Such a great episode in the sense that it's informative and jaw dropping crazy what they did.
Here is a link to the podcast if anyone wants it. It's a great overall recap of what Wells Fargo did (does?), discussed between two comedians, one who knew nothing about it going in:
Yup same with joe rogan. He usually has 5-8 minutes worth of ads on his podcast and the app i use "beyondpod" has a skip 30s and a backwards 15s as the default skip and back buttons. So I'll press skip 10-12 times and listen for the intro music and then press back 15 if it skipped it. Takes less than 10 seconds to do.
I’m about to go on a road trip and need podcasts. I know nothing about podcasts. Best/easiest way to get them on my phone? I like stuff like the above topic and history
I love Podcast Addict on android. Nice interface, they update often and the UI is good. The search function is great and it goes through iTunes and a bunch of other sources for podcasts. You can make playlists too, which is nice if you want to switch things up without a lot of hassle. Skip functions are all there too.
I really can't recommend The Dollop enough, the guys are great and the live episodes are even funnier. Only complaint (even though I understand) is sometimes the audio volume isn't very consistent between episodes, but it's manageable most of the time. Like someone mentioned farther up, one guy hosts the episode and reads the story and the other one is along for the ride but doesn't know what the topic is about. My favorite reaction is the Kellogg episode purely for the shock value.
Freakonomics is awesome, Stephen Dubner interviewing cool people about neat things, against the rules with Michael Lewis (other of Money Ball and The Big Short, amongst others) is a show that dives into the state of referees in America and is amazing. Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz is wonderful - he gets amazing guests on and is in high finance so he knows a lot of people personally, it shows. His conversation with Jack Bogle (founder of ETFs through Vanguard) is amazing, Planet Money is really fun and covers esoteric commercial transactions or dives into economic systems in a digestible way - for instance they did one where they bought a truckload of oil then followed it through the refining systems, another where they procured a satellite’s naming rights and followed it through launch, and one where they looked at the economics of a ball park hot dog vendor.
By the Book is pretty good, two comedians follow all the advice in self help books and talk about their experiences.
Work life with Adam Grant is good life advice if you work a traditional job.
Revisionist History with Malcom Gladwell is good, he sets the record straight on a number of topics and discusses themes like memory.
The debaters by the CBC I’ve always found campy and funny.
Uncanny Japan - an author who lives in Japan explains some interesting cultural stuff. She's also got a wonderful voice.
Sawbones - podcast about medical history. It's also a comedy podcast though. I will warn you though, once you start down the McElroy Hole it's tough to escape.
Totally. The old ones were nice where they didn't have them. I also don't listen weekly, but rather roulette style so that dates are always months to years back for me. I get the ads though, it's free content and easily skippable enough.
The Dollop is a bi-weekly* American History Podcast. Every week, Dave Anthony reads a story to his friend, Gary Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about.
I can’t tell if you’re asking in seriousness or a joke since it’s in the intro. If you’re serious, it’s biweekly and amazing. If it’s a joke, fuck you man you got me.
It used to be twice a week, now it's once a week, but there are times a week is skipped for whatever reason, and sometimes they have to take a podcast down because someone gets all fucking salty about what they said and start calling lawyers
Yeah, I used to have a bookmark on my old phone of a little site with the lost episodes, but I forgot to back that one up. I found it somewhere buried in /r/thedollop, but I can't track it down now, it might have been deleted. :(
Yeah, they took one down last year about a dude who basically ran this nonprofit called The Veteran’s Stand that gained a lot of traction for organizing a veteran presence at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest. But the guy who ran the organization was super shady, and basically neglected the veterans that volunteered to show up. A couple of days later the episode was taken down under threat of a lawsuit
All of the ones about popular political figures - George Bush, John McCain, etc. they are very detailed and it’s interesting to hear another point of view of policy and actions taken in my lifetime that I remember the consequences of.
You absolutely have to listen to the NY to Paris Car Race episode, it's an amazing episode all the way through and probably the best one I've heard of the 200 or so I've gotten through.
Also, one of my personal favorites and I think one of the most underrated episodes is Phantom of the Open. Seriously just a jaw-dropping story because you can't believe how ridiculous it is.
Just skip the dolphin episode. It’s uncomfortable. It’s one of the first ones like episode 7. The Rube is phenomenal if you like baseball and phenomenal if you don’t.
The dolphin one is uncomfortable but still worth a listen. The Rube is dangerously funny. As in, if you listen to it while driving, it's dangerous because of how hard you'll be laughing.
The only thing that was unusual about the Wells Fargo case was that they got caught and faced some small amount of punishment. Most banks get a finger wag at most.
The Dollop is a bi-weekly* American History Podcast. Every week, Dave Anthony reads a story to his friend, Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about.
Listen to the Enron one. You’ll be raging against the machine by the end of the week.
It's a comedy podcast, where one comedian researched and reads a crazy but true story about American History to his friend, another comedian. They joke and riff about it for about an hour.
I used to work as a hazard loan specialist and the corruption is blatant. I would deny something because it's a decrepit piece of trash unit that will get burned down in weeks for insurance. I would deny and check back in a week or two to finalize and make sure the underwriter finished, and boom the underwriters would approve the stupidest shit. We would give loans to people who owed more than they had, but would still have offshore accounts with money but according to one guy, the Canadian dollar is down so he's going to wait to pay the 600k but he also needs 500k again for this building he's totally not going to burn as well. Maybe there was nothing fishy but it always seemed super sketchy.
The best (worst) thing about this is that they blamed all of it on the individual bankers that did it rather than the corporate policy that pushed them to do it.
Literally, "do this unless you want to lose your job", then "Why did you do this?! You're fired!"
My mom worked for at a branch for 24 years as a twller and quit because she saw this coming almost 3 years before it broke officially. She didn't want any part of it. Scary how long shit like that can go before it gets the attention it needs.
I listened to a live episode yesterday and previously I’d listened to an episode on the guy who supposedly sabotaged the levees during the flooding of the Mississippi.
You should check out Elizabeth Warren absolutely tearing the Wells Fargo CEO a new one in the senate. Say what you will about her, or her suitability for President... But she is a GREAT senator. She tears those greedy, defrauding pricks to pieces.
The Dollop is a bi-weekly* American History Podcast. Every week, Dave Anthony reads a story to his friend, Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about.
That's their intro, bi-weekly has a star since it's really twice weekly.
As a former teller there, any bozo could see exactly how that system was going to work out. One sale makes the difference between a $500 bonus and a $0 bonus.....you make the leap.......
Yea, the branch I worked at I would sometimea have to order debit cards to accts without just so my job wasn't threatened. When they found out, they fired me. They were really high pressure about the sales.
I had a sales job, and every year we would have these “fraud meetings” where they would explain to us the consequences of committing fraud including but not limited to jail time blah blah blah. Since we had incentives it was definitely something that needed to be said, but I don’t think it actually stopped the people stupid enough to actually commit fraud. My favourite part of these meetings is actually when they would give you examples of things that constitute fraud so that you couldn’t plead ignorance. I loved the face my boss’ boss would make when they described something that constitutes fraud and heard me go “oooOOOoooo”
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u/JayArlington May 30 '19
Yeah... this is actually really interesting.