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SEASON 4 COMING Q2 2024!
It's the Season 3 Finale! We answer listener questions and meet the Yogurt King of New York: Chobani's founder, Hamdi Ulkaya. From nomadic Turkish farmer to millionaire milk mogul, Ulkaya became known as the Anti-CEO, prioritizing people over profit and creating one of the fastest growing food companies in America.
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01:30 - Listener Questions
How did you guys come up with this idea for the podcast? What’s the best / juiciest piece of corporate gossip that didn’t make the cut? Why are your seasons so short? I would pay for a subscription to get a weekly episode until the end of time! I'm a final year student in finance and I'm worried I have made a terrible mistake studying this degree, as it seems that corporations mostly cause more harm than [good], and benefits an elite few. is there any field you would recommend where I could use my degree for good? Is there a way that finance can be a force for good? Given the intricate web of corporate scandals involving entities like FTX, McKinsey, Koch Industries, SVB, etc. I'm curious to know: What common threads or distinct patterns have you observed across these cases, and how do these scandals reflect broader issues within the corporate landscape? Have there been any surprising twists or unique aspects in these stories that stand out to you guys, providing deeper insights into the world of corporate misconduct18:00 - Chobani's Anti CEO
Links:
The Profile Dossier: Hamdi Ulukaya, the Shepherd-Turned-Billionaire CEO
Chobani CEO says pulling IPO was one of the best decisions company has made
Chobani hired hundreds of refugees at its plants. Average tenure now exceeds industry average
Chobani’s CEO is giving up to 10 percent of his company to employees
Capitalism and Humanitarianism Can Coexist. Chobani's CEO Is Trying to Prove It
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In 2017 Carlos Ghosn was on top of the world, he was a Japanese national hero, renowned for bringing Nissan back to life from the brink of failure. His face was on the cover of magazines, his story was depicted in Manga, he even carried the torch at the Olympics in his home country of Brazil. His sudden arrest in 2018 for financial crimes was an unexpected twist in his story that made him the center of international intrigue. As extraordinary as his life had become, no one could have imagined what would come next...
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Timestamps:
5:40 - CG#1: Carlos Ghosn joins the growing number of wayward CEOs with daddy issues
9:15 - CG#2: Meet carlos’s car daddy: Francois Michilin
17:40 - CG#3: It’s time for Carlos’ Makover montage!
31:25 - CG#4: Carlos Ghosn enters his dwight schrute era
36:50 - CG#5: Ghosn follows the CEO playbook - time for an ostentatious company sponsored personal party that definitely will have no negative PR implications whatsoever
49:00 - CG#6: All Partied out!!
52:33 - CG#7: What do they say? You either die a hero or live long enough to be smuggled out of Japan in an equipment box?
56:30 - CG#7: What do they say? You either die a hero or live long enough to be smuggled out of Japan in an equipment box?
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Becca is joined by Corporate Gossip startup correspondent Aaron Cohn to dip our tube-socked toes into the FTX trial. We meet Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), a rumpled 28-year-old-grown-adult-boy-genius who built a $40 billion crypto empire in less than three years. But his meteoric rise to crypto kingpin was followed quickly by his fall to the bottom of shit-coin mountain. And now, SBF is facing up to 115 years in federal prison for fraud.
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Timestamps:
17:40 - Corporate Gossip #1: Sam Bankman Fried raises $420.69m from 69 founders in a “meme” funding round and raises zero red flags
33:45 - Corporate Gossip #2: This guy can’t be a criminal… I mean, come on, have you ever seen a criminal in wrinkly cargo shorts???
45:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: To the moon!
50:00 - Corporate Gossip #4: FTX: Fraud on top of shit mountain
1:09:40 - Corproate Gossip #5: When people stop being polite, and start getting indicted
1:13:30 - Corporate Gossip #6: Will the Smol bean / Widdle baby defense work for Sam?
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A very haunted episode of the Corporate Gossip Podcast! Becca and adam talk about the House of Villains that is Pacific Gas and Electric. The collection of CEOs that have lead the utility company over the past two decades are are more dubious than Omarosa and more dimwitted than Jax Taylor. On the upside, this episode should cure even the most chronic cases of imposter syndrome.
