We dive into the ultimate "not like other girls" disgraced Wall Street trader Sam Israel III. Third time's a charm for the Israel family no doubt as we really dig into the story of a guy with a tattoo of a little cherub on his hip desperate to beat the nepo baby allegations.

Honestly the main source I used was Guy Lawson's book "Octopus: Sam Israel, the Shadow Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con" from 2012. It is a very detailed book that, as discussed on pod, lowkey gets conspiracy-brain-pilled in the middle and it is not particularly entertaining or great. I checked with other news sources to verify some of the key information, but I'd be lying to say I used those news sources as much as I just simply used the book to get this story across, since it is absolutely fucking nuts. But the book isn't great, so I can't recommend it the way I recommend other books.

Support Jacob's work @terrible.portraits which you may have no doubt seen on the news or Instagram recently! Hire him for your funeral on a day he's not meant to be a the clubbbbb!

I meant to post this yesterday and just literally forgot? Sorry everybody LOL. 

Yes I did record this like 2 days after it'd have been relevant. One thing about me? I love being juuuuust a hair away from being topical. 

SOURCES:

1) "A Union Against Unions: the Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903-1947" by William Millikan 2001 https://archive.org/details/unionagainstunio0000mill/page/n1/mode/2up (This is the main source on the subject, and basically any website is ripping from this book)

2) Aquatennial.com

3) Minneapolis Journal Tuesday August 26, 1930 is the random newspaper I picked: https://www.newspapers.com/image/811596648/

4) Star Tribune, Wednesday November 1, 1933 op-ed: "In Defense of Hitler" https://www.newspapers.com/image/182407195

5) The grindset ad is somewhere on this newspaper page of the Star Tribune, Sunday August 21st 1932: https://www.newspapers.com/image/182534699/

6) This wasn't officially quoted BUT "90 years ago, Hamm's heir kidnapped in broad daylight in St. Paul," Cathy Wurzer and Gretchen Brown, Jun 2023, MPR News, https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/06/14/90-years-ago-hamms-heir-kidnapped-held-for-ransom-in-st-paul

7) the stock music I used for that one bit is at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34bTKW8ud0&list=PLQtpqy3zeTGB7V5lkhkfBVaiZyrysv_fG the top comment of which is "My god, this beat just told me that unionizing wasn't in my best interest because it would destroy our family culture"

Anywhoozles, Shen Yun is a non-profit arts organization AKA it is in the same line of business as The Lincoln Lodge - so that's the expertise we're bringing to the table. Other podcasts have dutifully covered the....strange and religious background origins of Shen Yun and its parent organization the Falun Dafa. I'm honestly not sure if I did a great job explaining the Falun Gong stuff because 1) you sound crazy when you try to summarize it 2) it's out of scope for the podcast 3) i was a little drunk and 4) i made a concerted effort to not be too hard on religious people because it's a smug lefty podcast trend that I find gauche. Sorry TrueAnon people, I am just a better person than you <3

I wish I'd remembered to say this on mic, but Mark did lean over during the piece of the performance that was meant to be set in the modern day. The actors all wore khakis and blue shirts and he, brow furrowed with the gravitas of a 60 minutes interview, leaned over and went "why are they all dressed like they work at Best Buy?" and to me that made Shen Yun worth the price of admission 100%. 

SOURCES: 

1) The article I need to attribute the most credit to (though the content comes super late in the episode) is "How Shen Yun Tapped Religious Fervor to Make $266 Million" by New York Times reporters Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld linked here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250106190435/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/nyregion/shen-yun-money-falun-gong.html

2) Shen Yun's 2023 Form 990: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/208812402/202421039349300917/full

3) IRS Whistleblower website link: https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/whistleblower-office-at-a-glance#:~:text=The%20IRS%20Whistleblower%20Office%2C%20which,else%20they%20may%20be%20encountered.

4) "California Man Sentenced for Acting as an Illegal Agent of the People’s Republic of China Government and Bribery," DOJ press release linked here: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/california-man-sentenced-acting-illegal-agent-peoples-republic-china-government-and-bribery

5) "US: Chinese agents paid bribes in plot to disrupt anti-communist Falun Gong movement," CBS News May 6 2023 linked here: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/us-chinese-agents-paid-bribes-in-plot-to-disrupt-anti-communist-falun-gong-movement/

6) "Federal lawsuit accuses Dragon Springs compound of sewage contamination of stream," Times Herald-Record, Chris McKenna, January 2022 linked here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220630005603/https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/local/2022/01/20/falun-gong-dragon-springs-accused-sewage-spill-basher-kill-neversink-river/6577825001/

7) "Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times," Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins reporting for NBC News, August 20, 2019, linked here: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121 (the "slave labor" quote came in this article)

8) "Shen Yun Needed Publicity. The Epoch Times Wrote 17,000 Articles," Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld, New York Times, December 30 2024, linked here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250101060455/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/nyregion/shen-yun-epoch-times-falun-gong.html

9) Ohio Falun Dafa Association 2023 Form 990 linked here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/264648549/202431219349300308/full

10) Dragon Springs Buddhist Inc Forms 990 linked here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/113581083

11) The SVOG Grants Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10LoFUyiMI7m3_odNh6yzCf47gk2BSmz-/edit?gid=1481215523#gid=1481215523

12) Friends of Falun Gong form 990: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/134145670/202332559349301713/full

13) I mention the 28-year-old Moonie kid who got kidnapped, the article I'm half-remembering is this: https://web.archive.org/web/20170827171857/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170827171857/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/08/14/court-rules-rights-laws-protect-against-religious-discrimination/caba88e2-4477-464a-9147-b7276acbc774/?utm_term=.47998e51cabb

14) Shen Yun's screen patent for the flying thing: https://ppubs.uspto.gov/api/pdf/downloadPdf/10981078?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiIzYzM5NWY1Yi01YzU4LTQ1NTAtOTFlNC1jNzE5OTBmMGQ5ZmUiLCJ2ZXIiOiI2NjAwMzkwNi1mOWEzLTRkMDYtOGE1Ny0zOGFkYjEzMTEwNTEiLCJleHAiOjB9

**

A few articles mentioned but not directly quoted: 

1) "The power of Falun Gong," Eric Campbell and Hagar Cohen for (i think) ABC Australia, July 20, 2020, linked here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/inside-falun-gong-master-li-hongzhi-the-mountain-dragon-springs/12442518

2) Shen Yun's court complaint against the town of Deerpark New York for discrimination, which of course mentions the goddamn organ harvesting: https://trellis.law/doc/153931432/complaint

3) Behind the blitz: Falun Gong practitioners spend millions on Shen Yun ads. How do they do it?, Matthias Gaffini, San Fransisco Chronicle, January 2020 linked here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200111170427/https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Behind-the-blitz-Falun-Gong-practitioners-spend-14966684.php

4) "Me and Li — Why I left Falun Gong after being a devoted believer for a decade" Ben Hurley -
This is just a Medium Article and many people enjoy lying on the internet, so take it with a grain of salt but this did influence my thinking: https://ben-d-hurley.medium.com/-10677166298b

Anyways, come with us on a journey behind the worst business deal anybody has ever made. Not to be too one-sided or anything, it's just that no one with any defensible journalistic or business credentials has sided with Mayor Daley on this one. Have no idea what I'm talking about? Tap in to this all-Chicago episode of complete and utter buffoonery, replete with a book that completely changed my worldview! I'm serious!

Thanks for listening, and be sure to follow Danaka's writing on Substack! Linked here: https://danaka.substack.com/

Patreon is as always patreon.com/bustedbizbureau - I turned off payments for a buncha months in a row, but am finally on the creative horse again. Yippeee!!!

SOURCES: 

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, was (as mentioned many times!) the main source of information throughout this episode. I bought it at Unabridged Bookstore :) Link here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634461/paved-paradise-by-henry-grabar/

2. Chicago's parking drama is covered in chapter 8 of Paved Paradise, which itself owes a lot of sourcing to Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke's reporting in the Chicago Reader over the alderman-ey drama. "FAIL, Part One: Chicago’s Parking Meter Lease Deal" linked here: https://chicagoreader.com/news/fail-part-one-chicagos-parking-meter-lease-deal/

3. Propublica Illinois and Mother Jones collab'ed on an article about poor Chicagoans saddling the main burden of traffic ticket debt. "How Does Chicago Make $200 Million A Year On Parking Tickets? By Bankrupting Thousands of Drivers." I accidentally said this was from 2023 in the podcast, but it is actually 2018. Don't ever listen to a word I say. Linked here: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2018/02/how-does-chicago-make-200-million-a-year-on-parking-tickets-by-bankrupting-thousands-of-drivers/

4. Uelricht v Chicago Parking Meters LLC as very thoroughly documented on Clime Case Chart, linked here: https://climatecasechart.com/case/uetricht-v-chicago-parking-meters-llc/. Most of the complaints/motions/etc live here

5. Judge Diane Pamela Wood's opinion on the matter, quoted in the pod, linked here: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/22-1166/22-1166-2023-04-07.html

The meat of the episode is from this court complaint lodged by Rippling against Deel, found at this link: https://rippling2.imgix.net/Complaint.pdf

Snage Game (if it's still up...): https://www.rippling.com/en-GB/snake-game

There are references to beefs from Twitter, but I'm not linkin' that man. 

Thanks for your patience between episodes. As my Patreon subscribers are intimately familiar with, my fulltime job and life is making podcasting much harder...I will get to the next episode when I frigging get to it!

Kathryn and Kyrie are two hosts of the Beyond Bars podcast where they interview people impacted by the "justice" system, mostly people who have been to jail. Link here! https://open.spotify.com/show/5ftr0ow1XV6U7tpLVProtC

Kathryn Gongaware can be found @kathryngong

Kyrie da Comic can be found @kyriedacomic

Anyways, for sources we've got:

Math on Trial: How Numbers are Used and Abused in the Courtroom by Leila Schneps (full text here!): https://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/tmp/CandH-ch0102/Math%20on%20Trial.pdf

Danny Evins' obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/business/danny-evins-restaurant-founder-and-focus-of-controversy-dies-at-76.html

Cracker Barrel Decor Blog: https://blog.crackerbarrel.com/2021/09/24/20-surprising-facts-about-cracker-barrel/

Civil Rights Act: http://eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964 and https://www.justice.gov/crt/title-ii-civil-rights-act-public-accommodations

Rhodes V. Cracker Barrel c. 2002 (discussion about Bayes' theorem): https://casetext.com/case/rhodes-v-cracker-barrel-old-country-store-inc-2

The Rhodes V. Cracker Barrel c. 2003 with plaintiff allegations: https://casetext.com/case/rhodes-v-cracker-barrel-old-country-store-inc

The wack ass 1968 Time Magazine article: https://time.com/archive/6632149/decisions-trial-by-mathematics/

Denny's 1994 settlement featuring the secret service story: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/25/us/denny-s-restaurants-to-pay-54-million-in-race-bias-suits.html

Cracker Barrel private settlement (Rhodes V Cracker Barrel) https://www.sanfordheisler.com/case/discrimination-harassment/cracker-barrel-race-discrimination-class-action/

The wikipedia pages mentioned are a pretty simple google away for Bayes' Theorem and Alexander Acosta (sigh)

This story is absolutely crazy, and does in fact have a guy going to jail. Just not the guy you're hoping it is...

