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Corporate Gossip
Life, Liberty, Polymarket & Kalshi
Please rate and review this podcast!! For bonus episodes and book club join us on Patreon Advertise with us 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? Thanks to our sponsor Orange Marketing You should hire Jennifer Tisdale! Pictures Watch on YouTube Timestamps: 00:00 - An...
2026-02-27
57 min
Corporate Gossip
Palantir, Alex Karp & The Right Wing History of Silicon Valley: Standing on J*zzness
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! Toronto Copy Editing (Use code OLD-F for 10% off!) J...
2026-02-14
1h 09
Corporate Gossip
Ghosts of Strike-mas Past and Larry Ellison Lore (Full Bonus Episode!)
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...
2026-01-31
58 min
Corporate Gossip
Zappos / Tony Hsieh: The Dark Side of Happiness
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 For bonus episodes, book club, and the aftershow, join us on Patreon Advertise with us Watch on YouTube 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...
2025-11-21
1h 27
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] Sonder: It's official, everything's a scam now :)
Listen to the full episode on Patreon. Join today at the Murdoch's Mates level and get FOUR bonus epiosdes every month plus the Corporate Gossip Book Club and group chat! 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...
2025-11-15
07 min
Corporate Gossip
Outdoor Voices: Ty Haney's Groundhog Day (UNLOCKED!)
This is an updated and unlocked version of an episode that was earlier published exclusively on Patreon. Join now and enjoy FOUR extra episodes a month for as little as $5! 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...
2025-11-08
1h 05
Corporate Gossip
Victoria's Secret: Sex pests all the way down
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 Join us on Patreon for bonus episodes and the aftershow Pics from this episode on Substack Watch on YouTube Thanks to our sponsor, Manager Method. Use code GOSSIP for 10% off! Visit the Pullman National Historical Park
2025-10-25
1h 09
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] Scams in the Manosphere part 2: Tai Lopez's Ponzi Scheme
Listen to the full episode on Patreon. Join today at the Murdoch's Mates level and get FOUR bonus epiosdes every month plus the Corporate Gossip Book Club and group chat! On a chilly October night, I like to cuddle up with a good ponzi scheme. It's my comfort fraud
2025-10-19
15 min
Corporate Gossip
Activision Blizzard's Final Boss
Please Rate and Review this Podcast!! CW: Suicide, Sexual Assault Join the Patreon for the aftershow and tons of bonus content 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...
2025-10-10
1h 23
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] Starbucks: Reverse Engineered Vibes (PLUS Charlie Javice Sentencing)
Listen to the full episode on Patreon. Join today at the Murdoch's Mates level and get FOUR bonus epiosdes every month plus the Corporate Gossip Book Club and group chat! In this episode: 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. Links: Starbucks is closing mo...
2025-10-02
07 min
Corporate Gossip
Johnson & Johnson: Is the ethical company in the room with us?
Join the Patreon for the aftershow and tons of bonus content 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. Watch on YouTube Pics from today's episode Thank yo...
2025-09-26
1h 27
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] JP Morgan's Big Time Oopsie (It's about Jeffery Epstein)
We are an independent podcast with no corporate sponsors. The Patreon helps keep the lights on, please consider joining at the Skillling's Sweeties level and get FOUR bonus episodes every month or the Murdoch's Mates level to join our live book club and group chat! Hear the rest of the episode on Patreon TW: Sexual Assault 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...
2025-09-17
08 min
Corporate Gossip
AOL: Dotcom Dummies
Please rate and review this podcast! 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 Pictures Watch on Youtube Join the Patreon for the aftershow and tons of bonus content Thank you to to...
2025-09-12
1h 12
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] Solving the Male Loneliness Epidemic one Crypto Kidnapping at a Time!
Listen to the full episode on Patreon 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.
2025-09-05
06 min
Corporate Gossip
Sam Altman & Open AI Part 2: King D*ck of Liar Mountain
Please rate and review this podcast! 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. Listen to the aftershow on Patreon Today's sponsors are Darling Beasts, a book by Michelle Ga...
2025-08-30
1h 21
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] Outdoor Voices: Ty Haney's Groundhog Day
Listen to the full episode on Patreon Become a listener-advertiser on the podcast! 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. Links: Outdoor Voices Became A Staple For Millennial Cool Girls Thanks To Its Chill...