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Timestamps:
11:00 - “You guys need to stop talking about Enron” - said no one ever
15:00 - Peter Darabee is possessed by the ghost of Jack Welch and then gets scammed by Accenture
22:00 - Stay humble Tony Early
31:00 -Geisha Williams is rewarded for her job as pain sponge after the San Bruno explosions and is crowned CEO
46:00 - Bill Johnson, blink and you’ll miss him
53:00 - Patti Poppe: New decade, same bullshit
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It’s hard to talk about corporate gossip without talking about McKinsey. They're everywhere! They advise the biggest companies in every industry in practically every company in America (90% of the Fortune 100 companies use Mckinsey). From Las Vegas Casinos to the Vatican, McKinsey consultants, armed with their Thinkbooks and Tumi rollerbags, dispense their advice on maximizing the bottom line under a veil of secrecy.
That is until recently, when dogged reporters sifted through thousands of documents made public as part of a series of lawsuits and criminal investigations into the firm. Becca and Adam read through it all and are bringing you the juiciest stories. They find out that when it comes to systemic corporate malfeasance, McKinsey isn’t the one who lit the match, but they’re often found fanning the flames.
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Timestamps:
10:00 - Corporate Gossip #1: McKinsey, this is why we can’t have nice things (Intro and background)
30:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: If Jack Welch is Theresa Giudice, McKinsey is Juicy Joe and today’s billionaire boss-boys are 4 year-old Melania (How McKinsey influences the world's largest companies)
52:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: McKinsey: Our consultants are happy to provide clean pee for your patients who are addicted to heroin!! (McKinsey's role in the Opiod Crisis)
1:05:00 - Corporate Gossip #4: Enron is basically a McKinsey spinoff in which Jeff Skilling visits Ken Lay at the summer house in Montauk (McKinsey's role in the Enron rise & fall)
1:09:00 - Corporate Gossip #5: If you’re looking for the Lizard people controlling the American economy it’s not the west coast elites… it’s McKinsey! (McKinsey as a Corporate Villian)
1:15:00 - Corporate Gossip #6: Clarence Thomas really went - guys know what would make McKinsey better??? If they had access to more white men!! Hey now… white men who can take me on Yachts. (How the overturning of affirmative action plays into McKinsey's ability to continue weaponizing capitalism)
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This is part two of a two part episode.
This week, Billy Koch turns into a corporate vigilante, as he takes the Department of Justice and the FBI on a private tour of the grounds where all the Koch corporate secrets are buried. We then tell the story of courtroom fight as dramatic as a Beverly Hills housewives reunion, with siblings rehashing decades-old conflicts and clawing at their share of billions of dollars. Then, Charles Koch continues his campaign to be voted “most-miserly” in the 2008 Billionaire Yearbook by funding an artificial-grassroots organization to promote his libertarian big business-first policies. Meanwhile, Bill Koch’s son Wyatt asks the Sharks to invest $100,000 for a 10% stake in his palm-beach-boroque men’s blouse line.
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Timestamps:
02:00 - Corporate Gossip #5: Woke up this mornin’ and I got myself some oil from Native American reservations
11:30 - Corporate Gossip #6: Law and Order - Special Boss Bois Unit
21:00 - Corporate Gossip #7: Profit is my religion and regulation is the devil!!
24:15 - Corporate Gossip #8: It's a 45-day plan. 45 days! To get us back, on track. 45 points! It's a 45-day, 45-point, one point per day. We get 45 points, we're back in business! [cheers] And you can take that to the bank! And limo lady! We are going to completely destroy Barak OBAMA! [more cheers] I love you New York!
29:30 - Corporate Gossip #9: Charles Koch: Ooops! Did I do that????
33:00 - Corporate Gossip #10: Okay That was dark, let’s end on a high note - Bill Koch’s son’s quest to create the ugliest t-shirts of all time
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The only thing more toxic than the emissions spewing from the smokestacks at Koch industries are the relationships between the four adult heirs to the family fortune. This story has EVERYTHING: court battles, private investigators, homosexual blackmail, ANNA NICOLE SMITH, sibling rivalry, and libertarian summer camp! Join Becca and Adam as they wade into the stinky, polluted waters of the Koch family dynasty in this two part episode!!
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Timestamps:
09:00 - Corporate Gossip #1: Duck, duck, Fred Koch Sr. dies of a heart attack
16:15 - Corporate Gossip #2: Growing up Koch
39:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: Charles is our daddy now and you better believe he’s gonna take his unresolved trauma and unexamined political beliefs and make all of our lives miserable
48:00 - Corporate Gossip #4: At the Koch family christmas party, Bill confronts David & Charles over stealing his Dolce & Gabanna lifestyle and wagers a war that will destroy the family
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David Zaslav is having the worst summer ever. He was heckled by thousands of graduates during his Boston University commencement address, publically shamed for holding a hunger games style gala in france, and had to fire his best friend! Oh and to top it all off, all of the workers he extracts his wealth from are on strike. Why doesn't anyone want to work anymore!!
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Timestamps:
6:30 - Corporate Gossip #1: With friends like David Zaslav, who needs enemies? Zas fires his pain sponge, Chris Licht, on their morning walk in Central Park under the apocalyptic orange-haze of the Canadian Wildfires.
15:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: In the year 2023 - the same year that CEOs have pissed away $44bn on a social media app, killed 5 people in an ill fated trip to the Titanic, and challenged each other to a cage match, David Zaslav is STILL in the running for dumbest CEO of the year…
27:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: I think David Zaslav is just here for the zipline
40:15 - Corporate Gossip #4: C’mon guys, don’t strike, I had plans this summer! I was gonna hang out!
52:45 - Corporate Gossip #5: You can’t keep getting away with this Zaslav *shakes fist in air*
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Content warning: this episode references child abuse and suicide
Ted Turner has more BDE in his pencil mustache than Zuck and Musk combined. In the span of 5 years he captained a champion sailing yacht through the deadly celtic sea, pulled out an underdog win in the America’s cup, bought two professional sports teams, and created the first ever 24-hour news network: CNN. His life is what LinkedIn Lunatics fantasize about. He created TBS, TNT, TCM, Cartoon Network, AND the iconic environmental superhero cartoon, “Captain Planet.” He is cherished by unproblematic icons Jimmy Carter and Jane Fonda and despised by degenerate psychopath Rupert Murdoch.
Turner disrupted the media industry and spent years on top, but like so many of the characters in our podcast, he couldn’t conquer his inner demons. Deep pain from a traumatic childhood and unaddressed mental health issues destroyed his marriage and threatened his fortune. In this episode, Becca & Adam attempt to trace the life of the chaos cowboy while expertly pronouncing the word "documentary."
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Makeup / Hair @mardeaubeautyTimestamps:
8:40 - Corporate Gossip #1: In terms of Corporate Villains, David Zaslav, who we’ll discuss next week, is the straight up evil, sociopathic type. But the other Corporate Villian in this story, Ted Turner, is more like the villain with a heart of gold.
36:50 - Corporate Gossip #2: Would you believe that the reason we have a 24 hour news cycle in America is because of Ted Turners undiagnosed mania?
48:10 - Corporate Gossip #3: Now it’s time for Jimmy Carter to make an appearance as the empathetic king and Ted Turner’s daddy figure (by the end of this segment, Jimmy Carter will be all of our dads).
59:10 - Corporate Gossip #5: As Ted’s professional life is unraveling, Queen Jane Fonda throws in the towel and Ted lives out our collective fantasy - taking revenge on a boss that did you dirty.
1:04:20 - Corporate Gossip #6: Let’s meet back up with Ted in present day as David Zaslav is meticulously picking apart his legacy with his hands and licking his little fingies like he’s elbow deep in a pile of buffalo ribs.
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Becca & Adam are back to spill more corporate tea on September 22nd! Listen for a sneak peak of the gossip of season 3.
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Bonus Episode!!
