Corporate Gossip

Larry Ellison has been weirdly lurking in the background for decades, but then he turned 80 and decided that being the second richest man in the world wasn't enough, he also needed attention! Becca and Robby psychoanalyze baby Larry, visit his failed NOBU lettuce farm in Hawaii, and fall into the family's shiny new money pit. We think this could have all been avoided if Larry never discovered samurai swords... 
TW: mention of suicide, death 
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Timestamps: 
(00:00) Introducing ROBBY! 
(05:00) The myth of Oracle & Larry Ellison
(20:00)  I actually think I can fix Larry Ellison!
(30:00) Hi, My name is Larry Ellison, I invented colonization and it's actually not that bad
(44:00) Larry's shiny new money pit (Paramount WBD) 
Links: 
Larry Ellison's Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Is Stepping Down to Spend More Time With His Yachts
Still No. 1, and Doing What He Wants
Larry Ellison Is More Interesting Than Ever at 81
The Son King of Hollywood
Everyone Else Must Fail

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Brett Ratner's Indecent proposal: $40 million for 20 days with your wife!
Robby Slowik joins the Corporate Gossip Podcast for this certified hogleg (official announcement coming next week!). We discuss all the drama surrounding the $75m bribery payment from Jeff Bezos to the Trump family in the form of a 105-minute piece of trollaganda.
Yes, we unfortunately both watched the movie!
TW: SA
Links:
Melania: The Movie. The Bribe. The Shame.
How the Trumps Turned an Election Victory Into a Cash Bonanza
Bezos Cornered by Own Reporters on $75M 'Melania' Deal
How once-exiled filmmaker Brett Ratner staged a Hollywood comeback with 'Melania'
Rush Hour 4 Will Shoot in Saudi Arabia
Trump's Save America PAC, which raises money to push election fraud claims, paid $60,000 to Melania's stylist
Steven Mnuchin's wife's inexplicable movie trailer

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???
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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
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Good News: Media, the nation's first Fair Trade Town, marks 20 years supporting farmers in the developing world
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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?
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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
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Good News: Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children

Palantir - a new custom hellscape or same sh*t different toilet? Has Silicon Valley gone completely red-pilled or was technofacism in the valley's DNA all along? Adam and Becca trace the cookie crumbs from a pioneering mid-century nobel prize winning white supremacist to the post-9/11 origins of Palantir and ultimately meet CEO Alex Karp. Lately, he's been hitting the eject button on his own brain and twisting himself into pretzels both physically and metaphorically to justify his belief that he personally should be rich and successful!
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Links: 
Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump's Arms
How a racist genius created Silicon Valley by being a terrible boss
Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
Unlocking Secrets, if Not Its Own Value
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
'ELITE': The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
Alex Karp Goes to War
CEO of Palantir Says He Spends a Large Amount of Time Talking to Nazis.
Tech Workers Coalition
Central Ohio businesses form mutual aid network to help families impacted by ICE
Minnesota Mutual Aid Fund
Instagram of Columbus Mutual Aid Fund: @corazonhilado
Immigration and Mutual Aid Resources