4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
“Every big fish you catch, you end up with a hole in the net.” Mike tells Sarah how America’s white-collar crime spree got so bad. Digressions include self-checkout kiosks, Barbie dolls and moonshine. Homeless shelters and teacher pay feature prominently. By the standards of this podcast, this episode is relatively upbeat.
Continue reading →
Support us:
Subscribe on Patreon
Donate on Paypal
Buy cute merch
Where else to find us:
Sarah's other show, Why Are Dads
Mike's other show, Maintenance Phase
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | What am I supposed to do? Start being attracted to healthy people? |
0:14.1 | Welcome to You Wrong About, the show where we learn about how the greatest injustice is dull. |
0:20.7 | So you're previewing this episode by saying it's going to be super tedious. |
0:27.2 | No, that's your interpretation. I am saying that whenever we talk about the most terrible injustices in this country, |
0:34.8 | they're not being carried out by the baby stealing gangs. They're being carried out by these sort of boring beige, |
0:40.8 | corporate slash governmental systems of power rather than by flamboyant individuals. |
0:47.8 | Oh, that's a good tagline. That's it. I guess watch the Latin on a plane recently. |
0:52.5 | So I'm picturing the far. I am Michael Hobbs. I am a reporter for The Having to Post. |
0:57.9 | I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm researching a book on the Satanic Panic. |
1:00.7 | And today we're talking about why nobody went to jail for the financial crisis. |
1:06.4 | But the episode is more about kind of like the history of white color crime and the way that the |
1:11.4 | types of crime personified by the financial crisis are no longer of interest to the people |
1:18.4 | who should be prosecuting them. I've been working on an article about this for nine months. |
1:23.6 | And the first thing that I found out when I started working on it was that the problem goes |
1:28.4 | much deeper than the financial crisis. The financial crisis was kind of a culmination |
1:33.5 | of all of these factors that had been building slowly in the background and not really noticed for decades. |
1:40.1 | So it wasn't that the whole system was sustainable, but that a small group of bros started doing |
1:45.2 | something unsustainable within it. But that rather maybe the whole thing was falling apart. |
1:50.6 | I mean, we'll get there, but yes. This is called that tonight on Dallas, you know, |
1:55.2 | where you're talking forward a little bit. I mean, we were never, this is a whole thing. It's like |
1:59.4 | the golden age of white color prosecutions wasn't all that golden. |
2:05.8 | You're speaking exclusively in taglines now. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1876 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sarah Marshall, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sarah Marshall and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.