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Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback

Caloroga Shark Media

New episodes every Sunday with breaking epiosdes when stories develop.Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback takes you inside the most explosive conflicts between the world"s most powerful people. From Hollywood legends to political titans, tech billionaires to music superstars, we explore the psychology behind epic battles that captivate the public and reshape industries.When current events heat up—presidential administrations fracturing over policy, tech moguls clashing with world leaders, entertainment

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20:55

"The Five Days That Almost Killed AI: OpenAI's...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/11/09

November 17, 2023: OpenAI's board fires Sam Altman via Zoom, sparking the most dramatic coup in Silicon Valley history. Over five days during Thanksgiving week, 95% of employees threaten to quit, Microsoft offers to hire them all, and the board's idealistic attempt to slow AI development spectacularly backfires. From Ilya Sutskever's tearful betrayal and instant regret to Sam's chess master response that turned termination into triumph, Marcus Reid reveals how a nine-minute video call nearly

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17:42

Perez Vs. Quintanilla - "To Selena, With Love and...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/11/02

Thirty years after Selena's murder, her widower Chris Pérez and the Quintanilla family remain locked in bitter warfare over who owns her memory. From Abraham forbidding their romance to Chris's secret elopement with the Queen of Tejano, from the $50 million estate Chris was frozen out of to his banned memoir "To Selena, With Love," Marcus Reid exposes how grief became greed. Featuring brutal lawsuits, social media wars, and the Netflix series that erased Chris from his own love story. This Día de

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18:31

"The Amityville Horror Wars: America's Most Haunted Lie"

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/10/26

November 1974: Six members of the DeFeo family are murdered at 112 Ocean Avenue. A year later, the Lutz family flees after 28 days, claiming demonic possession. What follows is a four-way war over who owns America's most famous ghost story. From the lawyer who claims they invented it over wine, to the homeowners who sued for destroying their property values, to the Warrens who built careers validating the haunting, Marcus Reid uncovers the bitter feuds behind the bestseller and blockbuster.Featuring

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18:54

Halloween - Vampira vs Elvira - "Mistresses of the...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/10/19

January 2008: Maila Nurmi dies alone and penniless in her Hollywood apartment, three decades after creating Vampira, the original gothic horror hostess. Meanwhile, Cassandra Peterson lives in luxury built on Elvira, the character Nurmi swore was stolen from her. From the 1954 birth of sexy horror hosting to the brutal 1991 lawsuit that bankrupted the originator while enriching the imitator, Marcus Reid uncovers television's darkest plagiarism battle. Featuring Nurmi's groundbreaking fusion of sex

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19:14

Halloween - Kubrick vs King - "Here's Johnny! The...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/10/12

Stanley Kubrick turned Stephen King's most personal novel into a cinematic masterpiece—and King has never forgiven him. From the moment King watched Jack Nicholson prowl through Kubrick's cold corridors in 1980, he's waged war against the film that erased his story about alcoholism and redemption, replacing it with a meditation on inevitable madness. Featuring King's furious interviews calling the film "a beautiful Cadillac with no engine," Kubrick's silent dismissal of the criticism, and King's

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17:11

Karloff vs Lugosi - "The Monster Mash-Up: When...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/10/05

October 1956: Bela Lugosi dies in a charity ward, buried in his Dracula cape—the only valuable thing he owned. Boris Karloff sends flowers but doesn't attend, too busy earning $7,500 a week on Broadway. The monsters of Universal Horror spent thirty years locked in a bitter rivalry that began when Karloff's Frankenstein eclipsed Lugosi's Dracula and ended with one man a pauper, the other a millionaire. From their first film together in 1934 to Lugosi's final humiliation playing the Monster he once

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18:28

"Kelce vs Rodgers" & "Cardi B vs Bia" - "Double Shot:...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/09/28

Two feuds, one explosive night. First: NFL stars Travis Kelce and Aaron Rodgers transform from respected rivals into bitter enemies when Kelce's Pfizer endorsement triggers Rodgers' anti-vax rage. Add Taylor Swift to the mix, and you get conspiracy theories, "Mr. Pfizer" taunts, and a culture war played out on the gridiron.Then: Hip-hop's newest civil war erupts as Cardi B goes nuclear with receipts, playing voice memos that prove BIA stole her flows while claiming to be "100% authentic." From

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22:42

Kimmel vs. Trump - "Nice Work If You Can Keep It: The...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/09/21

September 17, 2025: Jimmy Kimmel Live goes dark. After FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination, ABC caves to pressure and pulls the show "indefinitely." Behind the corporate surrender: Nexstar's $6.2 billion merger hanging in the balance, death threats to Disney employees, and Donald Trump's twenty-year vendetta against the comedian who refused to stop mocking him. From Obama birther jokes to COVID callouts, from Oscar tweets

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19:26

Lilly vs Novo - "The Trillion Dollar Shot: Big...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/09/14

When Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk accidentally discovered that their diabetes drug caused dramatic weight loss, they triggered the most expensive corporate war in pharma history. Eli Lilly, caught flat-footed, launched a brutal counterattack: poaching scientists with million-dollar bribes, sabotaging supply chains, and racing to build $9 billion manufacturing fortresses. From celebrity endorsement battles to bugged apartments, from Swiss airport deal-making to construction site warfare,

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24:37

Disney vs. Netflix - "The Hundred Billion Dollar...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/09/07

November 2019: Disney+ launches to destroy Netflix. By 2025, they've destroyed everything—including themselves. From Bob Iger's $71 billion Fox acquisition to Reed Hastings' password crackdowns, from $450 million Knives Out deals to canceled HBO Max movies, this is how streaming's promise became Hollywood's apocalypse. Featuring the executive blood feuds, talent wars worth hundreds of millions, pandemic acceleration, double strikes, and David Zaslav's scorched earth rampage. Marcus Reid reveals how

