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Genius economist and con artist, or genius economist con artist? The legacy of John Law is the invention of modern financial policy, for better and for worse. Join us as we go historical, to the birth of paper money itself.
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For decades, Silicon Valley has used pizza as a testing ground for new business models. Pizzerias were the first brick-and-mortar businesses to use Bitcoin. So why hasn't big tech captured the business of pizza-making itself? Well they tried, and this is the story of how they failed.
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Last year, advertisements began appearing online for a strange Willy Wonka-inspired popup exhibit in Glasgow. They promised a magical experience for the whole family, full of whimsical sights, sounds, and treats. But what families got when they arrived was... not what they expected. Join us as we dive into the strange history of Willy's Chocolate Experience.
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https://www.vulture.com/article/glasgow-sad-oompa-loompa-interview.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20240301025857mp_/https://willyschocolateexperience.com/#faqs
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/willy-wonka-inspired-chocolate-experience-outrage-rcna140726
https://www.ign.com/articles/willy-wonka-experience-promoted-using-suspected-ai-art-was-so-bad-that-customers-called-the-police
https://ew.com/chocolate-fyre-festival-willy-wonka-event-infuriates-guests-8601369
https://www.thecut.com/article/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow-fyre-fest.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/world/europe/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow.html
https://www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk/event/131453-willy-wonka-experience/
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/willys-chocolate-experience-nightmare-what-went-wrong
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-68431728
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On this episode of DAOC, the gang goes back in time. Join us as we venture to the invention of speculation markets itself to explore one of history's first desperate acts of capitalism: The South Sea Bubble.
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Great Bubbles, Ross B Emmett, The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble by Malcom Balen, The South Sea Bubble by Helen J Paul -
Sabotage. Intimidation. Disinformation and junk mail campaigns. These were the four horsemen of John H. Patterson, the mad king of Dayton, Ohio. As founder of the National Cash Register Company in 1884, he contributed little to the design of the world's first cash registers. As a marketer and ruthless monopolist, he revolutionized sales practices in the United States, building a sprawling empire that went out of its way to gobble up even the most marginal competitors. In time, his monomania and eccentricities led to his own demise, but his legacy as an industrialist was nothing if not complex.
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John H. Patterson–John Patterson rang up success with the incorruptible cashier
By Mark Bernstein
https://www.daytoninnovationlegacy.org/patterson.html
John H. Patterson and the early sales practices of NCR By Jon M. Hawes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349697991_John_H_Patterson_and_the_early_sales_practices_of_NCR
Successful Monopolization Through Predation: The National Cash Register Company By Kenneth Brevoort and Howard P. Marvel
https://ideas.repec.org/h/eme/rlwezz/s0193-5895(04)21003-x.html
6 things you didn’t know about NCR’s John Patterson By Allegra Czerwinski
https://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/things-you-didn-know-about-ncr-john-patterson/K65i9ONHk46rKchxEUN2BN/ -
Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of abuse, injuries, and deaths.
Disney theme parks are beloved by countless people around the world. But as Evan found out when he was a child, they contain a dark history of tragic, horrifying, and bizarre incidents within their walls. Today we'll explore that history, and discover an unsettling pattern that reveals how much Disney really values their guests.
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Koenig, David (1994). Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland. Irvine, CA: Bonaventure Press. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-0964060562.
