All the NEO Murderer updates: Luigi Mangione /Brian Thompson Mangione attended elite schools BA/MS Penn Gilman School, an elite all-boys preparatory school in Baltimore: In his valedictorian speech, Mangione praised classmates for "challenging the world" Mangione comes from a wealthy and influential Baltimore family Mangione is one of 37 grandchildren of the late Nick Mangione Sr., a prominent multimillionaire real-estate developer in Baltimore who died in 2008 Members of the Mangione family own...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Introduction LIVE from your ESG bath salts inhaler kit, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at December 6th Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Murder, Black women fighting back, Investor cowards, and the darkest reason imaginable for a CEO pay cut Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Story of the Week (DR): The Murder of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare C...
Dec 06, 2024•54 min
The Business Pants Thanksgiving Special Game! Let’s take a trip through history: Dark ages Walmart pulls back on DEI efforts, removes some LBGTQ merchandise from website The nation’s largest employer, which has about 1.6 million U.S. workers, joined a growing list of companies that have stepped back from diversity, equity and inclusion efforts after feeling the heat from conservative activists. In a statement, Walmart said it is “willing to change alongside our associates and customers who repre...
Nov 26, 2024•41 min
Introduction LIVE from Vanguard’s "Mirror Voting Policy", it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at November 22nd Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: DEI and Meritocracy Shark Jumping, no more Jaguars for blue-collar America, A-Holey (or is it A-Holy) investors, Will the real Elon Shady please stand up? Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Story of the Week (...
Nov 22, 2024•56 min
The Random Ask Matt Stuff about the Headlines Game! Donald Trump ’s social media group in talks to buy crypto trading venue Truth Social owner is close to an all-share takeover of Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt Which one of these key facts surprises you the most? The least? Hoover you want to answer: Bakkt, which has struggled for profitability since its launch, was created by ICE, and the owner of the New York Stock Exchange still holds a 55 per cent economic interest in it. Bakkt’s first CE...
Nov 19, 2024•37 min
Introduction LIVE from your ESG sad sack, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at November 15th Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: The government is getting its own Facebook Oversight Board; Meritocracy is not the name of a new WWF character; and food with a 36-month shelf life is still bad for you Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Story of the Week (DR...
Nov 15, 2024•56 min
Live from an ESG-scented fanny pack, it’s an all-new Terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today’s ongoing post-Election hangover called November 12th 2024: The Financial News Headline Trigger Game! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 The Financial News Headline Trigger Game Donald Trump’s election win will create a DEI reckoning that force...
Nov 12, 2024•43 min
Introduction LIVE from your ESG crying towel, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at November 8th Studios, featuring all your favorites: AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: a former CEO beats a glass cliff CEO and a bunch of other depressing stuff Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Story of the Week (DR): Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10 MM Sto...
Nov 08, 2024•50 min
WHO WOULD YOU RATHER BE/VOTE FOR? Home Depot co-founder, GOP donor Bernie Marcus dead at 95. Berne endorsed Trump in November… 2023 and said two years ago that “Nobody works, nobody gives a damn. Just give it to me. Send me money. I don't want to work — I'm too lazy, I'm too fat, I'm too stupid. We used to have free speech here. We don't have it. The woke people have taken over the world. You know, I imagine today they can't attack me. I'm 93. Who gives a crap about Bernie Marcus?” WHO WOULD YOU...
Nov 05, 2024•33 min
Live from an ESG-flavored pumpkin patch, it’s an all-new Terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today’s Halloween-filled scary Independent lead Director called October 29th 2024: a scary rate the headline game and a Terrifying headlines quiz! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 Scary headlines game 23andMe Appoints Three New Independent Dire...
Oct 29, 2024•51 min
Introduction LIVE from your ESG corn maze, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at October 25th Studios, featuring all your favorites: AnalystHole-man Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: McDonald’s investor relations team hires entire writing staff from The Onion, an accelerated retirement at Southwest, Denny’s is saving lives, and a shout-out to Mr. CorpGov Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance fo...
Oct 25, 2024•41 min
Live from the Founder’s Diamond Mine in Botswana, where all diamonds are worth 50 votes per share, it’s an all-new Terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today’s chocolate-filled summary compensation table called October 22nd 2024: It’s Double Quiz Tuesday, featuring a heartbreakingly mediocre ESG News Quiz and a relatively thoughtful data drop quiz! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, c...
