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Staff Picks: John Perkins, 2007-8

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Board Operator Dan spins some golden oldies; two classic interviews with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Regular shows resume next week!

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0:00.0

I'm going to see. Pick it back in time!

0:13.0

Pick it down! This is hell.

0:35.0

Hell.

0:36.0

Greetings radio listeners. This is not Chuck. This is board operator Dan. Chuck's out this

0:49.7

week doing some important housekeeping for the show Chuck goes pretty hard in the paint

0:57.0

and needs to do a little housekeeping stuff and that that can add up sounds to me

1:02.0

like you needed to a little time to defragment the drives. Chores like that.

1:07.0

He'll finish those up and he'll be back and better than ever next week, but that doesn't mean that we can't have a nice time right now

1:16.1

playing some classic This is Hell interviews from years past I've selected a few interviews

1:26.6

from the mid-2000s with John Perkins. His book Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man had just come out at that time.

1:31.2

I remember reading that. We'll get to that soon. We do have a question

1:36.1

from hell this week. This week's question from hell is, what are you doing with the extra hour from daylight savings time?

1:45.2

Which ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 6th.

1:48.8

Post your answer over at Facebook.com slash This is Hell, and at the end of the show, I'll select the winner.

1:57.3

Said winner gets their choice of This is Hell merch, which you can see at this is Hell

2:00.9

dot com slash pages slash support. Okay let's turn to the business

2:08.6

of the day I'm going to play a few classic interviews this morning from John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic

2:15.0

Hitman. I read this when it came out and if memory serves, it's basically about some sort of

2:21.0

World Bank High Up Economic Spook type guy who was hired to get

2:25.9

developing countries to take sucker loans which would kneecap their economies

2:30.1

and make them reliant on the West and secure access for the West to their precious

2:35.7

resources. I don't know if that's quite right. That's my Cliff Notes recollection.

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