Thanks to Ryan Grim for reporting on development and updates to this crazy tale - you can follow him and Jeremy Scahill's recently-launched Drop Site News for important and interesting journalism! 

Also, this was recorded on 11/27 before the UnitedHealth CEO assassination. All talks of assassination are purely coincidental...or should we say manifesting? 

Follow Emma's comedy show @thelesbianlodge (which I also produce) or @alldayemmaday on IG

Patreon.com/bustedbizbureau

SOURCES: 

1. Ryan Grim's original article in The Intercept about the Oren Miller Saga "The Villages Vendetta: How a Grassroots Revolt in the Iconic Retirement Community Ended With a 72-Year-Old Political Prisoner" https://theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron-desantis-florida-villages-oren-miller/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2. Ryan Grim's Drop-Site-Exclusive Update Post https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/a-revolt-in-the-villages-takes-a/comments?utm_source=substack&publication_id=2510348&post_id=147556878&utm_medium=email&isFreemail=false&comments=true&utm_campaign=email-half-magic-comments&action=post-comment

3. Andrew Blechman's 2007 book Leisureville : adventures in America's retirement utopias

4. Amanda Brian's article in the Southern Cultures journal ("The Faux History of The Villages") (Note, the link is to the illegal website I use lol); https://sci-hub.se/10.1353/scu.2014.0037 

5. Random interesting article about the real estate fraud 1968 ban: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2768&context=caselrev

6. The Bloomberg nerds' article "Billionaire Morse’s Florida Dirt Bonds Not Tax-Exempt" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-05/florida-billionaire-s-development-bonds-not-tax-exempt-irs-says?embedded-checkout=true 

7. Random Letters to the Editor in The Village News: https://www.villages-news.com/2024/11/20/ed-mcginty-offers-harsh-assessment-of-donald-trump/

https://www.villages-news.com/2024/11/14/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-with-hooters/

https://www.villages-news.com/2024/11/20/ed-mcginty-offers-harsh-assessment-of-donald-trump/

8. Lost Pets of The Villages, Florida: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1670057083262755/

This chaotic traipse through Ford's history takes us all over the globe (and by that, I mean to the Amazon Rainforest over and over again!) From bumbling sex pest managers misunderstanding tropical climates to THEE OG risk assessment calculation that probably inspired Fight Club...this episode's got everything! In an effort to be less of a huge effing bummer since the military contracting season, this one is a little bit more breezy.

A journalist called Walter Lippman, a man born in 1889, wrote of Henry Ford: "Mr. Ford is neither a crank nor a freak…[but] merely the logical exponent of American prejudices about wealth and success." I did not read that quote in context - I took it from Grandin's book. I didn't say it in the episode, but wanted to spotlight it here because I think it nails what Ford is all about. And I just felt really connected to this guy's words despite the fact he was born over 100 years before me. ANYWAYS. 

For those of you wondering - I mentioned in the episode I was 2 days away from vocal surgery at time of recording. Now on the other side of it, I have to build my voice back up before I'm allowed to podcast again. Should be in the next few weeks though, as I have stuff planned and written!

Thank you to my Patreon subscribers - who largely move in silence and don't comment or like most of what I post on the platform lmfao. They're my besties, for realllll. If you'd like to join the league of oft-disappointed folks who give me 3 dollars a month, you can do so at Patreon.com/bustedbizbureau. 

Adam's standup special is available on Dropout here: https://www.dropout.tv/adam-conover-unmedicated

OK THANKS BYEEE

SOURCES: 

Watch the first Taurus XL launch fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puEEyi-DHrY

Wanna watch another one?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BFAxZflkW0&ab_channel=issmania11

NASA Investigative Summary: Taurus XL T8 and T9 Mission Failures: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/oco_glory_public_summary_update_-_for_the_web_-_04302019.pdf?emrc=2fce7a

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, Greg Grandin 2009: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/fordlandia-the-rise-and-fall-of-henry-fords-forgotten-jungle-city_greg-grandin/273197/?srsltid=AfmBOoq09JCr4ag6REQoXvIMUNoJcRceUvQgF0iqfD-KlP6jdceRu9Se#edition=5254322&idiq=3929545

Read the "infamous" Ford Pinto Memo here: https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/phpq3mJ7F_FordMemo.pdf

Pinto Madness, Mark Dowie, Mother Jones 1977: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness/

Ford’s Electric Pickup Is Built From Metal That’s Damaging the Amazon, Sheridan Prasso and Jessica Brice, Bloomberg 2023: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-ford-f150-electric-car-rainforest-damage/?embedded-checkout=true

https://www.bustedbizbureau.com/

Blender Bluid and Amy Do continue our millions-years-long season about private military contractors. This time, I'm telling them about the worst of the worst: Betsy DeVos' brother Erik Prince's rich kid lodge! Blackwater! Clean off your guns and meet me at the lodge - we're in for a real effing doozy.

Fair warning, this episode does brush over some truly horrific stuff. As mentioned mid-episode, my podcast isn't really the appropriate place to regale those stories in full detail, so only some of the key informational facts are mentioned out of respect for those who suffered cruel, pointless deaths during this war. Jeremy Scahill's book is a fantastic read to get the full picture on the politics, events, and horrors of Iraq, linked below. 

Jeremy, if you're listening, I'm so sorry sweetie please look away - this is a comedy podcast by a clown. But THIS clown loved your book! 

Follow @blenderbluid and @helloamydo. Thanks to the WONDERFUL Casey Synesael for fully editing this episode! Audio engineer and tastemaker, methinks. 

SOURCES: 

1. Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army - Jeremy Scahill, March 2007 (I read the revised 2008 version tho)
2. Firearms training centers on schools under assault - Jon Frank, The Virginian-Pilot, Oct 1999
3. Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy - Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, January 2010
4. Erik Prince: An American Commando in Exile - Robert Young Pelton, Dangerous Magazine (originally published in Men’s Journal), November 2010
5. Blackwater founder takes aim at his critics in memoir - Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot, Nov 2013 (the “Field of Dreams” quote is in this)
6. Falluja lawsuit: Blackwater families settle case - BBC News, 2012
7. The Dark Truth about Blackwater - Peter Singer, Brookings Institution, October 2007
8. I scraped the Nisour Square legal timeline just from the Nisour Square Massacre wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre

Other recommended reading from the pod is Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Thanks for listening. Plz feel free to leave a review, and some extra stuff is on Patreon.com/bustedbizbureau

Join myself and Amy Do+Blender Bluid to continue in the military-contracting deep dive season (remember that?) and let's get some ice cream on the way! Anybody want to stop at Ben&Jerry'sIsreal? Perhaps a SodaStream to tide you over? 

NOTE: The episode starts after bitching that took precisely 5 minutes. Ep begins at 5:00 

Follow @blenderbluid and @helloamydo - both of whom have released new music on Spotify!!!! We out here! 

Thanks to Casey Synesael for your genius audio engineering!!! SAVIOR!

SOURCES (sorry there are 23): 

-Illinois bars state pensions from owning Unilever over Israel, Ross Kerber, Reuters 2021

Ben&Jerry's 2015 statement found at this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210109062433/https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2015/ben-and-jerrys-business-in-israel

Ben&Jerry's 2021 statement found at this link: https://www.benjerry.com/about-us/media-center/opt-statement

40 ILCS 5/ Illinois Pension Code thingy quoted found here: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?ActID=638&ChapterID=9&SeqStart=100000&SeqEnd=6300000

Illinois General Assembly, this Israel amendment to our investment codes passed 49-0 in the Senate and 102-0 in the House: https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.13202.html#:~:text=The%20legislation%2C%20which%20was%20modeled,held%20indirectly%20inside%20larger%20portfolios.

University of Texas email quoted found here: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/26/ut-wont-reimburse-for-airbnb-lodging-after-texas-decision-on-companys-israeli-settlement-stance/5610142007/

-AIRBNB statement from 2017: https://news.airbnb.com/listings-in-disputed-regions/

-Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's statement found here: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/executive-management/OAG%20advisory%20on%20SB%2013%20and%2019%2010.18.23.pdf

-Texas City Tells People No Hurricane Harvey Aid Unless They Promise Not to Boycott Israel, ACLU Press release re: case Koontz v. Watson — Challenge to Kansas Law Targeting Boycotts of Israel found here: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/texas-city-tells-people-no-hurricane-harvey-aid-unless-they-promise-not-boycott#:~:text=Free%20Speech-,Texas%20City%20Tells%20People%20No%20Hurricane%20Harvey%20Aid,Promise%20Not%20to%20Boycott%20Israel&text=HOUSTON%20%E2%80%94%20The%20city%20of%20Dickinson,in%20a%20boycott%20of%20Israel.

-Need Hurricane Aid? In One Texas City, If You Boycott Israel, You May Be Out Of Luck - Merrit Kennedy, NPR 2017

-Bechtel Settles Suit With Pledge to Stop Arab Boycott Role, William H Jones, Washington Post 1977

-The Anti-Boycott Provisions of the Export Administration Amendments of 1977, David Modi, 1977 North Carolina Journal of International Law Vol 3 No 1.

-Read the 1979 Export Administration Act here!: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-93/pdf/STATUTE-93-Pg503.pdf

-Office of Antiboycott Compliance quoted page: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac

-How the Israel Anti-Boycott Act Threatens First Amendment Rights, ACLU 2017

-ALLIED AIR WAR STRUCK BROADLY IN IRAQ: OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGE STRATEGY WENT BEYOND PURELY MILITARY TARGETS, Barton Gellman, Washington Post 1991

-In a Moment, Lives Get Blown Apart, Anthony Shadid, Washington Post March 2003

-A Boy Who Was 'Like a Flower',  Anthony Shadid, Washington Post March 2003

-IRAQ: Bechtel ends Iraq rebuilding after a rough 3 years, David R. Baker, The San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 2006

-Don't remember if I quoted this but here's a Government Accountability Office report about us failing re: oil and electricity in Iraq: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-07-677.pdf#page=39

-How the Bush Administration Deconstructed Iraq, Michael Schwartz, TomDispatch, May 18 2006 (HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS READ!) 