2025-08-20
09 min
Corporate Gossip
OpenAI & Sam Altman's Sad Sack Band of Goons
Please rate and review this podcast! 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 ??? Listen to the aftershow on Patreon Watch on Youtube Today's sponsors are Brick of Chicago and Neurorenew PT Advertise with us! Pictures from...
2025-08-16
1h 48
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] Uber Clown Car
To listen to the full episode join us on Patreon 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 Other links: Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture MTA crime report 2019 Uber Safety Reports 2017 - 2022 What unionization could mean for California Uber and Lyft drivers — and riders Support the SEIU!
2025-08-08
09 min
Corporate Gossip
Match.com / Tinder: Boy Boss Amateur Hour
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...
2025-08-01
1h 26
Corporate Gossip
EMERGENCY EPISODE! The Astronomer CEO scandal and other messy executives
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...
2025-07-18
32 min
Corporate Gossip
[Patreon Exclusive] Hos long to die in Boeing Plane
A sneak peak of this week's Patreon. Listen to the full episode here. Are you a listener that wants to advertise on the Corporate Gossip Podcast? Let us know here We are a community-supported podcast, with no big corporate advertisers or sponsors - thank you for listening, sharing, reviewing, or contributing financially! We couldn't do it without you!
2025-06-25
15 min
Corporate Gossip
State of the show: Summer break, Adam's brilliant idea, good news for birds, MBAs, Amphetamines and more!
Checking in before our OFFICIAL Corporate Gossip Summer Research Break! We'll be back in July with regular episodes. Join us on Patreon Sign up for the Corporate Gossip Ad program here This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation Audubon chapter rejects offer from The Hartford to reinstate coverage BTW - we forgot to mention, but after The Hartford said they'd reinstate coverage, the Audobon chapter told the company to kick rocks!
2025-05-16
38 min
Corporate Gossip
Facebook Part 2: Mark Zuckerberg & The Curse Of The Baby Bangs
For bonus content and discussions on each episode join us on Patreon We wrap up this absolute UNIT of a two part episode by examining the Facebook story by stepping into our proverbial blue sequined rompers and seeing the world behind Mark Zuckberg's baby bangs. BUCKLE UP as Becca and Adam try to figure out - did the accumulation of unchecked power and extraordinary wealth over 20 years take ice cream scoops out of Mark Zuckerberg's brain? OR did his unique position on top of business boy mountain give him the freedom to reveal the curly-haired gremlin that w...
2025-05-03
1h 37
Corporate Gossip
Patreon Teaser: Wealthy Men with No Friends Rule the World
This is a sneak peak of our bonus episodes available exclusively on Patreon We are an indie podcast made possible by support from listeners like YOU! For as little as $3.50 a month you get: Twice monthly bonus episodes covering hot topics and fresh corporate scandals PLUS extra deep dives like a rundown on Metas recent legal issues On the ground reporting of the HOTTEST fraud trials in the SDNY (Becca is going to the opening arguments of the One Taste ‘Orgasm Cult’ next week) Discussions with other Corporate Gossipers And more! What happens when friendless Uber ric...
2025-04-30
20 min
Corporate Gossip
Facebook Part 1: Sheryl Sandberg & The Curse of the BOB
For bonus content and discussions on each episode join us on Patreon If Sheryl Sandberg & Mark Zuckerberg never encountered one another at a Christmas party in Atherton in 2007 would the world have been a better place? Find out as we go ALLL the way back and trace the story of Sheryl Sandberg's Dr. Frankenstein and her Mark Zuckerberg monster. Was there sexual tension between the two of them (no one explicitly has said that but I PICKED UP ON A FEW THINGS!)??. Were either of them good people who were corrupted? Or were they destined t...
2025-04-19
1h 24
Corporate Gossip
Patreon Teaser: Charlie Javice Guilty, the Mark Zuckerberg / Tom Sandoval Conspiracy Theory, Boeing's Fraud Trial and More!
For the full episode and so much more join us over on Patreon PLUS! 23&Me files for Bankruptcy and Anne Wojcicki's identity crisis, Zuckerberg Streisanding himself, an end to restaurant reservation scalping, and Becca's reflections on getting laid off. Links: 23andMe bankruptcy filing sparks privacy fears as DNA data of millions goes up for sale Delete your data from 23&Me Mark Zuckerberg Just Taught a Master Class in How Not to Handle a Crisis Careless People discussion on Glamorous Trash Bon Appetit! Governor...
