Profiteers vs. the People

Rad Bill & Money Mic
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On Profiteers vs. the People, we perform an honest critique of prominent profiteers from both history and the present day. We contrast the public personas of these figures with their actions, and attempt to determine their net impact on society as a whole. While we take our research seriously, we hope to deliver our findings with an air of levity, so our listeners can laugh with us, and hopefully learn something along the way.

  1. 3D AGO

    Losers, Trojan Horses, and Obscurity: Sports Betting as a Sleazy Cottage Industry

    This episode documents the early days of Fanduel and its competition. Join us as we delve into the frat houses, con artists and British People who planted the seeds for the Gambling Hellscape in which we currently find ourselves. Sources? Here they are: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LwTcFiBMZu_EhPxxiWgVS1h6bKUXNxPKg7tmU9vMjjo/edit?usp=sharing Subreddit? Here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ Want to write us? Do it here: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

    53 min

  2. JAN 22

    The Money that Legalized Sports Betting

    Here is a prologue-type episode. We're starting a series on sports betting, Fan Duel and Draft Kings and this is how we're opening that series. Have questions or series suggestions? Here is our email: Profitvspeeps@gmail.com Wanna chat? Hit us up on our subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ Wanna make sure we're showing our work? Here are our sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LwTcFiBMZu_EhPxxiWgVS1h6bKUXNxPKg7tmU9vMjjo/edit?usp=sharing

    36 min

  3. JAN 1

    Loosey: Pests and the Door to Door Industry

    Happy new year! Join us for a listener recommended dive into David Royce, the mind behind a series of moderately successful Pest Control companies like Moxie, Eco First, Alterra and Aptive Along the way, employees and customers have voiced pretty negative opinions, so let's see what that's about! Here's our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ Here's our email: Profitvspeeps@gmail.com Here are our sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1msk0IsYSEQGIyELDxEjOIQ9Hfvo0_HIQeF2cygaXoxg/edit?usp=sharing Please like comment and subscribe!

    36 min

  4. 12/16/2025

    Larry Ellison Pt 5: We're All Larry's Play Things

    Experienced a delightfully topical technical issue last week! If you go onto our subreddit, you will see that the link we've been circulating for this episode since last week appears to have been published in 1970. Deco19 spotted this first and brought it to our attention. Anyways. Here is the last Oracle episode. We hope you enjoy. Here are our sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lo2QvF4jJQIy3VcBCLm8HWxHXrGatZiO-5qHwYckZs4/edit?usp=sharing Here is our email: profitvspeeps@gmail.com Here is our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/

    58 min

  5. 11/18/2025

    Loosey: Mourning Dick Cheney

    Gang, this last episode on Larry Ellison is a bear, and we don't want you to forget about us so we decided it would be good to give a little refresher on who Dick Cheney was, and to do our best to epitomize his legacy. While we work on the Ellison capstone, join us for a short one! Like our stuff? Consider Subscribing! It does stuff to us that we don't understand! Want to leave a comment? That's cool. If you think we did ok, let us know about that too, be like "Hey guys, this was one for the "recently played" list, that's for sure" Check us out on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ Drop us a line: profitvspeeps@gmail.com Oh yeah, here are our sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R15CrjKcnfvcOGACxSP3CsLZi9AqZvEwFOduMDybV0c/edit?usp=sharing

    33 min

  6. 10/29/2025

    Larry Ellison Pt 4: From Crisis to Stupid Crisis

    Part 4 of the Larry Ellison Series is right here! Join us as we find out what it takes to get someone like Larry out of the jam he was in when we left him, and watch as he gets the ship moving again and steers it right into another iceberg. Here are the sources for this series, we're putting them all in one place: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lo2QvF4jJQIy3VcBCLm8HWxHXrGatZiO-5qHwYckZs4/edit?usp=sharing Want to chat? Swing by our subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ How are we doing? Got ideas for subjects we should be covering? Got comments? shoot us an email: Profitvspeeps@gmail.com

    41 min

  7. 10/15/2025

    Larry Ellison Pt 3: Oracle's Rise in The 80s Was a Disaster, Actually

    Thanks for bearing with us gang. We hope this was worth the wait. Oracle's explosive growth in the 80s is well documented, but the lesser discussed matter is how this growth almost destroyed the company and bankrupted Ellison. Our primary source for this episode is the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison, by Mike Wilson. Like the show? Consider subscribing! It helps us a lot. Want to discuss? Check out our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ Have comments, questions or series suggestions? Drop us a line! profitvspeeps@gmail.com

    1h 2m

  8. 09/23/2025

    Larry Ellison Pt 2: What Did Larry Even Do?

    Here is our second episode on Larry Ellison. In this one, we set out to continue our story, discuss what Larry's team made, the supposed risks and decisions made by Larry, personally, and the incredible role that luck and timing played in creating Oracle Larry's story is told as if he was a god-like intellect, in control the whole time. Was this the case? Well, join us as we look in to it! Here are the sources for this series: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lo2QvF4jJQIy3VcBCLm8HWxHXrGatZiO-5qHwYckZs4/edit?usp=sharing Here is our subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ Did we do ok? Let us know by saying "You did OK"

    37 min
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On Profiteers vs. the People, we perform an honest critique of prominent profiteers from both history and the present day. We contrast the public personas of these figures with their actions, and attempt to determine their net impact on society as a whole. While we take our research seriously, we hope to deliver our findings with an air of levity, so our listeners can laugh with us, and hopefully learn something along the way.

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  • Creator
    Rad Bill & Money Mic
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    72
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Rad Bill & Money Mic
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