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If you or someone you know struggles with problem gambling help is available by calling or texting 1-800-MY-RESET. Becca and Robby extract themselves from deep inside the glory hole to analyze the state of sports gambling. It turns out, if you unleash high octane mobile money vacuums into everyone's pockets bad things will happen!! You can get early & ad free episodes, two bonus episodes a month, episode discussion, book club and MORE by ⁠joining us on Patreon! ⁠Watch on YouTube⁠ Links: Gambling disorder diagnoses spike in states that legalized sports betting, study shows The Cracks in Adam Silver’s NBA Are Spreading Fast Sports Betting Sites Make It All Too Easy to Lose Everything You’ve Got My year as a degenerate gambler Suspicious Betting in Washington Is on the Rise—and Authorities Are Playing Catch-Up What Sports Gambling Is Learning From Big Tobacco More Americans see gambling on sports as an investment tool, but DraftKings CEO says most bettors know ‘they’re likely to lose money’ over the long term “What Did Anyone Think Was Going to Happen?”: The NBA Gambling Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight A Psychiatrist Tried to Quit Gambling. Betting Apps Kept Her Hooked. Fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel trick people into believing everyone wins big

TW: Sexual Assault The man who dared to ask: what if sports were for boys? Dave Portnoy is an irredeemable garbage person but the corporate gossip behind Barstool Sports is objectively fascinating so into the trash pile we go! This episode was available early to Patrons - and you can get early & ad free episodes, two bonus episodes a month, episode discussion, book club and MORE by joining us on Patreon! ⁠Watch on Youtube⁠ Listen to the Emily Boys Buy tickets to Robby's comedy special! Pics from the episode Links: Wikipedia article on Barstool Conservatism 'Barstool Blackout' party organizer: Not our fault if you get drunk and pass out Spurned by ESPN, Barstool Sports Is Staying on Offense The Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, Peter Chernin Deal || Barstool Documentary Series Barstool Sports CEO Announcement Dave Portnoy Bought Barstool Back. Can Erika Ayers Badan Keep His Pirate Ship on Course A Blog From The Token Female CEO Of Barstool Sports Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy Explains Breakup With Penn: ‘We Got Denied’ Gambling Licenses ‘Because of Me’  'I was literally screaming in pain': Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating The Pizza Influencer With a Private Jet and a ‘Troll Army’

Flock is going to eliminate crime in America (if you only count the crime you can find in GTA V AND if you don't count the crime that Flock enables OR commits themselves)! Becca and Robby climb up a utility pole to peek into the sloppy drama brewing at Flock HQ. They uncover that the best way for Flock CEO Garrett Langley to reduce crime in America is to DO NOTHING AT ALL... Get tickets to Robby's Special For two bonus episodes every month, ad free listening and more, join us on Patreon Watch on YouTube Pics from today's episode Links: We investigated Flock cameras and how law enforcement uses them Flock Safety Employees Watched Kids’ Gymnastics Room to Pitch Surveillance Tech Why Are Flock Employees Watching Our Children? Flock's CEO Says its ALPRs Don't Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can Flock Blocks Itself From Wayback Machine: How Companies Can Erase Their Public History The Flock Founders Say Their Cameras Would’ve Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras Embattled Flock CEO Begs for “Compromise” As Backlash Spills OverWhy some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking

DIVAS DOWN. Phoebe Gates and Selena Gomez are both being accused of fraud! Robby and Becca uncover the venture capital bippity-boppity-boopification at the center of these cases. Will either of these alleged frauds lead to jail time? Would the ghost of Andrew Carnegie understand what's going on here? Is it worse to be a nepobaby or a nepomommy? Listen to find out! TW: Mention of suicide BUY TICKETS TO ROBBY'S SPECIAL! For two bonus episodes every month, ad free listening, and discussions, join us on Patreon! Pics from today's episode Watch on YouTube Links: Phoebe Gates’s Phia Drama Is Getting Even Stickier Wondermind Shareholder Lawsuit What Happened at Wondermind? ‘Smoke And Mirrors’: How This Entrepreneur Exaggerated And Self-Promoted Her Way Into Turmoil Selena Gomez Accused of Fraud by Investors in Mental-Health Startup Lawsuit

If your audio sounds wonky please try to redownload the episode! Bonus Episode! Friend of the pod and soccer expert and comedian Alexis Guerreros from the Soccer Cooligans and CBS Morning Footy stops by for a follow up episode on the future of FIFA's giant money pit! Will the fans be able to wrestle back control of the game from Gianni Infantino's death grip?? Are corrupt people more fun to party with? And who pays when football executives are fighting? (spoiler: it's women). Watch on Youtube Follow Alexis on Instagram

SEASON 8!!! Perhaps one of our most highly requested episodes FIFA, which is equal parts The Godfather, Conclave, and Alan Cumming's Cabaret?? We meet FIFA president Gianni "Johnny" Infantino, or as Tump likes to call him “sort of the king of soccer… I guess… in a certain way.” Infantino calls FIFA the official happiness provider to humanity and BOY IS HE HAPPY! Qatari jets, a $6m salary, and a seemingly unlimited supply of... mattresses and stair masters? Becca and Robby trace the FIFA scandals back through the organization's messy past all the way up to 12 hours before this episode was posted. BUCKLE UP! For 2 bonus episodes every month join us on Patreon Due to a technical glitch there is no YouTube version of this episode Pictures from today's episode Links: The Absurd World Cup The World Cup of Corruption FIFA Explores External Investment With $20 Billion Vehicle⁠ Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal FIFA scandal dwarfs others in sports world Soccer Rat! The inside story of how Chuck Blazer, ex-U.S. soccer executive and FIFA bigwig, became a confidential informant for the FBI How the ‘King of Soccer’ Went Rogue, Nearly Lost His FIFA Empire—and Survived

Becca and Robby are busy researching for future episodes and will be back soon! In the meantime, enjoy another episode from the Patreon stash (with the data analytics playboy)! For TWO bonus episodes every month, access to the chat and quarterly book club, join us on Patreon (use a web browser for the best price)! Pics from today's episode Watch on Youtube Have you ever been a young Italian man who just wants to make new guy friends and then you end up being tortured in a SOHO townhouse by wanna-be army guys for your crypo password? Regardless, this episode has something for EVERYONE! NYC night clubs & Eric Adams, the former child star from First Kid, Caroline Biden, Bitcoin Jesus, and Air-fryer crack!! Links: The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse How two men charged with an outrageous kidnapping scheme introduced a new kind of crime to the city. Crypto kidnapping: How armed gangs are hunting the internet's high rollers Crypto bro ratted out partner, begged cops 'call my mom' after torturing Italian millionaire in luxe NYC pad: court docs

