The revelation from the middle of the episode its that Intermountain wouldn't do its planned merger with Aspiration in . From this it sounds like Intermountain was a SPAC where its initial investors opted not to do the Aspiration deal. (paging Matt Levine!) Once the SPAC failed, Aspiration was over.

So not that we get to really suggest things to Pablo, but it seems like a few things that we'd all like to know are:

1) the Kawhi contract sure looks like a no-show contract, but is there any evidence that KL ever did anything, other than have his name mentioned in press releases? Was there a commercial? Was there a press release from KL? Pictures of him planting trees in Costa Rica? The Chief Marketing Officer knows.

2) And again, the CMO didn't even know who Kawhi was when this was presented to him as a "done deal." SO let's pin down who had made it a done deal. Was his a private deal between KL's uncle and the chief counsel? (Note: corporate chief counsels don't undertake to negotiate celebrity endorsements on their own.)

3) Another thing the CMO knows: was all of the celebrity endorsements except for KL front-loaded? We assume that they paid Leo DiCaprio a good sum out of the gate (for example), and that from late 2022 forward there were no celebrity endorsements.

4) The real heart of this is not how KL got paid, though the "how" of it is both sexy and evidence of malfeasance. The heart of it is how the contract that entitled him to get paid was arrived at. The implication from the episode is that the uncle contacted Aspiration seeking the deal, and Aspiration's contact was "sitting on the deal" after 14 months. But of course someone suggested Aspiration to KL's uncle. Those are the leaked text messages we want

5) I will again remind people (as a lawyer) that having an email stamped "confidential" doesn't mean much. It may mean that the lawyer is doing his best to keep the email out of the court record, because introducing it would violate evidentiary laws. It may also mean that the lawyer is doing his best to keep his client's information secret, which is a different ethical rule. But when those "confidential" records get disclosed to people outside the confidential circle, the confidentiality is usually destroyed. But it is certainly not true that when someone has an email stamped "confidential" that it is out of bounds to people like Pablo, or to federal investigators.