A McKinsey Whisteblower Spills the Beans / Garrison Lovely

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Chuck interviews Garrison Lovely on his article at The Nation Magazine, "Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower: Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret world of our most powerful consulting firm." Check out the article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/ Today's episode also features a new installment of Rotten History by Renaldo Migaldi. Support This is Hell! at www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	The water is with the...
0:15.0	I'll get our power to be...
0:18.0	Take a jack!
0:20.0	You're welcome Neil. This is hell.
0:40.0	hell.
0:44.8	Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell not that we know the subject of today's
0:57.1	conversation has actually committed any real crimes or is doing so right now. I mean we do know they paid 574 million dollars
1:06.2	to US authorities as part of a settlement for its role in the opioid crisis
1:10.8	which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
1:13.4	We also know they agreed to pay more than 100 million to the South African government and
1:17.6	compensation for its involvement in a massive corruption scandal.
1:22.0	Then there's the tens of millions they made consulting for the scandal plague Enron at the turn of the
1:27.7	century.
1:28.7	But the firm is so secretive.
1:30.8	We're not even certain who their clients have been, or are today, or the work they
1:36.2	do for whoever their clients happen to be.
1:39.3	What we do know, and we'll learn from today's guest is they act in an amoral fashion as if
1:46.3	right or wrong makes no difference all that matters is they get paid despite Despite all these scandals and many, many more, somehow a consultant from that very firm
1:58.4	not only ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and at one point was one of the leaders in the polls in 2020
2:06.3	But that candidate Pete Budijichich is now the Secretary of Transportation in the Biden administration.
2:14.9	But it's not like it's a Democratic Party outfit.
2:18.1	Know that the consulting firm of McKinsey and Company gets not only bipartisan support here in the United States
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