To hear the full episode, join the Corporate Gossip Patreon and get TWO bonus epiosdes every month plus ad free main! If you want even more Corporate Gossip in your life join at the Murdoch's Mates level for access to the group chat and the quarterly book club! Meet Greg Lindberg: a billionaire insurance executive who has 12 children all with different egg donors / surrogates, who hopes to live to 120 years old and collects his own grey hairs for cloning purposes, whose ALSO been accused of an elaborate stalking operation. He was caught on hidden camera trying to bribe the state's insurance commissioner and was recently sentenced to a dozen years in prison for masterminding what federal prosecutors call "one of the biggest insurance frauds in history"!! Links: Listen to Robby's new podcast, The Emily Boys! 'Fueled by greed': Former NC political megadonor Greg Lindberg sentenced to prison Yachts, jets and women: NC billionaire Greg Lindberg to pay for billions he stole (Shout out to the Charlotte Observer for a lot of excellent reporting here) How a Billionaire's 'Baby Project' Ensnared Dozens of Women Active Interest': Insurance Tycoon Spied on Women Who Caught His Eye How Official's Undercover Role Led to Charges Against Billionaire Financier Who Amassed Insurance Firms Diverted $2 Billion Into His Private Empire Insurance Executive Sentenced to 12 Years for 'Massive Fraud,' Bribery

Becca and Robby are busy researching for future episodes and will be back in August. In the meantime, enjoy another episode from the Patreon stash! For TWO bonus episodes every month, access to the chat and quarterly book club, join us on Patreon (use a web browser for the best price)! Listen to the end for good news!! TW: Infant death (26:00), Child Sexual Abuse (37:00) Imagine if Gordon Bombay never had a redemption arc. That's the story of Murry Gunty, owner of Black Bear Sports, a Private Equity company that professionalizes shaking kids down for their lunch money - but you're gonna LOVE how this movie ends. We'll also talk about Jeffrey Epstein associate Josh Harris and heir to the Smurf fortune David Blitzer who use their Blackstone connections and Wharton Business degrees to steal joy from children!! Don't worry, there's a comeuppance for them in this story, too! Due to a technical issue there is no video for this episode. Links: Lord of the Rinks. Meet the hockey CEO cashing in on your kid's team Youth Sports Are a $40 Billion Business. Private Equity Is Taking Notice. Tennessee bill would criminalize harassment of student-athletes As Youth Sports Professionalize, Kids Are Burning Out Fast Private Equity Is Coming for Youth Sports Bill would ban private equity 'vulture investors' from youth sports.

This is an UNLOCKED episode from our Patreon stash (also one of Becca's favorite episodes of all time). For two bonus episodes every month, the Corporate Gossip Book club & chat, and more please join us on Patreon. So you want live forever and make a TON of money doing it???? May we suggest starting a longevity company to charge rich people having a midlife crisis $50,000 to make themselves medical guinea pigs?? After all, if billionaires have optimized their own bodies, certainly their perfect health will dribble down onto the rest of us!! TW: we talk about Epstein stuff starting around 52:00 (but right before that we find ourselves in a genuine fit of hysterics the likes of which have never been seen on this podcast!!) Pics from today's episode Watch on YouTube Links: How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It The Billionaires Fueling the Quest for Longer Life Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever - CNN Why Bryan Johnson, Dave Asprey, and the Other Longevity Bros Are Obsessed With Penises The Phoenix Device Reviews The Longevity Influencer Who Went Into 'Withdrawal' Without Jeffrey Epstein

The Corporate Gossip Podcast is supported by listeners like you! To hear the full episode, join us on Patreon (use a web browser for the best price.) A highly requested episode! A deep dive into the Forbes 30 under 30 and a special investigation until the latest 30 under 30 under government surveillance, Gokce Guven of Kalder. Guven just pled guilty to wire fraud and identity theft and is facing 5 years in prison despite being a 2024 covergirl. You can't spell Forbes without ForBS!

CEOs, they're just like us (but worse??) We curated some of the messiest recent CEO cheating scandals for your enjoyment because you deserve a treat! A Nestle marketing executive having an affair with the chief catches him in the act with another coworker, Vladimir Putin pushes NBC's adulterous CEO into the loving arms of Larry David Ellison, and the head of Johnson Controls cant seem to control his johnson! How's a guy supposed to increase shareholder value in these conditions??? Take this listener survey to help us support the podcast with ads that don't suck! Join us on Patreon For TWO bonus episodes every month, ad-free main, and book club! Watch on YouTube Pictures from today's episode Stay tuned to the end for a special segment with our good news correspondent, Elizabeth Liu. Links: Fired Nestlé CEO Laurent Freixe's mistress caught him cheating with another subordinate in Swiss hotel: report French company liable after employee dies during sex on business trip Three Years of American Cheating Shell Shocked: How a Sex Scandal, Big Egos and Putin Led to Jeff Shell's Sudden, No Payout Exit From NBCU The Gambler at the Center of Jeff Shell's Paramount Departure Swears He's Not Taking a Victory Lap Johnson Controls CEO sees bonus cut because of extramarital affair Manufacturing CEO seeks distance from man convicted in Ponzi Good News: This L.A. bookstore is leading a revolt against 'greedy landlords @SNELAS4ALL

If you're in the mood for a classic true crime beach read look no further than the CaaStle fraud! In 2024 Christine Hunsicker was a leather jacket wearing, mohawk donning, Forbes cover girl who made headlines for her clothing subscription service that boasted nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue. Investors were pumping her company full of cash on the promise of infinite hockey stick growth. But had those investors, including Bill Ackman and Peter Theil, used a single brain cell (!!) they would have discovered that Hunsicker's fashion business was a complete fabrication. By the end of the year she would plead guilty to a fraud worth $300m, one of the biggest financial frauds in recent history, and now faces up to 20 years in prison. For TWO bonus episodes every month, ad-free main, and book club join us on Patreon Watch on Youtube Advertise with us Pictures from the episode Links: This Startup Wanted to Revolutionize Fashion. Now It's Under Investigation for Fraud. The Tech Fashion Darling Accused of Swindling Investors Out of $300 Million SEC Indictment CaaStle let CEO remain after learning of alleged fraud Shareholder lawsuit Good News: Libraries are for Everyone: How immigrants are finding community in Massachusetts libraries

To hear the full episode, join the Corporate Gossip Patreon and get TWO bonus epiosdes every month! If you want even more Corporate Gossip in your life join at the Murdoch's Mates level for access to the group chat and the quarterly book club! Listen to the end for good news!! Imagine if Gordon Bombay never had a redemption arc. That's the story of Murry Gunty, owner of Black Bear Sports, a Private Equity company that professionalizes shaking kids down for their lunch money - but you're gonna LOVE how this movie ends. We'll also talk about Jeffrey Epstein associate Josh Harris and heir to the Smurf fortune David Blitzer who use their Blackstone connections and Wharton Business degrees to steal joy from children!! Don't worry, there's a comeuppance for them in this story, too! Links: Lord of the Rinks. Meet the hockey CEO cashing in on your kid's team Youth Sports Are a $40 Billion Business. Private Equity Is Taking Notice. Tennessee bill would criminalize harassment of student-athletes As Youth Sports Professionalize, Kids Are Burning Out Fast Private Equity Is Coming for Youth Sports Bill would ban private equity 'vulture investors' from youth sports.

