How Is This legal?

The Dream

Little Everywhere

Health & Fitness, Business, Society & Culture

4.6 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

"How is this legal?"

That question has been haunting host Jane Marie since the day she started researching Multi Level Marketing seven years ago. Since then, it feels like every company, industry or product she looks into is a scam. Let's be clear, they often are.

This week, she stares straight into the Ivy League Bro eyes of private equity, looking for an answer to that same simple question that's been pinballing around her brain for seven years.

Comic, writer, podcaster (and more!) Meredith Lynch has been following private equity money for years and this week she and Jane will try to untangle the mess this shady industry has made of pretty much everything it's touched. It's coming for all of us. We might as well try to understand what the hell it is.

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https://www.meredithlynch.com/

IG & TikTok: @meredithmlynch

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the dream, our new season, where we get to talk about whatever we want.
0:07.4	What we've been talking about a lot for the last, I think, what, how long, Dan?
0:12.2	Oh, God, eight years, seven years?
0:15.3	It's a long time. Get a life. What are we doing? Anyway, we've been looking at multi-level marketing pyramid schemes,
0:22.2	essentially, which is a corrupt way to make money by pocketing money from an endless chain
0:27.5	of people who want to make money by pocketing money from an endless chain of people who want to
0:32.7	make money by pocketing money from an endless chain of Big Ben, Parliament.
0:38.5	Big Ben, Parliament.
0:41.0	Hey, look, kids. There's Big Ben and there's Parliament.
0:45.1	Kids, Big Ben, Parliament.
0:48.2	Kids.
0:49.3	Big Ben.
0:50.4	Parliament.
0:51.6	Look, kids.
0:52.6	Forget it.
0:56.0	When you put your brain into any new world for too long, you start to see it everywhere.
1:01.8	Remember, like, when you first started playing Tetris, everything was a Tetris block or tetrae?
1:08.8	Tetromino's?
1:10.3	That is not.
1:11.6	It's the name of the Tetris blocks.
1:13.2	Why are you saying it like that?
1:15.2	Tetramanos.
	...

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