Enron Rules
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
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This is a true Corporate Gossip Exclusive: The ONLY comparative exploration of Enron and Vanderpump Rules.
On a summer day in 2012 in a restaurant garden in Weho, waitress Schena Shay confronts Housewife Brandi Glanville about the rumors of infidelity surrounding Brandi's husband, Eddie Cibrian. Narratively, this scene breaks the seam between the women of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and the servers who tend to them. And television's crown jewel is born: Vanderpump Rules.
Few know that there was another cosmic seam that ripped at the same moment, and merged two dimensions along thematic parallels: cheating, fraud, topless bars, uppers, women's rights, and women's wrongs. If you're a Vanderpump girlie who wants to get into Enron or an Enron bro who wants to get into Vanderpump - this is ENRON RULES!
We explore the Enron collapse by meeting each of the main players and following them throughout the Enron story. We'll start with the villains who commanded the corporate clusterfuck and then meet the heroes who had the guts to defy them.
This episode also features our DAD! @Jeffplatsky
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Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com)
Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike
Timestamps / Cast of characters:
6:00 - Introducing our DAD, the original corporate gossiper!
10:00ish - The Enron Scandal as told through the eys of the villains and the heroes:
The Villains:
Enron CEO Ken Lay aka Tom Schwartz
Enron COO / CEO Jeff Skilling aka Jax Taylor
Enron CFO Andy Fastow aka Tom Sandoval
Bonus Villain! The Analysts aka Ken Todd and Lisa Vanderpump
The Heroes:
Enron Whistleblower Sherron Watkins aka Kristen Doute
Enron Whistleblower Margaret Ceconi aka Lala Kent
Fortune Journalist Bethany McLean aka Schena Shay
Links:
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Book)
The Smartest Guys in the Room (Movie)
You're Wrong About: Enron (Podcast)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to another episode of the corporate gossip podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Guys, this is the second to last episode of season two. |
| 0:08.9 | I can't believe how fast it's gone by. |
| 0:11.5 | We're going to be filming our final episode next week, and we wanted to take it as an |
| 0:16.4 | opportunity to answer any questions you guys might have about any of the companies |
| 0:20.7 | that we've covered |
| 0:21.6 | this season or even last season or about us or just life, whatever you guys want to talk about. |
| 0:27.8 | You could submit those questions by sending a note to Becca at nighttoast.com. That's |
| 0:32.7 | n-I-T-O-A-S-T-O-A-S-com or Adam at nighttoast.com. You can reach out to us on TikTok as well, |
| 0:40.3 | and you can write out your question or feel free to drop us a voice note. One more housekeeping |
| 0:45.8 | note before I move on to my favorite part of the podcast. In this podcast, we do a lot of |
| 0:51.0 | references of Vanderpump rules, and I couldn't believe I mispronounced |
| 0:55.3 | one of my favorite Vanderpump characters, Kristen Doty. I listened to it back, and I said |
| 1:01.7 | Kristen Doughty. I don't know what I was thinking, or Kristen Dutty. I don't remember, but I said it wrong, |
| 1:06.8 | and I said very disrespectful to our queen, Kristen Doty. |
| 1:13.4 | So if you're listening, you know, just forgive us. |
| 1:18.7 | Okay, before we start the podcast, I get to do my favorite thing and thank the people who bought us coffees, at least the ones who left their name. |
| 1:22.4 | So this week we have at negative 9 and Daniel Herring. |
| 1:27.0 | Thank you both. |
| 1:28.2 | You're awesome. |
| 1:29.4 | All right, here's the show. |
| 1:35.3 | Somewhere along the harsh desert trails in Baja, California, you can hear his call. |
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