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 Jan 16, 2022

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Whether you love business news or feel like you’re supposed to know it but hate it, Business Pants is business news for humans. Snarky and irreverent, deeply researched and factual, a podcast devoted to market quirks and the humans that make up companies. Investing isn’t a what, it’s a who.


Episode Date
Conservative media dictatorships, manbaby secret clubs, and Zuck has a Casio
Jun 19, 2026
SpaceX fetish IPO, Trump’s Chinese phone, beef vs. Ebola, AI religious exemption
Jun 12, 2026
BLAME: Carnival data breach, Danone methane reduction, GM loses a director
Jun 02, 2026
BP’s bully pulpit, index funds hate your rights, Dell buys a contract, and baby name lies
May 29, 2026
Bezos spouts, CEOs hate employees, SpaceX IPO gaslights
May 26, 2026
GOOD GAME: Booing AI, Musk loses, BYD and public transit win, empty Waymos
May 19, 2026
Companies kill benefits, activist wants manly Victoria’s Secret, Buffett turns off the lights
May 15, 2026
BLAME: Coinbase’s AI job cuts, Starbucks’ $10 “affordable” coffee, Bezos at the Met
May 05, 2026
CEOs silent millions, DEI dies, Altman’s sorry, Gorman’s Disney problem, Chip Wilson won’t leave
May 01, 2026
IN OR OUT: New Rexnord and AIG CEOs, Dana White, Autodesk board refresh, Spirit Airlines
Apr 28, 2026
CEO turnover boom, Texas rejection, and white guy leadership victimhood (man feelings)
Apr 24, 2026
Tim Cook steps over, Swiss envy Singapore, Ford’s EV oops, and the corporate groin
Apr 21, 2026
Allbirds’ pivot, Illinois’ AI law allows nuclear war, Amazon’s dead worker, Reed Hastings steps off
Apr 17, 2026
BLAME GAME: Microsoft carbon fails, Booking.com hack, Amazon + OpenAI love, Sheriff and Feeler
Apr 14, 2026
Sam Altman the sociopath, reasons for hope, McD’s CEO says it’s mom’s fault, and men failing up
Apr 10, 2026
GOOD GAME: Activist takes our advice, EPA vs. microplastics, UA union deal, endless shrimp
Apr 07, 2026
Oracle’s bloodbath, Musk’s SpaceX, company “overstaff” gaslight, Jamie Dimon says
Apr 03, 2026
QUIZ: Air Canada’s CEO step down, Xerox governance, and Starbuck’s investors hate sugar
Mar 31, 2026
Meta is tobacco, Trump loves French oil, FedEx’s fake tariffs, “blame AI” CEOs, Larry Fink’s anxietywash
Mar 27, 2026
BAD GAME: Zuck’s AI CEO, Larry Fink worries about capitalism, Grab’s double extra vote shares
Mar 24, 2026
Return of the OG toxic bros, board pay security blankets, airlines whine, and wishing for EVs
Mar 20, 2026
NUGGS: Travis Kalanick is back, Peter Thiel takes back, airlines buyback, Starbucks union fights back
Mar 17, 2026
War on women, war on Iran, war on investors, but Jack Dorsey has a “Love” hat at least
Mar 13, 2026
BLAME GAME: Broadcom pay, McDonald’s burger, Geo Group “coup”, Iran war
Mar 04, 2026
Vanguard cowers, Dorsey’s AI employee apocalypse, Netflix flinches first, and Burger King’s HAL
Feb 27, 2026
Good news: Google’s data center, tariff rulings, Trump targets a director, and farmer says no
Feb 25, 2026
Goldman wipes DEI, AI will wipe white collar work, platforms censor ICE critics, and merit is a gaslight
Feb 20, 2026
2026 continues the bro-IPOs, plus OpenAI’s curious sexual discrimination firing
Feb 11, 2026
Epstein (non)accountability, Disney’s shiny CEO toy, Nike vs. EEOC, Texas oil blacklist is illegal
Feb 06, 2026
Epstein execs, Target’s new forceful boss, Disney new CEO, SpaceX mashups, and Pfizer’s inspiration
Feb 03, 2026
CEOs on ICE, the SEC kills small investors, the manchild economy, and AI navel gazers
Jan 30, 2026
The feckless Minnesota CEO response: George Floyd vs. Alex Pretti
Jan 28, 2026
Jamie Dimon is non-binary, Chip Wilson hates Chip Wilson at LULU, anti-woke winning the proxy
Jan 23, 2026
BLAME GAME: WestJet’s cramped seats, Walmart’s exec planning, SEC proxy voting, Netflix movie list
Jan 20, 2026
Brian Cornell and Target’s silence, Bill Ackman’s fat mouth, and the manbaby economy
Jan 16, 2026
Silence on Minnesota, public oil company graft, Grok’s children problem, where are investors
Jan 13, 2026
2026 Predictions: corporate governance ghosting, CEO retentions, mass labor movements
Jan 09, 2026
Venezuela oil exec takeover, Musk’s child exploitation, rich people are richer, and blowhards predict stuff
Jan 06, 2026
2025 QUIZ: women on boards, ESG regression, DEI rebrands, plus 2026 headline predictions
Dec 23, 2025
BP’s new CEO (and failed ex-chair), nepo tantrum at WBD, tech bros say life’s not worth it
Dec 19, 2025
McDonald’s CEO Kempczinski hates you, Tim Cook gets paid, Ryanair’s O’Leary retires (eventually)
Dec 16, 2025
