"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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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

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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

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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

Nikola founder Trevor Milton is facing criminal fraud charges. Insiders say a history of lies brought down the billionaire once considered the new Elon Musk.

Long Before Nikola Trucks, Trevor Milton Sold Investors on Startups That Faded

Pardoned for Fraud, a CEO Mounts His Comeback: 'We Can Trust You Now''

The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree

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)

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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

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