Worst In The Industry

Futures, Soybeans, and the most Italian name you've ever heard. This week the boys keep us on the up and up about a massive economic scandal that was overshadowed by arguably our horniest president, the precedent that created the conditions for the scandal, and why futures are bad for everyone! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/3f5c36ea-1a99-41be-9fe8-8de242dfc96f

Rising from the grave like so much irradiated undead flesh our three hosts have returned from an impromptu hiatus. In this, our return, we cover the story of one of the many towns which made the Manhattan Project possible, the horrid aftermath of the experiments and manufacturing that went on there which still effect those living in the area as well as the descendants of those who worked at Hanford Site. We also talk about the John Birch Society, and one shill thereof named Galen Windsor. Coming back after our hiatus, we at Worst In The Industry have recommitted to our mission of Personally Leeching Into The Groundwater. and together we can make it happen! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/f34fc0bc-af45-4ba5-8a2d-cdab9ea1f2d1

This week we come right back at you with a full length episode where Mama bird feeds us some choice tidbits about one of the most enraging and baffling Colonial Americans of all time!

Another mini-fridge for you all as we take a shallow wade through the brief saga of a man, a can, and maybe a rodent.

A late release but a release none the less as the boys discuss the foundations of modern racism, the ideas behind why it's based in nothing factual, and why white people entering Africa has rarely if ever been a positive thing for Africans! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/3eb4075c-ab61-4c9f-96e2-99418edf6f5d

I'm gonna start this off by saying I could find no consistent conversion rate for acre-feet to gallons. Gallons of molasses that is! Today the boys jaw about a sweet disaster for a while and get off topic in the perfect amount Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/c2af7191-3ffb-4260-9e59-d1001d53e32f

Justin's back and cracking open a cold one filled with more cold ones, it's another Mini-Fridge episode! Today we're chatting a while about the infamous Action Park of New Jersey, a nightmareland of unsafe and preposterous rides, drunken teenagers, and straight up poisonous snakes! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/e6e34fe2-9d37-42ea-a7c2-c61cfca65f50

And back to our regularly scheduled programming... today the boys discuss the East Palestine rail disaster, the continued environmental affects, why this isn't a surprise, and who is helping cover it all up. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/9afc3219-5821-429e-bbe0-c42536b168cb

Double drop week! Due to turbulence in personal lives there was a delay in release. We return today to friend of the pod, Mike Lindell!

Another mini-fridge episode as we make some adjustments to the content we want to keep putting out to ya'll. This week we talk about the Kirtland Safety Society, aka the Mormon Anti-Bank! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/d1d41827-b3ec-4872-b374-a004b394ce3a

This is a laid back, shorter episode about George Shea, the MC of the Major League Eating organization, and how he royally screwed over some very passionate hot dog eaters!

After a short break where life got in the way, we're back to give you a short, local story of corruption, intrigue, backstabbing, and kinda sorta a murder most foul. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/7fc90f24-b2e8-4bf4-bfda-11210e3f67a4

In this, our final episode of Thomas Edison analysis, we discuss the early film industry, how Thomas Edison fucked it up, and how that fucked up California permanently.

In the third quarter of our bout with Thomas Edison, the boys talk power grids, who Thomas Edison really hated, Justin shouts for way too long about Frankenstein, and the Iron Pierogi strikes again right before we discuss Topsy, and a measly little dentist from Buffalo.

On this weeks episode of Worst In the Industry, we continue talking about one of the biggest assholes of the 20th century, Justin keeps Collin on his toes about what he will and won't take out of the podcast, and we lost the last 10 minutes of Tyler's audio! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/9be83223-afd5-4d9c-b7f9-b63a9ba3a7c5

Apologies for the late release this week, I've been suffering some technical difficulties. They're over now though, and we are back with our resident public school history teacher screaming about some asshole from the 20th century: Justin yells about Thomas Edison! The boys discuss what it means to own things, Elon Musk, and lay the foundations for the real meat of this series which will come out next week. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/989e9a60-f43e-4c51-b454-44d511398271

Join us for a minisode this week as Collin takes us through one of the boys favorite in-jokes from a game we all enjoy, we discuss the battle of waterloo, and what is the volume of an Englishman's skeleton? Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/22dd1e62-24e6-45a6-9d78-381a0cb0047a

In the conclusion of this series, we discuss a variety of financial shenanigans which the WeWork crew get into, why we can't call them crimes, what exactly a Weed Dracula is and why I'm not it. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/e1febfb0-7aaf-4b2a-b313-c4c6719d3cd6

On this slightly late episode of Worst In The Industry, the fellas cover the more... controlling and culty antics of Adam Neumann and just exactly how he gave a business about facilitating more business a massive party atmosphere while constantly pushing people's boundaries and overworking his employees in the name of a company culture! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/9cde20ef-47d7-40d8-8df9-3d698e49d41c