-“Wielding Antidiscrimination Law to Suppress the Movement for Palestinian Rights” 133 Harv. L. Rev. 1360, February 2020. (ANOTHER BANGER OF A READ!) 

-The "what can I do?" section quoted from the BDS website: https://bdsmovement.net/BDS-Guide-Strategic-Campaigning

Also, hello! It is nice to be back from tour and to have wi-fi! I am swamped with the thousands of other bits of work I have to do now that the holidays are allegedly over. I will get back to posting as regularly as possible. Thanks for your patience; I love making this podcast! 

Follow @blenderbluid, say hello to Amy Do, and thank Casey Synesael for wonderful audio doctoring as ALWAYS! 

Before we get to the sources...PLEASE VOTE FOR ME FOR BEST CHICAGO PODACST OF 2023: https://chicagoreader.com/best-of-chicago/2023-ballot/#/gallery?group=468483

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okay anyways heres my sources: 

SOURCES: 

As Not Seen on TV, Pete Wells, The New York Times, November 13 2012

Rebuilding of Iraqi Pipeline as Disaster Waiting to Happen, James Glanz, New York Times, April 25, 2006

OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION: Pipeline River Crossing Al Fatah, Iraq link here: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA533936.pdf

Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq, T Christian Miller, May 2007

Full text: George Bush's Iraq speech, The Guardian, June 28, 2005

Military Burn Pits: A Toxic Legacy of War, Pamela Lein, phD, UC Davis Veterinary Medicine

“Contracting Abuses in Iraq: Is the Bush Administration Safeguarding American Taxpayer Dollars?” Frank Cassaday testimony, Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing link here; https://www.dpc.senate.gov/hearings/hearing42/cassaday.pdf

I didn't get to this on pod but here's some other reading: 

ELECTRICITY -(testimony from Eric Peters, Former KBR Electrician, 5/20/09)

“I would estimate approximately 50 percent of KBR electricians in Iraq do not understand the basic principles of bonding and grounding…By the time I left Iraq, I concluded that KBR was not capable of performing quality, legal electrical installations in Iraq. I worried every day that people would be seriously injured or killed by this defective work. “

"'Multiple' failures led to Iraq electrocution, Pentagon says", Scott Bronstein, CNN Special Investigations Unit, July 2009

KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers, Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, May 2009

No criminal charges in electrocution death, Associated Press, Aug 2009

As always, follow @blenderbluid, keep Amy Do in your offline thoughts, and thank the fabulous audio engineer Casey Synesael!!!!! YIPPEEEE

And if you're the type of person inclined to read the show notes, here's a spoiler: I didn't even cover everything in THIS episode, so there's going to be a part 3. I'm presently on tour so it'll take a few weeks before I'm back to record. Sowwy, I'm just one girly who does NOT plan things out. Just podcastin' for funzies. Anyways, here's my sources: 

1. Blood Money: Wated Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq, T Christian Miller, May 2007

2. A Look Back at How Fear and False Beliefs Bolstered U.S. Public Support for War in Iraq, Carroll Doherty and Jocelyn Kiley, Pew Research Center, March 14, 2023

3. Excerpted from The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader, by Peter L. Bergen, accessed through Vanity Fair, January 1 2006

4. Here's a link to the Saddam playing cards published by the DIA: https://archive.org/details/030411D6570c001/030411-d-6570c-001/page/n27/mode/2up

5. Buyers beware: The real Iraq 'most wanted' cards are still awaiting distribution, Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes, April 17, 2003

6. Here's KBR employee Linda Warren's testimony (start at 21:30): https://www.c-span.org/video/?205080-1/contracting-abuses-iraq

7. Here is the 2005 testimony of KBR employee Rory Mayberry: https://www.dpc.senate.gov/hearings/hearing22/mayberry.pdf

8. Here's a link to the DPC report called Major Findings: DPC Oversight Hearings on Waste, Fraud, and Corruption in Iraq: https://www.dpc.senate.gov/dpcdocpr.cfm?doc_name=sr-111-1-116 (nails anecdote) 

9. Iraq War Whistleblowers Represented by Constantine Cannon Secure $108.75 Million Settlement with KBR, Constantine Cannon press release, July 5 2023

10. “One hundred point four billion dollars..." quote from Democrat Mike Ross from this link (time stamp 5:43:40): https://www.c-span.org/video/?196460-2/house-session

11. INSIDE THE WORLD OF WAR PROFITEERS, David Jackson and Jason Grotto, Chicago Tribune, February 2008

12. Underclass of Workers Created in Iraq, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post July 2004

13. Documents Reveal Details of Alleged Labor Trafficking by KBR Subcontractor, By DAVID ISENBERG and NICK SCHWELLENBACH, Project on Government Oversight, July 14 2011

14. Pentagon Finds Halliburton Overcharged on Iraq Contracts, Douglas Jehl, New York Times December 11 2003

Amy's recording remotely on a USB microphone which is why she sounds different. Additionally, Casey went nuts on some of the audio editing and I'm SO excited for y'all to hear this one. 

Follow @BlenderBluid on socials, keep Amy Do in your thoughts, please clap for Casey Synesael, and plzzzzz vote for me on the Chicago Reader Awards starting 12/13! https://chicagoreader.com/best-of-chicago/2023-ballot/#//

SOURCES: 

1) I made it up

2) THE TRANSFORMATION OF DON LUCE, Ted Lieverman, HistoryNet.com (lol), 2017

3) Saigon Is Investigating ‘Tiger Cage’ Cells at a Prison, New York Times, 1970

4) 4 South Vietnamese Describe Torture in Prison ‘Tiger Cage’, New York Times, 1973

5) Here's the link to the 1970 Life Magazine with the story/Tom Harkin's pics: https://books.google.com/books?id=jVUEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

6) Donald Sanders Luce (1934-2022): Exposed the Truth About the Tiger Cages, Mark Ashwill, Vietnam Full Disclosure/Veterans for Peace, 2022

7) Recalling Don Luce, the high-profile Vietnam War critic who did PR for a Falls soup kitchen, Mark Sheer, Niagara Gazette, Nov 2022

8) American Innocence, Robert N. Strassfeld, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Scholarly Commons, 1997

9) American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian G. Appy, 2015 (where the Don Luce interview about KBR's cages being 'in every way worse than the original ones' 

10) Brown & Root helped pave way for Houston's growth, David Hunn, Houston Chronicle 2016

11) The Candidate from Brown and Root, Robert Bryce, The Texas Observer, October 2000 

12) Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller, May 2007

13) Brown & Root, one of the world's largest construction..., Gary Taylor, United Press International, 1981

14) here's that GAO Balkans report titled "Army Should Do More to Control Contract Cost in the Balkans  https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA382598.pdf

15) Outsourcing War, An inside look at Brown & Root, the kingpin of America's new military-industrial complex, Anthony Bianco and Stephanie Anderson Forest, 2003

16) Mesothelioma.com Halliburton Page: https://www.mesothelioma.com/asbestos-exposure/companies/halliburton-company/

17) Inspector General of the DOD report "Hurricane Relief Costs on the Navy Construction Capabilities Contract": https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/22/2002174066/-1/-1/1/D-2008-097.PDF

Ultimately, this is a podcast that is entirely informed by my comedic and artistic point of view. This particular episode on Halliburton is admittedly not as dense as they typically come - that's intentional. I've already lost sleep from jolting awake at night, haunted by the images, descriptions, and horrors that keep coming up in this research. So fuck it, let's do an episode about Dick Cheney's heart! Let's talk about B.O.B. and G-Unit! Let's discuss how I ruined the name Christian for my high school religion teachers!

Follow @blenderbluid and please, sincerely, keep Amy Do in your thoughts right now. 

Audio engineering by the wickedly talented Casey Synesael

SOURCES: 

Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller, May 2007

A Web of Truth: Whistle-Blower or Troublemaker, Neely Tucker, Washington Post, 2005

Whistleblower exposes $7 billion no-bid Defense Department contract, CBS News, 2019

The Whistleblower’s Tale: How An Accountant Took on Halliburton, Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 2015

Australian academics apologise for false AI-generated allegations against big four consultancy firms, Harry Belot, The Guardian, Nov 2023

Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, by (I'm sorry) Dick Cheney and Jonathan Reiner, MD

NBC's "Meet the Press" Transcript, Chuck Todd interviewing Dick Cheney, 2014

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102482_pf.html

Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity, Helen Dewar and Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 2004

Iraq The Halliburton Connection: The Master Builder, Jyoti Thottam, TIME Magazine 2004

Follow Blender Bluid @blenderbluid on all social medias; don't follow Amy Do. She doesn't want you to lol.

This episode had the pleasure of having Casey Synesael as the audio engineer! :D COOL RIGHT?

SOURCES: 

-Armed Guards in Iraq Occupy a Legal Limbo, John Broder and James Risen, New York Times, Sep 2007

-JFK Library Bell Report: https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKPOF/071/JFKPOF-071-004

-Appendix 2 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice: https://jsc.defense.gov/Portals/99/Documents/UCMJ%20-%2020December2019.pdf

-Federal Tort Claims Procedure: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title28/part6/chapter171&edition=prelim

-Boyle v. United Technology Corp (1988): https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/487/500/

-Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (Amicus), Center for Constitutional: Justice https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/kiobel-v-royal-dutch-petroleum-co-amicus

-Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 569 U.S. 108 (2013) - https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/569/108/

-WHO'S DOING WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT?: MONITORING, ACCOUNTABILITY AND COMPETITION IN THE FEDERAL AND SERVICE CONTRACT WORKFORCE, March 2002: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg79883/html/CHRG-107shrg79883.htm

-Accountability of Private Military Contractors, Arthi Thiruppathi, GW Justice Journal, Jan 13 2021

Christian and I have a dueling pianos show we do together constantly. You can check that out @candcduelingpianos on Instagram

SOURCES: 

Servant Foundation Form 990: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/431890105/202320469349302877/full

The Signatry website: https://thesignatry.com/who-we-are/our-history/

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/18/21010108/larry-page-philanthropy-foundation-donor-advised-fund-christmas

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2023/02/13/this-billionaire-is-a-donor-behind-the-jesus-focused-super-bowl-ads/?sh=64c3297d7b29

https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status

Christian Community Foundation Form 990: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/751750059/202213469349301026/full

S2 Episode 6: Billionaires, DAFs, and the Changing Face of Philanthropy with Teddy Schleifer of Vox's Recode; Ethical Rainmaker: http://www.theethicalrainmaker.com/listen-now/s2-episode-6-billionaires-dafs-and-the-changing-face-of-philanthropy-with-teddy-schleifer-of-voxs-recode

deadass this little graphic: https://www.fdic.gov/about/learn/learning/banks.html#:~:text=It%20doesn't%20remain%20locked,even%20to%20operate%20a%20business.

