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Tom Green planting the seed that would change the future of broadcasting.

"This... You need to keep doing this. We need to figure out how you make money from this."

In 2007, Joe Rogan went on Tom Green's House Tonight, a show Tom Green hosted from his living room.

Joe was impressed by Tom's new way of streaming content directly online, avoiding traditional TV.

This got Rogan thinking about starting his own podcast. Two years later, in December 2009, Rogan launched The Joe Rogan Experience.

His podcast has since become the most popular in the world, known for its long, open conversations with a variety of guests. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1845294955725549571/vid/avc1/950x720/I0jrkds9Ew_aq3QO.mp4?tag=16

Kurt Cobain deliberately ruining his own performance to spite the crowd after they booed off a female band that opened for Nirvana https://t.co/oY5x481BRI https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1845187196732485633/vid/avc1/528x394/dWg7o4p7voN-BoL-.mp4?tag=16

On August 23, 1989, roughly 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania linked hands in a 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way, displaying a unified call for independence from Soviet rule, symbolizing peaceful resistance and the power of collective action. https://t.co/Fl9T0OK6Ph

A San Francisco startup, Pembient, is using biotechnology to 3D print fake rhino horns that match the real ones in genetic makeup. Their plan? To flood the Chinese market, where the demand for rhino horns has driven poaching to critical levels, with these synthetic alternatives. By selling these horns at a much lower price, about one-eighth of what poachers would get for real ones, they aim to make poaching less profitable, potentially saving rhinos from extinction.

The CEO, Matthew Markus, claims their lab-grown horns are even purer than those from wild rhinos, free from modern pollutants. Pembient's strategy is innovative, aiming to disrupt the black market by flooding it with affordable, indistinguishable fakes. They're even planning to introduce a beer in China made with this synthetic horn, perhaps to change how the product is viewed culturally.

While this approach could reduce poaching, it also raises questions about promoting the use of rhino horn in different contexts, which might affect conservation efforts in unforeseen ways.

A Coca-Cola employee offered to sell company secrets to Pepsi for 1.5 million dollars. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.

As high-ranking Coca-Cola employees, Joya Williams and her accomplice Ibrahim Dimson had access to many documents about Coca-Cola drinks and future projects. Williams and Dimson so called Pepsi and offered to sell all the executive secrets for $1.5 million.

Unfortunately for Williams and Dimson, Pepsi executives reported them to Coca-Cola and the FBI. The FBI then sent undercover agents posing as Pepsi executives. Those FBI undercover agents lured Williams and Dimson with a portion of the $1.5 million demanded and forced them to hand over the documents and the vial containing the chemical. Williams and Dimson were caught red-handed.

The FBI presented the proof of payment and the secrets to the court as irrefutable evidence. In 2007, Williams was sentenced to eight years in prison and Dimson to five years in prison.

A Pepsi spokesperson said, "We did what any responsible company would do. Competition can be fierce, but it also has to be fair and legal," according to CNN.

Eight years in prison is the sentence given to Joya Williams, the former Coca-Cola employee and five years to his accomplice, Ibrahim Dimson, who had attempted to sell the secret formula of the famous drink to competitor Pepsi without taking into account that, in addition to patents, the law also protects business secrets.