Now with enhanced audio!!! Meet Steve Witkoff, a real estate investor and supreme Trump suck-up turned "peace guy" and his two failsons, Alex and Zach. They're in charge of World Liberty Financial, the "world's fastest growing crypto company" along with the Trump family and crypto hucksters Zak Folkman and Chase Hero. The WLF team might feel invincible, but this week one disgruntled investor filed a lawsuit that might take down the entire operation... This episode has it ALL... a resurfaced body cam video of a Witkoff son being arrested for assaulting a bouncer and cocaine possession, a colon cleanse subscription business, a website called datehottergirls.com, and the 1954 Guatemalan coup!!! Watch on YouTube For TWO bonus episodes every month, ad-free main, and book club join us on Patreon Advertise with us Links: The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It In real estate, Witkoff is royalty. In DC, he's the president's man Where Mideast Envoy Pitched Peace, His Son Pitched Investors The 'Crypto Punks' Behind Trump's Murky New Business Venture Trump's entry into crypto opens new doors for those seeking political influence How Trump's crypto business partners left their old clients in the lurch Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches Donald Trump Jr. denies rumors World Liberty Financial is falling apart

To hear the full episode, join the Corporate Gossip Patreon and get TWO bonus epiosdes every month! If you want even more Corporate Gossip in your life join at the Murdoch's Mates level for access to the group chat and the quarterly book club! Tragic, the most annoying men on earth are fighting in federal court over "perfidy and deceit of Shakespearean proportions"!!! Robby and Becca crack open their piggy bank and spend all their money downloading electronic court records from the Northern California district court to bring you the juiciest nuggets you won't hear anywhere else! We recorded this episode on Wednesday evening and wanted to get it out quickly because this is an evolving story! Links: Battle of the Billionaires: What's at Stake as Elon Musk and Sam Altman Face Off in Court The unflattering secrets revealed so far in Elon Musk's latest legal feud

This is the potential breakup song of Ticketmaster & Live Nation: a toxic relationship that, according to one lawyer, "essentially defrauds everyone involved." Becca and Robby bring you up to speed on the outcome of the company's fight in a trust-busting trial and then go all the way back to the villain origin story of this Frankenstein of scams. It makes us feel better to know that the founder of Ticketmaster is now miserable and possibly broke! For TWO bonus episodes every month, ad-free main, and book club join us on Patreon Watch on Youtube Thanks to our sponsors Orange Marketing and Des Moines Con Advertise with us Timestamps: 00:00 - Live Nation anti-trust verdict 05:00 - Episode intro 14:00 - History / origin story of Ticketmaster 32:00 - Ticketmaster enabling / encouraging scalpers because "it's called CAPITALISM" 40:00 - Live Nation / Ticketmaster bribes every president EXCEPT Jimmy Carter 56:00 - Kid Rock is Live Nation's pain sponge 58:00 - Takeaways / Pearl Jam 1:09:00 - Good news! Links: Live Nation employee mocks customers as 'so stupid' in internal messages released in court case Train Wreck? A Mogul's Battle Against The Bel-Air Subway Ticketmaster's Dark History How Ticketmaster became the most hated name in music 'A public relations nightmare': Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program Live Nation reaches settlement in US monopoly case Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States NYC's plan to tax luxury second homes, explained 5 Things to Know About New York's Proposed Second Home Tax

"Wars would be more effective and less destructive if the people in charge were stupider and hornier" - Donald Rumsfeld Robby and Becca swallow a fistfull of zyns and party with the teenaged Gundo Bros at the center of America's booming defense tech sector. Then, they meet the movement's spiritual leader, Palmer Luckey, whose Power Ranger fantasy company Anduril just secured a $20b contract with the US Army!!! Move fast and break things, America! Due to a technical glitch this epsiode is audio only, but click this link for Pics from the episode Thanks to our sponsor Orange Marketing Advertise with us Links: The Tech Bros Powering Silicon Valley's Military Fever Dream With Energy Drinks, God And Nicotine AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN SO BACK Investors Gave A Teenager $85 Million To Build Hydrogen Weapons. It's Not Going Well Palmer Luckey: Millennial slayer of U.S. defense giants The Pentagon's Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder Palmer Luckey's Suicide Headset Is Insane—and a Grim Part of VR's Future Silicon Valley is coming for the Pentagon's $1T budget The Year of the Trillion-Dollar US Military Budget Begins Matt Gaetz's Future Sister-in-Law Says He's a Gaslighting 'Creep' Good News: The Radical Monarchs launch in L.A. to school girls on social justice, Support the Radical Monarchs Time stamps: 4:00 - Meet the Gundo Bros 21:00 Welcome Palmer Luckey, the flip flop wearing, goatee having, erotic anime figurine collecting brother-in-law to accused child sex trafficker former Florida congressmen Matt Gaetz! 50:00 Palmer Luckey was predestined to be a fucking ghoul 1:10:26 Good news about the Radical Monarchs

If you like what you hear, consider joining us on Patreon for bonus episodes, ad-free listening, group discussions, book club, and MORE! Our independent podcast is made possible by support from listeners like you! Trevor Milton is BACK with a brand new scam... a jet with the world's largest toilet (it's true). He's just a human Secretariat living the American Dream baby!! Watch on YouTube Links: Original Hindenberg Nikola report Nikola Board Member Says Startup's Skeptics Are Too Focused on Past Nikola founder Trevor Milton is facing criminal fraud charges. Insiders say a history of lies brought down the billionaire once considered the new Elon Musk. Long Before Nikola Trucks, Trevor Milton Sold Investors on Startups That Faded Pardoned for Fraud, a CEO Mounts His Comeback: 'We Can Trust You Now'' The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree

Larry Ellison has been weirdly lurking in the background for decades, but then he turned 80 and decided that being the second richest man in the world wasn't enough, he also needed attention! Becca and Robby psychoanalyze baby Larry, visit his failed NOBU lettuce farm in Hawaii, and fall into the family's shiny new money pit. We think this could have all been avoided if Larry never discovered samurai swords... TW: mention of suicide, death Welcome to the NEW CO-HOST OF CORPORATE GOSSIP Robby Slowik Thanks to our sponsor Orange Marketing Watch on YouTube Advertise with us Pictures from today's episode For bonus episodes, ad-free main-feed, and book club join us on Patreon Streaming alternatives Cut off the Spigot Timestamps: (00:00) Introducing ROBBY! (05:00) The myth of Oracle & Larry Ellison (20:00) I actually think I can fix Larry Ellison! (30:00) Hi, My name is Larry Ellison, I invented colonization and it's actually not that bad (44:00) Larry's shiny new money pit (Paramount WBD) Links: Larry Ellison's Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Is Stepping Down to Spend More Time With His Yachts Still No. 1, and Doing What He Wants Larry Ellison Is More Interesting Than Ever at 81 The Son King of Hollywood Everyone Else Must Fail

Stop your protesting! Stop your organizing! The only thing we need is 🤑 MANIFESTATION 💸 It's time to talk about the Pyramidschemification of America. This episode has so many fun characters: 17th century Puritans, Tammy Faye Baker, Amanda Frances, an MLM hun on a regional jet somewhere over Sandusky, Ohio, and Elizabeth Holmes??? Thanks to our sponsor Orange Marketing Watch on YouTube Advertise with us For bonus episodes and book club join us on Patreon Timestamps: 10:30 - The Puritanical roots of Mulitilevel Marking 21:00 - Stop organizing! Start manifesting! 30:00 - Turns out, Regan pyramidschemified America 35:00 - Betsy Devos putting in 40 hours at the Stupid Idea Factory Links: Little Bosses Everywhere 2023 FTC report on MLMs The Unkillable Appeal of Multilevel Marketing They Spent Their Life Savings on Life Coaching The 'Exciting Business Opportunity' That Ruined Our Lives The Miseducation of Betsy DeVos These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. DeVos held in contempt for violating judge's order on student loans DeVos-Linked Adoption Agency Exposed Highly Sensitive Children's Medical Data Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007 Iraq Killings Email our good news correspondant with tips: elizabethliu526@gmail.com Good News: Media, the nation's first Fair Trade Town, marks 20 years supporting farmers in the developing world Learn more about Fair Trade Certification

Please rate and review this podcast!! For bonus episodes and book club join us on Patreon Advertise with us We're willing to bet that there's a 92% chance that Prediction Markets are a pyramid scheme! Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are EVERYWHERE. Are the the future of democracy powered by collective wisdom? OR just another product of the 30 under 30 grift factory? Thanks to our sponsor Orange Marketing You should hire Jennifer Tisdale! Pictures Watch on YouTube Timestamps: 00:00 - An orgy at a SF Area tech convention?? WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED!!! 11:30 - BREAKING NEWS: A group of isolated white 20 something men with a high risk appetite have it all figured out! 21:00 - It's not called insider trading, it's called "having an edge" 35:00 - Do you like my new app? I designed it on the toilet 53:00 - Good News: Meta on trial Links: Resources for problem gambling The Wager That Betting Can Change the World The CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket Are Betting On the Most Hated Experiment in Business They quit their day jobs to bet on current events. A look inside the prediction market mania Polymarket shouldn't allow people to profit by betting on the L.A. firestorm On Polymarket, 'privileged' users made millions betting on war strikes and diplomatic strategy. What did they know beforehand? America's financial markets are ready for a golden age Email our good news correspondant with tips: elizabethliu526@gmail.com Good News: Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children

Palantir - a new custom hellscape or same sh*t different toilet? Has Silicon Valley gone completely red-pilled or was technofacism in the valley's DNA all along? Adam and Becca trace the cookie crumbs from a pioneering mid-century nobel prize winning white supremacist to the post-9/11 origins of Palantir and ultimately meet CEO Alex Karp. Lately, he's been hitting the eject button on his own brain and twisting himself into pretzels both physically and metaphorically to justify his belief that he personally should be rich and successful! Toronto Copy Editing (Use code OLD-F for 10% off!) Join us on Patreon Watch on YouTube Pictures on Substack Advertise on the Corporate Gossip Podcast Submit a good news story by email to our good news correspondent elizabethliu526@gmail.com Links: Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump's Arms How a racist genius created Silicon Valley by being a terrible boss Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley Unlocking Secrets, if Not Its Own Value Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 'ELITE': The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees Alex Karp Goes to War CEO of Palantir Says He Spends a Large Amount of Time Talking to Nazis. Tech Workers Coalition Central Ohio businesses form mutual aid network to help families impacted by ICE Minnesota Mutual Aid Fund Instagram of Columbus Mutual Aid Fund: @corazonhilado Immigration and Mutual Aid Resources

We'll be back with season 7 on February 13th! This Patreon episode is free for all (no paywall) in solidarity with the National Strike on January 31st. If you like what you hear, please consider joining us on Patreon. It seems that for every person energized to activism this year, there's another three ready to shit on their efforts (it's not organized enough! it's not widespread enough! You'll never make a difference!). They're wrong. We're going to prove it by getting on our mumus and night caps and becoming the ghosts of general strikes past. We take you with us to the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 (05:50), the Bahamas General Strike of 1958 (16:00), and the NYC Hard Hat Riot of 1970 (27:30). Three events that are essential to understanding where we are today. Hopefully when we deposit you back to the present, you feel jacked up on history and ready to rip in 2026. Then, we'll wash it all down with an investigation into Larry Ellison and the biggest AI deal of 2025 (37:00). Was it a shrewd business move? Or a foolish plot by an old man desperate to conquer his inner demons before he croaks? Links: Watch on YouTube Advertise on the Corporate Gossip Podcast Pictures from the episode Join me in Albany on Feb 25 Q1 Book Club: Little Bosses Everywhere Minneapolis: Labor then and now: 90 years after the Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes Minneapolis Teamsters Strike Documentary Part 1 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike Documentary Part 2 The Citizens Alliance of Minneapolis Bahamas: 60th Anniversary of The General Strike: 19 Days That Changed The Bahamas The 1958 General Strike and the Making of the Modern Bahamas – Bahama Pundit The Bahamas: Bad News for the Boys Hard Hat Riots: The riot that started the culture wars Watch Hard Hat Riot | American Experience - PBS The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich Larry Ellison: TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes TikTok users say they are being censored after change to U.S. ownership Oracle, OpenAI Sign $300 Billion Cloud Deal Larry Ellison Is More Interesting Than Ever at 81 The Billionaire, His Mystery Wife and College Football's Wildest Recruiting Saga Big Tech tax breaks could've funded benefits for millions, Senator Warren finds