Tax advantages of Donor Advised Funds: https://www.nptrust.org/what-is-a-donor-advised-fund/daf-tax-consideration/

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/christian-super-bowl-ads-he-gets-us-servant-foundation-abortion-gay-rights

BOOK RECS:

God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right, Daniel K. Williams

 One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, Kevin Kruse

Dylan Cohen is performing in The Lincoln Lodge's Future of Comedy Festival on Friday September 29th at 7:30pm for "Powerpoint Night Live!" tickets at thelincolnlodge.com/futureofcomedyfestival

SOURCES: 

1. Clarence Saunders and the Founding of Piggly Wiggly: The Rise and Fall of a Memphis Maverick, Mike Freeman, 2011

2. When Piggly Wiggly Tried to Stick It to Wall Street, Shiva Nagaraj, Slate 2021

3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/768156903/?terms=clarence%20saunders&match=1

4. https://newspapers.com/image/774867648/?terms=clarence%20saunders%20piggly%20wiggly&match=1

5. https://www.newspapers.com/image/244984597/?terms=clarence%20saunders%20piggly%20wiggly&match=1

6. https://www.newspapers.com/image/768157998/?terms=clarence%20saunders%20civil%20war&match=1

7. https://www.newspapers.com/image/774867648/?terms=clarence%20saunders%20piggly%20wiggly&match=1

8. Coach Houses, Vance Lauderdale, Memphis Magazine 2008

Tickets to Kost's show Giggle Hour

SOURCES: 

1) How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Daniel Immewahr, 2016

2) Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History, Gregory T Cushman, 2013

These are pretty dense books, and let's be real, any other source I consulted was genuinely just taking their info from these books -- it's pretty obvious. But man these books are so effing dense I don't feel bad only having two sources lol. 

I'll be posting episodes every two weeks, which I think will make the podcast much more sustainable to make! I can't read all this shit in one day, no matter how hard I try. Thanks so much for sticking around. I hope y'all have been liking it so far! :) If you do, it'd help me out to leave a rating on Apple Podcasts. The algorithm loves seeing engagement. Write who you think the hottest HP failed CEO is!

SOURCES: 

1. How Hewlett-Packard lost its way, James Bandler with Doris Burke, Fortune Magazine, May 2012
2. 3 wartime moments to remember in HP’s history, Garage Staff for HP, Nov 2022
3. David Packard, Richard Nixon Administration – Historical Office of the Secretary of Defense
4. The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Founded Our Company, David Packard 1995
5. Leadership Challenges at Hewlett Packard: Through the Looking Glass, David F. Larcker and Brian Tayan, Stanford Closer Look Series, Oct 2011
6. HP: Grueling day for Hurd & Dunn, Grace Wong, CNN Money, Sep 2006
7. Fiorina out, HP stock soars; CEO who engineered Compaq merger leaving after fight with board; will walk away with $21 million, Paul La Monica, CNN Money, Feb 2005
8. Wisecrackers: A theory-grounded investigation of phishing and pretext social engineering threats to information security, Michael Workman, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(4), 662–674. 2008
9. Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub, Katyanna Quach, The Register, May 2022

I've never been in more physical pain recording an episode nor have I taken so many L's in the leadup to it. Thanks for your patience on letting me take a week off before dropping this one! Once I get everything fixed up we should be back to a normal schedule. 

Follow @blenderbluid and @helloamydo 

SOURCES: 

1. Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, Mary Tillman, 2008
2. Pat Tillman Awarded the Silver Star, Billy House, USA Today, 2004
3. REMEMBER HIS NAME, Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated 2006
4. PRO FOOTBALL; Tillman Leaves N.F.L. to Join Army, Mike Freeman, New York Times, 2002
5. New Details on Tillman's Death, Martha Mendoza, Associated Press, Feb 2007
6. After Pat’s Birthday, Kevin Tillman, Truthdig 2006
7. TACKLING PAID PATRIOTISM: A Joint Oversight Report, John McCain and Jeff Flake 2015
8. "THINGS HAVE CHANGED BUT THINGS AREN'T BETTER", Gary Joyce, Sportsnet
9. The NFL, The Military, and the Hijacking of Pat Tillman’s Story, Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept 2017
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
11. Richard Tillman on Bill Maher, clip from funeral 1:00-ish in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwsy8FEL0ls&ab_channel=DenaliMutt

Thanks to everyone for listening, you can follow Emma @alldayemmaday and catch her occasionally on 101.9 The Mix. She produces @thelesbianlodge monthly and is a cool fella. 

SOURCES: 

• Citizen Wayne: The Unauthorized Biography of H. Wayne Huizenga, Steve Almond, Miami New Times, December 1994
• Waste Management, Inc. Final Report - District Attorney Edwin Miller Jr. 1992
• Fraud at Waste Management, Ann and Rob Diamond, Ethics for Professional Accountants 2019
• SEC complaint against Waste Management INC, 2002
• Violation Tracker - Waste Management
• Waste Management Of Hawaii Inc. And Managers Indicted For Violations Of Clean Water Act, Conspiracy, Making False Statements, US Attorney's Office District of Hawaii, April 2014
• Federal court orders Chicago-area company to pay whistleblower $95K in back wages after US Department of Labor investigation, OSHA news release 2021

• https://www3.epa.gov/region9/water/npdes/stormwater-feature.html#:~:text=Stormwater%20systems%20were%20originally%20intended,and%20straight%20to%20our%20waters.

• https://leachate.co.uk/main/leachate-treatment/how-do-you-treat-leachate/

Karsten and I hosted a Succession recap podcast called Succ Off: A Succession Podcast which is on, like, all streaming services I assume. You can also follow him on Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter at either @KarstenRunquist or @RunquistKarsten. Yay!

SOURCES:

1. Charles P. Lazarus, Toys R Us Founder, Dies at 94. Michael Corkery. New York Times. March 2018. 
2. COMPANY NEWS; Toys 'R' Us Opens Doors in Japan. James Sterngold. New York Times. Dec 1991
3. Plunder. Brandon Ballou. May 2023
4. These are the Plunderers. Gretchen Morgensen and Joshua Rosner. April 2023. 
5. The Real Toy Story: Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers. Eric Clark. January 2007
6. Lessons Learned From the Downfall of Toys 'R' Us, Tara Lachapelle, Bloomberg, March 2018

NOTE: The Plunder-ey books I’ve linked to the website where I get them with tenuous legality. I currently have a free trial on this website and it has been 1000% worth it. Considering getting a subscription and canceling my Scribd subscription, which is becoming less and less useful. 

Thanks for your patience re: me releasing season 5. If you like the episode and want to stay updated on why the hell it took so long, you can go to Patreon.com/bustedbizbureau and find stuff there! Otherwise, just tell your wonderful friends about this podcast; it means the world to me. Thanks so much! Love you bye!

SOURCES: 

1. FBI health-care sting uses mob case treatment, Bruce Japsen, Chicago Tribune 2003
2. Abbott Laboratories, est. 1888, Andrew Clayman, Made in Chicago Museu, 2020
3. The Department of Health and Human Services And The Department of Justice Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report For FY 2004
4. “ 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2021 
5. RX COMPLIANCE REPORT: VOL. X, ISSUE 14/NOVEMBER 30, 2011. “Abbott reserves $1.5 billion to settle Depakote off-label allegations.”
6. DOJ Settlement agreement re: Abbott Depakote
7. How Deadly Bacteria Spread in a Similac Factory—and Caused the US Formula Shortage. Susan Berfield and Anna Edney. Bloomberg. August 24, 2022
8. Infant Formula Shortage Highlights WIC’s Critical Role in Feeding Babies, Zoë Neuberger, Katie Bergh and Lauren Hall, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 22, 2022
9. CONFIDENTIAL DISCLOSURE RE: ABBOTT LABORATORIES PRODUCTION SITE IN STURGIS, MICHIGAN. Acquired and published by the New York Times. October 9, 2021

Didn’t even get to this but here’s a random article about Abbott’s role in the Oxycontin crisis: Secret trove reveals bold ‘crusade’ to make OxyContin a blockbuster, David Armstrong, STAT news, 2016

Check out They Call Us here: https://www.theycallus.com/

Here's where you can find my Patreon (where I WILL be uploading content during the break before season 5!!): https://www.patreon.com/bustedbizbureau

SOURCES: 

-https://abcnews.go.com/Business/rental-car-place-doesnt-hold-reservation/story?id=40626341

-CASETEXT: Moretti V Hertz: https://casetext.com/case/moretti-v-hertz-corp

-https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2016/06/30/rental-cars-now-safer-due-to-new-federal-law/?sh=18bfc9776171

-https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-02/hertz-mistakenly-took-kate-klonick-for-a-ride

-https://americanbusinesshistory.org/john-hertz-his-innovations-touch-millions-but-few-know-his-story/

-https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/07/10/oj-and-hertz-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-rent-a-star/fcee117c-d7c1-442c-a46a-da3f3e797488/

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Frissora

-https://www.sec.gov/enforce/33-10601-s

-https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikakelton/2019/05/02/hertz-makes-a-rare-move-by-suing-former-executives/?sh=54f8304c33e7

-https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/12/car-rental-shortage-covid/621068/

-https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/hertz-car-rental-accused-customers-auto-theft 

Follow @joppenflopper and tell him a better twitter name

Also follow @BustedBizBureau on all social media for more fabulous stuff from me. As always if you like the show, I'm on Patreon.com/BustedBizBureau THANKS!!

