BetterHelp
07/25/22 • 59 min
A woman with literally no water signs in her astrological chart through Pluto, Claire Rufin, joins me to throw away any chances I had at getting sponsored by BetterHelp! I'm working through a lot of my own understanding on the subjects in this episode, including how a CEO who is presumably worth millions of dollars would take to Reddit to address a complaints lobbied by a Youtuber named Memeology 101. Anyways, this episode is about privacy, employees' rights, and big data. I could not have formed my understanding on these subjects without Cathy O'Neill's Weapons of Math Destruction: AWESOME book! But yeah, I think this is a unique take on BetterHelp. Claire was great on this podcast, @claireannalee is her instagram, I'm cracking open a daiquiri with a paper straw in her honor tonight.
Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neill 2016
How Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit behemoth, suddenly imploded, Lance Williams, Reveal News Sep 2016
Are Workplace Personality Tests Fair?, Lauren Weber and Elizabeth Dwoskin, WSJ 2014
When Your Boss Makes You Pay for Being Fat, Leslie Kwoh, WSJ 2013
At Talkspace, Start-Up Culture Collides With Mental Health Concerns, Kashmir Hill and Aaron Krolik, NYT Aug 2020
Eat the Rich episode 90: Online Therapy Platforms
https://jezebel.com/the-spooky-loosely-regulated-world-of-online-therapy-1841791137
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/betterhelp/
https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/4/17932862/betterhelp-app-youtube-sponsorship-controversy-explained
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/461812-87#overview
https://medium.com/@alonmatas/when-betterhelp-found-itself-in-a-youtube-controversy-3fd472229a4e
https://www.betterhelp.com/privacy/
https://www.betterhelporg.com/ ("Robust Reporting")
A woman with literally no water signs in her astrological chart through Pluto, Claire Rufin, joins me to throw away any chances I had at getting sponsored by BetterHelp! I'm working through a lot of my own understanding on the subjects in this episode, including how a CEO who is presumably worth millions of dollars would take to Reddit to address a complaints lobbied by a Youtuber named Memeology 101. Anyways, this episode is about privacy, employees' rights, and big data. I could not have formed my understanding on these subjects without Cathy O'Neill's Weapons of Math Destruction: AWESOME book! But yeah, I think this is a unique take on BetterHelp. Claire was great on this podcast, @claireannalee is her instagram, I'm cracking open a daiquiri with a paper straw in her honor tonight.
Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neill 2016
How Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit behemoth, suddenly imploded, Lance Williams, Reveal News Sep 2016
Are Workplace Personality Tests Fair?, Lauren Weber and Elizabeth Dwoskin, WSJ 2014
When Your Boss Makes You Pay for Being Fat, Leslie Kwoh, WSJ 2013
At Talkspace, Start-Up Culture Collides With Mental Health Concerns, Kashmir Hill and Aaron Krolik, NYT Aug 2020
Eat the Rich episode 90: Online Therapy Platforms
https://jezebel.com/the-spooky-loosely-regulated-world-of-online-therapy-1841791137
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/betterhelp/
https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/4/17932862/betterhelp-app-youtube-sponsorship-controversy-explained
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/461812-87#overview
https://medium.com/@alonmatas/when-betterhelp-found-itself-in-a-youtube-controversy-3fd472229a4e
https://www.betterhelp.com/privacy/
https://www.betterhelporg.com/ ("Robust Reporting")
Previous Episode
Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal: For the Boys!
Dan Carroll, who is one of the boys, joins me for probably the most fucked up episode I've made to date. Medical horror abound, this one is certainly dark. If you think illegally marketing a drug to be used off-label for disabled children is bad, it's literally not even scratching the surface of how bad the rest of it gets. Strap in for the longest episode script I've made thus far all about geriatric abuse, simping for the FDA, and body changes that are so shocking that I waited until 30 minutes in to tell Dan where the episode was going. Oh also, you get some lore about me! Follow @DanCarroll__ on twitter, hug your people tight, and thanks again for listening to this podcast. Love you all! B)
FOOTNOTES:
1. America's Most Admired Lawbreaker, Steven Brill, Huffington Post DocuSerial 2016
2. Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations, DOJ 2013
4. https://thenationaltriallawyers.org/2014/03/risperdal-lawsuit-montana-5-9-million-settlement/
5. https://www.drugwatch.com/risperdal/lawsuits/
6. https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/jj-janssen-risperdal-lawsuit/
9. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1256452/?page=3
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BONUS: Second City's "A Red Line Runs Through It"
Aasia Lashay is BACK for what I'm calling a bonus episode, but is simply the length of a regular episode. They were in a Second City show years ago that wound up being the centerpiece of a reverse racism discrimination lawsuit. The complaint never went anywhere, so years later, she's on this pod to respond to the allegations! SLAY!
FOOTNOTES:
1. Stream Aasia's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1wL4h8Av9COEVikfmGEtgb
2. Here's the full complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4041688-Secondcity
3. Second City current performer union efforts: INSTAGRAM @secondcityworkers TWITTER: https://twitter.com/scworkers
4. BUSTED BUSINESS BUREAU LIVE SHOW INFO: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/busted-business-bureau-live-tickets-392610848617
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