It's like Jaws if everyone in Jaws worked for Jaws! It's the true story of Rupert Murdoch's main hustle (News Corp) and his side hustle (emotionally and financially manipulating his children). We trace Rupert's (aka RuMu) rise from under the thumb of his father, the original Murdoch Megalomaniac, to become an Australian media mogul. Then, he journeys to the UK and the US, leaving a stinky trail of editorial corruption wherever he goes. Strapped on his back are three of his grown children, Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James, who are pulling and poking at one another as they battle for daddy's treasure: the top spot of the Murdoch Empire!
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SEASON 2 FINALE!!
Thanks for your support this season, we'll be back with Season 3 later this summer!!
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Becca and Adam flew close to the sun last week and decided to end the season on a high note. We answer some listener questions and crown our 2023 Corporate Cutie before getting into some feel-good Corporate Gossip.
The Costco story (18:45) is straight from a Jack Welch nightmare. Low CEO pay, a modest corporate headquarters, and no private jets?!!! Despite skimping on executive perks, Costco became a retail giant, peaking at #11 on the Fortune 500 list. And they did it without layoffs, downsizing, or offshoring… suck it McKinsey!! This episode has no strip clubs, accounting fraud, or subterfuge… BUT it does have threats of MURDER!!
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Timestamps:
01:00 - Intro (Confirmation that John Flannery is, in fact, still alive and thriving!! and our close encounter with Andy Cohen and why we’re wrapping season 2
06:00 - Listener Questions
15:00 - Corporate cutie awards 2023
18:45 - Costco: Kings of Kirkland
Links:
Weddings by Costco
Costco foodcourt challenge
Costco CEO Craig Jelinek Leads the Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World
Link to chart with revenue / salary
Amazon and Walmart have raked in billions in additional profits during the pandemic, and shared almost none of it with their workers (Brookings institute expose)
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This is a true Corporate Gossip Exclusive: The ONLY comparative exploration of Enron and Vanderpump Rules.
On a summer day in 2012 in a restaurant garden in Weho, waitress Schena Shay confronts Housewife Brandi Glanville about the rumors of infidelity surrounding Brandi's husband, Eddie Cibrian. Narratively, this scene breaks the seam between the women of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and the servers who tend to them. And television's crown jewel is born: Vanderpump Rules.
Few know that there was another cosmic seam that ripped at the same moment, and merged two dimensions along thematic parallels: cheating, fraud, topless bars, uppers, women's rights, and women's wrongs. If you're a Vanderpump girlie who wants to get into Enron or an Enron bro who wants to get into Vanderpump - this is ENRON RULES!
We explore the Enron collapse by meeting each of the main players and following them throughout the Enron story. We'll start with the villains who commanded the corporate clusterfuck and then meet the heroes who had the guts to defy them.
This episode also features our DAD! @Jeffplatsky
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Timestamps / Cast of characters:
6:00 - Introducing our DAD, the original corporate gossiper!
10:00ish - The Enron Scandal as told through the eys of the villains and the heroes:
The Villains:
Enron CEO Ken Lay aka Tom Schwartz
Enron COO / CEO Jeff Skilling aka Jax Taylor
Enron CFO Andy Fastow aka Tom Sandoval
Bonus Villain! The Analysts aka Ken Todd and Lisa Vanderpump
The Heroes:
Enron Whistleblower Sherron Watkins aka Kristen Doute
Enron Whistleblower Margaret Ceconi aka Lala Kent
Fortune Journalist Bethany McLean aka Schena Shay
Links:
How Enron Blew It
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Book)
The Smartest Guys in the Room (Movie)
You're Wrong About: Enron (Podcast)
JUST DESERTS? / A year ago, Francine Cavanaugh tossed a pie at Jeffrey Skilling for gouging Californians now the former Enron CEO is under fire in Washington
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A SUPERSIZED EPISODE!! Two pods in one!!!
