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Hey guys, it's me, Josh, and for this week's select, I've chosen our 2023 episode on the Enron scandal.

It's a pretty interesting episode, at the very least, just because of the mind-bogglingly nuts stuff that these guys did all in the pursuit of money and personal gain.

Not only did they swindle entire states, they also, as a nice cherry on top, wiped out the

life savings of thousands of their own employees. It's the kind of thing that was such a big deal.

It left a stain on American society as a whole just by how

cynical it made everybody about what people can get away with, just in the pursuit of wealth.

At any rate, I hope you enjoy this episode. It's a good one.

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, and it's

stuff you should know. We mean it, you should know this stuff stuff because this is some serious corporate malfeasance

that I think it's probably not an American over the age of 20 walking around who doesn't know

about this somehow, some way, to some degree. I know they teach about this stuff in business school.

It's been written on extensively, but I mean, I didn't understand the ins and outs of it until

I started researching this.

And it's quite shocking.

And that shocking thing that I'm talking about is the rise and fall of Enron, one of the greatest swindles in corporate American history.

Maybe in corporate history in the world.

Definitely in corporate American history.

For sure.

I'm really glad you picked this because I didn't know all the ins and outs either because this is, you know, when I was a young late 20s, early 30 something, didn't have a care in the world.

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