2025-03-28
16 min
Corporate Gossip
Bonus! Charlie Javice vs. PeePaw: The Final Chapter
This was going to be a Patreon exclusive but I decided to make it free for everyone! If you want to support this indie podcast, consider joining the Patreon. You'll get bonus content twice a month, discussion posts with me and other members, and extra juciy content that didn't make the cut on regular episodes! The jury is now deliberating! What do you think? Guilty or Not Guilty? At the closing arguments of US vs. Charlie Javice, aka the Jose Baez oral rollercoaster. WEEE!!! Highlights include: The Monopoly Man is ACTUALLY J.P. M...
2025-03-27
38 min
Corporate Gossip
Etsy: Hipster Bambi vs. VC Villains
In 2007, the mecca of hipster paradise was the Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. Etsy epitomized elder-millennial quirk with a sprinkle of digital delusion, and no one personified the vibes quite like their CEO and founder, Rob Kalin. But while Kalin and his friends were building a crafters utopia, a ruthless venture capitalist had another plan for the company: destroy it from the inside out and get SUPER rich doing it. Join the Patreon for bonus episodes and discussion! Pictures now on Patreon (no paywall!) Links: Etsy Wants to Crochet Its Ca...
2025-03-21
1h 21
Corporate Gossip
Patreon Teaser: "Orange Jumpsuits", Harvey Weinstein's Lawyer, and Pee Paw's Identity Crisis
Dispatches from the Charlie Javice Trial! You can find the full episode (along with my courtroom drawings) on Patreon. Corproate Gossip is supported by listeners like you. We have no advertisers or Corporate sponsors. You can be part of the CGP community discussion board, get two bonus episodes a month (sometimes more), and lots of other jucy extras at Patreon.com/CorporateGossip
2025-03-13
06 min
Corporate Gossip
Charlie Javice & The Frank Fraud: Barely Legal
Please share this podcast with a friend! Charlie Javice is another Forbes 30-under-30 uber-genius-startup-founder (see: SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, or Carlos Watson) who spent about 18 months in the warm center of the venture capital fake-it-till-you-make-it circle jerk before the sisal rug gets pulled out from under her. Once she was exposed as a total phony, every investor immediately covered their own ass and scrub the internet of any trace of themselves slobbering all over her. But one investor, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, took it a step further, and (in our opinion) weaponized the United States Justice Department to p...
2025-03-07
1h 14
Corporate Gossip
eBay: Dorkfellas
This is an episode for our true crime lovers! we're talking about a 2019 GANG STALKING SCANDAL that involves the executives at a fortune 500 company criminally stalking a sweet old couple. What made these executives so mad? The chief executives at Ebay so deeply butthurt about a comment the couple made on their niche ecommerce blog that they crashed-out into a goodfellas-esque, rage fueled paranoid spiral, and orchestrated a highly illegal stalking and harassment campaign against them. Pics on Substack Join us over on Patreon for bonus episodes twice a month. Right now I'm also attending t...
2025-02-22
1h 10
Corporate Gossip
Patreon Teaser: Scams in the Manosphere
We dive into the stinky-swindly waters of the scamandosphere and try to do what seemingly no one wants to do... GET IN DONALD TRUMP'S HEAD! You can hear the rest of the episode (along with TWO extra episodes a month!) over on Patreon
2025-02-14
08 min
Corporate Gossip
JUUL: Puff Daddies
Please share this podcast with a friend :) PLUS good news about a health care strike in Oregon! We emerge from the vapor haze of a high school bathroom (how are these kids blowing PERFECT smoke rings??) to tell the tale of two Stanford grads who did what every single-celled-business-ameoba-boy dreamed of doing but was too scared to actually commit to doing - MAKE SMOKING COOL AGAIN!! They undid decades of work by doctors and public health advocates and turned millions of kids who would have never smoked a traditional cigarette into nicotine dependent freakazoids. CA-CHING!!
2025-02-07
1h 19
Corporate Gossip
23&Me (&Anne&Sergey&Elon) + State of the pod
We're BACK and starting off with an absolute banger! Sit back and enjoy the messy escapades of a bunch of horned up teenagers trapped in adult bodies: 23&Me Founder Anne Wojcicki, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and A Bald Eagle's worst nightmare, Elon Musk. With cameos from RFK Jr (POST Brain Worm) and the corporate scandal Forrest Gump, Diane von Furstenberg, this episode is the WHOSE WHO of Silicon Valley hanky panky. We also update our listeners on the state of the podcast, including exciting changes around 1:11:00 Catch bonus episodes on Patreon View pictures...
