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Have you ever been a young Italian man who just wants to make new guy friends and then you end up being tortured in a SOHO townhouse by wanna-be army guys...

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Meet Greg Lindberg: a billionaire insurance executive who has 12 children all with different egg donors / surrogates, who hopes to live to 120 years old and collects his own grey hairs for cloning purposes, whose ALSO been accused of an elaborate stalking operation. He was caught on hidden camera trying to...

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TW: Infant death (26:00), Child Sexual Abuse (37:00)

Imagine if Gordon Bombay never had a redemption arc. That's the story of Murry Gunty, owner of Black Bear Sports, a Private Equity company that p...

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So you want live forever and make a TON of money doing it???? May we suggest starting a longevity company to charge rich people having a midlife crisis $50,000 to make themselves medical guinea pigs?? After all, if billionaires have optimized their own bodies, certainly their perfect health will dribble down onto the rest of us!!

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A highly requested episode! A deep dive into the Forbes 30 under 30 and a special investigation until the latest 30 under 30 under government surveillance, Gokce Guven of Kalder. Guven just pled guilty to wire fraud and identity theft and is facing 5 years in prison despite being a 2024 covergirl. You can't spell Forbes without ForBS!

CEOs, they're just like us (but worse??) We curated some of the messiest recent CEO cheating scandals for your enjoyment because you deserve a treat!

A Nestle marketing executive having an affair with the chief catches him in the act with another coworker, Vladimir Putin pushes NBC's adulterous CEO into the loving arms of Larry David Ellison, and the head of Johnson Controls cant seem to control his johnson! How's a guy supposed to increase shareholder value in these conditions???

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If you're in the mood for a classic true crime beach read look no further than the CaaStle fraud! In 2024 Christine Hunsicker was a leather jacket wearing, mohawk donning, Forbes cover girl who made headlines for her clothing subscription service that boasted nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue. Investors were pumping her company full of cash on the promise of infinite hockey stick growth. But had those investors, including Bill Ackman and Peter Theil, used a single brain cell (!!) they would have discovered that Hunsicker's fashion business was a complete fabrication. By the end of the year she...

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Imagine if Gordon Bombay never had a redemption arc. That's the story of Murry Gunty, owner of Black Bear Sports, a Private Equity company that professionalizes shaking kids down for their lunch money - but you're gonna LOVE how this movie ends.

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Meet Steve Witkoff, a real estate investor and supreme Trump suck-up turned "peace guy" and his two failsons, Alex and Zach. They're in charge of World Liberty Financial, the "world's fastest growing crypto company" along with the Trump family and crypto hucksters Zak Folkman and Chase Hero. The WLF team might feel invincible, but this week one disgruntled investor filed a lawsuit that might take down the entire operation... 

This episode has it ALL... a resurfaced body cam video of a Witkoff son being arrested for assaulting a bouncer and cocaine po...

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Tragic, the most annoying men on earth are fighting in federal court over "perfidy and deceit of Shakespearean proportions"!!!

Robby and Becca crack open their piggy bank and spend all their money downloading electronic court records from the Northern California district court to bring you the juiciest nuggets you won't hear...

This is the potential breakup song of Ticketmaster & Live Nation: a toxic relationship that, according to one lawyer, "essentially defrauds everyone involved." Becca and Robby bring you up to speed on the outcome of the company's fight in a trust-busting trial and then go all the way back to the villain origin story of this Frankenstein of scams. It makes us feel better to know that the founder of Ticketmaster is now miserable and possibly broke!

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So you want live forever and make a TON of money doing it???? May we suggest starting a longevity company to charge rich people having a midlife crisis $50,000 to make themselves medical guinea pigs?? After all, if billionaires have optimized their own bodies than certainly that perfect health will dribble down onto the...

I love to psychoanalyze billionaires AS A HOBBY! But when I saw that viral video of Marc Andreessen explaining how he practices "zero" introspection it was like the spirit of Jack Welch's ex-wives took over my body and wrote an email to today's guest. I asked Therapy Jeff talk with me about what the actual HELL is going on inside the busted brains of billionaires.

We want a class-based season of Survivor, Larry Ellison!! Who do you think would win??

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"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! 

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Trevor Milton is BACK with a brand new scam... a jet with the world's largest toilet (it's true). He's just a human Secretariat living the American Dream baby!!

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Original Hindenberg Nikola report

Nikola Board Member Says Startup's Skeptics Are Too Focused on Past

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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 

Welcome to the NEW CO-HOST OF CORPORATE GOSSIP Robby Slowik 

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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 tr...

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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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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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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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We'll be back with season 7 on February 13th! This Patreon episode is free for all (no paywall) in solidarity with the National Strike on January 31st. If you like what you hear, please consider joining us on Patreon.

It seems that for every person energized to activism this year, there's another three ready to shit on their efforts (it's not organized enough! it's not widespread enough! You'll never make a difference!).

They're wrong. We're going to prove it by getting on our mumus and night caps and becoming the ghosts of general strikes past. We...

Thank you for listening to another season of the podcast! We'll be back in February with new episodes. Got suggestions / thoughts / feedback? Email becca@nitetoast.com

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Trigger warning: suicide, drug use, overdose 

Tony Hsieh had a life other entrepreneurs dreamed of. He was the wealthy CEO of a wildly successful ecommerce company with a legion of devoted customers and employees, currently on a bus tour to spread the gospel of his un...