https://web.archive.org/web/20041011200218/http://www.local6.com/news/2971289/detail.html
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https://web.archive.org/web/20070109011729/http://www.local6.com/news/10685989/detail.html
https://www.kron4.com/news/california/naked-guy-spotted-on-iconic-disneyland-ride/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070321005056/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/custom/tourism/orl-disney0407mar04%2C0%2C4407309.story?coll=orl-business-headlines-tourism
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2004/02/12/disney-worker-killed-in-parade/
https://www.foxnews.com/story/disney-world-stuntman-dies-rehearsing-for-show-in-theme-parks-third-fatal-accident
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https://www.ocregister.com/2008/05/05/authorities-id-man-who-jumped-from-disney-hotel/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-08-me-22171-story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/13/us/florida-disney-death/index.html
https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/disney-amusement-park-accidents-and-deaths-a-complete-history/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-08-me-32412-story.html
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disneyland-deaths/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/us/alligator-child-florida-orlando-disney.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-alligator-child-idUSKCN0Z10I4/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-olds-death-disney-world-214000363.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALKerRqVJIPGLTQFQm3UpJEHIaVUOvRua9B5Pn_ypk1BXzE2Y294jq6KV7kQ6JFSZ9IUk1imAiWk_N8dBJ54OvjBecRyM2YDjIorc0t9pyskoDizN7yDujW0t7kRIbVAR5fS9JmMXUK7xSs22AySD_R-a-YMrIlKH48DvObE2BrD
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"Disneyland Changes its 911 Policy". Daily News (Danielle Herubin and Tony Saavedra). October 21, 2000. Retrieved May 4, 2007.
https://pantagraph.com/news/article_9e3a0050-3141-5e82-acce-6f226fb5c07e.html
https://www.ocregister.com/articles/changes-disneyland-orange-2291262-suffered-zucker
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/disney-world-food-allergy-death-lawsuit-long-island-doctor/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/nyregion/disney-wrongful-death-lawsuit-arbitration.html
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/borders-on-the-absurd-dead-womans-estate-rejects-disneys-claim-that-widowers-disney-membership-means-wrongful-death-lawsuit-must-be-arbitrated/ -
Starbucks has been struggling as of late. On this episode, we explore what could give one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world a run for its money.
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https://www.joc.com/article/starbucks-coffee-co-sold-5642744 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4NL6evnD0 https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/a-grande-deal-for-starbucks-1112460.php https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-15-fi-diedrich15-story.html https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/lbs-case-study/story/how-starbucks-survived-the-financial-meltdown-of-2008-136126-2014-09-22 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/mar/24/netbytes.starbucks https://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2008/07/31/starbucks-what-went-wrong.html https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=5288740&page=1 https://www.thestar.com/business/starbucks-to-cut-1-000-jobs/article_41108cfa-acc6-55da-9849-fdfeaca69f28.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160104212729/http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/coffee/2009/03/03/no_more_layoffs_at_starbucks_s.html https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/mobile-payment-at-u-s-starbucks-locations-crosses-10-as-more-stores-get-wireless-charging/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-almost-comical-starbucks-is-blatantly-trying-to-crush-its-union/ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60312013 -
The social internet could have been Myspace. Modular, user-centered, infinitely customizable. Like so many sites on the early internet, it was more accident than design, ballooning to enormous size and popularity much faster than its scam artist founders could keep up with. Join us as we find out how Myspace failed its way into success, and finally into catastrophe.
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Intelligencer
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/11/myspace_is.html
Financial Times - The rise and fall of MySpace
https://www.ft.com/content/fd9ffd9c-dee5-11de-adff-00144feab49a
MySpace: We'll Crush YouTube
https://mashable.com/archive/myspace-well-crush-youtube
The Atlantic - Why We’re Nostalgic for MySpace
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/08/top-eight-how-myspace-changed-music-book-review/675096/
Stealing Myspace by Julia Angwin
