Do You Fall for Corporate Bullsh*t?

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A researcher at Cornell has designed a Coporate Bullsh*t Receptivity Scale, noting that employees most impressed by corporate nonsense may be least equipped to make effective decisions. Jeff and Anthony dig into the findings, and discuss their own encounters with that particular style of double-speak.

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0:00.0	Listen, go to the site that used to be the swindling site and buy the good thing
0:19.5	and then swindle the company by installing the bad software on their good thing. This is We Have Concerns. Hi, Jeff Kanata. Hi, Anthony Carboney. Hello, Concerned Citizens. That's actually goes right from where we were kind of talking about in the pre-show, consistent, because I want to talk to you today, my friend.
0:38.3	Oh, did you not hear the pre-show? Did you not go to patreon.com slash we have concerns?
0:41.8	You buffoon. You can do it. You still can. You can correct that right now, ladies and gentlemen.
0:48.8	But I want to talk to you, Anthony, about bullshit. We usually do. We do. There's a recurring refrain here on the, on the we have concerns. But I want to talk about a very specific kind of bullshit. Okay. This is... Pet and Teller's bullshit. Season four. That's a great one. That's a great one. It's a fun show. If you haven't seen it, ladies and gentlemen, go check it out. I think Brian Brushwood was on that, our buddy Brian Brushwood.
1:13.8	Was he? He was either on bullshit or fool us. He was on one of the Penn and Teller shows, I think.
1:18.2	That's great. He's awesome. I should call him. I haven't talked to him in a minute.
1:23.6	Corporate bullshit is the specific kind of bullshit I want to talk to you about.
1:28.3	I think this will hit home.
1:30.0	You and I have both worked at places, corporate places where we've been sort of entrenched in that corporate speak.
1:40.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:41.1	Here's what I'll say.
1:42.4	I've done a better job at avoiding it than most.
1:45.3	I think we both have, but we've both experienced it. Yeah. You know, I see it.
1:50.9	The tradeoff is I have no financial security. Yeah. We'll get into that too. But the, I'm not you
1:59.8	specifically, but you know, how this contributes to that.
2:02.0	No, somebody please talk to me about my financial insecurity. This episode's an intervention for
2:06.6	Anthony. Somebody that knows about finance, please help me. My family is dying. No, I see this
2:12.3	every single day because my wife is really in the corporate world. My wife.
2:18.1	My wife.
2:19.1	My wife is VP of marketing for a company, which means...
2:24.4	First of all, congrats.
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