In this week's go round at the Worst In The Industry, Collin and Justin don't shut the fuck up about Epstein, Mama Bird gives us more wonderful background information on WeWork and more specifically the middling-handsome founder Adam Newman, plus Gwyneth Paltrow comes up! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/b32aa412-7eb7-47b6-8de2-273da63f1fe1

Aaaaaand we're back! Brief hiatus as Justin was out of town, but we've returned refreshed and smelling of campfire smoke. This week we begin a lengthy discussion on WeWork, the failed co-working space which sought to bring back all the worst aspects of Feudalism and shove em right into your already shitty job! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/4e7a8be5-fd4f-41b6-924f-fff56a106e0c

This time on WITIBALL Z: We polish off the series on PT Barnum by taking a look at some of his more egregious scams, PT gets compared to a whole slew of American politicians, and Justin had to cut so many tangents from this episode he doesn't fully remember what made it. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/d94c66af-de89-407c-b0db-12c5bd7e0acb

Welcome back friends once again to our little three ring circus of horror! This week Justin guides us through the life of PT Barnum from his perspective, Tyler suggests the Bout of The Century, and Collin screams and screams and screams about how it's the same as it ever was. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/1e6e124e-4585-4c26-a87e-fd4aa448d73b

It's another update on our old friend the Oil Industry, and boy is this one a doozy! We cover the antics of Enbridge once again, the CHIPS act in Michigan, PROMESA and LUMA in Puerto Rico, and a whole bunch of other stuff that is not quite relevant! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/7d9cb4c7-0306-4afc-bdaf-8088383ca07b

On this week's episode of Worst In The Industry, the fellas talk ancient copper traders, discuss exactly what kind of ghost Justin would be and how he'd spend his spectral time, and really dig in to why businessmen have just kind of always been this way. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/cce9ab34-05ec-4043-8f44-6f85a764d89c

We're back again, a little late but present! This week the fellas discuss a good portion of the politico-capital dynasty of the Prince family, from one Holland Michigan! Collin gripes about not getting clips then continues to not provide them, the status of several ballot initiatives in Michigan comes up, and Gary Caradori's certain murder is discussed! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/138a77dc-6273-4cf0-817c-073e3fcf6f33

Collin's brain is stewing in tincture and Vince McMahon is the soup du jour. We cover wrestling's carnie roots, the “Golden Era”, union-busting, Justin brings up Jose Chung From Outer Space AGAIN, the Mountain Goats come up and we cap it all off with the McMan at the End of History.

On the second episode release of this week and the conclusion of our series on Enron, the boys show the trap snap shut on the Enron executives, and watch their ineffectual thrashing against their own stupidity, as well as discuss how things would have turned out if they'd just held out until after 9/11. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/3535c774-91ab-4492-8864-038e45bdf945

This episode of Worst In The Industry, the first of this week, takes us once more into the scandal surrounding Enron as the noose slowly begins to tighten around the necks of their executives. We get into the specifics of their particular scams, Collin brings up Ben Franklin's Feud with the family that spawned the legend of the Jersey Devil, and we all speculate about parental sexuality. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/97d8c2cd-2efd-4ae7-b658-479d08d4f6af

A late release folks at home, but a release of Part II of Enron came nonetheless. In this episode, the boys take a look at what Enron continued to do, the concept of getting greedy, and Justin says ALLUSIONS a lot because Mama Bird leaves a lot of seeds for us that'll be looked in to more next week, and the week after because this will be another four part series! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/8b911ae6-d37f-4938-8248-649922c6f4b2

This week in the adventures of the Tyler, Collin and Justin, we explore the oil-company-turned-futures-exchange Enron! There aren't too many sidebars that actually make it to the episode, and Justin leaves to pee at the end! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/7a24b94c-8dbf-4241-b275-6a216906b73d

Once more the WITI boys find ourselves behind bars, and it won't be the last time. This episode, Collin covers the cruelties of the American penal system, explicable and inexplicable both. We cover notable victims of this cruelty, and take some time to explore where this culture of cruelty originates. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/80d1f80f-0362-400c-bf5d-4c36b46ed807

Justin's back for a double header as the WITI boys take a walk through South American history and cover a real Venezuelan's Scotsman, and Collin has strong swinging opinions about everything. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/3bb335bf-93ee-46ad-addd-79bd4b8f7468

In a more lighthearted and meandering episode, Justin takes us through the story of Charlene and Darlene, twin sisters with a hardware store and a dream, and access to the US military budget. Collin talks about enemies of the state and friends of the pod, and we all laugh a little too hard about it.

Our brief, accidental vacation week is over folks! To get us right back into the swing of things, Tyler takes us through a story, or the story that we can verify, of one smooth Austrian who conned the world over. In a departure from our regular content, we applaud this man several times through the episode.

