Don’t come the prawn sandwich with us

Gets busted soon after being caught out by words previously uttered.....

V interesting family. Succession avant la lettre.

For podcast fans, there was a great Cautionary Tales episode comparing the speech where Ratner made the infamous jewellery remarks vs Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream” speech

Yes, fab episode. The most recent one on the Ceaușescus was great too.

Have you listened to all of them Face? Off the top of my head, favourites have been:

• Blood on the tracks (work as intended vs work as performed)
• The Curse of Knowledge
• The Dunning-Kruger Hijack

Yes sadly I have listened to all of them.  Like your three but my favourite was The Truth About Hansel and Gretel.

I always get Revisionist History and CT episodes mixed up, but if you haven't heard it check out Blame Game.

Also Gregor on the Heavyweight podcast about someone who lent Moby the CDs he built his entire career on trying to get them back off him.

I think you'd like both if you like the above three.

Thanks.

RH and CT are both in my top 3 so this bodes well. Will try Blame Game next.

If you’re a movie fan, I recommend Thr Rewatchables

Thanks, will check that out.

Just subscribed and can see Manchester By The Sea is a recent episode.

Just seeing the name gives me a gut punch and takes me straight to the scene where they bump into each other.  My God what a movie that is.

Blood on the Tracks is a great episode. They linked to the text of the original inquiry report, which surprised me in terms of how long it was - comparable in length to a modern equivalent - although it was remarkable quickly produced, within about a year of the accident.

Re Ratner, I once heard Alan Sugar compared to him for the latter’s remark that he sold stereos “for the truck driver and his wife”. That was totally inaccurate. Sugar was making the point that he provided value to people who wanted core functionality rather than top end spec. Ratner was boasting about ripping people off with crap. Ratner was mocking his customers, Sugar was empathiaing with his.

There was a good episode of When It Hits the Fan (PR poscast) where they interviewed Gerald Ratner about all that. 

Sugar knows fvck all about business. His stereos were crap. All his wealth comes from property investment. Ratner’s hubris was off the scale. He ousted his own dad ffs from the board of the company he started and shat on his brother or cousin. I can tell you a few stories tbph 

Sugar is no Bill Gates but compared to Ratner or the idiot “Dragons” like Meaden or Jones, he’s a whale

cookie you’re a keen commentator on business matters these days

have you thought of starting a business?

I always get Revisionist History and CT episodes mixed up, but if you haven't heard it check out Blame Game.

I misread this as you recommending another podcast series called Blame Game. Now realise it was an episode of RH about the Toyotas that had sticky accelerators.

The other two that stick in my mind (though all but the current season have been engrossing) are:

• The Standard Case (about Jesuit decision making strategies)
• Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis (I had no idea that Elvis’s music was just cover versions)
   

wasn’t the toyota stick accelerator thing completely made up?

Not in at least one famous (CA?) case where it was down to getting stuck beneath a floor mat 

Well I’ve thought about it larrence, you’ve got to back yourself