I wonder if they assisted the chairs downfall...
In that episode Moss, one of the IT denizens, goes to a TV studio where he is mistakenly put on a news program and interviewed about a war.
I wonder if they're related...
I’m not sure how a disruption of a live interview would be any better, especially given that he only realized something had gone wrong when the presenter was introducing him on live TV.
IMO the best thing to say is something along the lines of "I think there's been a bit of a mix-up, I'm not the person you think I am, but if you want my two cents anyway ... ".
Obviously in reality I would've fumbled worse than this guy did, its easy to think things through with the benefit of not having the pressure of being put on the spot on live TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY
The old people here might remember the term "to Kramer into a room", which definitely applies to this clip.
But, also, I wouldn't take any chances if I was trying to get hired there...
> “His answers are… understandable, and maybe in some ways more digestible than we would get from an expert,” he said.
This does not reflect his actual responses? The interviewer keys off his most emphatic sounding words to keep the conversation flowing, but his answers are generally inscrutable.
He did a great job given the cards he was dealt though.
A book was released…
Right guy, wrong Congo! You can't even make this stuff up.
So now what, a phone is proof of humanity? How is that not defeated by botfarms in an hour, alongside tracking you, as well as a horrible UX?
I hate modern surveillance capitalism.
If you bothered to read the story behind this, you would know the chap had the same name as the 'real' person being interviewed who was waiting in a different reception area. Our man got called forward by mistake, he was a quiet chap who didn't want to rock the boat and so (very amusingly) got interviewed by an unknowing presenter.
To claim this is about fragile trust, rather than a silly mistake, is bollocks.