Cautionary tale
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Sep 17, 2026
Jevi EbanksHOST
Sticking with the courts, former President of Trinidad and Tobago, Her Excellency Paula May Weeks, will be featured at the Cayman Islands Judiciary's 2026 Distinguished Guest Lecture on the 28th of September.
Jevi EbanksHOST
Weeks will present a lecture titled, When the Robes Come Off, Judicial Independence, Ethics and Accountability, a Cautionary Tale.
Jevi EbanksHOST
A former president of Trinidad and Tobago from 2018 through 2023, Weeks also spent two decades serving in the country's judiciary, including as a justice of the appeal.
Jevi EbanksHOST
The lecture will be held at 3 p.m. in Court 1 at the law courts in Hero Square, followed by a reception.
Heather GarrickHOST
But it's about being able to take the lessons and being able to apply them to your own, um, studio.
Heather GarrickHOST
So whether that be the way that Peloton have managed to develop community with people who are living across, all across the world, um, remotely, um, whether that be the cautionary tale, um, more with, with Mirror of them not investing maybe enough in the content and their, their amazing t- teachers and developing those.
Heather GarrickHOST
There are things that you can take as a studio owner, lessons to be learned, and to prepare yourself for this increased growth in, um, the connected fitness space.
Lise KueckerHOST
I love it.
Tim HarfordHOST
[upbeat music] Pushkin.
Tim HarfordHOST
This cautionary tale is based with permission on David Epstein's book, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better.
Tim HarfordHOST
[upbeat music] Let's start with the idea, and the man whose idea it was.
Tim HarfordHOST
His name was Mark Porat.
Tim HarfordHOST
Apple's new portable computer weighed 16 pounds.
Tim HarfordHOST
There was no World Wide Web, and Marc Porat had just imagined the iPhone.
Tim HarfordHOST
I'm Tim Harford, and you're listening to Cautionary Tales.
Tim HarfordHOST
[Instrumental music] Porat called his idea the Pocket Crystal.
Adam Ehrlich SachsGUEST
And it leads him to throw children out of windows and do all sorts of, you know, questionable ends and then get his head chopped off.
Adam Ehrlich SachsGUEST
Cautionary tale about listening to yourself.
Mike KelleherHOST
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Mike KelleherHOST
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Adam Ehrlich SachsGUEST
And then it's kind of very unmodern in that he just, Kleist would feel all these incommensurable ways of thinking about justice, but Kohlhaas himself is just like an arrow acting on this feeling.
Adam Ehrlich SachsGUEST
And it leads him to throw children out of windows and do all sorts of, you know, to questionable ends and then get his head chopped off.
Adam Ehrlich SachsGUEST
Cautionary tale about listening to yourself.
Mike KelleherHOST
I don't know how exactly I want to frame this idea or this question.
Robert CargillGUEST
And maybe, just maybe, the story of Samson is included in the book of Judges as a check, as a reminder that even if you have a character who is said to be divinely inspired, you You need to be careful of giving that individual too much power of he's never, he's called a judge, but again, he's marrying foreign women.
Robert CargillGUEST
He has this power and look, look at the problems it causes, right? So maybe Samson is entertaining, but it's a check, it's a cautionary tale against the power of a monarch who doesn't follow all of the rules.
Jordan JonesHOST
We will leave Samson's bones alone for the moment to say, I hope maybe you want to go back and read this story again Because it is a great example of a story, again, we all think we know.
Jordan JonesHOST
Right.
Steve StocktonHOST
I want it to be true, but I'm glad it happened to somebody else.
Steve StocktonHOST
And there are also think passed along as cautionary tales you know you don't go out in the woods after dark you don't go parking on lover's lane you don't pick up hitchhikers you don't uh whistle past the graveyard or what you don't go to the haunted house you know there's i think there's lessons to be learned there and that's just the way they're told
CassieGUEST
and that's true that's true they're they're told to teach lessons that's what i've learned yep Like, you know, the hitchhikers don't go out to, you know, they don't want the kids going out near water or going out, you know, by themselves or out to the woods.
CassieGUEST
Yeah, so I think that's neat.
Christy FaithGUEST
And so I think that if you're just looking at each of your children? And what does this kid need? How am I going to make sure that based on who they are and what they love and how God made this beautiful kid, how can I just ensure no doors are closed? And I think when you go from that posture, that might mean that a program that worked for your oldest child isn't going to work for your youngest child.
Christy FaithGUEST
And I actually have a friend, Cautionary Tale, so she was kind of a little bit of this...
Christy FaithGUEST
About a decade ago, maybe a little bit more generation of a rigid thinker in a...
Christy FaithGUEST
She's now has come full circle.
SideyHOST
He does, made a fucking fortune.
SideyHOST
If it's supposed to be a cautionary tale, I don't think it's necessarily-
JamieGUEST
No, definitely not
SideyHOST
... that successful as, as doing that.
SideyHOST
I think a lot of the audience of this film will watch it and enjoy like all the fun stuff that they get up to, and then they'll probably just turn it off when it [laughs] starts to realize-
JamieGUEST
No, I get that.
JamieGUEST
You couldn't, you couldn't make that a cautionary tale because the, the, the hallmark of a good cautionary tale is something you can relate to.
SideyHOST
Mm.
BlankoHOST
A tight group of guys who got rich by just supposedly being themselves, but then quietly falling apart from the inside while the business underneath them kept growing.
BlankoHOST
And that's the point where Nelk starts being a straightforward success story and then becomes a cautionary tale about starting a business with your friends.
BlankoHOST
No single scandal or cancellation moment did this to them.
BlankoHOST
No advertiser boycott, no mass viewer exodus.
Tramell MackenzieHOST
But it...
Tramell MackenzieHOST
How can it be a cautionary tale if very few people know about it?
Karen HunterGUEST
Well, the other thing, which is on the good side, is that you said this month, in August, the KOSPI is up.
Tramell MackenzieHOST
It is up.
Karen HunterGUEST
Well, let me just say this.
Karen HunterGUEST
I'm encouraged by 92% of the people jumping into a market that have never done it before because they see the, the end of that.
Karen HunterGUEST
I'm also encouraged that we can talk about these things, and maybe somebody who has never thought about investing might look into it now, even with the cautionary tale, uh, but do it with s- sober mind-
Tramell MackenzieHOST
Yes