No more proxy advice, Lululemon’s succession, CEOs just sayin, and Apple’s new lawyer
Dec 12, 2025
WHO DO YOU BLAME with Doug Chia: Paramount’s hostile daddy, protein Doritos, Kimmel’s contract
Dec 09, 2025
Costco does right, AT&T does DEI dirty, robot dog poop, billionaire safety nets
Dec 05, 2025
Dell’s $6bn “gift”, OpenAI’s code red, Costco as moral center, and proxy advisors say no to a director
Dec 02, 2025
WHO DO YOU BLAME: Campbell’s poor people rant, OpenAI sex bears, Kohl’s succession, Walmart HR
Nov 25, 2025
Cracker Barrel’s racist investors, no more shareholder proposals, and trigger headlines
Nov 21, 2025
Larry Summers distraction, SNAP governance, and Eli Lily’s David Ricks outs himself
Nov 18, 2025
Cracker Barrel’s activist and Disney say no to DEI, Doug McMillon steps down, Alex Karp’s ‘Rosebud’
Nov 14, 2025
Jamie Dimon says, Elon Musk says, robots love you, and Robby Starbuck’s new campaigns
Nov 11, 2025
Musk gets paid, the anti-anti-DEI wave starts, CEOs say the darndest things
Nov 07, 2025
Altman says stop being polite, tariffs bite, CA’s billionaire tax, Dimon will help Mamdani
Nov 04, 2025
TRICK OR TREAT: OpenAI is for profit, Goldman CEO can’t count women, John Malone “steps down”
Oct 31, 2025
BLAME GAME: Target layoffs, OpenAI vs. China, Hormel’s recall, F5’s cyber breach, and future terror
Oct 28, 2025
Musk’s robot army, East Wing payoffs vs. NBA scandals, and Benioff the Protector
Oct 24, 2025
Biggest CO2 spike ever, billionaire corporate nations, GenZ should proxy vote
Oct 21, 2025
RIP shareholder proposals (or views), Marc Benioff needs an off switch, and hot women hate cybertrucks
Oct 17, 2025
OpenAI goes porn, Jamie Dimon says things, Best Buy CEO can’t sleep, no more shareholder proposals
Oct 15, 2025
Bari Weiss is a DEIdeology hire, conservative foot shooting, Musk is rich, and CEO exits
Oct 10, 2025
QUIZ: Japan’s MAGA, Asia’s influential women, robot taxes, Tim Cook’s replacement
Oct 07, 2025
War on women, bro-co-CEOs, fake CEO retirement, and boards say vote them out
Oct 03, 2025
IS IT GOOD? AI regs in Cali, EU -37% carbon +60% GDP, white dudes are winning board seats
Sep 30, 2025
Kenvue is a target because Trump can’t say acetaminophen, billionaires want you to shut up and work, and more Disney
Sep 26, 2025
Kimmel’s back ex Sinclair, Oracle’s 4x CEOs, Office Depot’s gay wedding designer moment
Sep 23, 2025
Kimmel and Disney’s political expedience, Exxon bought its vote, and algorithmic autocracy
Sep 19, 2025
Charlie Kirk corporate censorship, cutting back earnings reporting, Exxon buys its votes
Sep 16, 2025
Murdoch and Ellison, Voter choice at Vanguard, and Charlie Kirk and the hopeless man problem
Sep 12, 2025
NUGGETS: AI bro on AI crime, Apple chair takes $20m, Conoco CEO’s my bad, Murdoch identifies Australian
Sep 09, 2025
Nestle fires CEO, Trump’s tech dinner, Harvard wins, and Norway not allowed to divest
Sep 05, 2025
The Stupid Awesome Game: Nestle’s CEO fired, sharks are woke, Tesla’s shareholder proposals
Sep 02, 2025
Intel robbed the US government, the anti-DEI losing trade, the DEI purge, and Bezos feels “icky”
Aug 29, 2025
Cracker Barrel bends over, Zuck’s gift of headphones, Lisa Cook fights, and Kimbal says “pay the man”
Aug 27, 2025
Trump’s ESG scorecard, Cracker Barrel logo meltdown, and trees are bad for climate change
Aug 22, 2025
QUIZ: The shirt proxy vote at O’Reilly’s, Alex Karp’s elite board, Crowdstrike’s equity award, Target’s CEO search
Aug 19, 2025
Chairman Trump’s capitalist takeover, Walmart feeds employees, revised climate reports, fake jobs data
Aug 15, 2025
Nvidia’s graft payment, Apple’s 24kt gold gift, Jassy says fire more, Zuck enables stalkers, and Texas flesh eating flies
Aug 12, 2025
Intel CEO Tan’s Trump problem, AT&T CEO Stankey’s memo, and Duolingo’s new “manbro” language
Aug 08, 2025
Barclays quits climate group for climate, Tesla’s fake pay, CEOs are men, Harley’s golf CEO: Nuggets
Aug 05, 2025
Wells Fargo abandons governance, Scharf’s payout, Brown extorted, Barclays’ climate bail, and cowering
Aug 01, 2025
Rate It: GL/ISS sue Texas, Honolulu sues oil, Starbuck’s Mesopotamian employees, Hooters
Jul 29, 2025
The enigma of Satya Nadella’s board, kiss cam fallout, and Glass Lewis and ISS fight back (finally)
Jul 25, 2025
Kiss cam surveillance, director “license”, baby antisemitic Grok, and “woke” is dead
Jul 22, 2025
NEO turnover, Yaccarino sexually harassed by xAI, Dollar Tree’s buyback, and Ackman’s tennis career
Jul 11, 2025
BLAME GAME: Fishback’s meritocracy, Forward Air’s missing 8k, Carnival’s hip hop, Robinhood’s crypto
Jul 08, 2025
Buffett donations, Bezos’ nuptials, racist investors, and Musk is sorry
Jul 03, 2025
