Episodes

  • Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2
    Oct 8 2025

    Hello, Megacorp Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2!

    About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole families. Several fell out of high windows. Most of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says they're coincidental suicides—that the deceased were simply depressed. We don't think so...

    Sad Oligarch is an investigative podcast series that looks into the strange deaths of the Russian elite, unravelling a dark tale of Kremlin corruption and Putin's political dictatorship across the world. This is season two—Russian oligarchs are still dying and things have gotten even weirder...

    Listen here and subscribe to SAD OLIGARCH Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

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    3 mins
  • A Family Annihilation in Moscow
    Jun 14 2023

    On March 23rd 2022, affluent Russian businessman Vasily Melnikov was found dead alongside his family in their upscale Moscow apartment. They’d all been stabbed to death: Vasily, his wife, and their two sons aged 4 and 10 years old. The killings were brutal and tragic. In the crime scene photos one of the murder weapons can be seen. It's a Russian Special Forces combat knife...

    In this episode we investigate the Melnikov family annihilation. Did Vasily kill his whole family as the Russian police claim, or is something else going on?

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    32 mins
  • 11: Everything We’ve Learned About Amazon’s Bad Practice
    Mar 9 2022

    In this final episode of Megacorp we take a look back at all the scandal at the heart of Amazon that we’ve learned about through this series. For anyone not in the know, this can be their “too long didn’t read” introduction to everything we’ve uncovered throughout Megacorp.

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    21 mins
  • 10: Amazon’s Flex Driver Pyramid Scheme
    Mar 2 2022

    In the penultimate Megacorp episode we look into how Amazon got fined $60million for stealing money from the tips of their freelance delivery drivers.

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    18 mins
  • 09: Who Built Amazon’s Empire?
    Feb 16 2022

    In this episode we take a look at the man who built Amazon in his own image—Jeff Bezos, the richest man on earth.

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    39 mins
  • 08: Amazon’s Scandal Collection
    Feb 9 2022

    In this episode we take a look at various Amazon scandals that don’t fit in anywhere else, but within their own collection of shame.

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    23 mins
  • 07: Bezos and His Unsafe Rockets
    Feb 2 2022

    Today we look at how Amazon went into space. Bezos frames his Blue Origin commercial space project as a mission to help the human race, but is it just a dangerous billionaire fare ground ride?

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    24 mins
  • 06: Amazon's Deals with Global Intelligence Agencies
    Jan 19 2022

    Today we take a look at the hundred million dollars deals Amazon has done with both the CIA and MI6. Not only is Amazon spying on customers through home security technology, they're making cloud technology so spy agencies can better keep tabs on the rest of the world. Is this the beginning of a megcorporation dystopia?

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    23 mins