Gear Shift in Bio feat. Victoria Scott

TRASHFUTURE

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4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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For this week’s free episode, it’s Riley, Hussein, and November with special guest and friend of the show Victoria Scott (@mikurubaeahina) in a discussion about Tesla’s recent earnings call, its recall of its non-warhead-equipped ramming missile / bad looking truck combination, and US car manufacturers hoovering up immense amounts of personal data to be used for… insurance? Law enforcement snitching? Formal identification of when your bisexual friend has the aux cord? It’s not looking good. 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 *LIVE SHOW ALERT* See us live in London on May 29th with special guest Nish Kumar! Get tickets here: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/trashfuture-presents-liz-truss-presents-ten-years-to-save-the-west-ft-nish-kumar/ *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 and welcome to the Freakonomics podcast.
0:15.6	The podcast we talk about how the economy is freaky.
0:18.2	We've got some like counterfactuals and some counterintuitive conclusions to draw from
0:22.9	those for me.
0:23.9	Yeah, absolutely.
0:25.1	We're so glad that you're big fans of the Freakonomics podcast.
0:28.3	And today, we're going to be debunking a few rumors in the media.
0:32.6	If you're not Freakonomics people like us, you may think that Boeing is just systematically
0:37.0	killing whistleblowers
0:38.1	because another Boeing whistleblower just died after a short, mysterious illness.
0:42.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:43.2	This the thing is, right, you got to think about confounding factors, right?
0:46.6	It turns out that, like, being a whistleblower is extremely bad for your health, but not for the obvious reason.
0:53.9	Like, it could be any number of things.
0:55.8	Being a whistleblower, very, very stressful, you know?
0:58.7	And stress, as we know, leads to heart conditions, things of this nature.
1:02.5	Mental health.
1:03.5	Yeah, mental health.
1:04.4	Sometimes you just die, basically.
1:06.3	If you were a whistleblower, like, for unrelated reasons to the company killing you, you become a bit
1:13.0	like a guinea pig and that you can like walk wrong and like fracture your entire skull.
1:16.9	Yeah, well, also, the other thing a lot of people are thinking of is like, okay, there is like
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