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25:58

"SNL's 2025 Cast Massacre Echoes the Night Chevy...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/08/31

As Saturday Night Live fires half its cast in 2025's shocking "creative restructuring," we reveal the violent origin story of SNL's toxic culture: February 18, 1978, when Chevy Chase and Bill Murray's backstage fistfight left blood on Studio 8H's floor. From "Medium talent!" to thrown punches minutes before airtime, from John Belushi's cocaine-fueled attempts to break it up to Gilda Radner's tears, this is the fight that established SNL's brutal survival-of-the-cruelest mentality. Marcus Reid

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23:55

USA vs. Russia - "Do You Believe in Miracles? The...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/08/24

February 22, 1980. Lake Placid, New York. Mike Eruzione's wrist shot beats Vladimir Myshkin with ten minutes left in the third period. Al Michaels screams into his microphone: "Do you believe in miracles? YES!" In that moment, a team of American college kids didn't just defeat the Soviet hockey machine—they lit a fuse that would explode into 45 years of escalating conflict between superpowers.From Reagan's "Evil Empire" to Putin's revenge, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the invasion of Ukraine,

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17:53

Drake vs. Lamar - "They Not Like Us: The Diss Track...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/08/17

"Motherfuck the big three, it's just big me." With those words in March 2024, Kendrick Lamar ignited the most explosive rap battle in a generation. What followed was eighteen months of warfare that redefined hip-hop: leaked family photos, pedophile accusations, AI-generated Tupac verses, secret children exposed, a club anthem that became a victory lap, and a Super Bowl halftime show that served as a coronation.From their early collaboration on Drake's Club Paradise tour to the nuclear exchange that

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24:57

Star Trek vs. Star Wars - The Battle for the Stars....

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/08/10

What began as comic book competition became the defining entertainment war of the 21st century. In 1961, failing Atlas Comics challenged industry leader DC with the flawed heroes of Fantastic Four, sparking Stan Lee's "Brand Echh" campaign that revolutionized marketing. By 1972, Marvel had overtaken DC in sales, but success bred bitterness. Jack Kirby's 1970 departure to DC turned personal—he created villain "Funky Flashman" as vicious revenge against Stan Lee.The rivalry exploded into Hollywood

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22:16

Hulk Hogan vs. Andrè the Giant - "The Bodyslam Heard...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/08/03

March 29, 1987. The Pontiac Silverdome. 93,173 screaming fans witness the impossible as Hulk Hogan lifts all 520 pounds of André the Giant above his head and slams him to the canvas. It's the moment that transformed professional wrestling from regional carnival act to global phenomenon. But behind this iconic image lies a carefully orchestrated betrayal—a friendship destroyed by jealousy, ambition, and the ruthless vision of Vince McMahon. From the calculated destruction of a brotherhood to the

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41:56

"Oh My God, They Killed Comedy!" - Trump vs. South Park

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/07/30

When South Park returned after two years with a $1.5 billion deal, they didn't just mock Trump—they declared war. Their "Sermon on the 'Mount" episode showed a naked cartoon president in bed with Satan, sparked a White House meltdown, and exposed the systematic destruction of American comedy. But this isn't just about crude cartoons and hurt presidential feelings. This is about how Trump extracted $57 million from Disney, CBS, and Meta through "frivolous" lawsuits, forced Stephen Colbert off the

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26:18

Brad Pitt vs Angelina Jolie - Love, War, and the...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/07/27

From Hollywood's ultimate power couple to one of entertainment's most devastating divorces, this episode chronicles the complete collapse of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's relationship. What began as forbidden love on the set of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" evolved into a decade-long fairy tale romance that captivated the world—before exploding into eight years of legal warfare that would tear apart a family and cost millions in attorney fees.Host Marcus Reid takes listeners inside the September 2016

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27:51

Marvel vs. DC - The Ultimate Comic Book War. Superman...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/07/20

What began as comic book competition became the defining entertainment war of the 21st century. In 1961, failing Atlas Comics challenged industry leader DC with the flawed heroes of Fantastic Four, sparking Stan Lee's "Brand Echh" campaign that revolutionized marketing. By 1972, Marvel had overtaken DC in sales, but success bred bitterness. Jack Kirby's 1970 departure to DC turned personal—he created villain "Funky Flashman" as vicious revenge against Stan Lee.The rivalry exploded into Hollywood

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28:36

"Go Back Where You Came From" - Trump vs. Rosie...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/07/13

Nineteen years after Rosie O'Donnell called Trump a "snake-oil salesman" on The View, their feud just went nuclear. When the President of the United States threatened to revoke her citizenship, calling her a "threat to humanity," O'Donnell unleashed scorched earth revenge: Jeffrey Epstein client list accusations, sexual abuse allegations, and the most savage takedown in political history. From a 2006 Miss USA scandal to constitutional crisis, this is the story of how five minutes of truth-telling

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29:46

Lionel Messi vs. Cristiano Ronaldo - The Greatest of...

Feuds: Power, Pride, and Payback ·

2025/07/06

For 15 years, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo waged the most captivating rivalry in sports history. From Barcelona's La Masia academy to Madeira's poverty, both future legends overcame incredible odds to reach the top. Their El Clasico battles from 2009-2018 redefined football excellence, with both routinely scoring 50+ goals per season and trading Ballon d'Or victories. Ronaldo conquered Europe with Portugal in 2016 while Messi endured heartbreak after heartbreak with Argentina, even retiring

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