WeWork Documentary: Why do we want to fall for hucksters? | Review and Reaction with Dean Saddoris of Caffeine and Kilos

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Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Business, Tv & Film, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Head to 3sb.co for our once-a-year blowout sale! The 2021 documentary, WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, presents what seems like an age-old story. A “charismatic” leader paints a rosy picture of a money-making plan that seemingly can’t fail, and people – even the ones who should know better – fall for it hook, line, and sinker. WeWork is a co-working space provider that pitched what many thought would be a transformative, and all-inclusive, gamechanger. Even without access to the company’s finances, it was possible to see that WeWork was a house of cards if you were an analyst who was willing to really look. What is about us as humans that makes of want to follow charming grifters and ignore the nagging sense that they’re not all they purport to be? You can find Dean on Instagram @deansaddoris.ck, and at caffeineandkilos.com. Check out our new gym (Third Street Barbell) at ThirdStreetBarbell.com and subscribe for updates about our apparel line at 3sb.co! Local memberships and international fresh fits! Get early access to our next drop! Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Sam McDonald. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo.

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0:00.0	This movie, ladies and gentlemen, we work, talking about we work or the making and
0:27.6	breaking of a $47 billion unicorn.
0:31.8	I'm going to be, because Jim already said he really liked it.
0:34.2	I'm going to be the negative guy on this one on purpose.
0:36.5	I, not that a documentary like has to have a plot or whatever, but I feel like I don't
0:44.2	feel resolved by this thing.
0:45.9	No, we're not.
0:46.9	And I don't feel, I feel from like the beginning, I don't know, they do an okay job of making
0:52.0	this company look good and they look bad and they look good and make this guy look okay.
0:56.4	I've got a couple things, one, I never like, I thought he looked like a psycho the whole
0:59.4	fucking time, but really?
1:00.4	Yes, yeah, I didn't really get that.
1:02.5	No, no, he was nuts from the beginning.
1:04.8	Multiple reasons.
1:05.8	One, I don't think he's normal.
1:08.0	Yeah, I don't think he's normal, but we'll start with him, Adam.
1:12.6	Yeah, Adam.
1:13.6	I don't think what I hate is when people, and maybe this is my ego speaking, so you guys
1:17.2	can tell me I'm a fucking loser, but I hate when people say like, oh yeah, Adam's so charming.
1:23.2	And then obviously they're only showing clips of them and you don't get to talk to them,
1:26.6	but you see some raw footage of them doing an interview.
1:28.5	And I'm like, this guy's not charming.
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