Thank you for listening to another season of the podcast! We'll be back in February with new episodes. Got suggestions / thoughts / feedback? Email becca@nitetoast.com For bonus episodes, book club, and the aftershow, join us on Patreon Advertise with us Watch on YouTube Trigger warning: suicide, drug use, overdose Tony Hsieh had a life other entrepreneurs dreamed of. He was the wealthy CEO of a wildly successful ecommerce company with a legion of devoted customers and employees, currently on a bus tour to spread the gospel of his unique management style. But under the surface, cracks were starting to show, and Tony was falling into a severe drug and alcohol addiction. Years after his death that bus tour was a clear turning point in Tony's story, but for those around him at the time, it was just Tony being Tony. They had no clue how much darker things could get. See pictures from today's episode on Substack Thank you to our episode sponsors: New York Interventionist Goodword Email our good news correspondant with tips: elizabethliu526@gmail.com Timestamps: 2:00 - Intro / show notes 6:00 - Zappos / Tony Hshei story 1:20:00 - Good News & Adam breaks a chair Links: Wonderboy (Book) Internal Memo: Zappos is offering severance to employees who aren't all in with Holacracy How Tony Hsieh Tried to Single-Handedly Transform Downtown Las Vegas The Rise and Fall of the Management Visionary Behind Zappos The Death of Zappos's Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior Amazon Changes at Zappos Slowly Dismantle Tony Hsieh's Legacy 'Money's a powerful motivator,' Friends, documents detail Las Vegas entrepreneur Tony Hsieh's final months alive Spinato's Employees Get a "Slice of the Pie" as Spinato Family Transitions 49% of Company Ownership to Eligible Employees Iconic Cincinnati company Graeter's to become partially employee-owned

This is an updated and unlocked version of an episode that was earlier published exclusively on Patreon. Join now and enjoy FOUR extra episodes a month for as little as $5! Ty Haney is back at Outdoor voices, the cult athleisure brand she founded. Can she successfully suck us all into her time machine back to 2014? Or will this company's death rattle be loud enough to convince the brand's private equity investors to put OV out of its misery. Today, Adam and Becca try to figure out how the once beloved brand got so weird and shitty and how Ty Haney fell off the top of the Abby Lee Miller girl boss pyramid. All pics can be found on Substack Watch on Youtube Email our good news correspondant with tips: elizabethliu526@gmail.com Advertise on the Corporate Gossip Podcast Links: Outdoor Voices Became A Staple For Millennial Cool Girls Thanks To Its Chill Aesthetic. Employees Say They Were Drowning. Outdoor Voices Founder Ty Haney Has Moved On. Mostly. Three years after her dramatic exit as CEO, she still has some things she'd like to say. How Outdoor Voices, a Start-Up Darling, Imploded Ty Haney is Elon Musk's Reply Guy Outdoor Voices founder Ty Haney accused of defrauding investors in $3M energy drink deal

The demon living inside Les Wexner's head brings us into the Victoria's Secret gremlin lair! Adam and Becca go back to the early 2000s to tell the story of the rise and fall of this retail behemoth and the corporate crooks who drove it into the ground. CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide Join us on Patreon for bonus episodes and the aftershow Pics from this episode on Substack Watch on YouTube Thanks to our sponsor, Manager Method. Use code GOSSIP for 10% off! Visit the Pullman National Historical Park Email our good news correspondant with tips: elizabethliu526@gmail.com Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro & Ed Razek's creep club 16:30 - The toxic culture inside Victoria's Secret 25:00 - Les Wexner's childhood & mommy issues 42:00 - Jack Fucking Welch shows up!!! The fall of Victoria's Secret Links: Selling Sexy: Victoria's Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon 'Angels' in Hell: The Culture of Misogyny Inside Victoria's Secret The Mogul and the Monster: Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Decades-Long Relationship With His Biggest Client

Listen to the full episode on Patreon. Join today at the Murdoch's Mates level and get FOUR bonus epiosdes every month plus the Corporate Gossip Book Club and group chat! On a chilly October night, I like to cuddle up with a good ponzi scheme. It's my comfort fraud <3 Links: 'Do You Believe I'm a Scam? Haha' Tai Lopez became YouTube famous promising men they too could own a Lamborghini. Then came the alleged Ponzi scheme. Tai Lopez's RadioShack Ponzi Scheme Read the SEC complaint This Clown Is Still Around its always the guy you suspect the most

Please Rate and Review this Podcast!! CW: Suicide, Sexual Assault Join the Patreon for the aftershow and tons of bonus content No game developer would even think to create a dungeon troll as sinister as Bobby Kotick. Bobby's life is a video game where gobbling up cash is the mission and when it comes to retribution there is no side quest too small! When the WSJ drops a bombshell report about years of sexual harassment and toxic culture at Activsion Blizard, will Bobby Kotick finally run out of lives? Or will he respawn in the form of a trash goblin who gets bonus points for punching down? Thanks to our sponsor Borough House Creative Advertise on the Corporate Gossip Podcast Watch on YouTube Time Stamps: 00:00 - Background on Activision Blizzard 09:30 - Bobby Kotick meets Daddy Wynnbucks and becomes an adopted nepo baby, starts game publisher Activision and develops expert level skill in suing people less rich than him 29:30 - Blizzard origin story, early reports of sexual harassment 51:00 - Activision Blizzard merger, Bobby Kotick turns the company into the Triangle Shirtwaist factory while board members look the other way 56:00 - Bobby Kotick completes the CEO right of passage - bending over for the CCP! 60:00 - The lights come on and everyone realizes Bobby Kotick is a little dungeon troll Note: Activision Blizzard denied any wrongdoing, and the settlement confirms California Civil Rights Department (CRD) could not substantiate those claims. As part of the settlement, the CRD withdrew the claims related to harassment from its complaint. Links: Play Nice (book) 'Scorched earth' and big profits: How embattled gaming titan Bobby Kotick outlasts his opponents At Blizzard, groping, free-flowing booze and fear of retaliation tainted 'magical' workplace Blizzard Sets Off Backlash for Penalizing Hearthstone Gamer in Hong Kong Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant A group of Activision workers say their C.E.O. should step down. Parents Say Sexual Harassment at Activision Blizzard Led to Their Daughter's Suicide