2025-01-24
1h 20
Corporate Gossip
S4 Finale! Bob's Red Mill: Porridge Daddy & Listener Questions
Don't forget to rate and review! Becca and Adam talk about the Giggly Grain Grandpa: Bob Moore of Bob's Red Mill. But don't toss your oats just yet, this is a good episode. We'll teach you how to have a Bob Moore Summer (Perfecting your porridge, socializing the means of production, hyperfixating on hobbies, and being jolly) and restore your faith in CEOs. Then we answer listener questions (37 min mark). THANK YOU! For another great season - we'll see you soon :) Support the pod Pics on substack Link...
2024-08-02
57 min
Corporate Gossip
American Apparel & the Millennial Cult of Dov Charney
Put on your flower crowns and don your skinniest jeans and join us at the center of the Millennial universe: Coachella 2007! Adam & Becca meet the personification of the turn of the century hipster entrepreneur, Dov Charney. Sitting atop a pile of v-neck t-shirts ethically made in the USA, Charney was somewhat of a renegade business oddity on wall-street. But for the 20-something dreamers that clamored for the brand's clothing, he was a captivating revolutionary. Their devotion, along with a bevy of young corporate employees, easily exploited under the guise of "a greater purpose," allowed American Apparel t...
2024-07-26
1h 12
Corporate Gossip
Crazy Eddie, Fraud Mother?
NO ONE does fraud like Eddie Antar, and Crazy Eddie is the bizarre story that got Becca hooked on fraud! Adam, Becca, and their Dad Jeff pop a few ludes and drop down the rabbit hole into a 1970's New York City punk rock fever dream. They meet a young Eddie Antar scamming tourists in a seedy Time Square clip joint and follow his journey to become the eccentric millionaire founder of Crazy Eddie Electronics. Antar was a marketing genius, and by the mid 1980's commercials for the chain were inescapable, shoppers were practically screamed at to r...
2024-07-19
1h 04
Corporate Gossip
Intuit & Turbo Tax: Girlboss, Gaslight, Gatekeep
Why does doing taxes suck so much? Because Capitalism! Over the past 20 years, the lovable dweebs at the IRS have been on a quest to make filing personal taxes free and easy. They say America should be like other countries, where the government sends you a pre-filled tax return and all you have to do is sign-off. Seems like a no-brainer, right? Like what kind of deranged psychopath wouldn't want that? Enter Intuit, maker of tax preparation software Turbo Tax, and their disgruntled band of lobbyists. Their entire business model depends on you being afraid t...
2024-07-12
1h 07
Corporate Gossip
BONUS: Interview with Winning Fixes Everything author Evan Drellich
ANOTHER BONUS EPISODE! Becca & Adam talk to Evan Drellich, the author of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess Read Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess Support the pod
2024-07-10
40 min
Corporate Gossip
Astros: McKinsey Strikes Out
America's pastimes: Baseball and Fraud! What happens when a bunch of fleece-vested jabronis take over a Major League Baseball team? Becca and Adam hop the fence at the stadium formerly known as Enron field and bring you the tea from the front-office of the Houston Astros. Two years after the Astros won the World Series, the Athletic dropped a bombshell: the team had cheated. The public fallout was swift - fines were levied, rules were changed, and championships were threatened. The players and coaches bore the brunt of the blame, while the true schemers at th...
2024-07-05
1h 06
Corporate Gossip
CBS & Messy Les Moonves
If you thought Sumner Redstone was a degenerate, just WAIT until you meet his pervy protege, Les Moonves! CBS CEO Les Moonves, aka "Mr. TV" is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. He transformed CBS from a sleepy granny network into a ratings powerhouse with shows like Survivor, Big Brother, Criminal Minds, and The Big Bang Theory. The business part of this story is one Cheezy Blaster away from being a 30 Rock episode. The action behind closed doors on the other hand, feels more like Law & Order: SVU. CW: Sexual abuse Lis...
2024-06-28
1h 22
Corporate Gossip
Paramount / Viacom: Sumner House of Horrors
The Paramount / Viacom story is just like Bravo's Summer House, but SCARIER! Our main character, Paramount CEO Sumner Redstone, is a horny teenager trapped in the body of a crusty old billionaire. At 92, despite being barely conscious, he was still chairman of TWO publicly traded companies.This real life Weekend at Bernie's scheme was made possible by a group of executive-level lowlifes who took advantage of their absent boss and enriched themselves at the expense of shareholders. It wasn't until a group of unlikely heroes exposed the elder abuse taking place at Sumner's mansion that someone finally pu...
