TW: Sexual Assault

The man who dared to ask: what if sports were for boys? Dave Portnoy is an irredeemable garbage person but the corporate gossip behind Barstool Sports is objectively fascinating so into the trash pile we go!

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Wikipedia article on Barstool Conservatism

'Barstool Blackout' party organizer: Not our fault if you get drunk and pass out

Spurned by ESPN, Barstool Sports Is Staying on Offense

The Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, Peter Chernin Deal || Barstool Documentary Series

Barstool Sports CEO Announcement

Dave Portnoy Bought Barstool Back. Can Erika Ayers Badan Keep His Pirate Ship on Course

A Blog From The Token Female CEO Of Barstool Sports

Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy Explains Breakup With Penn: ‘We Got Denied’ Gambling Licenses ‘Because of Me’

 'I was literally screaming in pain': Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating

The Pizza Influencer With a Private Jet and a ‘Troll Army’

Flock is going to eliminate crime in America (if you only count the crime you can find in GTA V AND if you don't count the crime that Flock enables OR commits themselves)! Becca and Robby climb up a utility pole to peek into the sloppy drama brewing at Flock HQ. They uncover that the best way for Flock CEO Garrett Langley to reduce crime in America is to DO NOTHING AT ALL...

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We investigated Flock cameras and how law enforcement uses them

Flock Safety Employees Watched Kids’ Gymnastics Room to Pitch Surveillance Tech

Why Are Flock Employees Watching Our Children?

Flock's CEO Says its ALPRs Don't Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can

Flock Blocks Itself From Wayback Machine: How Companies Can Erase Their Public History

The Flock Founders Say Their Cameras Would’ve Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case

Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

Embattled Flock CEO Begs for “Compromise” As Backlash Spills Over
Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers

How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking

DIVAS DOWN. Phoebe Gates and Selena Gomez are both being accused of fraud! Robby and Becca uncover the venture capital bippity-boppity-boopification at the center of these cases. Will either of these alleged frauds lead to jail time? Would the ghost of Andrew Carnegie understand what's going on here? Is it worse to be a nepobaby or a nepomommy? Listen to find out!

TW: Mention of suicide

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Phoebe Gates’s Phia Drama Is Getting Even Stickier

Wondermind Shareholder Lawsuit

What Happened at Wondermind?

‘Smoke And Mirrors’: How This Entrepreneur Exaggerated And Self-Promoted Her Way Into Turmoil

Selena Gomez Accused of Fraud by Investors in Mental-Health Startup Lawsuit

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Bonus Episode! Friend of the pod and soccer expert and comedian Alexis Guerreros from the Soccer Cooligans and CBS Morning Footy stops by for a follow up episode on the future of FIFA's giant money pit! Will the fans be able to wrestle back control of the game from Gianni Infantino's death grip?? Are corrupt people more fun to party with? And who pays when football executives are fighting? (spoiler: it's women).

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SEASON 8!!!

Perhaps one of our most highly requested episodes FIFA, which is equal parts The Godfather, Conclave, and Alan Cumming's Cabaret?? We meet FIFA president Gianni "Johnny" Infantino, or as Tump likes to call him “sort of the king of soccer… I guess… in a certain way.”

Infantino calls FIFA the official happiness provider to humanity and BOY IS HE HAPPY! Qatari jets, a $6m salary, and a seemingly unlimited supply of... mattresses and stair masters? Becca and Robby trace the FIFA scandals back through the organization's messy past all the way up to 12 hours before this episode was posted. BUCKLE UP!

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The Absurd World Cup

The World Cup of Corruption

FIFA Explores External Investment With $20 Billion Vehicle⁠

Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal

FIFA scandal dwarfs others in sports world

Soccer Rat! The inside story of how Chuck Blazer, ex-U.S. soccer executive and FIFA bigwig, became a confidential informant for the FBI

How the ‘King of Soccer’ Went Rogue, Nearly Lost His FIFA Empire—and Survived

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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!!

Links: 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.

Crypto kidnapping: How armed gangs are hunting the internet's high rollers

Crypto bro ratted out partner, begged cops 'call my mom' after torturing Italian millionaire in luxe NYC pad: court docs

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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 bribe the state's insurance commissioner and was recently sentenced to a dozen years in prison for masterminding what federal prosecutors call "one of the biggest insurance frauds in history"!!

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'Fueled by greed': Former NC political megadonor Greg Lindberg sentenced to prison

Yachts, jets and women: NC billionaire Greg Lindberg to pay for billions he stole (Shout out to the Charlotte Observer for a lot of excellent reporting here)

How a Billionaire's 'Baby Project' Ensnared Dozens of Women

Active Interest': Insurance Tycoon Spied on Women Who Caught His Eye

How Official's Undercover Role Led to Charges Against Billionaire

Financier Who Amassed Insurance Firms Diverted $2 Billion Into His Private Empire

Insurance Executive Sentenced to 12 Years for 'Massive Fraud,' Bribery

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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 professionalizes shaking kids down for their lunch money - but you're gonna LOVE how this movie ends.

We'll also talk about Jeffrey Epstein associate Josh Harris and heir to the Smurf fortune David Blitzer who use their Blackstone connections and Wharton Business degrees to steal joy from children!! Don't worry, there's a comeuppance for them in this story, too!

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Lord of the Rinks. Meet the hockey CEO cashing in on your kid's team

Youth Sports Are a $40 Billion Business. Private Equity Is Taking Notice.

Tennessee bill would criminalize harassment of student-athletes

As Youth Sports Professionalize, Kids Are Burning Out Fast

Private Equity Is Coming for Youth Sports

Bill would ban private equity 'vulture investors' from youth sports.

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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!!

TW: we talk about Epstein stuff starting around 52:00 (but right before that we find ourselves in a genuine fit of hysterics the likes of which have never been seen on this podcast!!)

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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

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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!