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Profiteers vs. the People
Rad Bill & Money Mic
65 episodes
1 week ago
On Profiteers vs. the People, we perform an honest critique of prominent profiteers from both history and the present day. We contrast the public personas of these figures with their actions, and attempt to determine their net impact on society as a whole. While we take our research seriously, we hope to deliver our findings with an air of levity, so our listeners can laugh with us, and hopefully learn something along the way.
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On Profiteers vs. the People, we perform an honest critique of prominent profiteers from both history and the present day. We contrast the public personas of these figures with their actions, and attempt to determine their net impact on society as a whole. While we take our research seriously, we hope to deliver our findings with an air of levity, so our listeners can laugh with us, and hopefully learn something along the way.
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Profiteers vs. the People
Larry Ellison Pt 4: From Crisis to Stupid Crisis

Part 4 of the Larry Ellison Series is right here! Join us as we find out what it takes to get someone like Larry out of the jam he was in when we left him, and watch as he gets the ship moving again and steers it right into another iceberg.


Here are the sources for this series, we're putting them all in one place:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lo2QvF4jJQIy3VcBCLm8HWxHXrGatZiO-5qHwYckZs4/edit?usp=sharing


Want to chat? Swing by our subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


How are we doing? Got ideas for subjects we should be covering? Got comments? shoot us an email:

Profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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2 weeks ago
41 minutes 21 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Larry Ellison Pt 3: Oracle's Rise in The 80s Was a Disaster, Actually

Thanks for bearing with us gang. We hope this was worth the wait.

Oracle's explosive growth in the 80s is well documented, but the lesser discussed matter is how this growth almost destroyed the company and bankrupted Ellison.


Our primary source for this episode is the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison, by Mike Wilson.


Like the show? Consider subscribing! It helps us a lot.


Want to discuss? Check out our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have comments, questions or series suggestions? Drop us a line! profitvspeeps@gmail.com





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1 month ago
1 hour 1 minute 41 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Larry Ellison Pt 2: What Did Larry Even Do?

Here is our second episode on Larry Ellison. In this one, we set out to continue our story, discuss what Larry's team made, the supposed risks and decisions made by Larry, personally, and the incredible role that luck and timing played in creating Oracle

Larry's story is told as if he was a god-like intellect, in control the whole time. Was this the case? Well, join us as we look in to it!


Here are the sources for this series:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lo2QvF4jJQIy3VcBCLm8HWxHXrGatZiO-5qHwYckZs4/edit?usp=sharing


Here is our subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Did we do ok? Let us know by saying "You did OK"

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1 month ago
37 minutes 2 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Larry Ellison Pt 1: The Worst Form Of Self Made

Join us as we take an initial look at Larry Ellison! Lots to unpack here.


Our Primary Source: The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson


All other sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lo2QvF4jJQIy3VcBCLm8HWxHXrGatZiO-5qHwYckZs4/edit?usp=sharing


How are we doing babe? Did we earn it? Consider subscribing!


Wanna talk about it first?

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Here's our email, in case you want to get REALLY into the weeds: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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2 months ago
44 minutes 59 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Loosey: The Panama Papers and Why You Should Care About Tax Evasion

One more Loosey before our next series, thank you so much for bearing with us. In this one, RadBill gives you a break down of what was found in the panama papers and a look at the things people are willing to tolerate to carry on cheating the tax man.


Our main source:

The Panama Papers by Frederick Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer


Did you enjoy the episode? Like, Comment and Subscribe!


Wanna chat? Check out our subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have ideas for future episodes? Drop us a line:

profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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2 months ago
29 minutes 58 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Loosey: Economic Hitmen and Why So Many Countries Hate the US

Here is a loosey that explores how economic hitmen help build up nations like the US and China while destroying the rest of the world.

Our main source for this episode was the 3rd Edition of Confessions of An Economic Hitman, by Jim Perkins.

Check out our subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/

Email us: Profitvspeeps@gmail.com

Like comment and subscribe!

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3 months ago
30 minutes 8 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Nestle IV: This Episode Will Make You Stop Drinking Water

Alas! Our finale episode on Nestle is upon us! In this one, we tackle Nestle's philosophy around water, their process for acquiring water and the end goal in the growth of their bottled water business.


