Busted Business Bureau

Christian Borkey

borkeyc@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

Busted Business Bureau is a comedy podcast that tackles real-world business scams, scandals, and shady legal/corporate stories with meticulous research. It’s a good booking target for PR folks who want guests from law, finance, media, and culture—framed with humor and “case study” storytelling.

Metrics

Episodes: 68

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 925 followers

Contact Information

borkeyc@gmail.com

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Host

Christian Borkey - The podcast is written and hosted by Christian Borkey. The episodes emphasize painstaking research into business scams, scandals, and shenanigans, with Christian guiding the format and discussion i...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Often a nontraditional expert or practitioner connected to the episode’s legal/financial/business theme (e.g., musicians familiar with copyright/sample issues; an artist/storyteller alongside research-based cases). Credentials are not consistently formal—guests appear as knowledgeable friends or relevant professionals rather than named executives or academics.
Required Achievements:  
Recognizable local/performance or creative work (e.g., known artist), Relevant professional experience to the episode’s legal/financial angle (e.g., musicians dealing with copyright/samples)

Recent Guest Discussions

Christian McCann - Copyrighting Music And The Legal/fee Issues Around Samples; Playing Riffs Accurately Enough To Avoid Copyright Takedowns.

Ariana Miles - Copyrighting Music And The Legal/fee Issues Around Samples; Playing Riffs Accurately Enough To Avoid Copyright Takedowns.

Jacob Ryan Reno - Hedge Fund Management; The Disgraced Wall Street Trader Sam Israel Iii; Commentary On Sources/book Used In Researching The Case.

Archie - The Minneapolis Aquatennial And Related History; Unions, Newspapers, Kidnapping-for-ransom Elements Tied To Businessmen And Documents.

Recent Topics

Business, Law, Finance, Corporate, Fraud

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Busted Business Bureau
:

Grand Upright Music v Warner Bros Records

June 29, 2026

I sing on this podcast about 3 times and you all have to be nice about it.  Ariana Miles and Christian McCann - two of Chicago's best and brightest pianos players - join me to discuss the hilarious world of trying to copyright a vibe. Why do we have to pay exorbitant fees for samples? Can you own a chord progression? Will Christian or Ariana play a piano riff accurately enough to get this episode taken down for copyright issues? If you're listening to this episode, they lost... The central fo...

The Bayou Hedge Fund Group

August 19, 2025

Terrible Portraits artist and longtime cherished friend Jacob Ryan Reno comes to make Hedge Fund Management ENTERTAINING AS ALL HELL! If you don't know this story, I highly encourage you to go in blind like Jacob did, because I fear I totally gagged him at the main climax of the story. We dive into the ultimate "not like other girls" disgraced Wall Street trader Sam Israel III. Third time's a charm for the Israel family no doubt as we really dig into the story of a guy with a tattoo of a litt...

The Minneapolis Aquatennial Coverup

August 04, 2025

You ever bestie so hard you and your homegirl's boyfriend wind up at drinks and podcasting? My dear friend Archie joins me in studio to talk about a geographically relevant piece of history for him: The Minneapolis Aquatennial! This is a pretty violent and bloody episode - I mean, what else were people up to in the 30s? - and is a long awaited union-sode! Along the way we'll talk trashy old newspapers, the kidnapping of a beer heir, and just how much businessmen will put on the line for...doc...

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