Fire Sale at the Accountability Store feat. Dan Davies

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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For this week’s free episode, we’re joined by returning guest and author Dan Davies, whose recent book “The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind” inspired a discussion of bad AI getting used at the DWP, the post-1970s shareholder revolution, and an incident involving Dutch airport cargo handlers managing to somehow deliver a horrible fate to a box full of squirrels. We very much hope you enjoy. Check out Dan’s book here: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-unaccountability-machine/ If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *EDINBURGH LIVE SHOW ALERT* We're going to be live at Monkey Barrel comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe on August 14, and you can get tickets here: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/621432 *MILO ALERT* Buy Milo’s special ‘Voicemail’ here! https://pensight.com/x/miloedwards/digital-item-5a616491-a89c-4ed2-a257-0adc30eedd6d *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome back to TF. It is your free one.
0:18.5	Free episode this week. It is Riley.
0:21.5	It is November.
0:22.3	It is Milo.
0:23.1	It is Hussein for the first approximately half hour.
0:26.8	And we are rejoined by returning guest.
0:30.1	It is former Bank of England economist turned a noticer of things.
0:34.9	Rachel Reeves.
0:35.6	Hi.
0:36.1	Welcome to the show.
0:37.8	I've actually so trying to stop people saying former Bank of England economists.
0:42.7	It was 30 years ago and my career was, I'll say how badly my career was doing.
0:48.1	I was very nearly the regulator for prepaid funerals in the UK.
0:54.0	Oh, man. I love the ads for prepaid funerals in the UK.
0:55.1	Oh man.
0:57.7	I love the ads for prepaid funerals.
1:00.8	I get them at the gym all the time because they have daytime TV on.
1:02.3	What gym are you going to?
1:04.7	The gym where you're making yourself more unhealthy.
1:10.2	And I remember seeing these as a kid or like whatever, but they seem to be more of them now. And they now, they strike me more now because it's like, this is the cheapest cremation you can get.
1:16.9	And then like suddenly you're looking at it and you're like, hang on, is that one of the spice girls they've got doing this?
1:22.2	Did I ever tell you, I don't know whether this is like a prepaid funeral thing, but it was like related to like death. But my first crush when I was younger was the woman who did the Scottish Widows ad.
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