Here are our sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cfzpr6iO3n8ptH6burVssUDd7Mpzv8Gm6sM5OGj9hj0/edit?usp=sharing


Wanna chat? We stay pretty active on our subreddit, give us a shout!

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have comments or a profiteer you would like us to cover? Shoot us an email!

profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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4 months ago
55 minutes 20 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Nestle III: Dying for Coffee

Join us as we explore the horrors of Nestle's coffee supply chain. Spoiler alert: A shocking number of people have been murdered for your morning Joe!


Did we do ok? If so, be sure to comment with something like "Wow guys, this was an episode of your podcast, alright", So we know that it was an episode of our podcast.


Did you enjoy the episode? Subscribe so you can hear about the next one!


Have questions or comments? We're pretty gosh darn active on the subreddit, we'd love to chat!

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have comments or a series request? Drop us a line at profitvspeeps@gmail.com


Also, how do you like our new thumbnail? It was courtesy of R.L Black, check him out on Instagram!

https://www.instagram.com/rlblack.ink/


Here are our sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_XUp8le2nI_oEf56vo6wg-EXrjf5vxk9dl564givNso/edit?usp=sharing

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4 months ago
43 minutes 36 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Nestle II: Blood Makes Nestle and it's Chocolate Rich

We went really deep on this one, so brace yourself. Here is an exploration of Chocolate's role in destroying West Africa and Nestle's role in chocolate and destroying West Africa. It's a heavy episode, but we're proud of it.


Please like comment and subscribe.


Here are our sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VdY1goIshhVXqodMUcJL_h9Q0uwH1RAd5GqYKowM-9c/edit?usp=sharing


Here is our subreddit if you feel like checking it out (please do)

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Here is our email, in case you have comments, or requests.

profitvspeeps@gmail.com


Thanks, as always. We love you

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5 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 46 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Loosey: Beating the Snot Out of Racism

This episode is a breather from the Nestle series, because $ was out of town! Join RadBill as he explores one of his favorite moments from history. When the black boxer, Jack Johnson bullied a racist white world into giving him the Heavyweight title.


Here are the sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTxLwSCzRUUW6-X8V4wGUZ2fWYr0Vo_tTeaQFCrCnsU/edit?usp=sharing


OH! Here is our Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


And here is our email, in case you have questions, comments or requests: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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5 months ago
23 minutes 37 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Nestle I: Nestle's War Against Boobs

Join us for a look into the void that sits behind the brown bunny.


In this one, we're looking into the world that helped birth Nestle's most lucrative product, the man behind the product, the product itself, and the dead babies in the product's wake.


Did you enjoy the episode? Like comment and subscribe! It apparently helps a lot


Here is our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have a request or questions? Drop us a line at profitvspeeps@gmail.com


Here are our sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QELtP9pS-kb5ymTYMnsXYcIXuAyCKKBbe9Wkc9faxxE/edit?usp=sharing

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6 months ago
38 minutes 29 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Loosey: Kratom, 7 OH and The Coming Addiction Crisis

Kratom is apparently the most popular item at the headshop across the street and we think it's because Kratom is addictive, and are worried about the more powerful derivatives making their way into the market. So we're going to tell you about them.


Here are our sources

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_XRsLqff7UCODT-Z9SARF_5JJrlWYgVn3nU-e8TEl8/edit?usp=sharing


Here is our subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Like, Comment and Subscribe!




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6 months ago
40 minutes 53 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
George Soros III: More Bad Than Good?

Join us for the final episode of our George Soros Series! This one is all about the "shadowy" political stuff he's been up to for the last few decades.


Our main sources for this series are below:

- George Soros: A Life in Fulll, by Peter Osnos

- The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power and the Struggle For an Open Society, by Emily Tamkin


Here are a few additional sources we relied on for this series:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Isf3gR0dqnW5lxpRmDNBpPrmGM04uxnlMB9253SPL70/edit?usp=sharing


Be sure to like, comment and subscribe!


Wanna chat? Come by our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have comments or a request? Shoot us an email! Profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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7 months ago
1 hour 1 minute 14 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
George Soros, Part II: God Thinks He's George Soros

Join us as we explore George's accrual of incredible wealth and the early years of his charitable giving.