SOURCES: 

1. Mixed Emotions After Cemetery Near O'Hare Moved, Phil Rogers, NBC Chicago, April 2013
2. Supreme Court allows mass grave exhumation to make way for O'Hare runway, Jake Griffin, Daily Herald, Jan 2011
3. The Air Mail Fiasco, John T. Correll, Air and Space Forces Magazine, March 2008
4. https://stjohnsfamilyassistance.com/
   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Berger_Group
5. You can find financial data on how much O’Hare charges airlines for rent by year here: https://www.flychicago.com/business/CDA/factsfigures/Pages/financial.aspx
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal_accidents_and_incidents
7. A Tiny Line Takes On Braniff in a Price War, NYT Staff, 1973
8. Southwest Airlines, Keli Flynn, Texas State Historical Association, 2022
9. https://texasarchive.org/2010_00405 - Hostesses in Hot Pants Commercial
10. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger To Congress: My Pay Has Been Cut 40 Percent In Recent Years, Pension Terminated, JOAN LOWY and MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, AP, Feb 2009
11. The blizzard is just one reason behind the operational meltdown at Southwest Airlines, Jennifer Ludden and Scott Neuman, NPR, Dec 2022
12. Flight fare prices skyrocketed following Southwest's meltdown. Was it price gouging?, Emily Olsen, NPR, Dec 2022
13. Taxpayers spent billions bailing out airlines. Did the industry hold up its end of the deal?, Michael Laris and Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 2021
14. How Southwest Airlines Melted Down, Alison Sider, Wall Street Journal, 2022
15. Attorneys General complaint to Pete Buttegieg: https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-12-19-USDOT-NPRM-FINAL-34-AGs.pdf
16. Southwest Investors complaint: https://rosenlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SW-Complaint-Upload.pdf
17. Southwest Airlines sued for outdated technology, Stefanie Schappert, Cyber News 2023
18. Southwest Airlines to Revamp Crew Scheduling System, Alison Sider, Wall Street Journal, 2023
19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

This episode honestly evades my descriptive writing skills -- in part because I've worked 14 days in a row, in part because it's got so much going on. I promise this is a great one. Go to splitendsfilm.com and watch Cookie's awesome movie!

FOOTNOTES: 

1) History’s Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed, Preston Lerner and Matt Stone 2012

2) The Strange Case of the Dale, Walt Woron, New York Times Oct 1975

3) Liz Carmichael's Dream Buggy Turns into a Nightmare, People Magazine Staff, 1975

4) The Trans Women Behind HBO’s Tale Of This Mysterious, Audacious Automaker, Dawn Ennis, Forbes 2021

5) https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2021/05/21/dale-cliffts-original-three-wheeler-prototype-emerges-from-hiding-after-decades-heads-to-petersen

6) https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1974-twentieth-century-dale

7) People v Carmichael (1980) https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1833667.html

8) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

9) The Lady and the Dale, HBO Docuseries, Zackary Drucker and Nick Cammilleri 2021

Don't forget to vote for ME for best podcast in the Chicago Reader, and don't forget to NOT VOTE FOR DERRY as best drag queen. Please vote for Irregular Girl!!! She is fucking awesome. If you like drag and you live in Chicago, you should absolutely check out her work. 

SOURCES: I made it up

-Tired, Tipsy, and Pushed to the Brink, Edward Wyatt, NYT 2009

-Reality TV's Low-Wage and No-Wage Work, Tanner Mirlees, Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 27.

-REALITY’S KIDS: ARE CHILDREN WHO PARTICIPATE ON REALITY TELEVISION SHOWS COVERED UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT?, Adam P. Greenberg, Southern California Law Review 2018

-Reality TV's worker scandal: Shows accused of stealing millions in wages, Josh Eidelson, Salon.com 2013

-Shantay, You Pay: Inside the Heavy Financial Burden of Going On ‘Drag Race’, Rachel Miller, VICE 2021.

-PEG countersuit v Adore Delano

-Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched, Mark Andrejevic, 2004

-Bussy Queen's season 14 contract review on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=700Nvfa4wHk&t=757s&ab_channel=BussyQueen

SOURCES: 

Books: 

The Cigarette: A Political History, Sarah Milov, 2019

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010

Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, Robert Proctor, 2011

Web: 

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/MassvsJuul.pdf

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-voices/how-fda-regulating-e-cigarettes

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02991-w

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-vaping-juul/juul-use-more-than-doubled-among-u-s-teens-young-adults-in-one-year-idUSKBN1ZK2SV

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-09/juul-to-pay-1-2-billion-in-youth-vaping-settlement

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/nicotine-replacement-therapy-market

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/juul-appeals-block-fda-ban-e-cigarettes-2022-06-24/

PS, I'm nominated for a Chicago Reader Award! Vote for me at this link (under "city life" for "best podcast")

https://chicagoreader.com/best-of-chicago/2022-ballot-voting-nominations/#/gallery/357091644/

A little note I want to say to everyone: I think this episode is very important, but I beg of you to not inappropriately share this episode every time there is a mass shooting. It's a (relatively) funny one, and I don't think it's appropriate to plug it under inevitable tragedies. That already happened to my NFL episode in the wake of the Damar Hamlin injury, and I just want to say that it makes me really uncomfortable. I'm proud of my work and I'm SO happy people are spreading it, but I want to do my part in being an upstanding and thoughtful creator. XOXO. 

SOURCES: 

Methodologies for different school shooting tracking statistics: 

1. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology

2. https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Overview-American-School-Shooting-Study-TASSS.pdf (page 4) 

3. https://www.chds.us/ssdb/methods/

Products/Industry Talk:

1. The Free Market Responds to America’s School Shootings, Ben Schott, Bloomberg, July 2022

2. https://fightingchancesolutions.com/ 

3. Armored school doors, bulletproof whiteboards, and secret snipers, John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich, Washington Post, 2018

4. Experts cast doubt on high-tech efforts to stop school shooters, Laura Meckler, Washington Post, May 2022

5. CMS staff warned security system didn’t work. The district expanded it anyway., Annie Ma and Fred Clasen-Kelly, The Charlotte Observer, January 2020

6. School security technology at center of fierce debate after Uvalde shooting, Max Zahn, ABC News, June 2022

7. Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings, Natasha Singer,  New York Times, June 2022 (this is where I got the 3 billion number; the nonprofit is cited here)

8. These Businesses Say They've Got What You Need to Survive a Mass Shooting, Melissa Chan, Time Magazine, Oct 2019

9. A Comprehensive Report on School Safety Technology, John Hopkins University 

POLITICS: 

1. Department of Justice Awards More Than $125 Million in Grants Under The Stop School Violence Act, DOJ website

2. Dickey Amendment wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

DRILLS/TRAINING: 

1. Indiana Teachers Shot with Plastic Pellets as Part of Training, Lauren Camera, US News March 2019

2. The Company Behind America’s Scariest School Shooter Drills, Sylvia Varnham O’Regan, The Trace, Dec 2019

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcpsnrxHdCc&t=78s&ab_channel=NBCNews

4. Estate of Davis v. City of North Richland Hills, TERRY MEANS, District Judge 2003

I neglected to mention in the episode that all of the information is as of Jan 1, 2023. There may be more charges that befall the fraudsters, but it doesn't look like anything's coming down the pipe any time soon. But if I'm wrong, I'm wrong! That'll teach me to do anything remotely topical. 

SOURCES: 

1. At pop-up COVID testing sites, customers report improper masking and social distancing, lengthy waits for results: ‘It’s kind of the wild, Wild West.’ - Nara Schoenberg and Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, Jan 2022

2. Center for COVID Control under investigation by Oregon DOJ, Better Business Bureau, Grace Hauck, USA Today, Jan 2022

3. COVID-19 Testing Chain Opened Pop-Ups Across The US. Now, It’s Temporarily Closing Amid Federal Investigation And Mounting Complaints, Kelly Bauer, Block Club Chicago, Jan 2022

4. MINNESOTA AG COMPLAINT AGAINST CENTER FOR COVID CONTROL, January 2022

5. OREGON AG COMPLAINT AGAINST CENTER FOR COVID CONTROL, April 2022

6. ARIZONA JUDGE RULING FOR AG COMPLAINT AGAINST CENTER FOR COVID CONTROL, July 2022

7. AG: Center for COVID Control owners barred from doing business in Washington, Fox 13 Seattle, Oct 2022

7. https://www.yelp.com/biz/studio-six-fifteen-schaumburg

8. https://web.archive.org/web/20220113035953/https://www.bullseyeaxelounge.com/2021/01/08/covid-19-diagnostic-testing/

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyzX0Y0VlAs&ab_channel=MichaelFigueroa

10. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10414537/Federal-probe-serial-entrepreneur-couple-cashed-COVID-testing-boom.html

11. https://figmic.medium.com/the-center-for-covid-control-scam-or-success-story-b5cdfab4f5b0

11a. https://figmic.medium.com/government-funding-alone-sent-doctors-clinical-laboratory-soaring-358dd11894ea

12. Aleya and Akbar's assistant!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1do6t7aTRAHIadtDfkSdI7DyacuzQ3MFeNOpANb9FmZY/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR0GacHvd2J9dkKMcahgc4mQjMKLttyktjQb3wh53-1WVYz2NPcbkd5vU4E

13. https://www.bbb.org/us/il/rolling-mdws/profile/covid-testing/center-for-covid-control-llc-0654-1000031765/complaints?page=2

So I just closed out ONE WHOLE YEAR of this podcast! The first episode was January 3, 2022. It's now Jan 2, 2023 (honestly, I thought this episode uploaded but it simply didn't LOL)

Here is a self-indulgent, naval gazey episode with me and my roommates. My ex girlfriend and my ex coworker. Don't make this your first episode of the podcast, but if you already like listening to me and want to hear the household dynamic, check this one out. Next week I'm coming back with a big ole scam! Stay tuned! 

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for listening to BBB this first year. If you told me a year ago how different my life would be by this time 2023, I would have been so mad at you. But I've cracked a LOT of eggs this past year and now I'm eating omelettes, baby. 

