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*PREVIEW* Bride of Frankenstein's Balance Sheet feat. Rob Smith

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Contrary to popular belief, we were not the people who broke the story about Lex Greensill and supply chain finance -- we just fell in love with it because it was the perfect intersection of all our interests (tech bullshit, obvious fraud, Australians, guys). However, someone who has been on this story since its inception is Financial Times journalist Rob Smith (@BondHack), and he's on the show today to review what's happened in this big ol' mess-er-idoo. Get the whole thing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50043076 *NEW SHIRTS ALERT* We are accepting pre-orders for two new shirt designs until the end of the day on April 16, 2021 -- get them here! https://www.trashfuture.co.uk/shop We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate *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 Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

essentially all of these people, all of these people, the world's financial elite, some of the richest

0:18.9

people, the controllers of the most money,

0:21.2

high-end politicians and stuff, everything. Everyone kind of got taken in. And also Matt Hancock.

0:26.6

No. He was taken in by something. He had a nice social drink with David Cameron and Lex

0:33.2

Greenfield. Matt Hancock was groomed. Yeah. Okay. Matt Hancock cannot consent.

0:37.7

Yeah.

0:38.9

It is not fair.

0:39.2

Yeah.

0:42.7

It's like they both had beers and they put a bowl of water out for Matt.

0:47.3

There's a bowl with his name on it in diamonds.

0:55.4

So what happened, right, is that all of these people were basically taken in by an infomercial because they were too proud to say,

0:57.1

that doesn't make sense to me.

0:59.4

Even I don't understand this.

1:00.6

Can you explain it?

1:01.9

And it's like slower.

1:04.7

Can you explain how this is not just a guy?

1:07.3

So it's as though like,

1:08.0

um,

1:12.6

these are some of the easiest people to scam in the entire world. Man, it's almost as if we shouldn't be building large parts of our economy on these people's

1:17.8

ability to fetishize their own intelligence.

1:20.6

Well, it almost goes back to a kind of longstanding trash future theory, right?

1:24.6

About how almost the way that these people get into these positions is by not really

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