(342 PART 1) Oobah Butler: how Amazon are flooding the world with p*ss
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Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hello all you Private Parters, welcome back to the podcast where nothing is off limits!
It’s Friday which means we are back with another great guest! This week, Jamie is joined by filmmaker, presenter and author Oobah Butler. You might recognise Oobah from VICE documentaries such as How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant and How To Crash Paris Fashion Week.
Oobah is back with a new documentary on Channel 4 called The Great Amazon Heist, which sees him go undercover at Amazon to uncover first hand the conditions faced by workers. He reveals all to Jamie about the film and his findings, including how he manages to ‘sell’ Amazon drivers urine as a number 1 product on the site itself.
As well as this, he chats to Jamie about his VICE documentary where he created a fake restaurant and got it to number 1 on TripAdvisor, with people calling up to try and book tables… that didn’t even exist! This is an episode you really don’t want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | And can you believe we're on series 10 and what a series it's going to be where kicking |
| 0:07.1 | off with guests like Luana, Laurie Haynes and none other than Katie Bryce? |
| 0:11.7 | And guys don't forget, if you think you've had a mystical you're going to listen back |
| 0:14.9 | to some amazing episodes with guests like Leverwood, Jack Josser, Amy Childs, Fog Williams, |
| 0:20.5 | here third none plus Lord's Lord's Ball. Enjoy! |
| 0:32.3 | Hello everybody, welcome to your Friday episode of Powerpots. Today we have an amazing guest on. |
| 0:42.2 | The guest is Uber Butler, he's a filmmaker, he's a journalist and author, television presenter. |
| 0:48.1 | He is the co-host of Catfish UK if you've seen that and he's done some incredible films, |
| 0:54.4 | some of the films that I absolutely love. He started on Vice. Now if you've never seen Vice, |
| 0:59.0 | it's an online YouTube channel where they had made films about certain topics. He did an amazing |
| 1:07.1 | documentary which was called The Shed which was about him getting his restaurant which was |
| 1:14.0 | completely made up to be the top rated restaurant in the whole of London. It was called The Shed, |
| 1:20.4 | it was in Dalitshire, it didn't even exist and he actually opened it for one night and one night |
| 1:24.3 | only for customers to come in and he fed microwave food with his customers blindfolded. It was just |
| 1:30.4 | unbelievable the whole thing. He's gone on to do other things but his most recent documentary on |
| 1:35.6 | Channel 4 is called The Great Amazon Hice which is basically a two year investigation looking at |
| 1:40.7 | different areas of the company. Now it's amazing he goes into become a see what the work experiences |
| 1:48.0 | like in Amazon and then he goes on to sell Amazon workers urine on Amazon. Now the whole thing |
| 1:56.5 | sounds completely bizarre and crazy but it's amazing. We chatted for about an hour and a half, it was |
| 2:01.9 | fantastic so get ready for this episode. Now as always guys please go and check out our social media |
| 2:07.7 | channels at Private Podcasts. We're also on YouTube and also if you haven't subscribed already |
| 2:12.9 | please do. Okay here we go. Please enjoy the episode with Uber Butler. |
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