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Business Pants

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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.

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Episodes

Tesla neglect, Musk’s hurt feelings, anti-woke boohoos, and Ben & Jerry’s mission governance

Introduction LIVE from a bottomless pit of CEO pay, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at March 21st Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Nelson Peltz hates woke ice cream, Self-hating Cybertrucks, and anti-ESG manbabies 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): ‘Incompetent:’ Jamie Dimon unloads on proxy advisor ISS Jamie Dimon said Gla...

Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 9 min

The joke of meritocracy, unhalted engagements at Blackrock, and Coca-Cola's DEI double down

Introduction LIVE from your ESG and DEI Teeth Bleaching Kit, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at February 21st Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Canada still cares, Rupert Murdoch knows how to text, the illusion of meritocracy, and an important new announcement from YouTube 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): ESG Week MM Black...

Feb 21, 2025•48 min

Goldman: DEI has “served its purpose”, ISS: no DEI “factors”, and passive investors: stop proxy voting

Introduction LIVE from your ESG ESG ESG ESG DEI DEI DEI Climate Change Change Climate Change Global Warming ESG DEI, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at Valentine’s Day Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Corporate Abolitionists, The Gulf of Stupidity, The S in ISS stands for Shitty, and Denny’s Truth Bomb Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Story of t...

Feb 14, 2025•46 min

BIZ NUGGETS: ISS’s gender/race pivot, plastic straws, Disney’s DEI backpeddle, and WFH with a helicopter

Live from a stack of DEI-hating lead independent directors dipped in milk chocolate, it’s an all-new Whacky Wednesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today's Twizzler-shaped proxy voting policy called February 12th 2025: Biz Nuggets! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 DEI In our 'Hey Ma, Civil Rights Hurts My Back! And Equal Rights Gave Me a Stomach ...

Feb 12, 2025•29 min

Who do you blame? WF’s Scharf’s pay raise, Target’s DEI drop, Ryder’s governance fail, Walgreen’s stock plunge

Live from a pile of dark chocolate-dipped kittens, it’s an all-new Terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today's calorie free Double Big Mac called February 4th 2025: the Who Do You Blame? Game! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 Who Do You Blame? Game Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf Gets Pay Bump To $31.2 Million CEO Charlie Scharf: for be...

Feb 04, 2025•42 min

Deepseek’s $30 AI, negative ESG news is a buying opportunity, and the suckup economy

Introduction LIVE from your DEI Blame Game, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at January 31st Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: a DeepSeekWeek, The Zuck Suckup Tour, Target is not the new Costco, and fecal phones 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): DeepSeek shocks AI world with 'cheap' Chinese chatbot MM Marc Andreessen warns C...

Feb 01, 2025•45 min

GOOD GAME: Deepseek vs. tech manbabies, Blackrock vs. Tennessee, Dimon vs. the anti-DEI

Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 The AI Tech BroBubble ‘ Sputnik moment’ : $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot Anger and Fighting Back Walmart is facing backlash from investors after cutting DEI programs A lawyer says he dropped Meta as a client after what he called a 'descent into toxic masculinity [and Neo-Nazi madness]' by Zuckerberg's company BMW trolle...

Jan 28, 2025•46 min

DEI and manflakes, CEO pay hikes, Microsoft reforests, Air Products, Will Hild’s a middle schooler, and cheese

Story of the Week (DR): Trump signed an order ending DEI . Here’s what it means for Fortune 500 companies Trump’s latest presidential moves mandate government agencies to specifically target companies in the private sector engaged in what it describes as “illegal DEI discrimination and preferences.” Despite the intended chilling effect of these executive moves, multiple legal sources point out that Trump’s order and action do not constitute a change in the law. Rather, the language used in the o...

Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 3 min

The American Oligarchs, alpha male cosplaying tech bros, TikTok and the US company China Threat, and retiring DEI

Introduction LIVE from your ESG EV Dipstick, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at January 17th Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: The CEO takeover has accelerated; bravery for sale at Costco; and men finally have power 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): DealBook: C.E.O.s hail the chief MM Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerbe...

Jan 17, 2025•58 min

NUGGETS: “Retiring” DEI, Meta’s masculine energy, meritocracy of Dana White, CEO replaced by CEO, and activist action

Live from an DEI-bedazzled ESG Glowstick, it’s an all-new Terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today's SAT Cheat Sheet called January 14th 2025: BIZ NUGGETS! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 Zuck In our 'He also said corporations named "Julie" and Samantha” especially suck' headline of the week. Mark Zuckerberg praises benefits of 'masc...

Jan 14, 2025•36 min

2025 Predictions: goodbye shareholder rights, the anti DEI movements wins (and loses), and woke retail zones

ESG Disclosure The next wave of anti-ESG movement focuses on reduced disclosure Decrease in Director/NEO bio/photo disclosure in both proxy statements and corporate websites Anti-DEI board composition A sharp drop in new directors that are “diverse” An increase in overall board size; instead of outright replacing diverse directors, an increase of white male directors (who skew younger) are simply added to boards Musk effect Greater re-domestication push: incorporate, headquarters, employees: SHP...

Jan 10, 2025•1 hr 1 min

Costco vs. racist investors, tech bro victimhood, Altman cries, and Zuck sucks up

Live from an ESG-flavored 2025, it’s an all-new Wacky Wednesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today's Costco lovefest called January 8th 2025: Headlines We Missed since the end of December and the new comic book superhero named Costco! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1 Shit We Missed (in no particular order): Tech Bros Zuck Dana White, UFC CEO and...

Jan 08, 2025•51 min

2024 News of the Year

Introduction LIVE from your ESG Hanukkah Jesus Bush, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at December 20th Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s YEARLY wrap up: Everything. Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. Story of the Year (DR): Exxon Sues Two ESG Investors [Follow This, Arjuna Capital] MM Judge voids Elon Musk's "unfathomable" $56 billion Tesla pay package Boeing Boein...

Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 10 min

Walmart’s award, E.L.F.’s award, and the real top 100 methodology

Live from an ESG-scented 100% cotton unisex onesie, it’s an all-new Terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! On today's anti-anti-DEI lovefest called December 17th 2024: Random ESG Headlines That I Care About Because Somebody Has To Care About Something and Changing the Methodology for Fortune 100 Most Powerful Executives! Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for F...

Dec 17, 2024•45 min

Witty’s op-ed, billionaire permitting, Murdoch loses

Introduction LIVE from your ESG-powered Vitamix A3500 Ascent Series Smart Blender, it’s a Business Pants Friday Show here at December 13th Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today’s weekly wrap up: Ongoing NEO murder stuff, Rupert Murdoch fails to screw over 75% of his children, God eats McDonald’s, and hot sauce is going woke 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 ...

Dec 13, 2024•56 min
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