Let's take stock of the green, man! and by that I mean our rapidly dwindling green spaces. This episode of Worst In The Industry, the boys look into how Greenwashing has been Greenwashed and companies who can be doing everything on the surface that are doing far more harm than good. https://plantit2020.org/pdf/Scams_Short_Edited.pdf Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/a382c192-c094-4a99-a84b-dac2b9c0b4e1

This week the boys play with guns! Collin leads us in a discussion on the NRA, how they started, the various weirdos who've headed the organization, the turn from relatively apolitical shooting club to massive slush fund, and Justin learns where sideburns come from. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/891b9650-dbd0-45b1-86f3-adba91dbfa8f

This one's late cause of me folks at home, my apologies! I wasn't feeling quite up to recording and the medicine I'd taken was interfering with my ability to record. Anyways, this episode is about a Midwest based Conservative Megadonor and box magnate! The boys get unnecessarily critical about suit fits! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/7cd0bb00-ce07-417f-882b-e3666b5ea5e9

Back to the story of the Most Devious Pole in America, Barry Minkow! After his initial stint in prison, Barry gets some good optics for the second time and... continues to take advantage of them! More movie recommendations, random bullshit, and Collin unsuccessfully trying to make me edit things out of the episode! Take that, Collin!

After a week break to sort out ourselves, we return with the first in a two part series about youthful entrepreneur and financial crime prodigy, Barry Minkow! After a too-long discussion on whether or not he's Polish (maybe), Barry's early start and rookie seasons in white color crime are brought up and discussed, and Collin won't shut the hell up about Saving Private Ryan. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/27a8216f-07eb-4e9a-aaee-3c818510939f

On a slightly different episode of Worst In The Industry, the fellas surf the web together and have a chat about how websites make money both historically and presently, as well as understand some alternative models for monetizing websites and web services.

Plunging ourselves deep to the sea floor, this week the WITI boys attempt to wrap our many suckered limbs around the subject of octopus farming as Collin attempts to educate us all on the logistical, economical, and most importantly ethical implications of farming such an intelligent creature. Octopi are taking over the Earth after we all die and you heard it here first!

Settle in and let this weeks episode of Worst In The Industry eat its way right to your tender heart, and then through it! Covering Black Salve this week and boy oh boy did it make my skin itch! Another quack touting another miracle cure, only unlike Brinkley's free-floating goat nuts, this one's still around, and the Youtube comment sections get PRETTY opinionated. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/3a013193-4327-479b-acfc-4264337a47da

On this week's episode of Worst In The Industry we are accompanied throughout by the steamwhistle like sound of Collin's blood pressure reaching critical levels as we bring back our old friend The Oil Industry to talk about some of the brand new goings on that are happening including updates on Line 5, and the UN's position on climate change. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/7e3849cb-204d-43e6-88e6-7b10a946ce79

Once more into the multilayered onion of global finance we go with Collin leading the way into our one-episode deep dive into the shady practices of one Blackstone, as well as its subsidiaries Blackrock and Treehouse. Email us at worstintheindustrypod@gmail.com Twitter: @WITIpod Instagram: @worstintheindustry DM for access to the Discord server! Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/fd0bacf6-a3d9-418e-864b-c398b6d2262a

On this extra special surprising episode of Worst In The Industry the boys go through an expansive, 32 (technically 33) person bracket of who truly is the Worst of a whole host of characters mentioned if not dove into here on Worst In The Industry.

Once more the boys meander our way from boner topic to boner topic, with Collin still refusing to say the word "prostate" for absolutely no reason, and a dive into the shady world of herbal erection remedies with one particular product in mind: the supplement Enzyte. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/513d559d-4c32-4e21-9632-5c1037072d9f

Once more into the banana this week as the WITI boys continue to discuss monocultural farming, one of many instances of widespread pesticide abuse and the institutional problems that lead to it all.

The fruits of our labors have come, listeners, and these three nuts go absolutely bananas about the United Fruit Company's connections to American intelligence, the many MANY coups and interventions that the US was involved in in South America, and we talk a little bit about the Monroe Doctrine. What? I ran out of fruit puns. Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/83256691-5424-42a1-90f6-0db3a47fa881

On this very extra special fiftieth episode of Worst In The Industry, Collin returns from an unexpected trip to find his seat has been mysteriously filled, Steven Donziger comes back to the forefront, and the Mistress of Evil, The Black Turtleneck Terror gives a shocking interview.

This is not a drill gentlefolk, we got one! I feel like Dan Akyroyd, only without the overpriced vodka. This week, the WITI boys read through and take a bit of a look into our first ever Listener Submission email! St. Luke's Hospital will be under the spotlight, drugs that sound incredibly Italian will come up, and Collin? Richard Fromage will strike again, when you least expect it. If you have a story similar to our listener's about your workplace or the workplace of someone you know, please submit that story to worstintheindustrypod@gmail.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/worst-in-the-industry/95e7dc51-1c39-4d28-84b9-7ad79060591b