Listen to the full episode on Patreon. Join today at the Murdoch's Mates level and get FOUR bonus epiosdes every month plus the Corporate Gossip Book Club and group chat! In this episode: Brian Niccol TRIES HIS HARDEST to get us to like Starbucks again as he tries to escape the living ghost of Howard Shultz. I also went to the Charlie Javice Sentencing yesterday - my report starts at 48:15. 7 YEARS!!! I was shocked - I was certain she'd be sentenced to no more than 5. Links: Starbucks is closing more stores and laying off 900 workers Starbucks CEO's turnaround isn't happening fast enough for Wall Street Howard Schultz says he is a big fan of Brian Niccol's 'brilliant' Starbucks revival strategy Starbucks enters the protein wars with test of new drink option Starbucks to use AI to track inventory, free up baristas to connect Starbucks seeks to slash million-dollar store upgrade costs Write to Starbucks Corporate: https://customerservice.starbucks.com/sbux Starbucks Customer Contact Center: 1 (800) 782-7282 Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud <3333

Join the Patreon for the aftershow and tons of bonus content It's the quintessential American company - gaslighting the public, twisting regulators by the balls, and killing consumers in the name of shareholder value! This story is a smorgasbord of deviance - lies, fraud, corruption, cults, and a very sweaty CEO. So put on your lab coats and take out your popcorn as we dive into the pharmaceutical trash heap known as Johnson & Johnson - and yes, we're going to talk about Tylenol. Watch on YouTube Pics from today's episode Thank you to our sponsors: Twin Cities Comic Con Studio Govan Hear YOUR ad on the pod Submit a good news story to our good news correspondent elizabethliu526@gmail.com Timestamps: 00:00 - History of J&J 12:15 - Busting the myths of the 1982 Tylenol cyanide murders 24:00 - Tylenol, liver failure, and the cost of doing business 38:30 - FDA <3 J&J 46:00 - The J&J credo on opposite day (Risperdal kills nursing home patients and gives young boys breasts!) 01:08:00 - Oops! Extra Asbestos (J&J Talc based baby powder) Links: No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson Dose of Confusion How Independent is the FDA How Johnson & Johnson has somehow survived scandal after scandal $8 Billion Verdict in Drug Lawsuit Is Reduced to $6.8 Million Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

We are an independent podcast with no corporate sponsors. The Patreon helps keep the lights on, please consider joining at the Skillling's Sweeties level and get FOUR bonus episodes every month or the Murdoch's Mates level to join our live book club and group chat! Hear the rest of the episode on Patreon TW: Sexual Assault Wallstreets skankiest trash goblin, Jamie Dimon, has had the worst week EVER after a mind-blowing investigation was published by the NYT last week. Some truly flabbergasting revelations had us asking, can Dimon widdle baby his way out of this one? Links (please DM me if you need a gift link!): How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria's Secret for Wealth and Women How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein THE TALENTED MR. EPSTEIN Why Didn't Vanity Fair Break the Jeffrey Epstein Story? "She Was Shaking Uncontrollably": Powerful Men, Disturbing New Details in Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein Documents Senators Call for Hearings About JPMorgan's Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Please rate and review this podcast! What ever happened to AOL?! We go all the way back to 1999 (home video included) and meet Steve Case, the CEO of, at the time, the largest technology company in America. High on his own supply, he wrangles Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin into a business noogie and manages to destroy a third of a TRILLION DOLLARS in shareholder value almost instantly. TW: murder Pictures Watch on Youtube Join the Patreon for the aftershow and tons of bonus content Thank you to today's sponsors: Aster + Lupine RainBao Food Truck Links: Stealing Time (book) Fools Rush In (book) There Must be a Pony in here Somewhere (book) Gerald M. Levin, Time Warner Chief in a Merger Debacle, Dies at 84 How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong

Please rate and review this podcast! We're back with part two of our series on Open AI (we're done after this one for a while). Everyone's making everything up all the time and no one has any idea what will happen in the future. In this episode, we cover the wild claims made about AI and AGI and how those predictions are being used to justify environmental destruction and human exploitation. Also Sam Altman stands on his tippytoes. Listen to the aftershow on Patreon Today's sponsors are Darling Beasts, a book by Michelle Gable and The Talent Spot Advertise with us! Pictures from this episode Submit a good news story by email to our good news correspondent elizabethliu526@gmail.com Links: Empire of AI (Book) 'There was all sorts of toxic behaviour': Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI's dangers and big tech AI is draining water from Areas that need it most Small Oregon county reckons with fallout from data center scandal Arizona city defeats massive data center project over water, energy concerns Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in 'digital sweatshops' TIME100 AI 2024: Mophat Okinyi

Please rate and review this podcast! CW: Child Sexual Assault Meet Sam Altman, one of the most powerful men in tech (also maybe evil Pete Buttigieg??) and his posse of boy pests. We take you deep into the bunkers of Silicon Valley to Sam's inner circle to figure out how he became so rotted. Was it insecurity? Napoleon syndrome? OR SCURVY INDUCED PSYCHOSIS ??? Listen to the aftershow on Patreon Watch on Youtube Today's sponsors are Brick of Chicago and Neurorenew PT Advertise with us! Pictures from the episode Submit a good news story by email to our good news correspondent elizabethliu526@gmail.com Links: You look like a thing and I love you (Book) Empire of AI (Book) The Worst Hard Time (Book) Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny Sam Altman on His Plan to Keep A.I. Out of the Hands of the "Bad Guys" Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees Know Your Rights Virtual Workshop

Why is it that no one wants to see a hot guy succeed?!!!? This is the story of the three best friends, lead by Bell Air Boy Boss Sean Rad. They created Tinder and became the coolest millennials in LA, hosting parties with Jason Derulo and Kristen Doute and preparing their bank accounts for an influx of cash after being acquired by Match.com. But it's hard to read the fine print on a legal document by the light of a glow-stick! And while they were partying, Barry Diller was scheming from his megayacht. Soon, their viral app would be swiped from under them. Join the Patreon for bonus episodes! Watch on Youtube Advertise on Corporate Gossip Pictures from today's episode 10:00 - Intro 23:30 - Corporate Gossip #1: Here, put on this bedsheet and gladiator sandals, we're going to a COLLEGE TOGA PARTY!! FOR BUSINESS!! 37:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: Business daddy issues 46:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: Tinder founders - "we're stupid, BUT we're also sexual harassers, (allegedly)" 51:30 - Corporate Gossip #4: Nanci Jo Sales strikes 56:30 - Corporate Gossip #5: The VC urge to give a bunch of 20 somethings a million dollars and no oversight 1:04:00 - Corporate Gossip #6: Literally Match I Double dog dare you to find someone to be CEO who isn't a dumb creep 1:12:25 - Corporate Gossip #7: Nasty Grams from Blatt 1:15:00 - Corporate Gossip#8: Follow up & Takeaways Links: Mr. (Swipe) Right? 'Sodomy' and scandal: Tinder's thoroughly embarrassing stock-market debut A Tinder Revenge Story The revolutionary dating app made a lot of people rich. Co-founder Sean Rad didn't feel rich enough. An Open Letter to Tinder's Sean Rad from V.F.'s Nancy Jo Sales Thank you to today's sponsors! Karinas Confectioneries Ellin Lolis