2024-06-20
1h 14
Corporate Gossip
Ain't no party like an Insys party
Insys was the startup unicorn of the opioid crisis, and boy did they know how to party. Becca & Adam meet Insys CEO John Kapoor and his rowdy band of crooked pharmaceutical reps as they slither their way through doctors offices across the country, pushing their marquee product: Fentanyl! The shady sales reps unleashed the powerful opioid on unsuspecting patients and bribed their doctors to increase dosages through an illegal kickback scheme. Eventually their shameless conspiracies and criminal shakedowns lead to a public meltdown and federal racketeering charges, but not before Kapoor could be crowned Forbes coverboy!
2024-06-14
1h 23
Corporate Gossip
BONUS: Interview with Ringmaster author Josie Riesman
IT'S A BONUS EPISODE, BROTHER! Becca and Adam talk with the author of Ringmaster, Josie Riesman Read Ringmaster by Josie Riesman Follow Josie on Instagram, her website josie.zone, or the book website Josie's article mentioned in the interview: Wrestling turned me cis, then it turned me trans
2024-06-12
45 min
Corporate Gossip
WWE & Vince McMahon: Worm with a Mustache
Welcome back brother!! Season 4 is here and ready to SMACKDOWN! WWE style. Binge ALL of Season 4 NOW on Patreon! We've seen this story before - a deeply traumatized child inherits their father's business and fills the void left by the adults that failed them with, what else… MONEY!!!! Rather than spend time examining his emotional shortcomings, Vince McMahon creates an alter ego, Mr. McMahon, to live out his darkest fantasies. But what happens when the CEO of a public company is also the greatest heel of all time? Find out as Becca and Adam step in...
2024-06-07
1h 25
Corporate Gossip
Season 4 Trailer!
Hold on to your suspenders - Season 4 of the Corporate Gossip Podcast premieres June 7th! Don't want to wait for weekly episodes? Binge the whole season on June 7th at Patreon.com/corporategossip
2024-05-31
01 min
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PG&E: Go girl give us nothing!
Podcast: Corporate Gossip (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: PG&E: Go girl give us nothing!Pub date: 2023-10-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA very haunted episode of the Corporate Gossip Podcast! Becca and adam talk about the House of Villains that is Pacific Gas and Electric. The collection of CEOs that have lead the utility company over the past two decades are are more dubious than Omarosa and more dimwitted than Jax Taylor. On the upside, this episode should cure even the...
2024-02-16
1h 15
Corporate Gossip
Season 3 Finale & Chobani's Anti-CEO
It's the Season 3 Finale! We answer listener questions and meet the Yogurt King of New York: Chobani's founder, Hamdi Ulkaya. From nomadic Turkish farmer to millionaire milk mogul, Ulkaya became known as the Anti-CEO, prioritizing people over profit and creating one of the fastest growing food companies in America. Correction: We said the Chobani Idaho factory was in Idaho falls. It is actually in Twin Falls. Thanks to the listener who pointed that out! If you liked this season don't forget to RATE AND REVIEW THE PODCAST Support the pod by buying us...
2023-12-08
50 min
Corporate Gossip
Nissan & Carlos Ghosn: D*ck in a Box
In 2017 Carlos Ghosn was on top of the world, he was a Japanese national hero, renowned for bringing Nissan back to life from the brink of failure. His face was on the cover of magazines, his story was depicted in Manga, he even carried the torch at the Olympics in his home country of Brazil. His sudden arrest in 2018 for financial crimes was an unexpected twist in his story that made him the center of international intrigue. As extraordinary as his life had become, no one could have imagined what would come next... Pictures & links on our su...
2023-12-01
1h 15
Corporate Gossip
Sam Bankman-Fried & FTX: Fraud on top of sh*t mountain
Becca is joined by Corporate Gossip startup correspondent Aaron Cohn to dip our tube-socked toes into the FTX trial. We meet Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), a rumpled 28-year-old-grown-adult-boy-genius who built a $40 billion crypto empire in less than three years. But his meteoric rise to crypto kingpin was followed quickly by his fall to the bottom of shit-coin mountain. And now, SBF is facing up to 115 years in federal prison for fraud. Check "build a website" off your to-do list with realnice website builder! Pictures & links on our substack Support the pod by buying us a cof...
2023-11-03
1h 23
Corporate Gossip
PG&E: Go girl give us nothing!
A very haunted episode of the Corporate Gossip Podcast! Becca and adam talk about the House of Villains that is Pacific Gas and Electric. The collection of CEOs that have lead the utility company over the past two decades are are more dubious than Omarosa and more dimwitted than Jax Taylor. On the upside, this episode should cure even the most chronic cases of imposter syndrome. Pictures & links on our substack Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Follow us on youtube, instagram, and tiktok Ho...
2023-10-27
1h 15
Corporate Gossip
McKinsey: This is why we can't have nice things
It's hard to talk about corporate gossip without talking about McKinsey. They're everywhere! They advise the biggest companies in every industry in practically every company in America (90% of the Fortune 100 companies use Mckinsey). From Las Vegas Casinos to the Vatican, McKinsey consultants, armed with their Thinkbooks and Tumi rollerbags, dispense their advice on maximizing the bottom line under a veil of secrecy. That is until recently, when dogged reporters sifted through thousands of documents made public as part of a series of lawsuits and criminal investigations into the firm. Becca and Adam read through it all and...
2023-10-20
1h 24
Corporate Gossip
Koch: Toxic Kings (Part 2)
This is part two of a two part episode. This week, Billy Koch turns into a corporate vigilante, as he takes the Department of Justice and the FBI on a private tour of the grounds where all the Koch corporate secrets are buried. We then tell the story of courtroom fight as dramatic as a Beverly Hills housewives reunion, with siblings rehashing decades-old conflicts and clawing at their share of billions of dollars. Then, Charles Koch continues his campaign to be voted "most-miserly" in the 2008 Billionaire Yearbook by funding an artificial-grassroots organization to promote his libertarian big bu...
2023-10-13
41 min
Corporate Gossip
Koch: Toxic Kings (Part 1)
The only thing more toxic than the emissions spewing from the smokestacks at Koch industries are the relationships between the four adult heirs to the family fortune. This story has EVERYTHING: court battles, private investigators, homosexual blackmail, ANNA NICOLE SMITH, sibling rivalry, and libertarian summer camp! Join Becca and Adam as they wade into the stinky, polluted waters of the Koch family dynasty in this two part episode!! See the Koch family tree Pictures & links on our substack Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list ...
2023-10-06
1h 03
Corporate Gossip
David Zaslav's Flop Era
David Zaslav is having the worst summer ever. He was heckled by thousands of graduates during his Boston University commencement address, publically shamed for holding a hunger games style gala in france, and had to fire his best friend! Oh and to top it all off, all of the workers he extracts his wealth from are on strike. Why doesn't anyone want to work anymore!! Pictures & links on our substack Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Follow us on youtube, instagram, and tiktok Hosts...
2023-09-29
1h 03
Corporate Gossip
Ted Turner: Captain Outrageous
Content warning: this episode references child abuse and suicide Ted Turner has more BDE in his pencil mustache than Zuck and Musk combined. In the span of 5 years he captained a champion sailing yacht through the deadly celtic sea, pulled out an underdog win in the America's cup, bought two professional sports teams, and created the first ever 24-hour news network: CNN. His life is what LinkedIn Lunatics fantasize about. He created TBS, TNT, TCM, Cartoon Network, AND the iconic environmental superhero cartoon, "Captain Planet." He is cherished by unproblematic icons Jimmy Carter and Jane Fonda and...
2023-09-22
1h 13
Corporate Gossip
Corporate Gossip Season 3 Trailer
Becca & Adam are back to spill more corporate tea on September 22nd! Listen for a sneak peak of the gossip of season 3. Love the pod? Rate us 5 stars! Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Tiktok: @corporategossippod Instagram: @corporategossippod Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com) Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike Podcast cover art: Creative director @laurensubers Photographer @danielcanophoto @instajasp Props / Wardobe @__julesrose__ @mellerycellery Makeup / Hair @mardeaubeauty
2023-09-18
01 min
Corporate Gossip
The Murdochs: Schmucksession
Bonus Episode!! It's like Jaws if everyone in Jaws worked for Jaws! It's the true story of Rupert Murdoch's main hustle (News Corp) and his side hustle (emotionally and financially manipulating his children). We trace Rupert's (aka RuMu) rise from under the thumb of his father, the original Murdoch Megalomaniac, to become an Australian media mogul. Then, he journeys to the UK and the US, leaving a stinky trail of editorial corruption wherever he goes. Strapped on his back are three of his grown children, Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James, who are pulling and poking at one another a...
