Podcast · 14 episodes
Business Movers
by Wondery · English
Behind every successful business is a story. It starts with a vision and a leap of faith. Along the way, leaders make bold decisions, ride booms and busts, and sometimes, they reach new heights. From Wondery, the makers of the hit series Business Wars, and Lindsay Graham, the host of American History Tellers and American Scandal, comes a weekly podcast that brings you the true stories of the brilliant but all-too-human businesspeople who risked it all. From Walt Disney’s creation of a theme park in Orlando, to the colossal failure of New Coke, Business Movers will explore the triumphs, failures and ideas that transformed our lives. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Business Movers ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.
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Listen Now: My Mom’s MurderLauren Malloy revisits the decades-old death of her mother, Lori Lee Malloy, originally said to be natural causes (heart disease/hypertrophic cardiomyopathy).28 Sep 2026 · 5 min
Introducing Unreal: When AI Becomes UsWhen AI Becomes Us introduces the podcast’s premise that AI is already affecting people now, and asks how using AI in intimate human areas changes us—love, health, decisions, spirituality, and…20 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Listen Now: AI A New Kind of BeingA limited-series episode from “This Is Actually Happening” exploring AI’s impact on human identity and relationships, focused on one narrator’s bond with an AI companion.21 Jul 2026 · 6 min
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Listen Now: My Mom’s MurderLauren Malloy revisits the decades-old death of her mother, Lori Lee Malloy, originally said to be natural causes (heart disease/hypertrophic cardiomyopathy).28 Sep 2026 · 5 min · 3 chapters
Introducing Unreal: When AI Becomes UsWhen AI Becomes Us introduces the podcast’s premise that AI is already affecting people now, and asks how using AI in intimate human areas changes us—love, health, decisions, spirituality, and…20 Aug 2026 · 4 min · 2 chapters
Listen Now: AI A New Kind of BeingA limited-series episode from “This Is Actually Happening” exploring AI’s impact on human identity and relationships, focused on one narrator’s bond with an AI companion.21 Jul 2026 · 6 min · 5 chapters
Listen Now: Dan Taberski’s ManifestoThe episode is Dan Taberski’s “Manifesto” (Episode 1, “To America,” “Subject: Last Resort”), a six-part series about manifestos: how they channel anger into action, and the risk that rage becomes…13 Jul 2026 · 8 min · 4 chapters
An Update About Business Movers | 6Business Movers’ final episode announcement and wrap-up after 4.5 years, 50 seasons, and nearly 250 episodes; promotion of related podcast Business Wars and the host’s other shows.4 Sep 2025 · 3 min · 3 chapters
Howard Hughes Blows Up Hollywood | Author Jeffrey Richardson explores Howard Hughes’s impact on Hollywood and the American film industry | 5Howard Hughes’s three-decade effort to reshape Hollywood and the American film industry, from his outsider entry into the Big Five studio oligarchy to his censorship-busting films and his later…28 Aug 2025 · 40 min · 21 chapters
Howard Hughes Blows Up Hollywood | The Red Scare | 4Howard Hughes’ takeover of RKO and his anti-communist purge, centered on firing screenwriter Paul Jericho, plus the studio’s financial collapse and eventual sale to TV/radio executive Thomas O’Neill.21 Aug 2025 · 34 min · 12 chapters
Howard Hughes Blows Up Hollywood | Selling Scandal | 3Howard Hughes buys controlling interest in RKO (after Floyd Odlum sells his 24% stake) and tries to “blow up” Hollywood’s studio system through aggressive cost cuts, boardroom power plays, antitrust…14 Aug 2025 · 35 min · 13 chapters
Howard Hughes Blows Up Hollywood | Censored | 2Howard Hughes’ fight with Hollywood censorship over Scarface, including script demands from the MPPDA, multiple alternate endings, title changes, and a final strategy of premiering the “uncut” film…7 Aug 2025 · 35 min · 15 chapters
Howard Hughes Blows Up Hollywood | Calling the Shots | 1Howard Hughes’ early Hollywood rise, focusing on his first major aviation spectacle Hell’s Angels—how he took over production, clashed with directors, filmed dangerous real dogfights, converted a…31 Jul 2025 · 32 min · 12 chapters
Breaking Bell | Writer Jon Gertner discusses AT&T’s impact on technological innovation | 5AT&T’s early-1980s DOJ antitrust settlement and 1984 breakup, and how the monopoly era shaped Bell Labs’ long-horizon innovation—then how breakup constraints led to Bell Labs’ slow downsizing and…24 Jul 2025 · 48 min · 18 chapters
Breaking Bell | The Deal | 4AT&T’s 1981–82 antitrust settlement with the U.S. DOJ, including the “inter-intra split” fail-safe, the “inter-interest split” compromise, and the legal/administrative hurdles that ultimately lead to…17 Jul 2025 · 35 min · 13 chapters
Breaking Bell | Stuck in a Quagmire | 3The AT&T antitrust case escalates after the “Crimson Sky” settlement collapses; AT&T and DOJ fight in court while Reagan-era cabinet politics and national-security arguments complicate any deal,…10 Jul 2025 · 33 min · 5 chapters
Breaking Bell | Wheelin' & Dealin' | 2AT&T’s early-1970s to late-1970s fight to prevent the Bell System breakup, covering the DOJ antitrust case, MCI’s “switched long-distance” and Execunet challenge, AT&T’s failed “Bell Bill” lobbying…3 Jul 2025 · 34 min · 9 chapters