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SOURCES: 

1. Game Misconduct: Alan Eagleson and the Corruption of Hockey, Russ Conway, 1995

2. How one cantankerous man inspired the creation of the NHL, The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, Jamie Bradburn, 2017

3. The Hockey Lockout of 2004-2005, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Paul D. Staudohaur, December 2005

4. MAN ON A MISSION RUSS CONWAY'S INVESTIGATIVE WORK MAY BRING DOWN A HOCKEY POWER BROKER, Sports Illustrated, Michael Farber, 1995

5. ALL ROB RAY FIGHTS VOLUME 1, Youtube 

6. Those Who Doin't Learn Fron History Are Doomed to Repeat It, 2004-2005 NHL Lockout with Bruce Dowbiggin, Agent Provacateur with Allan Walsh and Adam Wylde, October 2022

7. Kelly ousted as head of NHLPA, ESPN News 2009

Wikipedia Pages of

-Tim Horton

-Clint Malarchuk

-Ed Kea

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Sources (not in order, also sorry many of them use the team's old name): 

1. Conduct Detrimental: How the NFL and the Washington Commanders Covered Up Decades ofSexual Misconduct, Committee on Oversight and Reform U.S. House of Representatives, December 8, 2022

2. From dream job to nightmare: More than a dozen women allege sexual harassment and verbal abuse by former team employees at Redskins Park, Washington Post, Will Hobson and Liz Clarke, July 2020

3. Daniel Snyder and Washington Football Team: A timeline of his dysfunctional, now full ownership, Sporting News, Vinnie Iyer, 2021

3. A STRANGER TO MANY, BUT NOT TO SUCCESS, Washington Post, Peter Behr and Sandra Torry, 1999

4. Who is Beth Wilkinson? Lawyer leading Washington NFL team’s investigation has high-profile history, Washington Post, Adam Kilgore, July 2020

5. Washington Redskins Cheerleaders Describe Topless Photo Shoot and Uneasy Night Out, New York Times, Juliet Macur, May 2018

6. The Cranky Redskins Fan’s Guide to Dan Snyder, Washington City Paper, Dave McKenna, 2010

7. Raiders Coach Made Racist Comment About N.F.L. Players’ Union Chief, New York Times, Ken Belson, 2021

Last season was serious as hell, so it's time to get fucking silly! These first three episodes are all a futile attempt at understanding and communicating about sports. Apparently people know a LOT about it, like Danaka and Nic! But if you're a girlypop like me looking for a solid introduction to the sport, here's your chance. Mwah!

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Sources: 

1. Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports, James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, 1992

2. A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports, Brad Snyder, 2006

3. What is MLB's antitrust exemption? Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley using baseball's century-old golden goose as political cudgel, USAToday, Gabe Lacques, April 2021

4. Happy birthday to baseball’s antitrust exemption, NBC Sports, Craig Calcaterra, May 2019

5. MLB to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle lawsuit, AP News, Ronald Blum, July 2022

6. Free Agency Facts, MLB

Additional Stuff I didn't use because this episode was an hour and a half: 

7. Major League Baseball's human-trafficking problem, Vox News, Dara Lind, 2014

8. Crain's Extra: No baseball games are necessary for owners to collect TV money

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SOURCES: 

1. https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/1066656/download
2. Bayer Tightens Control Over the World’s Food Supply, Carin Smaller, International Institute for Sustainable Development 2016. 
3. Bayer raises Monsanto cash takeover offer to $65bn, Rob Davies, The Guardian 2016
4. Justice Department approves Bayer-Monsanto merger in landmark settlement, Brian Fung and Caitlin Dewey, WP 2018
5. How Bayer-Monsanto Became One of the Worst Corporate Deals—in 12 Charts, Ruth Bender, WSJ Aug 2019
6. Bayer Investor Sues Top Officials for ‘Disastrous’ Monsanto Deal, Chris Dolmetsch, Claims Journal 2020
7. Seed monopolies: Who controls the world's food supply?, Charli Shield, DW 2021

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SOURCES: 

1. The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice, Carey Gillam 2021
2. Leydy Pech, the "honey lady" who stopped Monsanto, Beatriz Garcia, Al Dia News 2020
3. https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/leydy-pech/
4. Mayan Women Fought Monsanto—And Won, Christin Sandberg, Bitch Media 2014
5. Guatemalan protests against Monsanto Law, Rebecca Griest Swathmore College 2015
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20151226231418/http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/guatemala-indigenous-communities-prevail-monsanto/
7. I Won a Historic Lawsuit, But May Not Live to Get the Money, Carey Gillam, Time  2018
8. He was drenched in a weed-killer made by Monsanto in a workplace accident. Then he was diagnosed with cancer, Vanessa Caldwell, CBC Docs 2022

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SOURCES

1. Missouri business groups divided on LGBT-discrimination ban, Summer Ballentine, Fulton Sun 2016
2. Gay? Transgender? Why You Might Want to Work for Monsanto, Lindsay Toler, RiverFront Times 2018
3. Monsanto Leading the Way for Women in Leadership, Sara Miller, LinkedIn 2018
4. The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy, Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, Harvard Business Review 2002
5. Monsanto Discovers a New Social Media, Wilhelm Peekhaus, International Journal of Communications 2010
6. Monsanto archived website links: 
   1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100205155240/http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto_today/for_the_record/default.asp
   2. https://web.archive.org/web/20091224173230/http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto_today/for_the_record/monsanto_business_practice_indonesia.asp
   3. https://web.archive.org/web/20100524063155/http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto_today/for_the_record/india_farmer_suicides.asp
   4. https://web.archive.org/web/20100113105313/http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto_today/for_the_record/agent_orange.asp
   5. https://web.archive.org/web/20100605174450/http://www.monsanto.com/who_we_are/history.asp

7. Haiti GM Food Aid is a ‘Trojan Horse’, Kristina Sorbach, The Epoch Times 2010

This episode is full of such compelling characters; it's a shattering reminder that there are always people fighting the good fight. Hope you're enjoying the season so far! My description-writing game has dramatically weakened. Need to redirect my brain power into the episodes lol. But if you like this podcast, please keep telling your friends! I can tell a lot of you have been already!! 

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SOURCES: 

1. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Deborah Blum 2018
2. Harvey W. Wiley: An Autobiography, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, New York: Bobs-Merrill Company 1930
3. The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid, Deborah Blum, Undark Magazine 2018
4. The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin 2008
5. Bovine Somatotropin (bST), FDA.gov April 2022
6. Pushing RBST: How the Law and the Political Process Were Used to Sell Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin to America, David Aboulafia, PACE Environmental Law Review 1998
7. Monsanto lobbying: an attack on us, our planet, and democracy, Nina Holland and Benjamin Sourice, Corporate EuropeObservatory 2016
8. Torturing Animals with Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Feed, Katherine Paul, Truthout 2013
9. FDA Promotes Unsafe Milk Due to Industry Pressure, Jeffery Smith, Huffington Post 2000

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SOURCES: 

1. Monsanto’s Bet, Linda Grant and Alicia Moore, CNN Money 1997
2. The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin 2008
3. Monsanto’s Technology Agreement, 2008
4. Safe Or Scary? The Shifting Reputation Of Glyphosate, AKA Roundup; Dan Charles, NPR 2019
5. Monsanto Vs. US Farmers, Center for Food Safety report 2005
6. Monsanto vs. US Farmers, 2010 Update, Center for Food Safety
7. Down and Out in Covington, Andy Meek, Memphis Daily News 2006
8. Monsanto wins $7.7b lawsuit in Brazil – but farmers’ fight to stop its ‘amoral’ royalty system will continue, Beth Daily, the Conversation 2019
9. WIKIPEDIA PAGES FOR THE FOLLOWING: 
   1. Flavr Savr
   2. JEM V PIONEER HI-BRED
   3. Percy Schmeiser
10. MONSANTO WEBSITE ARCHIVED PAGES: 
    1. Saved Seed and Farmer Lawsuits
    2. Why Does Monsanto Sue Farmers Who Save Seed?
    3. Percy Schmeiser
    4. Gary Reinhart

1. Here’s the complaint from Adobe suing Forever 21: https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3357050/adobevsforever21.0.pdf

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SOURCES: 

1. Baptized in PCB’s: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town, Ellen Griffith Spears 2014
2. The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin 2008
3. Missouri's Costly Dioxin Lesson, Marjorie Sun, Science VOL. 219, NO. 4583 pp. 367-369, 1983
4. Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution, Michael Grunwald, Washington Post 2002
5. Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: Dirty Soil and Diabetes, Brett Israel, Environmental Health News, 2012
6. Monsanto’s Superfund Secret, Bart Elmore, Dissent Magazine 2017
7. Roundup’s Other Problem: Glyphosate is Sourced from Controversial Mines, Gosia Wozniacka Civil Eats, 2019
8. Residential zoning at former Monsanto site dangerous for future homebuyers, Sue Stevenson Columbia Daily Herald, 2021
9. FERN’s Back Forty: Monsanto’s sordid historical legacy, Samuel Fromartz, Food and Environment Reporting Network, 2022

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FOOTNOTES: 

1. Dioxin, Agent Orange, the Facts. Michael Gough, Plenum US 1986
2. Viktor Yushchenko: Ukraine's ex-president on being poisoned - BBC News, 2018
3. Agent Orange On Trial, Peter Shuck 1987
4. The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin 2008
5. Monsanto: A Checkered History, Brian Tokar, The Ecologist 1998
6. The Children of Agent Orange, Charles Ornstein and Hannah Fresques, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh for The Virginian-Pilot, 2016
7. THE AGENT ORANGE SYNDROME, James Nachtwey, Vanity Fair 2007
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ranch_Hand
9. Kemner v. Monsanto Co., Casetext, 1991
10. The Little Town That Whipped Monsanto, Colman McCarthy Wall Street Journal 1987
11. Marathon Trial on Dioxin Spill Nears End in Illinois After 3 1/2 Years, E. R. Shipp New York Times 1987
12. https://thefern.org/blog_posts/ferns-back-forty-monsantos-sordid-historical-legacy/

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SOURCES: 

1. The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin 2008
2. “Incorporated to Be a Sewer”: A Historical Analysis of Industrial Pollution in Sauget, Illinois, Fiona Eckert, Washington University in St Louis Center for Humanities, 2020
3. Funky Town! Smokestacks, strip joints and a seriously solid tax base: Welcome to Sauget, Illinois, Mike Seely, Riverfront Times 2004
4. Village Tax Levy is Only Thirteen Cents, Belleville News-Democrat, 1930
5. The Dayton Project, Atomic Heritage Foundation c. 2019
6. Monsanto Company, Company-Histories.com
7. Former Monsanto CEO John "Jack" Hanley dies at 96, Bryce Gray, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2018
8. Monsanto lobbying: an attack on us, our planet, and democracy, Nina Holland and Benjamin Sourice, Corporate EuropeObservatory 2016
9. Monsanto Cutting 12% Of Employees As Profits Continue To Fall, John Vibes, True Activist 2015
10. WIKIPEDIA PAGES OF THE FOLLOWING: 
    1. John Francis Queeny
    2. The Monsanto Family
    3. Saccharin
    4. Charles Allen Thomas
    5. Monsanto
    6. Monsanto Timeline
11. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2013&id=d000000055

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FOOTNOTES: 

Mr. McKnight works to keep on rolling, Liz Such, Kaneland Krier 2013

EVERY DOG CAN HAVE ITS DAY: EXTENDING LIABILITY BEYOND THE SELLER BY DEFINING PETS AS “PRODUCTS” UNDER PRODUCTS LIABILITY THEORY, Jason Parent, Animal Law Review at Lewis & Clark Law School, 2005

