The Mysterious McKinsey Group

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In recent history more and more analysts have been concerned about the rise of privately-owned, multinational corporations wielding the type of geopolitical power once relegated to states and nations. These concerns usually name drop the best known large companies, such as Nestle, Unilever, Halliburton and so on -- but many more companies operate just as effectively in relative obscurity. Tune in to learn more about the controversies surrounding the prestigious and murky world of the global management consulting group McKinsey and Company, an organization so powerful it's often referred to as, simply, "the Firm".

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.7	You can turn back now, or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:24.1	Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:26.9	Our co-host Noal is on adventures.
0:29.4	They call me Ben. We are joined with our super producer, Paul Mission Control Dec.
0:34.5	And most importantly, you are you. You are here.
0:37.7	And that makes this stuff they don't want you to know.
0:41.7	Matt, do you ever contemplate alternative timelines?
0:46.7	Or alternate timelines? Do you ever think of who you might be and what you might be doing
0:53.4	in a universe just to the left of ours?
0:56.7	Yes, I have a similar thing to that. It's a yes but, which is a weird thing.
1:05.7	Shouldn't do yes buts.
1:07.2	But my wife and I have this theory that we jumped timelines sometime in 2016
1:14.3	that all of Earth jumped the timeline and somehow we're in this alternate reality now.
1:21.1	Where we're just things are a little bit off of what they were before.
1:25.2	And we don't really know because it's that whole Mandela Effect thing where
1:29.8	our memories are a little different. But in this timeline, it's all been this way forever.
1:34.8	And that's an interesting argument. It's more common than you might think, especially here in
1:40.1	the West. Quite a few people have on an individual level floated something like that with me.
1:48.5	I guess my timeline question for you and for you listeners today is hinging on
1:58.1	these sorts of thought experiments that we have.
2:01.1	These Walter Mitty-esque moments where we think, you know, what is my life in this other
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