Oct 22, 2024•43 min
Introduction LIVE from your ESG USB-C DIY LOL DEI Vape Pen, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at October 18th Studios, featuring all of your favorites: AnalystHole Matt Moscardi! On today’s weekly wrap up: Meta employees have acne but don’t call CVS’s Karen Lynch, meth-flavored TikTok, 3-headed CEOs, and even one-headed CEOs named Jamie that love to talk Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE....
Oct 18, 2024•50 min
THE ENVIRONMENT Global EV sales up 30.5% in September as China shines, Europe recuperates A Natural Gas Company Just Became the First to Be Sued Over Climate Change For the first time ever, a natural gas company is being sued by a local government for misleading customers about fossil fuels and the dangers they pose to the environment. Oregon's Multnomah County has added the gas utility NW Natural to its lawsuit that includes Shell, Exxon, McKinsey, and dozens of other companies for allegedly hi...
Oct 15, 2024•34 min
Introduction LIVE from your ESG olive grove, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at October 11th Studios, featuring all your favorites: AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: shenanigans at Pfizer, the potential end of the Google search monopoly, and bumbling Boeing. Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Story of the Week (DR): Pfizer threatened to sue renegade executives prior ...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr
Live from Alabama’s Anti-ESG unscented Rose Garden, it’s an all-new terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! In today’s ESG-sized onesie called October 8, 2024: BIZ NUGGETS! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 In our 'Because it's 2024 and "Hey, why don't you just save on gas and buy a Chevy Bolt" is just too damn complicated' headline of the wee...
Oct 08, 2024•30 min
Introduction LIVE from an empty shipping container used by Vanguard to hold its votes against AGAINST management, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here on October 4th, featuring a very lonely AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Dockworkers strike and unstrike, the UK is now powered entirely by crumpets, the Texas Stock Exchange announces white people, and parrots finally fight back.. The Friday Show is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board ...
Oct 04, 2024•42 min
QUIZ: Texas Stock Exchange’s DEI board, CVS activist, Schwab’s new CEO, and Weight Watcher’s new CEO
Oct 01, 2024•32 min
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•59 min
Live from the Vanguard Charity Cornhole Tournament, where the players toss ESG-filled bean bags at GHG emissions target gameboards, it’s an all-new terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today’s kimchi-filled proxy contest called September 24th, 2024: The Good Game! And a Data Drop! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Women on corporate board of dir...
Sep 24, 2024•45 min
Introduction LIVE from your ESG smokeless peach pit, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at September 20th Lane Studios, featuring ONE of your favorites: AnalystHole-man Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Nike goes Back to the Future, Chief Kneeler Jamie Dimon yells at young people, Evil Tech CEOs continue to be, um, evil, and directors who love a free ride Today’s show is brought to you by freefloatanalytics.com - everything you ever wanted to know about who runs public companies, all...
Sep 20, 2024•48 min
Live from Vanguard and Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” bumpersticker, it’s an all-new terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! In today’s ESG-shaped bass guitar called September 17, 2024: a very special seminar where we help business news headline writers be better at their jobs, otherwise known as BIZ NUGGETS! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 Bo...
Sep 17, 2024•26 min
FRIDAY WRAP: Alan Shaw’s fun times, Southwest has no board left, D&D AI, Deere’s DEI hypocrisy
Sep 13, 2024•48 min
THE GOOD GAME: Southwest’s board shakeup, Norfolk’s CEO gone, one Peltz off Wendy’s, and Newsmax’s IPO
Sep 10, 2024•52 min
FRIDAY WRAP: VW’s ex CEO trial, Hasbro is a healthcare company, shorting testosterone, and big oil curriculum
Sep 06, 2024•51 min
BIZ NUGGETS: DEI u-turns, AI and Facebook hear you cough, Calhoun’s giggle in space, and ESG proposal zero support
Sep 03, 2024•25 min
FRIDAY WRAP: Telegram’s Durov arrested, Starbuck’s new remote worker, DEI coward data, Musk threatens a judge
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 1 min
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•36 min
GOOD GAME: Musk’s montessori play, Google’s antitrust, and woke-free zones, plus unfettered board intelligence
Aug 06, 2024•36 min
FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s new CEO, Amazon’s assassination sales drop, unelected directors, machism is so IN, and Zuckerberg’s swear
Aug 02, 2024•49 min
