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*PREVIEW* La Femme Nikola feat. Quantian1

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We did it again. We found an extremely criminal "tech" company -- this time, a notional Tesla competitor that makes trucks. One catch: they don't work! However, to involve the incredible financial chicanery that went into it, we brought on friend of the show Quantian1 (@quantian1) to discuss it with Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice. If you want to hear the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42761588 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://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

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0:00.0

This is essentially someone who is very charming, has created a kind of charming foxy backstory for himself, is an incredible salesman.

0:24.8

And, oh, oh, your trucks work? So do everyone else's. What's innovative about that? Show me a truck that doesn't work. Okay.

0:33.4

And who has, it feels to me, right? Like he's gone through and he's like, I was inspired by my father.

0:39.0

I was inspired by my charity work.

0:41.0

I have all of these connections.

0:42.6

And it feels to me, again, like kind of like a work.

0:45.4

It feels just like I have the boilerplate story of tech CEO.

0:49.7

You could lift this and put it on anybody else.

0:51.9

Yeah.

0:52.6

Well, because this is also like, like these people

0:55.0

whose entire lives are just like an Ivy League application essay, right? Well, like, it's a full

0:59.6

with this thing like, but I also do charity work because I really believe in the spirit of mankind,

1:04.4

but obviously mostly what I care about is being rich, but also I played lacrosse with children

1:09.7

in Africa. I learned a lot about their mental health.

1:12.3

Yeah, exactly.

1:13.0

And what I think is interesting about that, right, is that it becomes, there is this

1:18.4

common language of if you have to bluff your way into any prestigious institution,

1:23.1

because this guy, he was a college dropout, you know, he was there for like one semester,

1:27.4

he keeps crafting that tech CEO story. know, he was there for like one semester, he keeps

1:27.7

crafting that tech CEO story, but...

1:30.5

I was too smart for college.

1:31.5

The fundamentals of the story, the fundamentals of the narrative just stay the same.

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