol; the Mount Holly
Public Library; the Mount Holly Municipal Records Department; the band
Bridgeclub; how he met Mac Dawg.
Featured song is “We Get It On” by Mac Dawg.
