Corporate Gossip

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Business news for gossip lovers. From boardroom shakeups to c-suite scandals, the Corporate gossip podcast brings you all the Wall Street tea. CPA scorned Becca Platsky and OOO Reply Guy Robby Slowik are your hosts.

  1. Palmer Luckey & The Gundo Bros: America Runs on Drunken Drone Nuts

    10 APR

    Palmer Luckey & The Gundo Bros: America Runs on Drunken Drone Nuts

    "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

    1hr 15min
  2. Amway & The DeVos Family: Working Overtime at the Stupid Factory

    12 MAR

    Amway & The DeVos Family: Working Overtime at the Stupid Factory

    An earlier version of this episode was uploaded with only the good news segment - please refresh if you suspect you have the older version. Apologies!!!!  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

    58 min
  3. Life, Liberty, Polymarket & Kalshi

    27 FEB

    Life, Liberty, Polymarket & Kalshi

    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

    57 min

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Business news for gossip lovers. From boardroom shakeups to c-suite scandals, the Corporate gossip podcast brings you all the Wall Street tea. CPA scorned Becca Platsky and OOO Reply Guy Robby Slowik are your hosts.

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