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*PREVIEW* Alice Caldwell-Kelly Plays Escalator Simulator (20 hrs)

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Check out this bonus episode preview, where Alice realises her dream of becoming a game designer.  The full bonus features author and economist James Meadway on his fourth TF appearance, and we're talking about the right-wing thing tanks that make British public life so unbearable. Did you know that everything is fine because people today have 100 percent more wifi access than the Royals did 300 years ago? Learn about this, and more, by listening. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/universal-bowtie-31183956?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare

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0:00.0

I'd like to go a little bit further back in time.

0:02.5

We're going to talk about the Cameroon think tanks, even spookier.

0:06.7

So there are two that I want to talk about.

0:09.8

Bright Blue is the first one.

0:11.5

It was founded in 2010.

0:12.6

It was supposed to be the big intellectual source for most of Cameronism.

0:17.0

And not much can be said for Bright Blue because their main...

0:19.7

Spied by breaking bad.

0:21.2

So or more or less.

0:22.6

Their main policy accomplishments have included pressuring for a law requiring natural

0:26.5

gas suppliers to be infinitesimally more carbon efficient, like by 2050.

0:32.0

Cutting stamp duty for first-time home buyers, which basically was just an advertisement

0:35.8

for right to buy, and increasing

0:38.1

the repayment salary threshold for student loans. But most importantly, they provided several years

0:43.8

of employment for Matthew Dancona. This is, that's a net get, no, that's not, is that a net gain

0:48.8

for society? It's what keeps him out of the way of anything else, doesn't it? Yeah, the Dancona.

0:52.3

Yes.

0:52.9

Yeah, Matthew, UBI for pundits.

0:56.3

Milo in his comedy set talks a lot about how there are lots of just nonsense jobs in Russia,

1:01.6

where it's like there's a guy at the bottom of every like escalator in the Moscow Metro

1:05.8

who sits in a box watching the escalator, and his only job is to watch the escalator.

1:12.4

He does not provide any advice or help if the box catches, if the escalator catches on fire, his job is to watch the escalator

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