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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 possession, a colon cleanse subscription business, a website called datehottergirls.com, and the 1954 Guatemalan coup!!!

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The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It

In real estate, Witkoff is royalty. In DC, he's the president's man

Where Mideast Envoy Pitched Peace, His Son Pitched Investors

The 'Crypto Punks' Behind Trump's Murky New Business Venture

Trump's entry into crypto opens new doors for those seeking political influence

How Trump's crypto business partners left their old clients in the lurch

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches

Donald Trump Jr. denies rumors World Liberty Financial is falling apart

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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!

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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!

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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

"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

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

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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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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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Good News: Media, the nation's first Fair Trade Town, marks 20 years supporting farmers in the developing world

Learn more about Fair Trade Certification

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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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You should hire Jennifer Tisdale!

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Timestamps:

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