The CEO of tech company Astronomer was caught at a Coldplay concert canoodling with the head of HR in a video that has since gone mega-viral. And SUDDENLY everyone is interested in what I thought was a niche topic - CEOs behaving badly!! In this emergency episode, I review the latest in the Astronomer scandal and recap my favorite executive cheating scandals that we've covered on the podcast. Correction: In an earlier version of this epiosde, I said Friends and ER were on CBS. They were not, they were on NBC. I also said Rupert Murdoch's wife was "Jerry Halloway" not "Jerry Hall." That's because I'm a millenial and I'm always thinking about the Spice Girls. Timestamps: 00:00 Astronomer 07:25 - Kevin Plank (Under Armour) 13:30 - Sergey Brin (Google) 20:00 - Les Moonves (CBS) 24:30 - SBF (FTX) 26:00 - Jack Welch (GE) 27:20 - Rupert Murdoch (NewsCorp / Fox News) I also touch on Dov Charney (American Apparel), Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie), The Insys Sales Reps, and Vince McMahon (WWE)

Checking in before our OFFICIAL Corporate Gossip Summer Research Break! We'll be back in July with regular episodes. Join us on Patreon Sign up for the Corporate Gossip Ad program here This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation Audubon chapter rejects offer from The Hartford to reinstate coverage BTW - we forgot to mention, but after The Hartford said they'd reinstate coverage, the Audobon chapter told the company to kick rocks!

For bonus content and discussions on each episode join us on Patreon We wrap up this absolute UNIT of a two part episode by examining the Facebook story by stepping into our proverbial blue sequined rompers and seeing the world behind Mark Zuckberg's baby bangs. BUCKLE UP as Becca and Adam try to figure out - did the accumulation of unchecked power and extraordinary wealth over 20 years take ice cream scoops out of Mark Zuckerberg's brain? OR did his unique position on top of business boy mountain give him the freedom to reveal the curly-haired gremlin that was always hiding within?? Links: Pics from the episode The Zuckerberg Files It's Time to Break Up Facebook How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook's War to Crush Google Plus Mark Zuckerberg Apparently Didn't Tell Congress the Whole Truth About Facebook An Ugly Truth Careless People Good News: Inside a Union's Fight Against Trump's Federal Job Cuts Got good news? Email our Good News Correspondent elizabethliu526@gmail.com

For bonus content and discussions on each episode join us on Patreon If Sheryl Sandberg & Mark Zuckerberg never encountered one another at a Christmas party in Atherton in 2007 would the world have been a better place? Find out as we go ALLL the way back and trace the story of Sheryl Sandberg's Dr. Frankenstein and her Mark Zuckerberg monster. Was there sexual tension between the two of them (no one explicitly has said that but I PICKED UP ON A FEW THINGS!)??. Were either of them good people who were corrupted? Or were they destined to seek power and destroy once they reached the top? What about now? Do they feel ashamed about the lives they've destroyed, directly or indirectly? Do they hate themselves more than we could ever hate them? Are there ANY heroes in this story at all? What do you think?! Links: Pics from the episode Why Sheryl Sandberg Quit Facebook's Meta "When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own Bullshit": The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg An Ugly Truth Careless People Got good news? Email our Good News Correspondent elizabethliu526@gmail.com

This was going to be a Patreon exclusive but I decided to make it free for everyone! If you want to support this indie podcast, consider joining the Patreon. You'll get bonus content twice a month, discussion posts with me and other members, and extra juciy content that didn't make the cut on regular episodes! The jury is now deliberating! What do you think? Guilty or Not Guilty? At the closing arguments of US vs. Charlie Javice, aka the Jose Baez oral rollercoaster. WEEE!!! Highlights include: The Monopoly Man is ACTUALLY J.P. Morgan Jamie Dimons "widdle baby" defense A scorned bank employee hopes to save bank daddies reputation As always, hyper realistic drawings that bring you into the belly of the lower Manhattan District Courthouse

In 2007, the mecca of hipster paradise was the Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. Etsy epitomized elder-millennial quirk with a sprinkle of digital delusion, and no one personified the vibes quite like their CEO and founder, Rob Kalin. But while Kalin and his friends were building a crafters utopia, a ruthless venture capitalist had another plan for the company: destroy it from the inside out and get SUPER rich doing it. Join the Patreon for bonus episodes and discussion! Pictures now on Patreon (no paywall!) Links: Etsy Wants to Crochet Its Cake, and Eat It Too Etsy Was a Twee Culture Punchline. Now It's a Wall Street Darling. Etsy CEO says company is escaping 'race to the bottom' and getting back to its artisan roots

Please share this podcast with a friend! Charlie Javice is another Forbes 30-under-30 uber-genius-startup-founder (see: SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, or Carlos Watson) who spent about 18 months in the warm center of the venture capital fake-it-till-you-make-it circle jerk before the sisal rug gets pulled out from under her. Once she was exposed as a total phony, every investor immediately covered their own ass and scrub the internet of any trace of themselves slobbering all over her. But one investor, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, took it a step further, and (in our opinion) weaponized the United States Justice Department to punish Javice for embarrassing him infront of his big bank friends!!! Pictures from this episode on Substack We're an indie podcast supported by listeners like you! Support us by joining the Patreon, and get two bonus episodes every month! I'm also covering the trial in more detail over there. Got an idea for a good news story? Send an email to our good news correspondant elizabethliu526@gmail.com Links: USA v. Javice How Charlie Javice Got JPMorgan to Pay $175 Million for … What Exactly? Charlie Javice, Millennial CEO Sued by JPMorgan, Was a 'Namedropping' Cool Boss The 8 Most Confusing Things About FAFSA Jamie Dimon Says Frank Acquisition 'Was A Huge Mistake' After JP Morgan Alleges Millions Of Fake Customers