Musk’s “America Party”, director nonassessments, Hoag’s Netflix rejection, and Zuck’s manhood
Jul 01, 2025
Zaslav’s payday, Tesla’s robotaxi test, AI cash burn “for humanity”, tech boys love defense spending
Jun 20, 2025
Kraft de-dyes, Zaslav’s fake pay drop, Amazon’s hour of SAF, Whirlpool finds a woman
Jun 17, 2025
Boeing crash, Starbucks discovers people, Texas bans Texas, everyone’s a coward (except Hulk Hogan)
Jun 13, 2025
Zaslav loses, Texas is put on Texas’s ESG ban list, and a Netflix director is busy
Jun 10, 2025
BlackRock back in Texas, pride out everywhere, Zevra’s proxy battle, “reverse discrimination”, and Taser billions
Jun 06, 2025
FTC advertiser war, defense is ESG at Allianz, yoga climate goals, Musk v. Trump, and immortal (rich) humans
Jun 03, 2025
Musk is a fake, Boeing’s sweet deal, Tesla investors like fraud, UHG’s vote, and penguin poop
May 30, 2025
Blame game: Tesla’s EU sales plunge, Pepsi climate rollback, Ball CFO leaves, Meta’s renewable buy
May 27, 2025
Harvard directors on boards, Verizon trades DEI for Frontier, and Blackrock’s new “Whatever” fund prediction
May 23, 2025
Executives hate their boards, Musk out donations, Walmart eating tariffs, and W is for Woke
May 20, 2025
Sir Witty avoid fraud probe, the anti-woke think Exxon is woke, investors are confused about Harley
May 16, 2025
Andrew Witty gets paid, steps down, stays on, John R Tyson sucks at his job, gets board seat, and other nuggets
May 13, 2025
Proxy firm fight at Harley, CEO Pope names, Zuck’s people replacement plan, Tyson names Tysons to board
May 09, 2025
Kohl’s romantic CEO, Meta’s pony tail fetish, CEO pay confusion, and Goldman hates the word “black”
May 06, 2025
Blame game: Amazon’s tariffs, ChatGPT’s personality, Starbucks’ union negotiation, Novavax’s new board member
Apr 29, 2025
Business Roundtable wants to end shareholder proposals, Subaru’s knobs, OpenAI hate humans, and Ralph Lauren’s line of 2x4s
Apr 25, 2025
ICYMI: Baby boys want all the energy and books, Google/Meta lawsuits, and shareholders cower before Exxon
Apr 23, 2025
Sam Altman says Miyazaki should get over it, AI vs A1, and Zuck testifies
Apr 16, 2025
Adverbs are bad, tariffs are bigly, Enron’s desk gets pardoned, cybertruck flipoff metrics
Apr 07, 2025
CEO chokes, Trump’s tariff penguins, ESG needs a spine, chicken nuggets, and Starbuck at Heritage
Apr 04, 2025
France is for DEI, Primark CEO #MeToo, Tesla rage, Fink’s new-old letter, and Bill Burr needs a job at ISS
Apr 01, 2025
Nikola investors lose, climate targets accelerate, oil execs buy Teslas, and ISS can’t find ANYTHING WRONG at BP
Mar 28, 2025
Who to blame: Hormel’s CEO search, “eat now pay later”, DOI vs. DEI, and Signal’s woke board
Mar 25, 2025
Tesla neglect, Musk’s hurt feelings, anti-woke boohoos, and Ben & Jerry’s mission governance
Mar 21, 2025
Jamie Dimon says death to ISS, billionaire snowflakes, board burnout, CEOs feel “stuck” by Trump
Mar 18, 2025
ISS’s Disney flip flop, EPA sells cars now, OpenAI demands no guardrails, and CEOs get $$$
Mar 14, 2025
Conservative snowflake word policing, illegal to boycott Tesla, Qantas’ chair, and nepobaby merit in Biz Nuggets
Mar 11, 2025
Kroger’s CEO fired, State Street’s ESG loss, meritocracy is fake, and corporate blame games
Mar 07, 2025
GOOD GAME: ESG is now “resilience”, Kroger’s CEO leaves, Tesla owners hate Musk, State Street loves nominating committees
Mar 04, 2025
The WWEification of the US, Capital One’s keeping the interest, and DEI “wins” at Apple
Feb 28, 2025
Blame Game: Buffett’s genetic skill, United Health’s shareholder pushback, JPM Dimon’s flip floppery
Feb 25, 2025
The joke of meritocracy, unhalted engagements at Blackrock, and Coca-Cola's DEI double down
Feb 21, 2025
Blackrock and Vanguard “pause” corporate meetings, SEC’s boardroom power shift in the sarcastic Good Game
Feb 19, 2025
Goldman: DEI has “served its purpose”, ISS: no DEI “factors”, and passive investors: stop proxy voting
Feb 14, 2025
BIZ NUGGETS: ISS’s gender/race pivot, plastic straws, Disney’s DEI backpeddle, and WFH with a helicopter
Feb 12, 2025
Musk’s DOGE is an investor problem, make the anti-DEI movement measure merit, and nanoplastic teaspoons
Feb 07, 2025
Who do you blame? WF’s Scharf’s pay raise, Target’s DEI drop, Ryder’s governance fail, Walgreen’s stock plunge
Feb 04, 2025
Deepseek’s $30 AI, negative ESG news is a buying opportunity, and the suckup economy
Feb 01, 2025
GOOD GAME: Deepseek vs. tech manbabies, Blackrock vs. Tennessee, Dimon vs. the anti-DEI
Jan 28, 2025
DEI and manflakes, CEO pay hikes, Microsoft reforests, Air Products, Will Hild’s a middle schooler, and cheese
Jan 24, 2025
