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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.

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Bill Ackman removed the I from DEI, and Boeing’s board gets a bro report

32 mins; January 10, 2024

BIZ NUGGETS: Weekend roundup including Boeing’s missing airplane wall, Ackman’s soft logic, OpenAI admits to stealing, and ESG in Kentucky

24 mins; January 08, 2024

2024 PREDICTION SHOW: AI Insurance, FedEx board turnover, Musk FIRES Linda Yaccarino, volcanic rock dust, unions, and Disney succession

61 hours 15 mins; January 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

40 mins; January 03, 2024

2023 PREDICTIONS? We sucked at them

42 mins; December 29, 2023

CORPORATE THEATER HOLIDAY PLAY: The succession of Klaus Industries

60 hours 53 mins; December 24, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: The 2023 Anti-Woke Awards Show

47 mins; December 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

60 hours 57 mins; December 15, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY NUGGETS: The Altman text chain! The COP28 nudge of the future! Elon Musking! Conservative Disney! And all the other nuggets...

18 mins; December 13, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: Greedflation works! Tesla blockades! COP28 attendees flew a looong way! Taco Bell's "stain resistant sheets"! Plus, Bill Ackman, STFU!

45 mins; December 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

37 mins; December 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

60 hours 16 mins; December 01, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Charlie Munger RIP, we were right on OpenAI, and a business news headline Who Wore It Better game

37 mins; November 29, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: The death of governance via Bret Taylor and Larry Summers, scapegoating the women at OpenAI, and the protected tech class

38 mins; November 22, 2023

MONDAY SPECIAL: Sam Altman, OpenAI's real governance, and the cheapest acquisition of a 90bn company by Microsoft

40 mins; November 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

53 mins; November 17, 2023

FANCY EXPERT: NYU Stern professor Alison Taylor talks ethics, transparency, and ESG

45 mins; November 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

42 mins; November 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

53 mins; November 10, 2023

FANCY EXPERT: The Nell Minow Podcast

57 mins; November 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

42 mins; November 08, 2023

MONDAY KETCHUP: China's robot population, Bumble's executive chair, chatbot liars, AI CEOs, and Starbucks' Two Pump Dumps

32 mins; November 06, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: Union victories, SBF defeats, Uber driver victories, 2050 target defeats, weight-loss drug victories, and glass cliff CEO defeats

70 hours 44 mins; November 03, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Good? ESG? News? Plus Bio-Techne's governance joke, groupthink measured at IBM, and a new show announcement

50 mins; November 01, 2023

SPOOKY MONDAY KETCHUP: Scariest headlines, who will survive after the auto strikes, and a terrifying fact about "public companies"

38 mins; October 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

58 mins; October 27, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY EXPERT EDITION: JON LUKOMNIK JOINS THE SHOW!!!

42 mins; October 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

33 mins; October 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

66 hours 58 mins; October 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

33 mins; October 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

35 mins; October 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

60 hours 28 mins; October 13, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Everything bad happens on X, Walgreens new fake CEO, Goyder fake apologizes, and it’s all motherhood’s fault

36 mins; October 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

50 mins; October 06, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: RETURN OF THE GOOD GAME!

39 mins; October 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

39 mins; October 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

52 mins; September 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

35 mins; September 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

42 mins; September 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! Male CEOs keep doing stuff!

58 mins; September 22, 2023

EXPERT BONUS: Daniel Cash, author of A Modern Credit Ratings Agency, talks how credit ratings history bears on ESG ratings future

38 mins; September 21, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: ESG adjacent headlines, carbon disclosure, and an SBTi special look with words from fancy expert Daniel Cash

42 mins; September 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

46 mins; September 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

62 hours 22 mins; September 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

40 mins; September 13, 2023

MONDAY KETCHUP: Brattiest CEO, saddest stakeholder news, most dystopian headline, CEOs jailed, and a Friday roundup

44 mins; September 11, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Qantas glass cliff siren, Elon headline roundup, and Aubrey Capital's ESG clickbait op-ed is idiotic? (question mark)

44 mins; September 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

55 mins; September 01, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Anti-woke proxy vote dilution, bad members stay bad at 3M and Boeing, and Tariq Fancy's underqualified underqualification quote

32 mins; August 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

38 mins; August 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

31 mins; August 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

52 mins; August 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

42 mins; August 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

29 mins; August 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

51 mins; August 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

25 mins; August 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

33 mins; August 07, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: shiny glass cliffs, AI Jesus, dual class shares enable sexual harassment, and Florida still sucks

53 mins; August 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

36 mins; August 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"MONDAY KETCHUP: Weekend top fives with wind-powered cargo ships, AI and Palantir's F-U share class,

28 mins; July 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

49 mins; July 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

42 mins; July 26, 2023

MONDAY KETCHUP: Barbie’s Wokeness, Voluntary AI Guardrails, Elon’s Brother Gets Xed, and Free Float Sunscreen Products

36 mins; July 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

43 mins; July 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

52 mins; July 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

32 mins; July 17, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Neumann's upfail, Activision deal, Ramaswamy buys ESG stocks, and ESG MONTH: roundup of 18 conservative law proposals on ESG!

45 mins; July 12, 2023

MONDAY KETCHUP: Threads #x3E; ChatGPT, Musk manboys Zuck, Ant Group's fine, restaurant bill healthcare surcharge, and Director of the Week from Free Float Analytics

34 mins; July 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

49 mins; July 07, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Massive woke headline catchup, plus we define anti-woke methodology at last

47 mins; July 05, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: The technically challenged edition, but our platform launched, Musk still sucks, AB InBev still sucks, and PFAS still suck

45 mins; June 23, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Directors get analyzed in the alternative democracy, and Morningstar makes anti-woke pillars

32 mins; June 21, 2023

JUNETEENTH DATA: Black board directors and the gaps of power

26 mins; June 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

54 mins; June 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

23 mins; June 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

40 mins; June 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)

27 mins; June 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

51 mins; June 09, 2023

CONSUMER DECISIONS SERIES: Using ESG Data to Buy Stuff

36 mins; June 08, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Nerdy ESG Headlines and Our Alternative Democracy

28 mins; June 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

26 mins; June 05, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: Chick-fil-A ends the woke wars, Congress ends a debt staring contest, Bobby Kotick comes home, eating disorder chatbots, and fast fashion is back

48 secs; June 02, 2023

THE BAD GOOD GAME: AI will take your eating disorder helpline calls, Zuck gets shredded, buy-now-pay

28 mins; June 01, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Nerdy ESG headlines and a monthly Woke Police Blotter with corporate arrests for public wokeness

40 mins; May 31, 2023

CORPORATE THEATER: Woke Company or Not Woke Company?

28 mins; May 30, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: O'Reilly Automotive's DEF14A orange jumpsuits, Twitter can't handle rubber band watermelons, Ken Paxton forget the "G" in ESG, and Musk's censorshippy-ness

43 mins; May 26, 2023

WHO THE EFF IS THAT?: Board members, in the headlines but no - Sir Andrew Mackenzie, Bill Helman IV, Grace Puma, Anne Mulcahy, John Hennessy

25 mins; May 25, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Aviation CEOs announce things, Ron DeSantis manufactured the woke mind virus, Target's less proud of pride, and a AGM proxy vote sports roundup

27 mins; May 24, 2023

CORPORATE THEATER: Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, and a Linda Named Yaccarino

28 mins; May 23, 2023

MONDAY KETCHUP: Exxon goes woke, AB Inbev's loses perfect LGBT rating, Meta's out $1.3bn, and Board Sabermetrics succession planning at Morgan Stanley and Lazard

33 mins; May 22, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: Montana bans everything, Target's DEI growth fuel, billionaire Chuck Johnson's clam war, Florida investigates teachers, winners and predictions

41 mins; May 19, 2023

BIZ NUGGETS: Board approves 200 condiment combinations, DEI fueled.. growth?, climate and/or HVAC concerned Millennials, Montana's anti-GHG law, and Exxon says people WANT climate change

21 mins; May 18, 2023

ANTI-WOKE WEDNESDAY: The Committee to Unleash the ESG at the National Public Policy Center's woke WSJ editorial's board's leftist National Legal and Policy... WTF, the anti-woke are exhausting...

42 mins; May 17, 2023

CORPORATE THEATER: Elizabeth Holmes, Liz Holmes, and Liz

24 mins; May 16, 2023

MONDAY KETCHUP: Yaccarino's first tweet, Peloton's CEO raise, Dan Snyder sells, Sam Altman now wants your eyeballs, and NERD ALERT: the effect of high performers bailing

32 mins; May 15, 2023

FRIDAY WRAP: Musk's new glass cliff SheEO, billionaire driveway feuds are expensive, BNP's oil financing, and Man Group's man groups

44 mins; May 12, 2023

THE GOOD GAME: COVID-19 emergency is over, Starbucks charging for "no water" Refreshers, WNBA team values up, and the Pixies

27 mins; May 11, 2023

CORPORATE THEATER: Earnings Conference Calls! Domino's Pizza and The Boston Beer Company!

25 mins; May 11, 2023

WOKE WEDNESDAY: ThredUP's dual class Long-Term stocks, Ohio bans discussion of climate change, Credit Suisse joins the UBS board, plus CME group's 23 person board

29 mins; May 10, 2023

MONDAY KETCHUP: eLIZabeth Holmes, Buffettpalooza and folksy capitalism, and a Board Sabermetrician view of Berkshire

38 mins; May 08, 2023

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