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Desperate Acts of Capitalism is a comedy podcast about money, marketing, and how it all goes wrong. Join us on our magical journey through a wonderland of burning money!
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54: Airline Shenanigans
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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BIG THINGS ARE COMING
Sources:
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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53: MoviePass 2
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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BIG THINGS ARE COMING
Sources:
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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52: How It Feels To Market 5 Gum
On this episode of DAOC, CT takes us through 10 years of gum advertising.
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BIG THINGS ARE COMING
Sources:
https://productventures.com/work/5-gum-package-design/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZN5hqu7yPA
Music Credits:
Airwaves by Sascha Ende
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/79-airwaves
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/555-total-happy-up-and-sunny
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Prosecution, action, trumpets by Sascha Ende
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/19-prosecution-action-trumpets
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Leisure by Sascha Ende
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/207-leisure
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Uplifted by Sascha Ende
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/115-uplifted
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51: Al Dunlap
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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Sources:
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 -
50: Jeremy Renner Official
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!
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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 -
49: Cryptozoo
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.
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BIG THINGS ARE COMING
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
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