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TRASHFUTURE

*PREVIEW* A Fulfilment Driven Life feat. Juliet Jacques

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You wanted to hear more Quillette close-reads, so here it is. We discuss the most bootlicking of all pro-Amazon pieces to ever appear, plus a bizarre 2006 op-ed about shoes from Rafael Behr. Our special guest Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) helps us break down just how brain-melt it all is. You'll love it, folks—you'll absolutely love it.  If you want to hear the whole episode, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28767126 *COME SEE MILO*If you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe, come see our boy perform his show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pindos *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Birmingham Transformed festival on 8th August. Details to come in the next few weeks. If you’re in the West Midlands, come down to Brum for a night of delightful soup jokes. Get tickets here! https://ti.to/birmingham-transformed/birmingham-transformed-2019 *OTHER LIVE SHOW ALERT* Come see Trashfuture live at the Edinburgh Fringe! We’ll perform on August 10th at 21.30. The venue is Venue 277, PQA Venues @Riddle's Court, Edinburgh EH1 2PG. Tickets are £11.50 and there are a ton of discounts available. Get them here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/trashfuture-live-at-the-fringe *SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT*Guess who’s going to play live at The World Transformed in Brighton this September? That’s right, your favourite podcast lads. Buy a ticket here: http://theworldtransformed.org

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0:00.0

Working and cooperating every day as part of a diverse workforce also helps clear up misperceptions.

0:19.5

This is, this is, I love this paragraph more than I love

0:24.6

certain members of my own family. On my second or third day on the job, I was paired with a young

0:30.5

African American woman who'd been at Amazon a few weeks longer than I had. While talking to Celine,

0:34.7

I learned that she had to Uber to and from work every day because she didn't own a car.

0:38.6

The cost of that short ride was $750 each way or about an hour's pay a day.

0:43.1

When I discovered that she lived in a low-income housing project less than a mile from my house,

0:46.9

I offered to drive her to and from work every day.

0:49.5

At first, I was a bit apprehensive about this because I've seen too many episodes of The Wire.

0:56.2

I just like the idea that he's like, he's actually, he's actually not racist in the way that he obviously is,

1:04.6

but instead is expecting he's going to get the like Italian mob thing of he's going to get in the front of the car and she's going to have like a garot and be in the seat behind him.

1:13.5

He's been spending too flage.

1:15.4

They're going to know about the Lufthansa heist.

1:17.5

I said, don't buy anything.

1:20.2

See, I like once convinced an American that like the British version of the wire was called

1:24.5

the bill.

1:25.5

And I reckon I could get that past this guy.

1:28.4

Yeah.

1:30.3

But through my connection to...

1:32.0

But through my connection to Celine,

1:33.8

I learned that the housing project is, in fact,

1:35.7

just another quiet and orderly place

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