2023-06-10
1h 28
Corporate Gossip
Season 2 Finale & Costco: Kings of Kirkland
SEASON 2 FINALE!! Thanks for your support this season, we'll be back with Season 3 later this summer!! Don't forget to rate and review this podcast. Becca and Adam flew close to the sun last week and decided to end the season on a high note. We answer some listener questions and crown our 2023 Corporate Cutie before getting into some feel-good Corporate Gossip. The Costco story (18:45) is straight from a Jack Welch nightmare. Low CEO pay, a modest corporate headquarters, and no private jets?!!! Despite skimping on executive perks, Costco became a retail g...
2023-05-12
57 min
Corporate Gossip
Enron Rules
Don't forget to rate and review this podcast!! This is a true Corporate Gossip Exclusive: The ONLY comparative exploration of Enron and Vanderpump Rules. On a summer day in 2012 in a restaurant garden in Weho, waitress Schena Shay confronts Housewife Brandi Glanville about the rumors of infidelity surrounding Brandi's husband, Eddie Cibrian. Narratively, this scene breaks the seam between the women of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and the servers who tend to them. And television's crown jewel is born: Vanderpump Rules. Few know that there was another cosmic seam that ripped at the...
2023-05-05
1h 26
Corporate Gossip
Jack Welch & GE: Daddy Issues
A SUPERSIZED EPISODE!! Two pods in one!!! Jack Welch is our collective Corporate Villain origin story. Potentially the most famous American CEO, Welch, like so many of the leaders we cover on this pod, possesses a dangerous combination of ruthlessness and incompetency. Adam and Becca trace his meteoric rise and salacious downfall before passing the reins of turd mountain (GE) to a series of doomed successors. Our apologies in advance to the fine people of Massachusets for our repeated unsuccessful attempts at a Boston accent. P.S. John Flannery if you're reading this right now we...
2023-04-28
1h 31
Corporate Gossip
Subway: Never go against the fahmily
If Theresa Giudice opened a mediocre fast casual sandwich shop it would look like Subway restaurants. Founded in part by a 17 year old from the Bronx named Fred Deluca, Subway would become the world's largest fast-food chain. But while Deluca's family was raking in that sweet meatball money, their franchisees were in honey ham hell. Once the sandwich king, Subway now faces serious lawsuits and FTC investigations amid dwindling sales. How did this chain, known for its "definitely 100% real, seriously guys I promise it really is tuna" sandwiches tumble to the bottom of the food chain? Find out on...
2023-04-14
1h 00
Corporate Gossip
Fixing Capitalism in 60 Minutes or Less or Your Money Back with Nathan Macintosh
This episode is Not Safe For Work / Your Harvard MBA class Professional Canadian... sorry, Professional COMEDIAN, Nathan Macintosh joins Becca to fix capitalism. It's so easy it literally took us less than an hour guys. We discuss a few interesting proposals to address capitalism's systemic problems, AND plan the first EVER Corporate Gossip Cruise / Davos for the rest of us. Don't forget to rate and review this podcast! We're on Youtube Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Tiktok: @corporategossippod Hosts...
2023-04-07
56 min
Corporate Gossip
Are you there Herb? It's me, Southwest
Join Becca and Adam on a journey that starts in in a smoky Texas hotel lobby in 1967. We'll pass trough a decomposing sportatorium off the Dallas freeway in 1992 and end at a contentious company sponsored JoJo concert in 2022. Once a shining star in the skies over the Texas Plains, Southwest experienced a slow and then sudden descent after the departure of it's distinctive founder. Executive would try to repair the damage, but for many it was "Too Little, Too Late." Don't forget to rate and review this podcast! We're on Youtube Support the p...
2023-03-31
1h 02
Corporate Gossip
SVB: Silly Con Valley Boss Bois
It's a bank run, dummies! The SVB collapse is true corporate gossip catnip, and we couldn't resist bringing you this ~very special~ episode about the biggest corporate shitshow of the year (so far). Aaron Cohn, business professor and scorned ex-lover of venture capital, joins Becca to recap the bank's meltdown and subsiquent VC temper tantrum. Aaron is fresh off the plane from SXSW and ready to spill all the tea on venture capital. It's a little bit cringe, a little bit spooky, but mostly a good reminder to never trust a billionare and that NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE :) D...