The American Oligarchs, alpha male cosplaying tech bros, TikTok and the US company China Threat, and retiring DEI
Jan 17, 2025
NUGGETS: “Retiring” DEI, Meta’s masculine energy, meritocracy of Dana White, CEO replaced by CEO, and activist action
Jan 14, 2025
2025 Predictions: goodbye shareholder rights, the anti DEI movements wins (and loses), and woke retail zones
Jan 10, 2025
Costco vs. racist investors, tech bro victimhood, Altman cries, and Zuck sucks up
Jan 08, 2025
2024 News of the Year
Dec 20, 2024
Walmart’s award, E.L.F.’s award, and the real top 100 methodology
Dec 17, 2024
Witty’s op-ed, billionaire permitting, Murdoch loses
Dec 13, 2024
Health care fallout, plus the 100 Most Powerful People in Business dissected
Dec 10, 2024
An NEO murder, Musk’s pay re-re-reversal, a woke lawsuit for BLK, and corporate cowardice
Dec 06, 2024
A Portrait in Corporate Patriotism with Greg Penner of Walmart, plus a game that gives thanks
Nov 26, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: WWE government, Jaguar and the non-US anti-woke movement, airline CEO blowhards
Nov 22, 2024
Get surprised: Bakkt acquisition, investors love Air Products’ board, Vanguard’s 4 for 1 policies, and KFC China CEO’s weird fetish
Nov 19, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Meritocracy RIP, Jamie Dimon’s governance take, missing 8K at Tesla, and Kraft Heinz’s bad week
Nov 15, 2024
“Your body, my choice”, billionaires want you to have their babies, and a 4 year “skip Trump” cruise
Nov 12, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Did accountability die in capital markets? Plus, CEOs win, climate passes, and monkeys escape
Nov 08, 2024
Who would you elect? Zuck vs. John Arnold, Boeing now vs. Boeing before, driving a Tesla vs. driving anything, and Howard, Susan, or Peter Buffett
Nov 05, 2024
TERRIFYING: 23andMe’s board, “dangerously cold” ice cream, and the governance US election
Oct 29, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: McDonald’s had a week, Southwest’s board “shakeup”, Boeing’s board get sued, and Techno Optimism revisited
Oct 25, 2024
POP QUIZ: Roblox, female leadership, HSBC’s glass cliff CFO, and Jana vs. Lamb Weston’s econ majors
Oct 22, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: CVS’s board coup, Zuck’s firing spree, and “social independence” board fines
Oct 18, 2024
THE GOOD GAME: EV sales are UP, E.L.F.’s “Not So White Paper”, GSK’s $2.3bn settlement, Musk confuses Vegas
Oct 15, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Pfizer’s Yale backer, Boeing’s intransigence, and Hindenburg’s Roblox hellscape
Oct 11, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Toyota’s DEI flipflop, not WeWork WeWork, AI > climate change, and the Buzzfeed obsession
Oct 08, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Dockworker strike/unstrike, Texas stock exchange is not woke, and parrots fight back
Oct 04, 2024
QUIZ: Texas Stock Exchange’s DEI board, CVS activist, Schwab’s new CEO, and Weight Watcher’s new CEO
Oct 01, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: CommerzBank’s new crystal waterfall CEO, ex-Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun’s last laugh, OpenAI’s flipfloppers, and Jamie Dimon says
Sep 27, 2024
GOOD GAME: Female director mandate in UAE, Cards Against Humanity vs. Musk, and Amazon’s transpo problem
Sep 24, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: 23andMe board resigns, Tyson food’s “smart beef” lawsuit, anti-ESG law killing proxies
Sep 20, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing’s strike costs 3 Dave Calhouns, Robby Starbuck < board cowards, and Musk makes men own 100% again
Sep 17, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Alan Shaw’s fun times, Southwest has no board left, D&D AI, Deere’s DEI hypocrisy
Sep 13, 2024
THE GOOD GAME: Southwest’s board shakeup, Norfolk’s CEO gone, one Peltz off Wendy’s, and Newsmax’s IPO
Sep 10, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: VW’s ex CEO trial, Hasbro is a healthcare company, shorting testosterone, and big oil curriculum
Sep 06, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: DEI u-turns, AI and Facebook hear you cough, Calhoun’s giggle in space, and ESG proposal zero support
Sep 03, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Telegram’s Durov arrested, Starbuck’s new remote worker, DEI coward data, Musk threatens a judge
Aug 30, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s pay vote, OpenAI’s new board bro, Google’s monopoly, market meltdown, vegetable health care, and cybertruck google eyes
Aug 09, 2024
GOOD GAME: Musk’s montessori play, Google’s antitrust, and woke-free zones, plus unfettered board intelligence
