This week, as well as writing, I was off making an
On The Money video podcast, with our producer Andy Paul and the assistance of my fellow Fool
Szu Ping Chan.
It was lots of fun. We headed off to Paternoster Square by St Paul’s to conduct the vox pops. This basically consisted of me approaching lots of suited City workers with a microphone and asking:
Who’s To Blame For The Credit Crunch?If you want to hear what they said, you can watch the video
here.
The sad thing is, only one woman felt confident enough to give her views on camera. And some of the men were really quite sleazy and patronising - so all in all, living up to the City worker stereotype.
For example, in response to my question “have you got a couple of minutes to talk to me?” one guy replied: “No, but you’re very sweet.” Another said: "For you, I could spare many,
many minutes... but unfortunately I'm too busy right now."
I'm sure they thought they were being charming but I would just like to take this moment to say: Yuck.
Then it started raining so we got out the trusty Motley Fool umbrella. Only problem is, I’m quite small and the umbrella’s quite big. At one point, it got so windy I almost threw the umbrella (by accident) at someone’s face while I was interviewing him! Needless to say, that clip didn’t make the final cut…