Caruso v Crawford Hospital, NY 1979

Bazzini vs Garrant, NY 1982

https://www.criver.com/sites/default/files/noindex/catalogs/rms/brown-norway-rats-us-pricing.pdf

Special report: Thousands of mice were euthanized at Rutgers during last year's campus shutdown, Madison McGay and Hayley Slusser, The Daily Targum 2021

The History of the Lab Rat Is Full of Scientific Triumphs and Ethical Quandaries, Sam Schipani, Smithsonian Magazine (This one has EAR RAT in it)

https://www.melirats.com/our-rattery

USDA uncovers abuse at rodent supplier that PETA claims is used by PetSmart, Russ Wiles, AZ Central 2016

Petco Rats Need Bigger Warning, Jury Told. Ameena Shelling, Courthouse News Service 2016

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FOOTNOTES:

1. Stream Aasia's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1wL4h8Av9COEVikfmGEtgb

2. Here's the full complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4041688-Secondcity

3. Second City current performer union efforts: INSTAGRAM @secondcityworkers TWITTER: https://twitter.com/scworkers

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Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neill 2016

How Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit behemoth, suddenly imploded, Lance Williams, Reveal News Sep 2016

Are Workplace Personality Tests Fair?, Lauren Weber and Elizabeth Dwoskin, WSJ 2014

When Your Boss Makes You Pay for Being Fat, Leslie Kwoh, WSJ 2013

At Talkspace, Start-Up Culture Collides With Mental Health Concerns, Kashmir Hill and Aaron Krolik, NYT Aug 2020

Eat the Rich episode 90: Online Therapy Platforms

https://jezebel.com/the-spooky-loosely-regulated-world-of-online-therapy-1841791137

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/betterhelp/

https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/4/17932862/betterhelp-app-youtube-sponsorship-controversy-explained

https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/461812-87#overview

https://medium.com/@alonmatas/when-betterhelp-found-itself-in-a-youtube-controversy-3fd472229a4e

https://www.betterhelp.com/privacy/

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fculture%2Fculture-features%2Fbetterhealth-app-astroworld-travis-scott-1255876%2F

https://www.betterhelporg.com/ ("Robust Reporting")

FOOTNOTES: 

1. America's Most Admired Lawbreaker, Steven Brill, Huffington Post DocuSerial 2016

2. Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations, DOJ 2013

3. https://risperdalboys.com/

4. https://thenationaltriallawyers.org/2014/03/risperdal-lawsuit-montana-5-9-million-settlement/

5. https://www.drugwatch.com/risperdal/lawsuits/

6. https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/jj-janssen-risperdal-lawsuit/

7. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804183932/https://newbrunswicktoday.com/article/jj-biochemist-testifies-company-never-gave-fda-risperdal-safety-analysis-it-knew-about-years

8. https://web.archive.org/web/20180804183827/https://newbrunswicktoday.com/article/latest-risperdal-verdict-jj-hit-70-million-compensatory-damages

9. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1256452/?page=3

FOOTNOTES: 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/195224567/?terms=a%20Woman%20Worth%20Moving%20a%20Restaurant%20Chain%20For&match=1

https://www.nrn.com/mergers-acquisitions/arby-s-buy-buffalo-wild-wings-29b-deal?NL=NRN-02_&Issue=NRN-02__20171129_NRN-02__134&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_1&utm_rid=CPG06000002760274&utm_campaign=20321&utm_medium=email&elq2=4c13e545705c41069634f725a3785a8e

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-11/buffalo-wild-wings-sued-by-server-over-tipped-wage-practices

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2015/10/buffalo_wild_wings_owners_agre.html

https://www.fslawfirm.com/blog/current-cases/buffalo-wild-wings-complaint/

https://www.bradleygrombacher.com/blog/2017/september/buffalo-wild-wings-wage-hour-lawsuit-alleges-unp/

https://www.legalreader.com/buffalo-wild-wings-agrees-to-pay-1-5m-ending-lawsuit-over-employee-pay/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/buffalo-wild-wings-cuts-jobs-amid-rising-labor-wing-prices

https://www.carlsonattorneys.com/news-and-update/food-poisoning-lawsuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODqkxgg1AM&ab_channel=MattPlapp

FOOTNOTES: 

https://www.papermag.com/beetlejuice-broadway-tiktok-trend-1-2640689936.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/theater/how-to-keep-the-great-comet-party-going-on-broadway-dish-out-the-pierogies-and-add-josh-groban.html

https://digboston.com/experience/2011/12/from-the-aisle-three-pianos/

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-broadway-shows/

scribd.com/book/401397644/I-Wanna-Be-a-Producer-How-to-Make-a-Killing-on-Broadway-or-Get-Killed

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/theater/on-the-town-producers-keep-faith-in-their-investment.html

https://playbill.com/article/great-comet-and-ars-nova-say-contract-dispute-resolved

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/theater/josh-groban-great-comet.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcTfhMT2_4o&ab_channel=KevinSpaceyTalks

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/18/528803081/josh-groban-leaves-big-shoes-to-fill-in-the-tony-nominated-great-comet

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ohenry-report/id1261146501

https://playbill.com/article/mandy-patinkin-will-return-to-broadway-in-the-great-comet

https://deadline.com/2017/07/mandy-patinkin-drops-out-of-natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet-of-1812-on-broadway-1202138576/

https://nypost.com/2017/09/21/investor-demands-answers-from-shuttered-great-comet/

FOOTNOTES:

1. This government price-fixing case makes the tuna industry sound like the mafia, LA Times, Michael Hiltzik, 2019

2. Dairy companies fined for price rigging, The Korea Herald, 김지현 2011

3. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/4483839/Bunble-Class-Action-Complasint-Copy.pdf

4. The most important details of the Walmart suit against the “big three” tuna companies, Seafood Source, Cliff White 2016

5. Asserting innocence, Lischewski hopes to return to Bumble Bee CEO role, Undercurrent News, Jason Smith 2019

6. Cooked to death in agony for two hours: Gruesome guilty plea by Bumble Bee Foods, My News LA, Stephanie Michaud 2017

7. Chris Lischewski hopes to avoid prison, while prosecutors push for 10-year sentence, Seafood Source, Cliff White 2020

8. Thai Union's Chicken of the Sea blew the whistle on tuna price fixing, Bumble Bee and StarKist replace legal teams, Seafood Source, Cliff White 2017

9. Lischewski — There Was No Price Fixing in the Tuna Industry, Medium, Chris Lischewski 2020

10. https://twitter.com/LischewskiChris/status/1201639711124738049

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1. Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, Mitchell Zuckoff, 2006

2. Ponzi's Scheme, Lizzie Peabody, Sidedoor - Smithsonian Institution Podcast, 2020

3. Ponzi: The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons, Donald Dunn, 2004

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi

5. This Week In History: The Boston Post Takes Down Charles Ponzi, Edgar B. Herwick III, 2014

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FOOTNOTES

1. https://www.climateneutral.org/

2. https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/carbon-cowboys-20110722-1hssc.html

3. https://features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-offsets/inconvenient-truth-carbon-credits-dont-work-deforestation-redd-acre-cambodia/

4. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/to-regrow-forests-us-needs-billions-of-seeds-many-more-seed-hunters

5. https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0420/Carbon-offsets-How-a-Vatican-forest-failed-to-reduce-global-warming

PS towards the end I mention that I really believe in individual action to stop climate change, the IMPLICATION being that I also believe in holding companies accountable for their behaviors/believe in strict regulations. I feel like that’s clear from….the entire podcast that I do….but I did in fact fail to mention it in the rant at the end. Cancel me if you feel.

FOOTNOTES

1. DARE Marks a Decade of Growth and Controversy : Youth: Despite critics, anti-drug program expands nationally. But some see declining support in LAPD., Jim Newton, LA Times, 1993

2. DARE takes substance abuse message into classrooms, Mureena Naseer, Journal and Courier, 1999

3. DARE to succeed, Myra Jones, The Bradenton Herald, 2000

4. DARE officers guide our youth, Joe Mazurek, Ravalli Republic, 1996

5. Program DARES youth to resist drugs and violence, Sheryald Cubrey, The Marshall News, 1996

6. Vintage DARE cartoon

7. DARE Scare: Turning Children Into Informants?, James Bovard, 1994, Washington Post

8. A brief history of DARE, the anti-drug program Jeff Sessions wants to revive, Christopher Ingramsen, Washington Post 2017,

9. Local cops defend DARE, Rex Robinson and Phil Rokohor, Southtown Star 1998

PS, if you live in Chicago, Mike Quigley takes money from Lockheed Martin. Follow @DivestMike and tell him to cut it out! 

Footnotes: 

Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, William D. Hartung

Inside America’s Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar Fighter-Jet Program, Valerie Insinna, New York Times 2019

Federal Contractors Are Violating Workers’ Rights and Harming the U.S. Government, Center for American Progress Report

Sandia National Labs Bribery Scandal, Department of Justice Summary

Lockheed Subsidiary (Tools and Metals) Overcharging Scheme, Jerry Seper, Washington Times 2000

Working for Equality: The Narrative of Harry Hudson, Harry Hudson

Wikipedia List of Lockheed Bribery Scandals

How Lockheed Martin Makes Money, Investopedia

Nooses, Symbols of Race Hatred, At Center of Workplace Lawsuits, Sana Siwolap, NYT 2000

Lockheed's Latest Battle: Bias, Greg Schneider, NYT 2000

Remove Labels This Ramadan <3, Coca Cola XOXO

I don't want to plug that right wing guy's website or the White Man's Caucus website but if you're dying to look them up, they're easily googlable lol. 

