Monthly Archives: January 2019

“She only said one thing her whole life”: Sarah tells Mike how two decent women became scapegoats for the actions of one terrible man. Digressions include Larry Flynt, NPR tote bags and Playboy back issues. The co-hosts discover they have wildly different relationships with “Saturday Night Live.”

Mike tells Sarah how a “bad apples” explanation kept us from seeing the real scandal at the heart of America’s largest corporate bankruptcy. Digressions include “Casino,” Thanksgiving economics and corruption catchphrases. Neither co-host truly understands how the stock market works.  

Links!

• The hilarious Houston Chronicle article full of red flags
• The 2001 article that started Enron’s downfall
• A detailed breakdown of Enron’s accounting shenanigans
• “Understanding Enron: It’s About the Gatekeepers, Stupid”

It wasn’t an accident. Mike tells Sarah how the infamous space shuttle disaster came to be seen as a white-collar crime. Digressions include the Donner Party, George Lucas and “Jurassic Park.” Both co-hosts are audibly recovering from colds. 

Links!

• The Rogers Commission Report
• The House of Representatives Report
• A wonderful Popular Mechanics oral history of the Rogers Commission
• Diane Vaughan’s 1997 article on “the normalization of deviance”
• Fascinating clips of Feynman talking about the accident and its organizational causes
• Feynman’s appendix