#144 Dark Pattern

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, we discover an invisible maze, designed to trick millions of people out of their money. Justin Elliot’s Twitter Pro Publica’s questionnaire for people who’ve worked at Intuit Intuit CEO’s video response Find a Free File tax product on the IRS site Pro Publica’s reporting on Turbo Tax Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes TurboTax Deliberately Hid Its Free File Page From Search Engines TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat — and Gutted It Elizabeth Warren and Other Senators Call for Refunds and Investigations of TurboTax and H&R Block Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimla, this is Repio, I'm PJ Boat.
0:13.8	So my absolute favorite TV show of all time is this prank show called Nathan for you.
0:18.5	My name is Nathan Fielder and I graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with
0:23.2	really good grades.
0:24.9	So Nathan claims to be this brilliant business consultant, but really every single time he
0:29.7	shows up to help, he has these suggestions that are just comedic, absurd and completely
0:34.4	morally bankrupt.
0:35.7	So my favorite episode is the gas station episode.
0:39.7	Nathan tells the owner of this gas station that he's going to get him way more business
0:43.4	and the way they're going to do it is that for one day only gas is going to be 175.
0:48.0	A buck 75 with a rebate.
0:50.3	A rebate that has to be hand-delivered to a box at an extremely remote location.
0:56.3	About an hour and a half drive from Savon Gas in the middle of the Angeles National Forest,
1:01.2	the peak of Mount Chaleo is only accessible by foot.
1:04.3	There are die hearts who actually take them up on this and what they learn when they
1:07.6	get there is that even then, to find the rebate box, they're going to have to solve a series
1:11.7	of riddles.
1:12.7	I've been resting for a million years, but I never sleep.
1:17.6	I'm a kind of music, but out here I do not make a peep.
1:22.0	Is it the wind?
1:28.4	It is not wind.
1:30.2	Rock.
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