Episode 456: Multilevel Marketing Madness
Bridget Read joins us to discuss her new book Little Bosses Everywhere. We talk through the post-2020 explosion of MLMs, the specifically American history of pyramid schemes, guru charisma, dark accounting magick, and more.
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How America was Shaped by Multilevel Marketing
Multilevel marketing is something of an American tradition. Journalist Bridget Read tells the story of the money-making schemes that continue to ensnare people today.
How Did Mormon Moms Take Over Pop Culture?
The moment is Mormon. From The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, to The Bachelorette, to popular TikTok accounts like Ballerina Farm, women of the LDS faith are dominating pop culture right now.
Sam breaks it all down with author and journalist Bridget Read. Her latest piece for New York Magazin…
How Mormon Moms Came to Dominate American Media, Culture and Commerce - Bridget Read of New York Mag | Ep. 2130
Join us to speak with Bridget Read about her new article in New York Magazine entitled "Under the Mormon Influence: How the Women of Utah Blogged and Posted Their Way Into American Hearts and Wallets."
Bridget Read has been a writer at New York Magazine since 2019 and is the author of "Little Boss…
Coping With Looking "Natural"
What does it mean to cope with a beauty standard that pretends not to be a beauty standard at all?
This week, we’re talking about looking “natural” – which, in 2026 means botox in your 20s and three‑hour self-care routines.
Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore how “aesthetic inflation”, a co…
Bridget Read (on multilevel marketing)
Bridget Read (Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America) is a features writer, journalist, and author. Bridget joins the Armchair Expert to discuss working as a young writer at Vogue during the blog boom, how door-to-door salesmen evolved into multi-level marketing, and the wi…
Coping With Surveillance
We’re being watched: by surveillance cameras, safety tools, strangers in public, our own devices, and now by wearable tech that turns every interaction into potential content. Observation has become the ambient condition – part convenience, part paranoia.
This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderso…
Bridget Read (on multilevel marketing)
Bridget Read (Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America) is a features writer, journalist, and author. Bridget joins the Armchair Expert to discuss working as a young writer at Vogue during the blog boom, how door-to-door salesmen evolved into multi-level marketing, and the wi…
How to Write a Zeitgeisty Feature ft. Bridget Read
Bridget Read, a features writer at New York Magazine, gave listeners a behind-the-scenes look into her recent articles on digital privacy and Mormon pop culture. In this conversation with host Daniel Spielberger, Read offered tips on how to report on the zeitgeist and discussed topics like the trad…
A History of Pyramid Schemes and MLMs
MLMs vs. Pyramid Schemes… What is the difference? This week we dive deep into the History of the Pyramid Scheme and ultimately Multi-Level Marketing and learn that the difference between the two may not be as obvious as one may think…
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