2023-03-24
54 min
Corporate Gossip
Boeing Blows It
Boeing is the quintessential american company. For decades it was the destination of choice for America's brightest minds in engineering. Pilots revered the institution, "if it aint Boeing, I'm not going," they'd often say. But by the turn of the century, Boeing's engineering supremacy was replaced with a relentless devotion to shareholder value. Passengers... you can kick rocks! Boeing execs have got a company to plunder in the name of shareholder value maximization!!! Don't forget to rate and review this podcast! We're on Youtube Support the pod by buying us a coffee
2023-03-17
1h 02
Corporate Gossip
Season 2 Trailer!
We're brewing up some hot Corporate Tea for you... Season TWO of the Corproate Gossip Podcast is coming March 2023! Here's a sneak peak of upcomming episodes: Boeing, Southwest, Subway, Blackberry, McKinsey, HBO, Cesars, VW, Costco, Chobani and MORE! Have thoughts on those companies? Have an idea for an episode? Send an email to becca@nitetoast.com THANK YOU for listening, rating, reviewing, and gossiping with us! Follow us on Tiktok: @nitetoast
2023-01-16
01 min
Corporate Gossip
Ozy Media: Corporate Catfish
Don't forget to rate and review this podcast!! Carlos Watson has it all: an Ivy League pedigree, an electric personality, and a media empire called "Ozy." There's only one problem… Watson is a prolific bullshit artist. When he and his co-founder are caught catfishing Goldman Sachs executives, his empire begins to crumble and his throne of lies is exposed. The Ozy story is truly wild and includes feuds with Sharon Osbourne, a Fyre Fest knockoff, and millennial-era side bangs! We're on Youtube!! Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out o...
2022-12-30
56 min
Corporate Gossip
Under Armour: Business Bros
Don't forget to rate and review this podcast!! Under Armour is what happens when a group of perpetually rowdy frat bros is at the helm of a multi-billion dollar company. Starting with a single sewing machine in his grandma's basement, Ken Plank grew the UA brand to market dominance over two decades, and then oversaw its demise over two years. This story has it all: A+ list athletes, strip club scandals, Twitter PR disasters, adulterous adventures on a private jet, and Becca's favorite: light accounting fraud! We're on Youtube!! Support the pod by buyi...
2022-12-16
56 min
Corporate Gossip
Disney Drama Kings (Part 2)
Hi, Hi, Hiya! The Disney Drama continues as Michael Eisner hires his Hollywood buddy, super-agent Michel Ovitz, as president of the company. 434 days later he's fired and a contentious lawsuit brings the executive suite to court where Eisner alleges that Ovitz was acting like a jerk at his Mom's funeral (seriously... you can't make this stuff up). We then meet up with Bob Iger in 2022 as he's relentlessly trash talking Bob Chapeck over lunches in LA. Ultimately, a fairy grants him his wish and he's returned to the throne at Disney HQ. Will King Bob I be t...
2022-12-09
23 min
Corporate Gossip
Disney Drama Kings (Part 1)
The drama in the C-suite at Disney's HQ in Burbank makes the Real Housewives of Orange County look like an episode of Mickey Mouse's clubhouse. Each CEO transition is messier than the next as these execs wrestle for the top spot in Cinderella's castle. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode. We're on Youtube!! Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Tiktok: @corporategossippod Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com) Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike Timestam...
2022-12-02
46 min
Corporate Gossip
Bed Bath & Broke
No it's not an episode of succession, but it feels like one. This story has billionaires, nepotism, betrayal, criminal accusations, and COUPONS! We're on Youtube!! Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Tiktok: @corporategossippod Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com) Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike Timestamps: 01:00 - Background 04:12 - BBBY CEO Steve Tamaras stupidly overpaid 08:00 - Activist investors kick out the CEO 14:15 - Nepotism!! 19:50 - Activist in...
2022-11-04
49 min
Corporate Gossip
Peloton: Riding off a cliff (Part 2)
Activist investors take a stake in Peloton and dunk on John Foley via powerpoint deck as loyal riders hang up their shoes and get back outside. We're on Youtube!! Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Tiktok: @corporategossippod Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com) Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike
2022-10-21
28 min
Corporate Gossip
Peloton: Riding off a cliff (Part 1)
Has Peloton spun off the track? How did this coveted brand crash and burn? And why didn't founder John Foley hit the breaks? In this two part episode, we follow the rise of this pandemic-era darling and identify how the wheels started to wobble. We're on Youtube!! Support the pod by buying us a coffee Check out our reading list Tiktok: @corporategossippod Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com) Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike
2022-10-21
42 min