This is an episode for our true crime lovers! we're talking about a 2019 GANG STALKING SCANDAL that involves the executives at a fortune 500 company criminally stalking a sweet old couple. What made these executives so mad? The chief executives at Ebay so deeply butthurt about a comment the couple made on their niche ecommerce blog that they crashed-out into a goodfellas-esque, rage fueled paranoid spiral, and orchestrated a highly illegal stalking and harassment campaign against them. Pics on Substack Join us over on Patreon for bonus episodes twice a month. Right now I'm also attending the trial of Charlie Javice and providing regular debriefs from the courtroom. We are a 100% ad-free community supported podcast! Links from today's episode (let us know if you need gift links) Elliott Management letter puts eBay on notice to improve stock performance Inside eBay's Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal Silicon Valley elite defend nonprofit CEO with dark past - San José Spotlight A Special Message for EcommerceBytes Readers

Please share this podcast with a friend :) PLUS good news about a health care strike in Oregon! We emerge from the vapor haze of a high school bathroom (how are these kids blowing PERFECT smoke rings??) to tell the tale of two Stanford grads who did what every single-celled-business-ameoba-boy dreamed of doing but was too scared to actually commit to doing - MAKE SMOKING COOL AGAIN!! They undid decades of work by doctors and public health advocates and turned millions of kids who would have never smoked a traditional cigarette into nicotine dependent freakazoids. CA-CHING!! Riddled with RAGING CASES of silliconvalleyitis, Juul's founders market their powerful nicotine delivery device straight to kids while the FDA was taking a well-deserved half-decade nap. They BLITZSCALED their way to a $38billion valuation and made like 50 people a lot of money. But of course, after the BLITZSCALE comes the HYPERFLOP... Research: The Devil's Playbook by Lauren Etter Big Vape by Jamie DuCharme Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. JUUL Labs The Juul Is Too Cool How Juul Got Vaporized Links: See pics on our Substack Join the Patreon Support the pod by buying us a coffee Record YOUR podcast at Producer Mike's studio! E-mail our Good News Correspondent with good news stories! elizabethliu526@gmail.com

We're BACK and starting off with an absolute banger! Sit back and enjoy the messy escapades of a bunch of horned up teenagers trapped in adult bodies: 23&Me Founder Anne Wojcicki, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and A Bald Eagle's worst nightmare, Elon Musk. With cameos from RFK Jr (POST Brain Worm) and the corporate scandal Forrest Gump, Diane von Furstenberg, this episode is the WHOSE WHO of Silicon Valley hanky panky. We also update our listeners on the state of the podcast, including exciting changes around 1:11:00 Catch bonus episodes on Patreon View pictures on our Substack Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out Mike's new studio! Links: The Doyenne of DNA Says: Just Chillax With Your Ex O.K., Glass: Make Google Eyes As 23andMe Struggles, Concerns Surface About Its Genetic Data

Don't forget to rate and review! Becca and Adam talk about the Giggly Grain Grandpa: Bob Moore of Bob's Red Mill. But don't toss your oats just yet, this is a good episode. We'll teach you how to have a Bob Moore Summer (Perfecting your porridge, socializing the means of production, hyperfixating on hobbies, and being jolly) and restore your faith in CEOs. Then we answer listener questions (37 min mark). THANK YOU! For another great season - we'll see you soon :) Support the pod Pics on substack Links: Bob's Red Mill: Securing The Future Through Employee Ownership Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob's Red Mill, Is Dead at 94 Executive greed is driving the labor shortage, says 93-year-old leader whose workers own 100% of the company

Put on your flower crowns and don your skinniest jeans and join us at the center of the Millennial universe: Coachella 2007! Adam & Becca meet the personification of the turn of the century hipster entrepreneur, Dov Charney. Sitting atop a pile of v-neck t-shirts ethically made in the USA, Charney was somewhat of a renegade business oddity on wall-street. But for the 20-something dreamers that clamored for the brand's clothing, he was a captivating revolutionary. Their devotion, along with a bevy of young corporate employees, easily exploited under the guise of "a greater purpose," allowed American Apparel to rapidly expand and IPO in 2007. The stores were everywhere you wanted to be… until they weren't. Eventually, abuse allegations coupled with financial mismanagement threatened Charney's reign as king of t-shirt mountain. With the walls closing in on him, he spiraled out of control… taking the company he founded with him. CW: Sexual abuse Pics on substack Support the pod Links: Read Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles Watch Big Rad Wolf The Young Garmentos (and the If Books Could Kill episode on Malcom Gladwell) Meet Your New Boss Dov Charney's Sleazy Struggle for Control of American Apparel

NO ONE does fraud like Eddie Antar, and Crazy Eddie is the bizarre story that got Becca hooked on fraud! Adam, Becca, and their Dad Jeff pop a few ludes and drop down the rabbit hole into a 1970's New York City punk rock fever dream. They meet a young Eddie Antar scamming tourists in a seedy Time Square clip joint and follow his journey to become the eccentric millionaire founder of Crazy Eddie Electronics. Antar was a marketing genius, and by the mid 1980's commercials for the chain were inescapable, shoppers were practically screamed at to rush out to Crazy Eddie's because 'HIS PRICES ARE INSANE!!!!' The insane prices, of course, were facilitated by an elaborate criminal racket. Money laundering, insurance fraud, tax evasion, bribery, insider trading… Eddie Antar did it all! But when the cash begins to dry up, Eddie's increasingly desperate and brazen behavior puts him in the crosshairs of the SEC. That's when Eddie Antar became an international fugitive and left his family, who enabled and benefited from his behavior, holding the bag. Support the pod Pics on our Substack Links: Read Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie Crazy Eddie commercial from 1982 Remembering Crazy Eddie: His Prices Were Insane

Why does doing taxes suck so much? Because Capitalism! Over the past 20 years, the lovable dweebs at the IRS have been on a quest to make filing personal taxes free and easy. They say America should be like other countries, where the government sends you a pre-filled tax return and all you have to do is sign-off. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Like what kind of deranged psychopath wouldn't want that? Enter Intuit, maker of tax preparation software Turbo Tax, and their disgruntled band of lobbyists. Their entire business model depends on you being afraid to screw up your taxes. So they bribe lawmakers to over-complicate tax laws, threaten the government into underfunding the IRS, and run dubious misinformation campaigns alleging that free tax filing is somehow… racist? The nefarious knuckleheads at Intuit would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for the determined efforts of Propublica journalists. They joined forces with the unlikely heroes at the IRS, and from a muggy basement office in Washington they stood up to Big Tax and won. We <3 the IRS and you will too after this episode! Support the pod Pics on our substack Links: How Intuit Reinvents Itself (Fortune) The TurboTax Trap (ProPublica Investigation series) IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025