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Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Sunday Nice Things: Too Much Money

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3787 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today on Sunday Nice Things I'm dropping in an episode of the show Too Much Money that I made with my friend Doree Shafrir. The show is a wild ride through the crazy ways that billionaires spend their money. And now that we live in a world with a billionaire ruling class it's a more interesting listen than ever. This episode is about why billionaires love to buy media properties and then ruin them. In this ep we discuss the various billionaires (Jeff Bezos, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Mort Zuckerman, Sam Zell, etc.) who have bought media properties, what happened next, and who suffered (hint: not them!). Listen to all the episodes of Too Much Money here. Join our newsletter community here. Pre-order EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU here. Visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Once upon a time, my dear friend Dory Shafir and I made a little

0:40.6

podcast called Too Much Money. And maybe we were ahead of our time because this was a show

0:48.3

about the insane things that the insanely rich do with their money. And it just feels more important than ever now that

0:58.7

we have all of these insanely rich men pretty much just run in our country. Yeah. So I had a dream

1:07.1

last night that Dori and I brought this show back. And it was so real that I actually

1:12.6

just had a moment where I thought that it happened. And then I checked my text messages and realized,

1:18.9

no, it was, it was all in my head. But I do want to want to talk to Dory about making some new

1:25.2

episodes of this of too much money because the world just feels

1:30.6

ripe for it. And I'm going to drop one in the feed for you to listen to today. This one is called

1:38.4

Why Do Billionaires Love to Buy Media Properties? Yeah, yeah. We talk about Carly Klaus, who was the latest billionaire,

1:49.0

who thought it might be fun to start buying a magazine. But we also dig into Jeff Bezos,

1:55.4

Mort Zuckerman, Sam Zell, and, you know, just why there is such a history of really rich people, usually rich dudes,

2:05.7

buying up traditional media, and then typically ruining it. The rest of the series gets into

2:12.5

other crazy stuff like billionaires looking for aliens, wanting to go to space, the whole Elon of it all.

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