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Have you ever been watching a movie, and desperately wanted to SMELL the action? Like literally SMELL what was going on in the film? Well, turns out, Hollywood has tried to make that a reality several times. Today we'll examine the bizarre and complicated history of attempting to add scents to the silver screen.Edited and thumbnail by NoahJOIN US ON PATREON FOR EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, BONUS CONTENT, AND MORE: www.patreon.com/desperateactsofcapitalismBIG THINGS ARE COMINGSources:"Another Early 'Smellie'". Variety. January 6, 1960. p. 35. Gilbert, Avery N. (2008). "Hollywood Psychophysics". What the Nose Knows. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4000-8234-6. "'Smellies' Back in 1916?". Variety. November 27, 1940. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-01-04 – via Internet Archive. Fowler, Albert E. (January 13, 1960). "Fragrance of Long Ago". Variety. p. 6.https://www.latimes.com/business/la-tm-oops6feb05-story.html "Swiss Inventors' 'Smellie' Adjunct To Pix; Other N.Y. Airport Items". Variety. September 11, 1940. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-01-04 – via Internet Archive.Robertson, Patrick (1993). The Guinness Book of Movie Facts & Feats (5th ed.). Abbeville Press. p. 168. ISBN 1558596976.https://www.nytimes.com/1959/10/17/archives/todd-smell-film-may-be-scooped-reade-rushes-own-picture-to-beat.html Hift, Fred (October 14, 1959). "War of Rival Film 'Smellies'". Variety. Vol. 216, no. 7. p. 1.Kirsner, Scott (May 15, 2008). Inventing the Movies. Createspace. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-1-4382-0999-9.https://www.nytimes.com/1959/12/10/archives/smells-of-china-behind-great-wall-uses-aromarama.html Sragow, Michael (November 17, 2006). "Be forewarned: It's 'Waters' World'". Baltimore Sun Times. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20201021044003/https://www.ntt.com/release_e/news06/0004/0411.html https://www.firstshowing.net/2011/spy-kids-4-hitting-theaters-with-an-all-new-form-of-smell-o-vision/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8077455/Smell-O-Vision-TV-developed-by-Japanese-scientists.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729105-900-smell-o-vision-screens-let-you-really-smell-the-coffee/
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Movies: Are they good or are they bad? It's impossible to say. But what about the folks who make 'em? Hollywood makes plenty of flops and failures, but on this episode of Desperate Acts of Capitalism, we cover the golden age of Hollywood, and how it all came crashing down.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/hollywood-strike-history-sag/
https://www.amazon.com/Inquisition-Hollywood-Politics-Community-1930-60/dp/0252071417
https://archive.org/details/forbiddenanimati0000cohe/page/n9/mode/2up
https://filmstarfacts.com/2017/09/26/studio-system-collapsed/
https://www.history.com/news/how-tv-killed-hollywoods-golden-age
https://retrospectjournal.com/2020/11/29/raising-the-curtain-hollywood-and-american-politics-1920-60/
https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA146#v=onepage&q&f=false -
First they were weird. Then they were fun. Now, they are tired, played out, and full of catfish. In this episode of Desperate Acts of Capitalism we wade into the sordid world of modern dating apps, exploring how one of the most defining elements of modern dating culture got so bad.
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Tinder: CEO Renate Nyborg to leave dating app after one year
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62402874?utm_id=8562679&orgid=128&utm_att1=
How to date right: Romance is in the air with a former Trump aide’s new app for conservatives
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-features/2977090/how-to-date-right-romance-is-in-the-air-with-a-former-trump-aides-new-app-for-conservatives/
The Right Stuff users claim they were contacted by FBI after using the conservative dating app
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/conservative-dating-app-right-stuff-fbi-b2195668.html
Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder-bumble.html
Bumble’s Anti-Celibacy Campaign Is Not Going Over Well
https://www.thecut.com/article/the-controversy-around-bumbles-anti-celibacy-billboards.html
Forbes Health Survey: 79% Of Gen Z Report Dating App Burnout
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In the mid to late 2000s, we gathered around our television sets to watch a heartwarming reality show where struggling families got their homes renovated into much nicer, bigger homes. A much nicer, bigger home couldn't possibly have any unintended consequences down the line, right? Right?? How did the lizards get into the duct tape room???
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https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/abcs-extreme-exploitation
https://www.thelist.com/35201/untold-truth-extreme-makeover-home-edition/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ffFtPvdhs&ab_channel=PatrickCc%3A
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/05/26/extreme-makeover-home-foreclosure/346131001/
https://www.thewrap.com/ty-pennington-extreme-makeover-home-edition-backlash/
https://web.archive.org/web/20101105124200/http://defamer.gawker.com/163321/the-extreme-makeover-home-edition-tragedy-wishlist -
The land of strikes and protests is at it again - that is, was at it again about 15 years ago. With the Recession in full swing, the French adopted an... original method to obtain better deals from their bosses: sequestration. How is this possible? What are the police even doing? Are the bosses being tortured?? Why are people selling razors to CEOs now??? All this and more from the author of this episode, Noah the Editor.
