#29 The Takeover (REBROADCAST)

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Oscar is an Australian teenager who tried to make the most boring Facebook group possible - a group where members pretend to be corporate drones in a non-existent office. The Facts Karen Duffin is a producer at This American Life. You can find more stories by Karen Duffin at her website. Our theme song is by the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Our ad music is by Build Buildings. Further Reading You can check out the Stackswell and Co. Facebook page here. Read a story about Stackswell and Co. from Fast Company here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Game Lit, this is Reply All.
0:07.0	I show about the internet.
0:08.0	I'm Alex Goldman.
0:13.0	This week's episode is basically wall-to-wall swear words, with the occasional word appropriate
0:17.4	for your children.
0:18.7	So listener, you've been advised.
0:21.0	So this is a story about the struggle for control of a multinational company with thousands
0:26.4	of employees.
0:27.4	The only thing is that this company, it started and it mostly existed in the mind of a teenage
0:32.3	boy.
0:33.7	Reporter Karen Deffen has the story.
0:35.6	The boy is Thomas Oscar.
0:42.2	He's 17.
0:43.2	Hey, hello, Karen.
0:45.7	Hey, Thomas.
0:46.7	How you doing?
0:47.7	He lives in this sleepy beach town in Australia.
0:50.2	Mostly just hangs out with his friends, plays with his dog Shisha.
0:53.6	He volunteers at a thrift shop.
0:55.1	I just stand around and look busy.
0:57.8	That's cool.
0:58.8	Why do you do it?
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