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iilluminaughtii Blair Zoń
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Welcome to iilluminaughtii, the podcast that is all about debunking bad business. Whether it's a pyramid scheme or a charity stealing money, everything (and anything) business-related is on the table. Blair Zoń is ready to dig into the underbelly of the business world to find out where your money and time really goes. Subscribe now to make sure you don't miss any of episodes delivered fresh every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Oral Roberts is the Reason Televangelists Suck
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Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die.
Oral Roberts practically founded the modern day mindset of ‘seed faith’. If you plant a seed—aka give him money—it will grow into something even more fantastic. In actuality, it will probably only grow into a new car or mansion for a televangelist. Not only did he cement this mindset as a normality but he and his son are notorious for practicing it
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Writers/Researchers/Helpers:
Ali Z-B
This episode was edited and mixed by:
G. Thomas Craig
Album cover art created by:
Betsy Primes
Intro Song Credits:
Trauma- Will Van De Crommert
Outro Song Credits:
Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov
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United Sciences of America: Trust Us, Bro, We're Legit
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Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes.
Endorsements from celebrities such as William Shatner have a lot of weight and bring a lot of growing power to a company. Back in the 80s, United Sciences of America proved this when they went from nothing to 140,000 distributors in seven months. But they were a scam, and hardly more than a year later, went defunct. What happened? What made this MLM fall apart, when so many live to prey another day?
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Writers/Researchers/Helpers:
Ali Z-B
This episode was edited and mixed by:
G. Thomas Craig
Album cover art created by:
Betsy Primes
Intro Song Credits:
Trauma- Will Van De Crommert
Outro Song Credits:
Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov
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Instant pot: The Not-so-Instant Disaster
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Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die.
If you’ve seen the videos swirling around the Internet of Pyrex brand glass breaking, or if you’ve heard that Instant Pot is headed for bankruptcy, maybe you’ve wondered why. It seems like not that long ago they were on top of the world. Is it corporate greed that corrupted your kitchenware, or something worse?
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Writers/Researchers/Helpers:
Ali Z-B
This episode was edited and mixed by:
G. Thomas Craig
Album cover art created by:
Betsy Primes
Intro Song Credits:
Trauma- Will Van De Crommert
Outro Song Credits:
Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov
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McDonalds: Abundant in Grease, Not Ethics
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Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die.
McDonald’s is one of the most well-known fast-food chains in the world. We know their burgers aren’t made from the highest quality ingredients, we know their food never looks like the picture, but what else is wrong with this household name? Turns out, even if you’re aware of their shady operations, McDonald’s might be worse than you think.
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Writers/Researchers/Helpers:
Ali Z-B
This episode was edited and mixed by:
G. Thomas Craig
Album cover art created by:
Betsy Primes
Intro Song Credits:
Trauma- Will Van De Crommert
Outro Song Credits:
Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov
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David Icke Thinks You Might be a Lizard
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Welcome to Dark Dives, a new series where we explore the murky and devious depths of humanity.
We know David Icke as the inventor of the lizard people conspiracy. And while this may be true, there’s so much more to the conspiracy than that; he’s also minimized the Holocaust, preached anti-semitism, and shrouded his message in ‘love’ to make it more palatable. Today, we’re finally digging into the infamous David Icke, and learning what he truly stands for.
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Writers/Researchers/Helpers:
Ali Z-B
This episode was edited and mixed by:
G. Thomas Craig
Album cover art created by:
Betsy Primes
Intro Song Credits:
Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert
Outro Song Credits:
Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe
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How Lobbying Built the USA
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Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die.
Lobbying is an important part of politics in the US, however, there’s a reason so many view it as nothing more than legal bribery. Corporations that bend and manipulate research have been able to have massive influence in government thanks to their dollar bills, and minority groups are consistently underrepresented. Lobbying may be legal, but is it moral?
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Writers/Researchers/Helpers:
Ali Z-B
This episode was edited and mixed by:
G. Thomas Craig
Album cover art created by:
Betsy Primes
Intro Song Credits:
Trauma- Will Van De Crommert
Outro Song Credits:
Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov
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Customer Reviews
Good content gets to political
Good content even if she’s a horrible person how about you listen to the episodes instead of rallying behind someone just because they said something and at this point all the reviews are people who haven’t even watched the podcast there just review bombing without listening to the content because it’s the “right thing to do” she is not a good person I know but I don’t care I review the content not the host and this podcast gets a 4/5 review minus one because I know she’s a bad person
A-B-U-S-E-R
Longtime listener here. I used to love to listen to this podcast, but after looking more into the horrible way that she’s been treating creators like The Click, One Topic, and Wonder. It’s honestly disgusting, and if you’re seeing this, I advise that you look into it yourself.
So disappointed…
I used to be really into the show, and have found so many episodes informative, but she has gotten more and more judgmental, and i honestly don’t care about her opinion. I listen for facts, not conjecture and personal, preachy opinions. The self-help episode made me want to ask Blair, “Have you ever TRIED breathwork??” From the way she spoke about it, she hasn’t. Breathwork has literally saved lives, as have other “self-help” modalities—they’re not all bad, or junk science. The fact that she thinks it’s ok to pass judgements on things she knows very little to nothing about has turned me off. I almost unfollowed after that one, but then I listened to the Ink Master episode, and there is NOTHING in that episode we don’t already know. She just talked to hear herself talk. It was insufferable. Do better, Blair. I know you can.