Aug 06, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s new CEO, Amazon’s assassination sales drop, unelected directors, machism is so IN, and Zuckerberg’s swear
Aug 02, 2024
Who’s Fault Is It Anyway? Director’s behind headline, plus the DEI-iest boards in the US
Jul 30, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Kamala, Boeing guilty of fraud, solar production boom, and bony boneless wings
Jul 26, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing Starliner gets “closer”, Palmer Luckey’s car mansion, and DEI presidents, plus a list of boards as old as Trump
Jul 23, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Crowdstrike’s dual class, Roaring Gen Z, DEI cutting board members, and Tesla’s coffee mug problem
Jul 19, 2024
GOOD GAME: Record EPA penalty, OpenAI board moves, human games at Nintendo, and hippos
Jul 16, 2024
GOOD GAME: Prescription vapes, 5:1 CEO ratio, climate in exec pay, proxy perks, and IMMUNITY DIRECTORS
Jul 02, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Chesky’s AI friends, Gilead’s HIV shot, dual class Dolans, philanthropy washing, and a Giant Wiper
Jun 28, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS ft Tesla’s Giant Wiper, Starliner’s one way trip, AI triple meetings, Dolan hires self, an Autodesk quiz, and sidelining nerds
Jun 25, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP with Tesla’s vote, Supreme Court’s fakeout, Tyson’s heir, and Disney’s 3D chess
Jun 14, 2024
THE GOOD GAME featuring carbon offsets, Apple AI, and AI pizzas, plus airline board skillz and Vivek’s BuzzFeed shoulda list
Jun 11, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Jewish female climate scientists win, Robyn Denholm’s payday, indestructible metal, and anti-woke stock exchanges
Jun 07, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS, featuring Darren Woods feels bullied, renewables are energy Ozempic, and which board has more skills
Jun 04, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Exxon wins, Vivek’s dual class education, bird flu in alpacas, and Helen Toner says we were right
May 31, 2024
THE GOOD GAME, with DOJ vs. Live Nation, Glass Lewis says no to Elon, and a director throwdown: Top Five CEO Payers
May 28, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: OpenAI week, CalPERS vs. Exxon, Meta’s AI bro board, and Google’s blinker fluid
May 24, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS featuring Boeing investors, Exxon’s board, OpenAI vs. ScarJo, “superalignment”, and a “pointless director” list
May 21, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s AGM is embarrassing, ISS changes its stance on CEO pay, and E.L.F. Beauty’s Dick campaign
May 17, 2024
THE GOOD GAME including carbon capture, EU ESG rules, and Tesla parking lots, plus E.L.F.’s “Richard” power on boards
May 14, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Norfolk’s half win, Dorsey and the board, batteries in CA, child labor at McDonald’s, and woke vs. not woke food
May 10, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS with Boeing’s new investigation, “non technical” epithets, and Qantas, plus TOP FIVE CONNECTED BOARDS
May 07, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Paramount’s dual class disaster, high speed rails, Philips pays out, and UAW wins
May 03, 2024
GOOD GAME, plus director Hall of Famers and directors with the MOST RESTATEMENTS
Apr 30, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Bans of TikTok and non-competes, ADM’s audit committee, Oklahoma’s anti-ESG rollback, and space junk
Apr 26, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS, with Tesla’s pay, Cybertrucks, and SBTi, plus Top 5 most influential directors and female powered companies
Apr 23, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Tesla’s proxy gaslight, DEI gets twisted, McDonald’s French fry smell, and e-scooters win
Apr 19, 2024
THROWDOWN: The Good Game wraps, and introducing DIRECTOR PERFORMER LISTS
Apr 16, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL DOMINATES, SWISS WOMEN LEAD THE WAY, NEPO BABIES ARE…BABIES, AND THERE’S A NEW DATING APP IN TOWN
Apr 12, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Disney wins, China’s mother friendly benefits, Texas uses Boeing vs. DEI, and Meta’s racist AI
Apr 05, 2024
MARCH MADNESS GOOD GAME: Round 2, including Musk quashing free speech and Google’s Incognito delete
Apr 02, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s quasi shakeup, childcare profits, Fink’s letter, and free director data
Mar 29, 2024
THE ALL BOEING BIZ NUGGETS: Calhoun, Kellner leaving, but the cronyism is here to stay!
