Corporate Gossip

Aug 02 2024 37 ep. 61 mins 623
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Business news for gossip lovers. From boardroom shakeups to c-suite scandals, the Corporate gossip podcast brings you all the Wall Street tea. CPA scorned Becca Platsky and her brother, data analytics playboy Adam Platsky are your hosts.

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S4 Finale! Bob's Red Mill: Porridge Daddy & Listener Questions

Aug 02 2024 57 mins  
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

American Apparel & the Millennial Cult of Dov Charney

Jul 26 2024 72 mins  
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-so

Crazy Eddie, Fraud Mother?

Jul 19 2024 64 mins  
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 founde

Intuit & Turbo Tax: Girlboss, Gaslight, Gatekeep

Jul 12 2024 67 mins  
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

BONUS: Interview with Winning Fixes Everything author Evan Drellich

Jul 09 2024 40 mins  
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

Astros: McKinsey Strikes Out

Jul 05 2024 66 mins  
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. T

CBS & Messy Les Moonves

Jun 28 2024 82 mins  
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

Paramount / Viacom: Sumner House of Horrors

Jun 20 2024 74 mins  
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-leve

Ain't no party like an Insys party

Jun 14 2024 83 mins  
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 d

BONUS: Interview with Ringmaster author Josie Riesman

Jun 12 2024 45 mins  
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