David Dayen

I just need to let you know, I have to...

What is David Dayen saying? What is Ryan Cooper saying? I feel like I, if I don't know, then I'm not ready for my day.

Welcome to the program, Harold.

Oh, always glad to be here, particularly from such s- such a, such a fan who-

And, uh, you're gonna listen to it right now.

I'm David Dayen.

I'm Laurel Kilgour, and this is Organized Money.

And this is Organized Money.

So I am curious if you have more thoughts around, you know, the lessons from big tech and how that shaped your thinking in putting together this framework.

Yeah, I mean, they've only gotten more powerful, right, in the last seven years, um, since, since we weren't able to bring that package.

And actually, David Cicilline, who was the chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee at the time and led the investigation, texted me recently and said, "I'm trying not to throw things at the TV," [laughs] you know, w- as I'm listening to this conversation because so much of this we would have at least had a better head start.

We may not have been able to address everything, have addressed everything through those, but, uh, it's those same companies that are now dominating the AI space.

And I noticed that the people who work there are allowed to have lives outside of their work that is in line with their values.

And so I called David Dayen, the executive editor of the American Prospect and said, hey, can I work for you if I get my salary paid for? And he was like, yeah, absolutely.

So I've been there for a month and a half and it's really great to have the space in my brain that was worried about bills and how I'm going to pay for things is now occupied by more of the horrors of ice flights and third country removals.

I needed that space to keep doing this work.

Now, as I alluded to a few minutes ago, today's topic takes a little more time to introduce.

So I learned of Mike when he appeared as a guest on an episode of the Organized Money podcast with Matt Stoller and David Dayen.

And that's a podcast that discusses issues of antitrust, and I'm a big antitrust guy.

If you just arbitrarily name some very large corporation, my knee-jerk reaction is like, "Yeah, break 'em up.

Are you aware of the pricing agreement in place between Walmart and Pepsi?

Absolutely.

So for the benefit of viewers and listeners, I also learned of this either on the Organized Money podcast with Matt Stoller and David Dayen or in Matt Stoller's antitrust newsletter called Big, or possibly both, right? And this came to light during the discovery phase of some lawsuit.

So there's a pricing agreement in place between Walmart and Pepsi where if Pepsi wants to use Walmart as the distribution channel, they are required per this agreement to price Pepsi higher every place that's not Walmart.

[laughs] Or should fans just get over it, right? Uh, because their nostalgia is rooted in, in people performing free labor for their amusement.

I'm David Dayen.

I'm Laurel Kilgour.

And this is...

So there is certainly a desire among college athletes, particularly in these sports that are the most popular ones, the ones that generate the most revenue, to organize and to have an opportunity to negotiate with these schools.

It is the schools that are refuse- that are really the blockade here.

So Katie, as, as, uh, David mentioned, uh, the Fat Cats haven't really start- stopped fighting an, or as I think they were called in the last episode, the shadowy puppet masters.

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You know, I said this, this clip went viral.

I was on our favorite friend, Piers Morgan show.

And, you know, you and I are old enough.

around the same age, where it would have been impossible to imagine that all the stuff that we were saying, the stuff that we were protesting, that it would gain mainstream support.

It's no wonder.

You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas.

You're proud of his friends, people like Hassan Piker.

Hassan.

So that's the episode.

I'm David Dayen, and this is Organized Money.

And we know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

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I'm David Dayen.

I'm Matt Stoller.