Mar 26, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Reddit pops, Anguilla wins the AI race, ISS is pointless, ISS sucks, and who pays for ISS
Mar 22, 2024
GOOD GAME: March Madness edition! Get your bracket ready for best headlines of the last year…
Mar 19, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: OpenAI’s Facebook board, QVC’s racist, clean energy investment spikes, and an MSCI EM ESG ETF down 0%
Mar 15, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing fails audits, Blackrock’s engagement “resource constraints”, Altman is back on top
Mar 12, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: SEC’s new climate rule, JetBlue’s dead merger, ISS’s “ESG skeptic” policy, and Musk v. MacKenzie Scott
Mar 08, 2024
THE GOOD GAME: Blackrock’s “transition finance”, SOC drops the SBUX slate, and Musk sues OpenAI - is it all GOOD?
Mar 05, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Starbucks pivots on unions, Pornhub could regulate social media, the Business Roundtable is with Exxon, and Dr. Jones wins
Mar 01, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing loses a wing, Wayfair’s “great” layoffs, Elon’s tunnel ooze, Toyota’s “unexpected movement”, and Norfolk’s “board”
Feb 27, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Reddit’s dual class fake public IPO, Tesla can’t expand, Boeing’s “culture refresh”, and pork flavored everything
Feb 23, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Reddit’s IPO, activist slate madness, and Norfolk Southern’s day of re-reckoning-ish
Feb 21, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: JPM, SSgA, and climate quitters, Disney’s board vs. unions, Ford’s CEO is a sore loser, and Delta pays employees
Feb 16, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Tesla runs stuff over, Boeing’s bathroom math, and Voter (lack of) Choice at Blackrock
Feb 15, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Money and drugs at Tesla, NH doesn’t criminalize ESG, Exxon’s investors love a board that sues them, Southwest’s tiny butt seats
Feb 09, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Governance risk abounds, Musk to “shut up, not step down”, Meta’s Oversight Board oversight, and Blackrock Sez
Feb 07, 2024
MONDAY NUGGETS: Directors at Tesla used drugs too! Exxon keeps suing! Novo Nordisk’s surprise! AI gets an HR rep!
Feb 05, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s poor now, woke-free beer is also governance free, Stuart Kirk loves governance, Meta investors celebrate child exploitation
Feb 02, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Do we finally care about who’s on the board after they pay Elon Musk $55bn… and it’s rescinded?
Jan 31, 2024
MONDAY NUGGETS: Forget ESG! What is the point of ESG! Governance is hypocrisy! Also, TKO, Boeing, LVMH, OpenAI, Tesla’s governance problems…
Jan 29, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Exxon sues their owners, Florida bans social media, the Empty Chair at Starbucks, billionaire insider trading, and Dwayne Johnson wins
Jan 26, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Director of the week is an Empty Chair at Starbucks, plus revisiting Boeing’s “skills” matrix (not on there: door plugs)
Jan 24, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Board "takes seriously” ADM accounting probe, Boeing door plugs suck everywhere, Musk’s hostage situation, Dollar General’s DEI>growth?
Jan 22, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s ultimatum, the millionaire’s tax fund, NH criminalizes ESG, Meta does child sexual harassment super well
Jan 19, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Tesla’s board held hostage, Boeing’s board sucks, Disney’s board slate omission, OpenAI’s board confusion
Jan 17, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s teary CEO, St. Paul’s all-female city council, Bill Ackman’s plea for sympathy, Gen-Z missed COP, and SBUX “ethical” sourcing
Jan 12, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Bill Ackman removed the I from DEI, and Boeing’s board gets a bro report
Jan 10, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Weekend roundup including Boeing’s missing airplane wall, Ackman’s soft logic, OpenAI admits to stealing, and ESG in Kentucky
Jan 08, 2024
2024 PREDICTION SHOW: AI Insurance, FedEx board turnover, Musk FIRES Linda Yaccarino, volcanic rock dust, unions, and Disney succession
Jan 05, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Bill Ackman’s DEI rant, Musk’s DEI rant, Harvard’s DEI board, and the idiocy of the anti-DEI movement
Jan 03, 2024
2023 PREDICTIONS? We sucked at them
Dec 29, 2023
CORPORATE THEATER HOLIDAY PLAY: The succession of Klaus Industries
Dec 24, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: The 2023 Anti-Woke Awards Show
Dec 20, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: 2023 YEAR IN REVIEW... bigger a$$hole, Musk or investors? More exhausting, climate change or discrimination? Happier, labor strikes or royal family clauses? Plus, the winner of the year
Dec 15, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY NUGGETS: The Altman text chain! The COP28 nudge of the future! Elon Musking! Conservative Disney! And all the other nuggets...
Dec 13, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Greedflation works! Tesla blockades! COP28 attendees flew a looong way! Taco Bell's "stain resistant sheets"! Plus, Bill Ackman, STFU!
Dec 08, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Iger will "definitely" probably step down, Altman was not "candid", the GOP hates SBTi, ISS, and Glass Lewis, plus AT&T's political congruency
Dec 06, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Mungeer dies, Musk says "go eff yourself", the 2 year geothermal plant, State Street's "voter choice" gaslight, Monsanto's toxic lights
Dec 01, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Charlie Munger RIP, we were right on OpenAI, and a business news headline Who Wore It Better game
Nov 29, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: The death of governance via Bret Taylor and Larry Summers, scapegoating the women at OpenAI, and the protected tech class
Nov 22, 2023
MONDAY SPECIAL: Sam Altman, OpenAI's real governance, and the cheapest acquisition of a 90bn company by Microsoft
Nov 20, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Musk's an antisemite, Musk's antisemite enablers, the "glass defense," the Big Four's first female CEO, and the Monopoly Go obsession
Nov 17, 2023
FANCY EXPERT: NYU Stern professor Alison Taylor talks ethics, transparency, and ESG
Nov 16, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Union voting AGAINST their settlement, McDonald's sexual harassment, MSCI's (non) conflict of interest, and NYU's Alison Taylor interview clip
Nov 15, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Vince McMahon is a risk factor, the ghost of Adam Neumann, the ghost of Bob Iger, Meta's Oversight Gaslight, and checkout robots unionize
Nov 10, 2023
FANCY EXPERT: The Nell Minow Podcast
Nov 09, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Anti-anti-anti-anti woke news, an absurdist good game, a clip from the great Nell Minow, and a word from our sponsor ESGauge
Nov 08, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: China's robot population, Bumble's executive chair, chatbot liars, AI CEOs, and Starbucks' Two Pump Dumps
Nov 06, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Union victories, SBF defeats, Uber driver victories, 2050 target defeats, weight-loss drug victories, and glass cliff CEO defeats
Nov 03, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Good? ESG? News? Plus Bio-Techne's governance joke, groupthink measured at IBM, and a new show announcement
Nov 01, 2023
SPOOKY MONDAY KETCHUP: Scariest headlines, who will survive after the auto strikes, and a terrifying fact about "public companies"
Oct 30, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Israel over Lewiston, billionaire pays millions, Engine No 1 does a number 2, Chipotle passes on costs and e coli for efficiency
Oct 27, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY EXPERT EDITION: JON LUKOMNIK JOINS THE SHOW!!!
Oct 25, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP GAME SHOW EDITION: SAD BILLIONAIRES, AMAZON SELLS URINE ENERGY DRINKS, HAIR TO THE RESCUE IN VENEZUELA, SCOTTISH WATER, AND CORPORATE JARGON THAT WEIRDS OUT GEN Z
Oct 23, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Techno-Optimist human nihlism, shirtless CEOs, GM unionizes (a bit), Tesla's creepy terminators, operatic gender balance, and NLPC's greatest proxy yet
Oct 20, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Marc Andreessen hates ESG (and “ethics”), glass cliff update, anti-woke is now “parallel economy”, and 5 things we hate to defend
Oct 18, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Rite Aid’s bankrupt (board), CEOs rule (countries), Ford’s America loses (more CEO pay), Universal is Disney, things we hate and things we hate to love
Oct 16, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: CEOs and the war, MSFT and XOM deals closing, Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize, OpenAI’s “flexible” core values, $341bn low wage share buybacks, and aliens vs. ESG
Oct 13, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Everything bad happens on X, Walgreens new fake CEO, Goyder fake apologizes, and it’s all motherhood’s fault
Oct 11, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: CEOs with big curly hair look like criminals, an Uber killer has arrived with actual employees, and rich people continue to lie about stuff
Oct 06, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: RETURN OF THE GOOD GAME!
Oct 04, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: DOJ uncovers ‘embarrassing’ court doc, Tesla gets sued, Fink calls for ‘more hope’ and an SBF QUIZ in honor of his trial starting tomorrow
Oct 02, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Verizon CEO’s mood tracker, strikes strikes and more strikes, human body shield CEOs, GET OFF OF TWITTER, and exhausting lady bit part costs
Sep 29, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Qantas’ glass cliff CEO gets grilled, Verizon CEO Vestberg’s “mood data”, sneaky GOP DOL ESG rules, and Tay made a man woke
Sep 27, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Lego bails on oil-free foot damage, EV's tire problem, child labor at Tyson and Purdue, and Altria's the BEST board of the week
Sep 25, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Murdoch is OUT, replaced by Murdoch! Biden's Climate Corps launches! Bjorn Gulden's sympathizes, apologizes for Kanye! Qantas pays glass cliff janitor CEO less!