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https://www.europe1.fr/economie/Sequestre-plusieurs-fois-un-patron-raconte-610324
https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sequestration-a-la-poste-amende-avec-sursis-pour-besancenot-et-dix-postiers-05-09-2011-1370052_23.php
https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/04/23/bossnapping-wave-sweeps-france/
https://www.lexpress.fr/societe/justice/sequestration-de-patrons-une-methode-de-negociation-risquee-en-theorie_1311966.html
https://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/syndicats/avant-air-france-d-autres-histoires-de-patrons-sequestres-4521859
https://atlantico.fr/article/decryptage/sequestre-par-vos-salaries--petit-kit-de-survie-pour-patrons-en-detresse-xavier-tedeschi-
https://www.liberation.fr/futurs/2009/04/01/la-sequestration-de-patrons-est-typiquement-francaise_550280/
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You've probably noticed it: flying on commercial airlines has gotten a lot worse. Covid didn't help, but if we're being honest it wasn't great before covid either. In fact, didn't flying used to be really fun back in the 60's and '70's? What happened to piano bars in planes, good food, and decent legroom? In this episode we will get into how airlines got so bad, and how what we see of the airline industry is the tip of an iceberg of rot and deregulation.
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Ryanair abandons controversial Afrikaans test for South African travelers
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ryanair-drops-controversial-test-for-south-african-travelers/index.html
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary accused of racism for saying terrorists are 'generally Muslim men'
https://news.sky.com/story/ryanair-boss-michael-oleary-accused-of-racism-for-saying-terrorists-are-generally-muslim-men-11940064
US airline passengers are getting increasingly frustrated. Here’s why
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/jd-power-2023-north-american-airline-satisfaction-survey-results/index.html
Summer air travel could be expensive and chaotic. Here's how to avoid trouble
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1104820079/summer-air-travel-could-be-expensive-and-chaotic-heres-how-to-avoid-trouble
Why is air travel so miserable? - Transcript
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/why-is-air-travel-so-miserable-transcript-1.7140847
Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Flying-Miserable-How-Fix/dp/B0BW661PMJ
How United Became The World's Most Hated Airline In One Day
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviatemin/2017/04/11/how-united-became-the-worlds-most-hated-airline-in-one-day/?sh=66e70e3561f2
Spirit Airlines to Charge New Fee for Carry-On Luggage
https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/spirit-airlines-charge-fee-carryon-luggage-bag-surcharge/story?id=10298802
The Ballsy History Of Extremely Crude Ads For Spirit Airlines
https://www.businessinsider.com/spirit-airlines-ads-2011-6?op=1
The facts and figures behind Michael O'Leary's horse racing empire
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/horse-racing/facts-figures-behind-michael-olearys-23354749
Hard Ryanair landing
https://youtube.com/shorts/ltkIWkUz0dk?si=iGfpgFlZAgLpbGse
Pilot Destroys Plane Wing
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MoviePass is back, and it's better than ever. In our first SEQUEL episode, Evan gives us an update on what the ol' MoviePass company has been up to in the last 5 years.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/moviepass-will-shut-down-for-good-on-sept-14.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/moviepass-gets-takeover-offer-1240275/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/13/moviepass-resurrection-will-face-old-problems-and-new-rivals.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/moviepass-relaunching-details-how-to-sign-up-2022-8
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/moviepass-relaunch-waitlist-tiered-pricing-1234754345/
https://www.businessinsider.com/moviepass-relaunching-details-how-many-movies-per-month-2022-9
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On this episode of DAOC, CT takes us through 10 years of gum advertising.
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https://productventures.com/work/5-gum-package-design/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZN5hqu7yPA
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Airwaves by Sascha Ende
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Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende
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Prosecution, action, trumpets by Sascha Ende
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Al Dunlap was not an ordinary man: he was a verb. Across the country, his name was a byword for rapid corporate turnarounds and ruthless efficiency; at least, that's what he claimed on the jacket cover of his book. Known for walking into boardroom meetings in ostentatious outfits and firing half the company, there was a time when Wall Street believed that "the Chainsaw" really could turn bad companies into good ones with sheer willpower. But Al was playing a dangerous game, and in the end he flew too close to the sun.