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On Monday morning thousands of travelers were locked out of their Sonder hotel rooms and told: Sorry! Our business isn't businessing anymore :) Executives at both Marriott and Sonder turned their phones on Do Not Disturb as frazzled front line employees tried to manage fuming customers.

At first glance, this just seems like a mismanaged PR crisis, but there's SO much more to the story: A ba...

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Ty Haney is back at Outdoor voices, the cult athleisure brand she founded. Can she successfully suck us all into her time machine back to 2014? Or will this company's death rattle be loud enough to convince the brand's private equity investors to put OV out of its misery. 

Today, Adam and Becca try to figure out how the once beloved brand got so weird and sh...

The demon living inside Les Wexner's head brings us into the Victoria's Secret gremlin lair! Adam and Becca go back to the early 2000s to tell the story of the rise and fall of this retail behemoth and the corporate crooks who drove it into the ground. 

CW: Sexual Assault, Suicide 

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On a chilly October night, I like to cuddle up with a good ponzi scheme. It's my comfort fraud

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CW: Suicide, Sexual Assault 

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No game developer would even think to create a dungeon troll as sinister as Bobby Kotick. Bobby's life is a video game where gobbling up cash is the mission and when it comes to retribution there is no side quest too small! 

When the WSJ drops a bombshell report about years of sexual harassment and toxic culture at Activsion Blizard, will Bobby Kotick finally run out of lives? Or will he r...

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Brian Niccol TRIES HIS HARDEST to get us to like Starbucks again as he tries to escape the living ghost of Howard Shultz.

I also went to the Charlie Javice Sentencing yesterday - my report starts at 48:15. 7 YEARS!!! I was shocked - I was certain she'd be sentenced to no more than 5.

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It's the quintessential American company - gaslighting the public, twisting regulators by the balls, and killing consumers in the name of shareholder value! This story is a smorgasbord of deviance - lies, fraud, corruption, cults, and a very sweaty CEO. So put on your lab coats and take out your popcorn as we dive into the pharmaceutical trash heap known as Johnson & Johnson - and yes, we're going to talk about Tylenol. 

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Wallstreets skankiest trash goblin, Jamie Dimon, has had the worst week EVER after a mind-blowing investigation was published by the NYT last week. Some truly flabbergasting revelations had us asking, can Dimon widdle baby his way out...

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What ever happened to AOL?! We go all the way back to 1999 (home video included) and meet Steve Case, the CEO of, at the time, the largest technology company in America. High on his own supply, he wrangles Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin into a business noogie and manages to destroy  a third of a TRILLION DOLLARS in shareholder value almost instantly. 

TW: murder 

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Have you ever been a young Italian man who just wants to make new guy friends and then you end up being tortured in a SOHO townhouse by wanna-be army guys for your crypo password?

Regardless, this episode has something for EVERYONE! NYC night clubs & Eric Adams, the former child star from First Kid, Caroline Biden, Bitcoin Jesus, and Air-fryer crack!!

The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse How two men charged with an outrageous kidnapping scheme introduced a new kind of crime to the city.<...

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We're back with part two of our series on Open AI (we're done after this one for a while). Everyone's making everything up all the time and no one has any idea what will happen in the future. In this episode, we cover the wild claims made about AI and AGI and how those predictions are being used to justify environmental destruction and human exploitation. Also Sam Altman stands on his tippytoes. 

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Ty Haney is back at Outdoor voices, the cult athleisure brand she founded. Can she successfully suck us all into her time machine back to 2014? Or will this brand's death rattle be loud enough to convince the brand's private equity investors to LET IT GO!???

In this highly-requested episode, we figure out how the once beloved brand got so weird and shitty.

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CW: Child Sexual Assault 

Meet Sam Altman, one of the most powerful men in tech (also maybe evil Pete Buttigieg??) and his posse of boy pests. We take you deep into the bunkers of Silicon Valley to Sam's inner circle to figure out how he became so rotted. Was it insecurity? Napoleon syndrome? OR SCURVY INDUCED PSYCHOSIS ??? 

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Buckle up! We're covering the BOMBSHELL NYT investigation that dropped yesterday (August 6th) by Emily Steel called Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem.

Content warning: drug use, sexual assault, sexual violence

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What unionization could mean for California Uber and Lyft drivers — and riders

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Why is it that no one wants to see a hot guy succeed?!!!?

This is the story of the three best friends, lead by Bell Air Boy Boss Sean Rad. They created Tinder and became the coolest millennials in LA, hosting parties with Jason Derulo and Kristen Doute and preparing their bank accounts for an influx of cash after being acquired by Match.com. But it's hard to read the fine print on a legal document by the light of a glow-stick! And while they were partying, Barry Diller was scheming from his megayacht. Soon, their viral...

The CEO of tech company Astronomer was caught at a Coldplay concert canoodling with the head of HR in a video that has since gone mega-viral. And SUDDENLY everyone is interested in what I thought was a niche topic - CEOs behaving badly!! 

In this emergency episode, I review the latest in the Astronomer scandal and recap my favorite executive cheating scandals that we've covered on the podcast. 

Correction: In an earlier version of this epiosde, I said Friends and ER were on CBS. They were not, they were on NBC. I also said Rupert Mu...

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BTW - we forgot to mention, but after The Hartford said they'd reinstate coverage, the Audobon chapter told the company to kick rocks!