Profiteers vs. the People

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Loosey: Kratom, 7 OH and The Coming Addiction Crisis Apr 29, 2025

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

Here are our sources

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

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

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George Soros III: More Bad Than Good? Apr 15, 2025

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

Our main sources for this series are below:

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

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

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

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

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

George Soros, Part II: God Thinks He's George Soros Apr 01, 2025

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

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

Our main sources for this series are:

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

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

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

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Here is our email: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

George Soros, Part I: Origins of the Baba Yaga Mar 18, 2025

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

Our two primary sources for this series are:

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

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

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

Here is our email: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

Peter Thiel Part IV: Peter Thiel is Totally Evil, People Mar 04, 2025

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

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

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

Please like, comment and subscribe!

Here are our sources:

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

Here is the link to our subreddit:

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

Have comments or requests? Drop us a line!

Profitvspeeps@gmail.com

Peter Thiel Part III: Getting Humiliated by the Media and Creating a Constitutional Crisis Feb 18, 2025

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

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

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

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

Thiel Part II: Paypal and being Elon Musk's Brain Jan 29, 2025

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

Thanks again, Deco19 for the request!

Have a request, or want to say hi?

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

- Here is our email: profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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

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

Peter Thiel Part I: An Evil Genius Graduates from Evil Genius University Jan 14, 2025

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

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

Here's our subreddit:

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

Here are our Sources:

Rooting for Luigi: Navigating Healthcare in the US Dec 10, 2024

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Hi Everyone,

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

Spectrum Woes, this one is for you

Here are our sources

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

Here is our subreddit:

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

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profitvspeeps@gmail.com

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Helping Banks Destroy the World, a Mckinsey Story Nov 27, 2024

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Join us as we attempt to paint a digestible picture of Mckinsey's role in the "Too big to fail" moniker and the collapse of 08!

Our main source for this series has been the brilliant book "When Mckinsey Comes to Town" by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe