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.
Blackrock and Vanguard “pause” corporate meetings, SEC’s boardroom power shift in the sarcastic Good Game
41 mins; February 19, 2025
Goldman: DEI has “served its purpose”, ISS: no DEI “factors”, and passive investors: stop proxy voting
46 mins; February 14, 2025
BIZ NUGGETS: ISS’s gender/race pivot, plastic straws, Disney’s DEI backpeddle, and WFH with a helicopter
29 mins; February 12, 2025
Musk’s DOGE is an investor problem, make the anti-DEI movement measure merit, and nanoplastic teaspoons
54 mins; February 07, 2025
Who do you blame? WF’s Scharf’s pay raise, Target’s DEI drop, Ryder’s governance fail, Walgreen’s stock plunge
41 mins; February 04, 2025
Deepseek’s $30 AI, negative ESG news is a buying opportunity, and the suckup economy
44 mins; January 31, 2025
GOOD GAME: Deepseek vs. tech manbabies, Blackrock vs. Tennessee, Dimon vs. the anti-DEI
45 mins; January 28, 2025
DEI and manflakes, CEO pay hikes, Microsoft reforests, Air Products, Will Hild’s a middle schooler, and cheese
63 hours 26 mins; January 24, 2025
The American Oligarchs, alpha male cosplaying tech bros, TikTok and the US company China Threat, and retiring DEI
57 mins; January 17, 2025
NUGGETS: “Retiring” DEI, Meta’s masculine energy, meritocracy of Dana White, CEO replaced by CEO, and activist action
35 mins; January 14, 2025
2025 Predictions: goodbye shareholder rights, the anti DEI movements wins (and loses), and woke retail zones
61 hours 0 mins; January 10, 2025
Costco vs. racist investors, tech bro victimhood, Altman cries, and Zuck sucks up
51 mins; January 08, 2025
2024 News of the Year
70 hours 1 min; December 20, 2024
Walmart’s award, E.L.F.’s award, and the real top 100 methodology
BIZ NUGGETS, featuring Darren Woods feels bullied, renewables are energy Ozempic, and which board has more skills
44 mins; June 04, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Exxon wins, Vivek’s dual class education, bird flu in alpacas, and Helen Toner says we were right
55 mins; 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
32 mins; May 28, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: OpenAI week, CalPERS vs. Exxon, Meta’s AI bro board, and Google’s blinker fluid
32 mins; May 24, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS featuring Boeing investors, Exxon’s board, OpenAI vs. ScarJo, “superalignment”, and a “pointless director” list
32 mins; 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
48 mins; 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
37 mins; 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
50 mins; May 10, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS with Boeing’s new investigation, “non technical” epithets, and Qantas, plus TOP FIVE CONNECTED BOARDS
24 mins; May 07, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Paramount’s dual class disaster, high speed rails, Philips pays out, and UAW wins
40 mins; May 03, 2024
GOOD GAME, plus director Hall of Famers and directors with the MOST RESTATEMENTS
38 mins; April 30, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Bans of TikTok and non-competes, ADM’s audit committee, Oklahoma’s anti-ESG rollback, and space junk
40 mins; April 26, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS, with Tesla’s pay, Cybertrucks, and SBTi, plus Top 5 most influential directors and female powered companies
34 mins; April 23, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Tesla’s proxy gaslight, DEI gets twisted, McDonald’s French fry smell, and e-scooters win
68 hours 9 mins; April 19, 2024
THROWDOWN: The Good Game wraps, and introducing DIRECTOR PERFORMER LISTS
37 mins; April 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
45 mins; April 12, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Disney wins, China’s mother friendly benefits, Texas uses Boeing vs. DEI, and Meta’s racist AI
41 mins; April 05, 2024
MARCH MADNESS GOOD GAME: Round 2, including Musk quashing free speech and Google’s Incognito delete
28 mins; April 02, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s quasi shakeup, childcare profits, Fink’s letter, and free director data
51 mins; March 29, 2024
THE ALL BOEING BIZ NUGGETS: Calhoun, Kellner leaving, but the cronyism is here to stay!
26 mins; March 26, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Reddit pops, Anguilla wins the AI race, ISS is pointless, ISS sucks, and who pays for ISS
51 mins; March 22, 2024
GOOD GAME: March Madness edition! Get your bracket ready for best headlines of the last year…
31 mins; March 19, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: OpenAI’s Facebook board, QVC’s racist, clean energy investment spikes, and an MSCI EM ESG ETF down 0%
55 mins; March 15, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing fails audits, Blackrock’s engagement “resource constraints”, Altman is back on top
27 mins; March 12, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: SEC’s new climate rule, JetBlue’s dead merger, ISS’s “ESG skeptic” policy, and Musk v. MacKenzie Scott
41 mins; March 08, 2024
THE GOOD GAME: Blackrock’s “transition finance”, SOC drops the SBUX slate, and Musk sues OpenAI - is it all GOOD?
32 mins; March 05, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Starbucks pivots on unions, Pornhub could regulate social media, the Business Roundtable is with Exxon, and Dr. Jones wins
51 mins; March 01, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing loses a wing, Wayfair’s “great” layoffs, Elon’s tunnel ooze, Toyota’s “unexpected movement”, and Norfolk’s “board”
23 mins; February 27, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Reddit’s dual class fake public IPO, Tesla can’t expand, Boeing’s “culture refresh”, and pork flavored everything
44 mins; February 23, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Reddit’s IPO, activist slate madness, and Norfolk Southern’s day of re-reckoning-ish
37 mins; February 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
54 mins; February 16, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Tesla runs stuff over, Boeing’s bathroom math, and Voter (lack of) Choice at Blackrock
40 mins; February 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
46 mins; February 09, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Governance risk abounds, Musk to “shut up, not step down”, Meta’s Oversight Board oversight, and Blackrock Sez
40 mins; February 07, 2024
MONDAY NUGGETS: Directors at Tesla used drugs too! Exxon keeps suing! Novo Nordisk’s surprise! AI gets an HR rep!
20 mins; February 05, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s poor now, woke-free beer is also governance free, Stuart Kirk loves governance, Meta investors celebrate child exploitation
46 mins; February 02, 2024
WOKE WEDNESDAY: Do we finally care about who’s on the board after they pay Elon Musk $55bn… and it’s rescinded?
36 mins; January 31, 2024
MONDAY NUGGETS: Forget ESG! What is the point of ESG! Governance is hypocrisy! Also, TKO, Boeing, LVMH, OpenAI, Tesla’s governance problems…
23 mins; January 29, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Exxon sues their owners, Florida bans social media, the Empty Chair at Starbucks, billionaire insider trading, and Dwayne Johnson wins
54 mins; January 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)
34 mins; January 24, 2024
BIZ NUGGETS: Board "takes seriously” ADM accounting probe, Boeing door plugs suck everywhere, Musk’s hostage situation, Dollar General’s DEI#x3E;growth?
28 mins; January 22, 2024
FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s ultimatum, the millionaire’s tax fund, NH criminalizes ESG, Meta does child sexual harassment super well
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
