Oobah Butler: The Digital Mirage

Описание: Trevor and Eugene sit down with journalist and filmmaker Oobah Butler, whose work lives at the intersection of prank and social experiment. From creating a fake top-rated restaurant to exposing how easily online systems can be manipulated, Butler has made a career out of blurring the line between perception and reality.

Together, they explore the rise of “scam culture,” how algorithms quietly shape what we believe, and just how much of the modern world is built on illusion. It is a funny, unsettling look at how easy it is to fake almost anything—and how hard it can be to tell what is real.

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00:00:04- Fakenham
00:00:58- What Now Begins
00:11:53- Welcome Oobah Butler
00:12:39- The Greatest Restaurant Nobody Ever Visited
00:15:25- The Line Between Fraud and a Prank Is a Camera
00:17:30- Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere
00:22:21- The Man Who Got Paid to Lie
00:28:14- How Vice Changed Everything
00:31:04- That Time He Joined the Jehovah's Witnesses
00:38:29- The Origin Story of a Scammer
00:40:33- Living in a Shed, Naming a Restaurant the Shed
00:47:07- Fully Booked for the Next Six Weeks
00:54:34- Number One in London and It Doesn't Exist
00:57:09- Opening Night at a Shack
01:03:20- We Trust Hype More Than What We Put in Our Mouths
01:04:00- Comments Are Making You Think Things
01:07:54- 40 Percent of What You Read Is Poison
01:40:50- Amazon Piss Energy Drink Number One on Amazon
01:48:25- Make a Million Pounds in 90 Days
01:56:09- You Didn't Make the Money You Took It