The Conservative Who Torments Big Business
We are faced with corporate power so vast it spawned a conservative antitrust movement.
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The Chatbot Will See You Now: Tech In Therapy
As Big Tech attempts to algo and chatbot your therapy, advocacy and new law fight to save the art and science of humans helping humans.
Big Oil And Big Plastic Are One And The Same
Plastic is in many ways a vital technology, but did we really need to use it everywhere?
Emergency Pod: The Live Nation Ticketmaster Verdict
State AGs pick up the Fed's slack and win one for the fans.
How AIPAC Tries to Dominate the Business of Politics
Are American voters changing their minds about the Israel lobby in American politics?
Up Ship's Creek: The Crisis At The Strait
The US-Israel-Iran War choke point at the Strait of Hormuz will ripple through the global economy for years.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is Not Done with Ticketmaster
The system is not completely broken, and it shows when states pickup the shattered pieces of our broken federal system.
The Business Of Betting On Murder with Sen. Chris Murphy
Bet you can't guess who is insider trading the Iran War.
Robbing Them Blind, Baby: The Live Nation Case
Why your event tickets are sky high is even more infuriating than you can imagine.
Why Your Lamp Sucks
Don't search the web for mid-century lighting until you listen to this week's episode.
Emergency Pod: The Paramount Takeover
The Ellisons moved closer to capturing Warner Bros, and control of a massive news, sports, and entertainment content stream.
How Private Equity Is Driving Up Your Electric Bill
A guaranteed rate of return with zero risk is number go up nirvana.
The Epstein Class War
There's a ruling class where the rules do not apply.
The End of United Healthcare For All
There's been good news in Healthcare reform this week, and our guest is right in the middle of the fight for positive change.
White Collar Crime Enforcement In The Age Of ICE
Laws are just wishes without enforcement.
The Monopolists Who Gatekeep the Court System
If you want to read the laws that govern, you have to pay a steep price. Break a duopoly and this can be changed.
The New Frontier in Price Discrimination
AI is here to help you shop, and Google is ready to make sure you pay top dollar for all the things you need.
Video and Transcript for The Secret Scam Driving Up Food Prices
The price of everything has increased, food and beverage is a leading category. Our guest helped unseal a key reason why. And there's a good chance it's an unlawful scheme.
The Secret Scam Driving Up Food Prices
Our guest this week helped expose how Pepsi and Walmart work hard to keep prices high, local competition down, and the evidence of their likely collusion secret.
Video and Transcript for The Enshittification Life Cycle With Cory Doctorow
In this book tour event, Doctorow outlines why and how the tech surrounding us went to shit, and presents solutions to fix it.
The Enshittification Life Cycle With Cory Doctorow
Twenty years ago Cory Doctorow saw how the technology we use daily was purposely being broken, it was only when he started cursing the process that we finally started listening.
Video and Transcript for When Billionaires Go Rogue
This week's guest talks serious progressive reforms for the fifth largest economy in the world. We need a couple thousand more billionaires like this.
When Billionaires Go Rogue
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is hawking progressive ideas. Increase corporate taxes, lower utility rates, ban corporate PACs, all could be just the start if he can find the limelight.
Video and Transcript for The Shadowy Puppet Masters Who Control College Athletics
It's never a crisis until the shadowy puppet masters are no longer in full control.
The Shadowy Puppet Masters Who Control College Athletics
In 2019 the Supreme Court shattered one of the biggest private monopolies in America, the NCAA. Players are getting paid big time, and now pushback from the ownership class is ramping up.
Video and Transcript for The AI Bubble Everyone Wants To Pop
We host experts with cutting edge insights on the AI Bubble's creation, current status, and clues to however it ends yielding both positive and negative after effects.
The AI Bubble Everyone Wants To Pop
In this week's episode we take another look at the AI boom and contemplate how long big tech can get its bubble for nothing and clicks for free.
Video and Transcript for Big Tech and Fascism
Trapped in a maze extracting as much money as possible while providing as little value as possible is platform controlled extraction. Our guest this week defines the problem and provides solutions.