Part One: The Idiot Who Made, And Destroyed, WeWork | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Dont stop believin robert

kibutzes are neat from the saound, and thats why ninyahu hates them? Like they can go wrong i imagine, but some seem, good commune.
oh god that done to ddo military equipment sounds pervers

I never thought I was going to hear a villain’s origin story that starts with losing a friendship contest he started against his supermodel sister, but here we are.

The fact that Jared Leto played the head of WeWork in a movie makes perfect sense.

How about a BtB on Jared Leto? Christ, what a creep.

I feel like if your an investor what you need to do, at minimum, is say, "Describe your pitch in the most boring way possible. Use absolutely no metaphors and do not at all postulate on what it could potentially do." This isn't foolproof. Lots of these fuckers just lie. But if someone can't do that, show them the door.

Easy thing to remember when eating in posh places. At the start of the meal, cutlery will the places in a certain order beside the plate. Always use the outer most cutlery, which will be taken away once you've finished that course. You should be slowly working your way inwards. That tidbit has saved me some dirty looks ^_^

to anyone reading this: go listen to masayoshi takanaka right now

seven goblins is an excellent start

"We're going to talk about Wellness..." sounds like "We're going to Taco Bell Wellness..." And now I love this idea.

No need to throw Jonathan Cain shade at Wheel In The Sky. That was about 3 years before he even joined Journey.

Damn! How'd you get Obama to join you on this one?

I cannot get past how bad Robert's hebrew and yiddish pronunciation is

zionism is not "very leftist"? occupying and actively colonizing palestinian land isn't neutral

Every self-styled entrepreneur is a grifter.

THE JOHN MUNCH REFERENCE!!!! I annoy people with that factoid WHENEVER I can. I squeaked when he said that❤❤❤

I like tripe :(

That guy's CEO management style checks a lot of boxes on the "is this a cult?" checklist.

Listening to this on the 11th of September is oddly timely...

"DUMBO" in NYC is an acronym. It means "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass". I was just there last month and wondered how that name came to be.

I worked in a WeWork location for about a year. All of the amenities were pretty bad.

I wish I'd just been working remote.

someone should write a sitcom like The office settled in a wework building. And a movie on the wework company fiasco with a wolf of wall street vibe

Why do Kibbutzim come up so often in this podcast?

Tripe is good in Pho. Thats the only application that Tripe is allowed in

I worked for a small Internet based company in the early '00s, and they did the free beer thing on Friday afternoons, and being, apparently the only one to attend the Friday meetings as a non-drinker, when I requested a 6 pack of IBC Root Beer, I was looked down on, and seemed to be the only who didn't really see the point of the whole thing. Shortly after that, the whole thing went away because someone higher up discovered what was going on, and put the fear of legal action if anyone were to actually get in an accident after one of these, which was my obvious question from the beginning.

I talk to people on the elevator, in the bathroom, on the bus, basically anywhere there are people I go out of my way to talk to them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every now and then I stuff my butler in the dumbwaiter and make the maid work the rope crank and race him upstairs!

If he wasn’t so sue-happy, WeWork Mars would be a great pitch for a sci-fi psych horror

I mean, a lot of baby clothes ARE kinda breakaway clothes, so that they can get their diapers changed.

Fritz the Cat was a cartoon based on an underground comic by Robert Crumb. Well worth checking out.

I almost threw up in my mouth at capitalist kibbutz

People forget that "physical social network" is literally what a society is.

I work in high end services and it always drives me nuts when my peers act as bougie as the guests, like why? These people wouldnt spit onnyou if you were on fire and then we emulate and take on their judgement...it is fucking stupid.

The kind of pushy asshole who complains that no one talks in elevators is exactly the reason that nobody wants to risk talking to strangers.

I'm sorry but if you can't read OR write until like 8 years old and you've been going to a decent school, you're just stupid and don't listen. The cure is putting your finger up to the page or using a piece of paper. Dyslexic folks share your experience. Jk they ass can't read this.

Anyone that just randomly comes up to me in the street, I immediately assume is plotting something and, in America, decend chance that that is the case. I'd say a good 80/20 or 85/15.

I wouldn’t have bought into this if they called it either “we all work” or “all wet work”… but luckily I didn’t lose millions because I’ve never had any money anyway

call it nakba, it's ok

Can confirm that hotdesking is that absolutely fucking worst.

The cat with the bag is Felix the Cat, if anyone was wondering

I fucking love the Rainbow Goblins album, nice name drop. Takanaka is amazing

Dunno if Robert reads these at all, probably not, but Folding Ideas has a good video on Ralph Bakshi's career.

"We Generation" was coined by Wozniak around 1983.

'the only place in america it's okay to talk to people is in line at the movies'
y'all mean in the north and west coast, surely, and huge cities in the south which are influenced by the north and west as industry has moved but you go to the south in any medium or smaller city and especially small town, and y'all are in for a big shock where all the appropriate convo places exist (including the toilet, and afaik, nixing convo in the toilet is a masc thing across the board).

if you think you're getting through that DMV or grocery queue in a southern town without being engaged by or being next to strangers talking about bullshit you're out of your mind. you're not getting through time there without having at least one person try to strike a convo, and you should just be tickled pink if it includes at least one instance of 'might coulda', 'shoulda oughta' or the whammy winner: 'might coulda oughta shoulda done' (for example: 'he might coulda oughta shoulda done called for backup by now i reckon, cause this line ain't gettin no shorter and somma these buggies are slap fulla stuff'), bonus point if it's 'might coulda oughta shoulda done did'.

If you get them billyuns you can finally consider starting up that macheticine dream

"It's not like I can force these people to be my friends!
Hmm... Unless.... "