Jack Welch is our collective Corporate Villain origin story. Potentially the most famous American CEO, Welch, like so many of the leaders we cover on this pod, possesses a dangerous combination of ruthlessness and incompetency. Adam and Becca trace his meteoric rise and salacious downfall before passing the reins of turd mountain (GE) to a series of doomed successors. Our apologies in advance to the fine people of Massachusets for our repeated unsuccessful attempts at a Boston accent.
P.S. John Flannery if you're reading this right now we love you please come on the pod
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If Theresa Giudice opened a mediocre fast casual sandwich shop it would look like Subway restaurants. Founded in part by a 17 year old from the Bronx named Fred Deluca, Subway would become the world’s largest fast-food chain. But while Deluca's family was raking in that sweet meatball money, their franchisees were in honey ham hell. Once the sandwich king, Subway now faces serious lawsuits and FTC investigations amid dwindling sales. How did this chain, known for its "definitely 100% real, seriously guys I promise it really is tuna" sandwiches tumble to the bottom of the food chain? Find out on this episode of Corporate Gossip!
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Timestamps:
1:50 - Fred Deluca opens the first Subway with $1,000 and a bag of tuna and quickly realizes that making franchise royalties is wayyyyy easier than making a hot italian sandwhich.
5:15 - Deluca is Tiny Time vibes with a Scrooge personality.
7:40 - The most haunted calendar of all time is created by Deluca and his colleagues. They literally take pictures of themselves shirtless around the office. Deluca is Mr. January.
12:30 - Subway becomes the LuLaRoe of fast food restaurants.
16:00 - Wokeup this mornin' and I got myself a sub.... Subway's hitmen set their targets on francisees.
22:30 - J*red F*gle, I don't think I need to say anymore.
26:00 - After his death, Deluca gives his estranged wife the ultimate anniversary present... half of a dying sandwhich company!
31:50 - Subway's requirement for a new CEO? Sharing the majority of the founder's DNA.
37:00 - You know what they say about mixing business with family? It literally always works every time! You should def do it!
40:00 - Subway spends millions of dollars on a rebrand and a ton of celebrity influencers but their sandwhiches still suck.
44:20 - Subway's future looks as grey as their tuna.
45:45 - Find out what fast food restaurant you are based on your zodiac sign.
Links:
SubCon 2023! (Subway Convention)
Subway cofounder Fred DeLuca ruled the company like a demigod and pursued wives of franchisees. How one man sent the world's biggest fast-food chain into a tailspin
Subway does franchisee damage control after John Oliver segment: memos
Subway Got Too Big. Franchisees Paid a Price
Inside the 2 secretive billionaire families that own Subway, as they face backlash from furious franchisees
Judge rules Subway can be sued over claims that its tuna sandwiches contain other fish species or animal products
New Subway sandwich menu items taste just as vile as the old ones
What fast food are you based on your zodiac
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This episode is Not Safe For Work / Your Harvard MBA class
Professional Canadian... sorry, Professional COMEDIAN, Nathan Macintosh joins Becca to fix capitalism. It's so easy it literally took us less than an hour guys. We discuss a few interesting proposals to address capitalism's systemic problems, AND plan the first EVER Corporate Gossip Cruise / Davos for the rest of us.
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Timestamps:
10:00 You Better Work Betch: Full employment guarantee
20:00 Go back in time and destroy Reagan!
31:00 YOU can get a house without waiting for your parents to unalive
42:00 A cult classic: The Four Day Work Week!
Links:
Nathan Macintosh: Money Never Wakes
National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (Aka the Works Progress Administration)
The Accountable Capitalism Act of 2018
Investment Firms Aren’t Buying All the Houses. But They Are Buying the Most Important Ones
Opinion: Bernie Sanders is right about capitalism
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Join Becca and Adam on a journey that starts in in a smoky Texas hotel lobby in 1967. We'll pass trough a decomposing sportatorium off the Dallas freeway in 1992 and end at a contentious company sponsored JoJo concert in 2022. Once a shining star in the skies over the Texas Plains, Southwest experienced a slow and then sudden descent after the departure of it's distinctive founder. Executive would try to repair the damage, but for many it was "Too Little, Too Late."
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Links:
Video of the Malice in Dallas
Southwest Airlines Engine Explodes in Flight, Killing a Passenger
Column: The guilty parties evading blame for the Southwest meltdown are its board members
Southwest store
Southwest Airlines Faces Tough Questions From Senators
Video of Pilots walking out of the Southwest Employee Rally
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It's a bank run, dummies! The SVB collapse is true corporate gossip catnip, and we couldn't resist bringing you this ~very special~ episode about the biggest corporate shitshow of the year (so far). Aaron Cohn, business professor and scorned ex-lover of venture capital, joins Becca to recap the bank's meltdown and subsiquent VC temper tantrum. Aaron is fresh off the plane from SXSW and ready to spill all the tea on venture capital. It's a little bit cringe, a little bit spooky, but mostly a good reminder to never trust a billionare and that NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE :)
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Links:
The Incredible Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw Over Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits
EXCLUSIVE: Aloha suckers! Silicon Valley Bank's failed CEO Gregory Becker escapes to his $3.1million Hawaiian hideaway days after being fired, leaving the chaos of the collapse in the dust
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Boeing is the quintessential american company. For decades it was the destination of choice for America's brightest minds in engineering. Pilots revered the institution, "if it aint Boeing, I'm not going," they'd often say. But by the turn of the century, Boeing's engineering supremacy was replaced with a relentless devotion to shareholder value. Passengers... you can kick rocks! Boeing execs have got a company to plunder in the name of shareholder value maximization!!!
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Timestamps:
9:30 The airline deregulation act: L or W? Becca’s take will SHOCK you!
16:30 Boeing catches shareholder value maximiziation-itis and Boeing fish starts to rot from the nose down
20:00 Boeing execs are giving big Dr. Evil energy
27:00 Capitalism Kills - the Boeing 737 Max Crashes
30:00 Boeing: “Shareholders are my main chick and the flying public is my sidepiece”
35:30 The FAA & Boeing are like the Abby Lee Dance Company and the Candy Apple Dancers
33:00 The aftermath of the Boeing 737 Max crashes Spoiler alert - Boeing leadership = Dickless losers and a rare Ted Cruz W
49:30 If life couldn’t get worse for the plane crash victims… here comes Tom Girrardi and all the other vultures
54:30 Latest updates on Boeing
Links:
Read Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Watch Flight / Risk on Amazon
Report on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Battery Flaws Finds Lapses at Multiple Points
Final report on Boeing 737 MAX crash sparks dispute over pilot error
Boeing Reaches $200 Million Settlement With Regulators Over Its 737 Max
Families of Boeing Crash Victims Can Challenge U.S. Settlement, Judge Rules
Whistle-blower settles case (Gary Eastman)
House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure members
The Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation members
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Carlos Watson has it all: an Ivy League pedigree, an electric personality, and a media empire called “Ozy.” There’s only one problem… Watson is a prolific bullshit artist. When he and his co-founder are caught catfishing Goldman Sachs executives, his empire begins to crumble and his throne of lies is exposed. The Ozy story is truly wild and includes feuds with Sharon Osbourne, a Fyre Fest knockoff, and millennial-era side bangs!
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Vignette edited by: Becky Nanns Beckysaysitall.com
Timestamps:
03:33 - Ozy Media background and Becca’s side bang regret
10:15 - Ozy becomes the most popular website of all time!! More readers than the Bible!!!
15:40 - Carlos Watson’s catfish practice with A&E
24:15 - The Ozy Media Fyre Fest that almost was
31:25 - Don’t F* with Sharon Osbourne
33:54 - Carlos Watson: World’s Best Boss
38:00 - Carlos & Samir catfish Goldman Sachs & the Ozy downfall
44:35 - Ozy 2.0: The Return of the Carlosfish
50:50 - Takeaways
Links:
Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40 Million Conference Call Gone Wrong
Ozy Built a TV Show on a False Claim, Says Its Former Producer
How Ozy Fest Was About To Become The Next Fyre Festival — Until A Heat Wave (And Insurance Claim) Bailed Them Out
18-hour days and panic attacks: Former Ozy staffers allege an abusive environment
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