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*PREVIEW* Wife Aum Shinrikyo: Bill Ackman’s Quest feat. Ed Zitron

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by friend of the show and repeat guest Ed Zitron (@edzitron) to discuss some recent AI 'products,' the total failure of another hyped tech business, a Turkish magician's journey through the world of scamming an entire biotech company, but—and this is very important—we finally talk about Bill Ackman and why he does that. Check out Ed's newsletter here: http://wheresyoured.at And check out Ed's show 'Better Offline'  Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wife-aum-bill-ed-98967652 *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*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *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

This is from near the articles then, but I'm going to start with it.

0:02.6

While we talked in his office, Ackman told me a story, apropos of nothing, about a week-long trip he took to Japan in the early 1990s, during which he stayed with a family whose patriarch worked in the video game.

0:14.0

Years later, Ackman found out about a Japanese video game called Go Go Ackman.

0:19.4

To quote Wikipedia, follows a demon child named Ackman who harvest souls for

0:24.1

the great demon king.

0:25.6

The real Ackman spokesperson held up an iPad with an image from the game for me to see.

0:29.9

The demon child, like Ackman himself as a child, had prematurely gray hair.

0:33.9

Ackman said, I think that's me, and I never got royalty.

0:36.9

This profile was insane though.

0:39.0

This is completely fucking bonkers.

0:40.9

And when I say he's a hero to wives everywhere, I am quoting a bit where he describes a meme

0:47.0

where someone allegedly emails their wife that they have done the dishes.

0:51.0

Oh, we'll get that.

0:52.0

And then the wife says, oh, that's nothing.

0:54.1

Look what Bill Ackman is doing for academia.

0:58.0

And it turns out that that was a meme of a text was so clearly faked that like the fonts

1:02.0

of the different sizes.

1:04.0

It's just...

1:05.0

No, but my wife actually just said that to me today.

1:08.0

I showed it like a...

1:09.0

Did you email her? I emailed her and texted her and she was just like, yes, she made a lovely dinner for

1:15.0

this evening, but you didn't do what Bill Ackman did.

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