Corporate Gossip

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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 anywhere else!
We recorded this episode on Wednesday evening and wanted to get it out quickly because this is an evolving story!
Links: 
Battle of the Billionaires: What's at Stake as Elon Musk and Sam Altman Face Off in Court
The unflattering secrets revealed so far in Elon Musk's latest legal feud

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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Timestamps: 
00:00 - Live Nation anti-trust verdict
05:00 - Episode intro 
14:00 - History / origin story of Ticketmaster
32:00 - Ticketmaster enabling / encouraging scalpers because "it's called CAPITALISM"
40:00 - Live Nation / Ticketmaster bribes every president EXCEPT Jimmy Carter
56:00 - Kid Rock is Live Nation's pain sponge 
58:00 - Takeaways / Pearl Jam 
1:09:00 - Good news! 
Links: 
Live Nation employee mocks customers as 'so stupid' in internal messages released in court case
Train Wreck? A Mogul's Battle Against The Bel-Air Subway
Ticketmaster's Dark History
How Ticketmaster became the most hated name in music
'A public relations nightmare': Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program
Live Nation reaches settlement in US monopoly case
Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States
NYC's plan to tax luxury second homes, explained 
5 Things to Know About New York's Proposed Second Home Tax

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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 rest of us!!
TW: we talk about Epstein stuff starting around 52:00 (but right before that we genuinely find ourselves in a fit of hysterics the likes of which have never been seen on this podcast!!)
Links:
How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It
The Billionaires Fueling the Quest for Longer Life
Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever - CNN
Why Bryan Johnson, Dave Asprey, and the Other Longevity Bros Are Obsessed With Penises
The Phoenix Device Reviews
The Longevity Influencer Who Went Into 'Withdrawal' Without Jeffrey Epstein

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??
Article: What Does Extreme Wealth Do to the Brain?
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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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Links: 
The Tech Bros Powering Silicon Valley's Military Fever Dream With Energy Drinks, God And Nicotine
AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN SO BACK
Investors Gave A Teenager $85 Million To Build Hydrogen Weapons. It's Not Going Well
Palmer Luckey: Millennial slayer of U.S. defense giants
The Pentagon's Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder
Palmer Luckey's Suicide Headset Is Insane—and a Grim Part of VR's Future
Silicon Valley is coming for the Pentagon's $1T budget
The Year of the Trillion-Dollar US Military Budget Begins
Matt Gaetz's Future Sister-in-Law Says He's a Gaslighting 'Creep'
Good News: The Radical Monarchs launch in L.A. to school girls on social justice, Support the Radical Monarchs
Time stamps: 
4:00 - Meet the Gundo Bros 
21:00 Welcome Palmer Luckey, the flip flop wearing, goatee having, erotic anime figurine collecting brother-in-law to accused child sex trafficker former Florida congressmen Matt Gaetz!
50:00 Palmer Luckey was predestined to be a fucking ghoul
1:10:26 Good news about the Radical Monarchs