Is this the part where he is revealed to be some sort of demon? Tune in to find out! (It's not, but it's still interesting)


Our main sources for this series are:

George Soros, A Life In Full by Peter L. Osnos

The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power and The Struggle For an Open Society by Emily Tamkin


Like, Comment and Subscribe!


Wanna chat? Check out our subreddit! :

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have comments or requests? Wanna chat OFF THE RECORD?!

Here is our email: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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7 months ago
57 minutes 17 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
George Soros, Part I: Origins of the Baba Yaga

Tried a new approach for this episode and dying to hear what you think. Join us as we sift through all the fluff and brimstone, to get an understanding of who George Soros is and where he came from.


Our two primary sources for this series are:

- George Soros: A life in full, by Peter L. W. Osnos and

- The influence of Soros: Politics, Power and the Struggle For an Open Society, by Emily Tamkin


Please like, comment and subscribe!

Here is a link to our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Here is our email: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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8 months ago
53 minutes 56 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Peter Thiel Part IV: Peter Thiel is Totally Evil, People

Join us for the final episode of our series on Peter Thiel.

This one is going to be focused on Palantir and we'll touch on the world Thiel and his cronies are trying to build.

We also introduce a segment that RadBill is very excited about, called "How Do Dat Doodad Do Dat". We hope you like it.


Please like, comment and subscribe!


Here are our sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TUfaiJMLSEuhXiG7ihSwPG8m3jFuwo2UaC52coWAQcc/edit?usp=sharing


Here is the link to our subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have comments or requests? Drop us a line!

Profitvspeeps@gmail.com


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8 months ago
1 hour 8 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Peter Thiel Part III: Getting Humiliated by the Media and Creating a Constitutional Crisis

Once again, a special thanks to Deco19 for the suggestion. We hope you're enjoying the series so far.

This episode focuses on the Media's Relationship with Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley at large.


Our primary source for this episode was The Contrarian by Max Chafkin but we also relied on the way back machine to find archived articles, etc.


Questions? Comments? Requests? Find us on our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/ or feel free to drop us a line at profitvspeeps@gmail.com


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9 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 56 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Thiel Part II: Paypal and being Elon Musk's Brain

Here is the episode where Peter Thiel and Max Levchin start Paypal and meet and defeat Elon Musk. We hope you like that.


Thanks again, Deco19 for the request!

Have a request, or want to say hi?

- Here is our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/

- Here is our email: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

Here are our sources, besides The Contrarian, by Max Chafkin:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diauIRcuH0XXYg1AWrIRcbx1b9sV0-78RtW5O3dhx4c/edit?usp=sharing


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9 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 28 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Peter Thiel Part I: An Evil Genius Graduates from Evil Genius University

We're coming out of a big election cycle, join us as we look at the early years of one of the most influential players in Conservative Politics today, and where he came from.


A special thanks to Deco19, a member of our subreddit! Without his requesting this series, who knows when we would have covered Theil!


Here's our subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Here are our Sources:




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10 months ago
50 minutes 28 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
Rooting for Luigi: Navigating Healthcare in the US

Hi Everyone,

Here is a side episode on United HealthCare. It was recorded on Sunday December 8th, before Luigi was officially apprehended, but aside from the jokes (namely, Radbill jokingly framing $Mic for murder), this episode focuses largely on navigating Healthcare in the US and what companies like UHC do to shirk their commitment to making claim payouts. We hope you like it.


Spectrum Woes, this one is for you


Here are our sources

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xQAZVU91zDdlBBWM9n3GyV9NJSACXsNIJihqkn-sIGg/edit?usp=sharing


Here is our subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/profiteersvsthepeople/


Have comments? Drop us a line!

profitvspeeps@gmail.com


Don't forget to like comment and subscribe!

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11 months ago
48 minutes 41 seconds

Profiteers vs. the People
On Profiteers vs. the People, we perform an honest critique of prominent profiteers from both history and the present day. We contrast the public personas of these figures with their actions, and attempt to determine their net impact on society as a whole. While we take our research seriously, we hope to deliver our findings with an air of levity, so our listeners can laugh with us, and hopefully learn something along the way.