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The land of strikes and protests is at it again - that is, was at it again about 15 years ago. With the Recession in full swing, the French adopted an... original method to obtain better deals from their bosses: sequestration. How is this possible? What are the police even doing? Are the bosses being tortured?? Why are people selling razors to CEOs now??? All this and more from the author of this episode, Noah the Editor.


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Sources:

https://www.europe1.fr/economie/Sequestre-plusieurs-fois-un-patron-raconte-610324

https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sequestration-a-la-poste-amende-avec-sursis-pour-besancenot-et-dix-postiers-05-09-2011-1370052_23.php

https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/04/23/bossnapping-wave-sweeps-france/

https://www.lexpress.fr/societe/justice/sequestration-de-patrons-une-methode-de-negociation-risquee-en-theorie_1311966.html
https://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/syndicats/avant-air-france-d-autres-histoires-de-patrons-sequestres-4521859

https://atlantico.fr/article/decryptage/sequestre-par-vos-salaries--petit-kit-de-survie-pour-patrons-en-detresse-xavier-tedeschi-
https://www.liberation.fr/futurs/2009/04/01/la-sequestration-de-patrons-est-typiquement-francaise_550280/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090411043129/http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/europeinsight/archives/2009/04/sarkozys_bossna.html

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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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tur3-W6-q6o

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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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

https://www.moviepass.com/

On this episode of DAOC, CT takes us through 10 years of gum advertising.

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https://productventures.com/work/5-gum-package-design/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZN5hqu7yPA

Music Credits:

Airwaves by Sascha Ende
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Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende
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Prosecution, action, trumpets by Sascha Ende
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Leisure by Sascha Ende
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Uplifted by Sascha Ende
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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

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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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