Sep 22, 2023
EXPERT BONUS: Daniel Cash, author of A Modern Credit Ratings Agency, talks how credit ratings history bears on ESG ratings future
Sep 21, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: ESG adjacent headlines, carbon disclosure, and an SBTi special look with words from fancy expert Daniel Cash
Sep 20, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Rate the stupid with Jann Wenner, Vivek's 64 degree Army Rangers, Clorox's cyber experts, and DocGo's fake degrees; Plus, Dirtiest Directors on Earth
Sep 18, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: UAW's strike, Looney resigns, Carrefour's shrinkflation labels, anti-woke = ESG, lithium vs. Native Americans, and a Disney sale prediction
Sep 15, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: The Oily show, with BP's Looney exit and next CEO prediction, NFL's oilmen are racists, and Vince McMahon's lifetime appointment
Sep 13, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Brattiest CEO, saddest stakeholder news, most dystopian headline, CEOs jailed, and a Friday roundup
Sep 11, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Qantas glass cliff siren, Elon headline roundup, and Aubrey Capital's ESG clickbait op-ed is idiotic? (question mark)
Sep 06, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Roz Brewer jumps off the glass cliff, Nissan's battery re-use, Tariq Fancy blows HARD, ignoring "fluffy" ESG metrics, and West Virginia's con game
Sep 01, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Anti-woke proxy vote dilution, bad members stay bad at 3M and Boeing, and Tariq Fancy's underqualified underqualification quote
Aug 30, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Blackrock votes with management (gasp), Jim McRitchie wants more than 10 seconds to vote, Hispanic directors lose, and IT'S TIME TO RECLAIM THE ESG ACRONYM
Aug 25, 2023
MONDAY TEN: MSFT's AI travel guide to the food bank, Iowa's AI book bans, Kalanick's fail up academy, Meta is a utility, ships use wind, and BM of the Week Lakshmi Mittal
Aug 21, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Montana kids win on climate, CalSTRS "punishes" directors by doing their job, Hawaiian Electric is the new PG&E, and the Uihleins are billionaire nepos
Aug 18, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: DeSantis has "moved on" from Disney, Damion does Discover Financial's succession plan, Montana kids win climate ruling, and NYC pensions look to toss anti-oil suit
Aug 16, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: SBF's in jail, women just need "P&L experience", Blankfein wants back, Starbucks wins diversity challenge, McDonald's hides the ESG, and BM of the Week Tim Kenesey at Kraft Heinz
Aug 14, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: 49ers Jed York gets himself chegged, UPS applications spike, Live Nation's bros are the real "Summer of Women" winners, and Zoom flipflops an AI training
Aug 11, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: S&P ditches ESG (but doesn't), AA gets sued for ESG (but isn't), Missouri bans ESG through paperwork, and Zoom wants its employees to avoid its AI
Aug 09, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Top 9 stories with Tesla shakeups, Nikola's new board member of the week, Tyson Foods, and Zoom's using your therapist calls for AI
Aug 07, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: shiny glass cliffs, AI Jesus, dual class shares enable sexual harassment, and Florida still sucks
Aug 04, 2023
WOKE NUGGETS: Uber populist math, AI Abe Lincoln and Jesus, trips to Venus, steering at Tesla, and the war on woke nobody asked for
Aug 02, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Weekend top fives with wind-powered cargo ships, AI and Palantir's F-U share class, Musk's unregulated spaces, FERC's grid moves, Royal Caribbean smog, and Jessie says "gender matters"
Jul 31, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: AI's voluntary guardrails (that always works!), OilyFans BP billboard, tech bro layoff earnings, and how women more likely to be replaced by AI
Jul 28, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Interview with House Rep. from Ill. Sean Casten of the House Financial Services Committee on ESG, wokeism, and having Republican friends
Jul 26, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Barbie’s Wokeness, Voluntary AI Guardrails, Elon’s Brother Gets Xed, and Free Float Sunscreen Products
Jul 24, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Tesla's director clawback, the Data Prince is born, Public Square's anti-ESG pro-patriotic dual class shares, women's soccer non-pay, and a Miles White/Miles Satterwhite rivalry
Jul 21, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Tesla's director pay clawback, Blackrock's new oily board member, Strive strives to be less political, and investors are petrified to do their jobs voting
Jul 19, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Top ten including Public Square SPACs itself, billionaire mental health, and Zaslovian Venmo requests, plus board member of the week from UPS
Jul 17, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Conference roundup, conservative ESG month, Iger's self extension, auto-besity, Florida insurance, and anti-woke-cancels
Jul 14, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Neumann's upfail, Activision deal, Ramaswamy buys ESG stocks, and ESG MONTH: roundup of 18 conservative law proposals on ESG!
Jul 12, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Threads > ChatGPT, Musk manboys Zuck, Ant Group's fine, restaurant bill healthcare surcharge, and Director of the Week from Free Float Analytics
Jul 10, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Supreme suckage, cars get their knobs back, Leo DiCaprio is our trusted scientist, Carnival superpollutes, conservative safe spaces, Threads, and Larry Fink stops the ESG
Jul 07, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Massive woke headline catchup, plus we define anti-woke methodology at last
Jul 05, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: The technically challenged edition, but our platform launched, Musk still sucks, AB InBev still sucks, and PFAS still suck
Jun 23, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Directors get analyzed in the alternative democracy, and Morningstar makes anti-woke pillars
Jun 21, 2023
JUNETEENTH DATA: Black board directors and the gaps of power
Jun 19, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: ESG Ratings will be a B one day, your delivery driver is about to smell less gross, beer is still gay, and Comcast still sucks
Jun 16, 2023
FILL IN THE BLANK: BLANK CEO pay soars despite company being "not good enough", BLANK is new best selling US beer that also is LGTBQ friendly, and more
Jun 15, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: EU Regulates ESG Ratings, EU regulates ESG data, EU regulates ESG philosophy, plus US bans ESG and shareholders sucks at ESG
Jun 14, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: Nepo Soros is antiwoke catnip, JPM settles Epstein, Icahn win-loses at Illumina, and diversity isn't a body count (STUDY)
Jun 12, 2023
FRIDAY WRAP: Zaslav says responsibility, the Supreme Court gets woke, the anti-woke realize things five years later, and Zuck's pedophile network
Jun 09, 2023
CONSUMER DECISIONS SERIES: Using ESG Data to Buy Stuff
Jun 08, 2023
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Nerdy ESG Headlines and Our Alternative Democracy
Jun 07, 2023
MONDAY KETCHUP: CNN's CEO is sorry, Activision Blizzard isn't sorry, Twitter's loses more "safety", and director's and political ideology
Jun 05, 2023