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Securities and Exchange Commission v. Albert Dunlap et al., Civil Action No. 01-8437-CIV (Middlebrooks)(S.D. Fla.)
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr-17710
Mean Business by Al Dunlap
https://archive.org/details/meanbusinesshowi00dunl_0
"Portfolio’s Worst American CEOs of All Time"
https://www.cnbc.com/2009/04/30/Portfolios-Worst-American-CEOs-of-All-Time.html?slide=16
"SEC Sues Sunbeam CFO Kersh, Dunlap, and Four Others"
https://www.cfo.com/news/breaking-news-sec-sues-former-sunbeam-cfo-kersh-dunlap-and-four-others/683301/
Book review: "Rambo in pinstripes. Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/npr.4040190212?saml_referrer
"Memo to Al Dunlap: You're Fired!"
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/memo-to-al-dunlap-youre-fired/
"Al Dunlap Compared Himself to Springsteen, Then Came a Steep Fall"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/albert-j-dunlap-cost-slashing-sunbeam-ceo-known-as-chainsaw-al-dies-at-age-81-11548611699
"Michael F. Price, a Pugnacious Value Investor, Has Died at Age 70"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-f-price-a-pugnacious-value-investor-has-died-at-age-70-11647621811 -
Jeremy Renner superfans used to have an app to share their love of all things Renner. But then everything went wrong. Find out what happened on today's thrilling episode of Desperate Acts of Capitalism!
Editing and Thumbnail by Noah
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BIG THINGS ARE COMING
Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/9/4/20850069/jeremy-renner-official-app-shutting-down-trolls-fans-marvel-cinematic-universe-hawkeye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7P-RhLjLQ&ab_channel=DannyGonzalez
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7430119/Jeremy-Renner-shuts-app-two-years-trolls-posing-Casey-Anthony-OJ-Simpson.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/jeremy-renner-launches-new-app-fans-987835/
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/actor-jeremy-renner-launches-free-mobile-app-for-fans-in-partnership-with-escapex-300427322.html
https://www.fastcompany.com/90330587/influencers-and-their-superfans-are-flocking-to-this-new-kind-of-social-media
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/jeremy-renner-app-trolling-career-hurt-locker-avengers
https://deadspin.com/i-broke-the-official-jeremy-renner-app-by-posting-the-w-1837804181
https://www.wired.com/story/jeremy-renner-app/
https://onezero.medium.com/the-sketchy-economics-behind-the-jeremy-renner-app-8dae94724ab1 -
On this episode of DAOC, we delve into the bizarre crossroads of Youtuber drama and cryptocurrency scams to cover the financial escapades of one Logan Paul.
Edited by Noah
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Sources:
https://time.com/6252093/logan-paul-cryptozoo-liquid-marketplace/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonyoushaei/2021/10/11/how-logan-paul-became-our-generations-greatest-showman/?sh=7ade8462a221 https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/1409595093263077382 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/technology/crypto-influencers.html https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/logan-paul-cryptozoo-scam-coffeezilla-allegations-explained.html -
"It's a new way of doing news. What could possibly go wrong?"
If we didn't do an episode on this one, and you're not from the UK, you probably never would have heard of GB News. Started as a British bootleg of Fox News, the company now faces multiple Ofcom investigations and stands to lose its license. But how did it all go so wrong in only two years?
Edited by Noah
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BIG THINGS ARE COMING
SOURCES
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/gb-news-fox-news-british/619210/
https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/piers-morgan-uncensored-talktv-gb-news-foxification-1235266461/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-gb-news-is-brexit-britain-ready-fox-news/
https://news.yahoo.com/gb-news-investigations-laurence-fox-suspended-dan-wootton-show-144333125.html
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/ofcom-opens-investigation-into-gb-news-under-our-rules-on-offence
https://www.newsweek.com/gb-news-style-disastrous-results-fox-news-uk-1601670
https://www.businessinsider.com/britain-anti-woke-gb-news-ceo-interview-angelos-frangopoulos-2021-3?op=1 - Show more