Souces (not enough if you ask me):

1. https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2017/12/DFEH_UnruhFactSheet.pdf

2. https://www.nrtoday.com/a-hetoo-movement-fighting-for-men-s-rights-in-california-courts/article_7b2a05db-3e71-542b-a7d9-4f21eabf1fbc.html

3. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-16-sp-promotions16-story.html

4. https://nypost.com/2018/05/11/woman-sued-by-men-for-discrimination-at-empowerment-events/

5. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/men-rights-unruh-act-women-discrimination/

6. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-mens-rights-20161027-story.html

7. https://ncfm.org/2018/06/news/discrimination-news/discrimination-against-men-news/ncfm-members-file-lawsuit-against-women-only-tech-scholarships-a-man-tax/

8. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1887382.html

9. https://www.classaction.org/media/riddick-et-al-v-united-airlines-inc.pdf

10. https://www.espn.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=reilly_rick&sportCat=mlb&id=4247723

11. https://www.scribd.com/document/380009632/Pollister-v-Shlesinger-Et-Al

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Footnotes: 

1. Angus G. Wynne, © Academic, 2000-2022
2. Restructuring a Theme Park: The Six Flags Bankruptcy, John Capps and Lauren Sherrell
3. Incidents at Six Flags parks, Wikipedia
4. Six Flags faces buying spree hangover, Sean Murphy, My Plainview 2005
5. The Atlanta Braves Borrowed Their Parking Scam From Dan Snyder, Dave Mckenna, Deadspin 2016
6. DEFINITIVE CONSENT SOLICITATION STATEMENT FILED BY RED ZONE LLC, 2005
7. Large Shareholder Files Against Six Flags Sale NFL Owner Backed By Major Investor, Paul Monies, NEWSOK 2005
8. Six Flags Files For Chap. 11 Bankruptcy, Forbes 2009
9. Dakota Hickman and Matthew D’Agostino vs. Six Flags New England, 2019
10. How you can eat every day at Six Flags Magic Mountain for $150 a year, Mercury News 2021
11. Six Flags 2018 Annual Report
12. Six Flags settles class action lawsuit for charging season pass holders during COVID-19 closure, Woo Sung-Shin 2021
13. THEME PARK
14. CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT Six Flags in Gurnee, Illinois, 2021
15. Six Flags Great America Settling Lawsuit Over Fingerprints for $36M, Chicago Sun Times 2021

Footnotes: 

1. Shot Spotter: Can a tech startup put a dent in violent crime? Ethan Walters, Wired Apr 1 2007
2. Interactive Map of where Shotspotters are in Chicago 
3. ShotSpotter FAQ
4. Could a controversial gun-surveillance system help tackle Toronto crime? Jeff Gray, 2016 Toronto Daily News
5. Gunshot detection technology raises concerns of bias and inaccuracy, Prince Shakur, Coda 2020
6. ShotSpotter Sensors Send SDPD Officers to False Alarms More Often Than Advertised, Kara Grant, Voices of San Diego 2020
7. Courtroom testimony reveals accuracy of SF gunshot sensors a ‘marketing’ ploy, Jonah Owen Lamb, San Francisco Examiner 2017
8. Impact of ShotSpotter Technology on Firearm Homicides and Arrests Among Large Metropolitan Counties: a Longitudinal Analysis, 1999–2016, Green, Dineen, Doucette, Shapiro, and Rassian 2021
9. A Partially Randomized Field Experiment on the Effect of an Acoustic Gunshot Detection System on Police Incident Reports, J. Experimental Criminology (2018)
10. Williams Case - Frye Motion
11. An American city’s struggle to police its police: Shots in the Dark, CHAPTER TWO | A HIGH-STAKES GAMBLE, Reade Levinson and Lisa Girion, Reuters 2017
12. ShotSpotter’s Public 10-K Form
13. Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI, Todd Feathers, Vice 2021
14. Cancel ShotSpotter Petition
15. https://endpolicesurveillance.com/

1. “Take Her Down”: Inside eBay’s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple, Mike Damiano, Boston Magazine, December 2021
2. Activist Investor Eviscerates eBay Management, Ina Steiner, eCommerceBytes January 2019
3. eBay CEO Devin Wenig Earns 152 Times That of Employees, Ina Steiner, eCommerceBytes April 2019
4. FBI Affadavit, Mark Wilson, June 11 2020
5. Gilbert, Popp, Stockwell and Zea Charging Doc, US District Court of Massachusetts, May 2020
6. US District Court of Massachusetts vs. Phillip Cooke, July 2021
7. Pictures of iMessages, Craigslist Post, and Pig Mask, BustedBizBureau Instagram, 2022

1. Marvin M. Schwan, John Radzilowski, Immigrant Entrepreneurship 2018
2. Schwan, Marvin in front of an original ice cream truck, ca. 1977
3. Ketchup as a Vegetable: Condiments and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagan’s America, Amy Bentley, Gastronomica 2021
4. Judge Allows Lawsuit to Proceed in $870 Million Schwan Heir Case, AP News 1996
5. MARK SCHWAN AND PAUL SCHWAN VS LAWRENCE BURDGOF ET. AL, APPEAL FROM SECOND JUDICIAL COURT, MINNEHHAHA COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA
6. Corporate Spies: The Pizza Plot, Adam L. Penenberg and Marc Barry, NYT 2000
7. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Schwan’s IP, LLC, and Schwan’s Consumer Brands North America, Inc VS Kraft Pizza Company
8. Potato politics, with a pizza side, David Rogers, Politico 2011
9. Washington pizza sauce fight has deep Minnesota ties, Brett Neely, MPRNews 2011
10. Leading School Food Supplier, Schwan’s Food Service, Serves Up Industry’s First Portfolio of Products to Meet Proposed USDA School Meal Rules, BusinessWire 2011
11. City Schools’ Food Program Struggles with Pizza Problems, City Limits 2016
12. Schwan's Co. v. Cai 12-2-2021

Footnotes: 

1. Behind the Laughs: Community and Inequality in Comedy, Michael P. Jeffries
2. The Funniest One in the Room: The Lives and Legend of Del Close, Kim “Howard” Johnson
3. Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History, Margaret Hicks
4. Skullduggery, Tad Friend, The New Yorker
5. Comedy Guru Charna Halpern Carries On, Achy Obejas, Chicago Tribune
6. The First Comedy Strike, Richard Zoglin, Time Magazine
7. This Unsung Comic Guru Turned Her Passion For Improv Into a Profitable Business INC Magazine, 2016
8. iO Co-Founder's Controversial Sexual Harassment Comments Spark Debate, Mae Rice, Chicagoist
9. iO Chicago’s move is more than a new address, Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
10. iO makes a big move into founder Charna Halpern’s ‘dream theater’, Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader
11. What We Can Learn From Improv Theaters' PPP Loans, Seth Simons, Paste Magazine
12. The Death of an Improv Theater: Mismanagement and Neglect at iO West, Seth Simons, Paste Magazine
13. Chicago Comedy Institution iO Theater Is Closing, Melena Ryzik, The New York Times
14. iO Past, Present, and Non-Future, Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader
15. The Case for Unionizing Comedy, Seth Simons, The Outline
16. Laughs Can Be Cheap at a Comedy Theater, Jason Zinoman, NYT
17. She’s the Hidden Architect of Modern Comedy, Jason Zinoman, NYT

PS. Sorry Seth Simons, I think I said your name wrong like 8 times in this episode. I misread it so many times. Forgive me, bestie. 

Footnotes:

1. The history and evolution of pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse, Shah et al. 2005
2. FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA, Gill v Ethicon Sàrl (No 5) [2019] FCA 1905
3. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA The People of the state of California vs JOHNSON & JOHNSON, ETHICON, INC.and DOES 1 Case No. 37-2016-00017229-CU-MC-CTL, January 2020
4. Ethicon complaint reviewer says in J&J trial that patients felt vaginal mesh instructions fell short of explaining risks, Northern California Record 2019
5. Revealed: Johnson & Johnson's 'irresponsible' actions over vaginal mesh implant, The Guardian 
6. Huskey v Ethicon Day 4- Huskey Takes the Stand, Jane Akre, 2014
7. 'Scandal' of vaginal mesh removal rates revealed by NHS records, The Guardian
8. Patient Recruiter and Physician Plead Guilty in Bribery and Kickback Scheme in Connection with Transvaginal Mesh Litigation, DOJ 2021
9. Orlando doctor facing federal charges banned from performing liposuction after patient death, Orlando Sentinel, 2021

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Footnotes: 

1. Kars4Kids website, check out the houses and stuff! Pretty fun! 
2. Car donation: When it makes sense to seek a charity tax deduction, Peter Gareffa Edmunds
3. Kars4Kids Tax Filings by year, ProPublica 
4. Kars4Kids Charity Reneged on Deal, Josh Nathan-Kazis, 2012
5. Charity in Taxes Tussle, Wall Street Journal, 2012
6. Kars4Kids Charity Loses Big on Real Estate, Josh Nathan-Kazis, 2012
7. Court: Oorah is tax-exempt in town of Jefferson, Matthew Mckibben, 2014
8. Oorah Tax Filings by year, Propublica
9. Did an Orthodox Charity Secretly Buy a Synagogue Just to Avoid Filing a Tax Return?, Josh Nathan-Kazis, 2016
10. More on Congregation Oorah, Hannah Dreyfus, 2016
11. Oorah Federal Covid-related Complaint, 2021
12. The Cruel (but Effective) Agony of the Kars4Kids Jingle, Jake Rossen 2018
13. NonProfit Quarterly -- Kars4Kids: What the Jingle Leaves Out (Minnesota), 2017

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1. Tvind Alert Website

2. Minneapolis and USagain bins, Grant Wilson

3. Case Summary of Danish Prosecutor vs. Mogens Amdi Petersen

4. FBI Report on Tvind, 2001

5. Former supporters describe charity leader's rise and fall, Chicago Tribune

6. Concerning Tvind, Steen Thomsen

7. Charity Commission Report, 1997

8. Fresh abuse allegations at children’s ‘home of horrors’ with links to ‘cult-like’ group, Tom Bristow

9. Teachers Group: The cult-like group linked to a charity that gets UK aid, BBC

10. US taxpayers are financing alleged cult through African aid charities, Reveal News

11. PlanetAid's 2020 Annual Report, Talks about One World University and Humana People to People

12. Tvind's Website Timeline stating that they founded One World University and Humana People to People

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1. The anti-drinking listicle, William Booth 1888

2. Salvation Army ARC magazine write-up, New Frontier Chronicle (now CARING magazine)

3. Charlotte ARC write-up, UNC MediaHub contributors 

4. Chaotic De Moines Article, Lee Rood

5. Department of Labor decision, Washington Times

6. "Work Therapy"—How the Salvation Army's Chain of Rehabs Exploits Unpaid Labor, Kenneth Anderson

7. Guy Dixon court summary, Jan 2005

8. California Salvation Army Court Complaint, May 2021

9. Chicago Salvation Army Court Complaint, Nov 2021

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1. JohnnyCashRules32 Youtube Page

2. Adelphia Interviews, Dr. Susan Bishop

3. Court Case Summary, District Judge Gerard Lynch

4. SEC vs. Adelphia

5. That damn public Adelphia meeting, NYT 2002

6. Retrospective on Adelphia, NYT 2004

7. Watch Songcatcher for Free, Tubi

8. The Adelphia Story, CNN Money

9. John Rigas First Pitch, Olean Times Herald

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