Corporate Gossip

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 OverWhy 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