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Episode 178: The Unanue Family (Goya)

Join us in learning about the billionaire family behind the brand behind the recent culture war over Hispanic food: the Unanue family, owners of the Goya food company. If you live on the East coast...

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Episode 176: Kanye West

Hey all, this is Yogi and this week we cover Kanye West. We cover his upcoming presidential campaign as well as how he became the American icon he is today. This episode took a lot out of me person...

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Episode 175: Ghislaine Maxwell

We’re at it again we cover the arrest of Jizzlane Maxwell the woman of the pedophile ring the madam the heiress of the ass air this is an Epstein related episode so please be forewarned with disc...

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Episode 174: Eminent Monsters

This week we discuss CIA torture and the documentary Eminent Monsters by Stephen Bennett. We review the history of modern torture, how the psychiatric profession played a role in developing it, and...

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Episode 172: Giorgio Armani

Continuing with our recent Italian Billionaires theme, we detail the life and misdeeds of fashionista Giorgio Armani. Like other wealthy elites in the fashion industry, Armani profits of exploitati...

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Episode 170: Paul and David Merage

This week we take a side to step on Jim Gaffigan's toes as we cover Paul and David Merage, the billionaires who invented Hot Pockets. We also talk about the college admissions scandal, wherein Paul...

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Episode 168: JB Pritzker

In this episode, we cover JB Pritzker: member of the 11-billionaire Pritzker Family, and Illinois governor. JB was caught on wiretap mulling over an offer to sell a senate seat. He and his billiona...

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Episode 166: Jules Kroll

New episode on Nick Kroll’s father Jules Kroll. If you enjoyed The League, Kroll Show or the killings of Joachim Georg Kroll you’ll enjoy this expose on the man who pioneered the modern corpora...

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Episode 164: Sandy Weil and Citi Bank (Part 3)

  

In our final chapter covering Citi Group we cover the era between 9/11/01 to now! We cover everything from Sandy Weil walking out of Citi bank while it would soon all start to cr...

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Episode 161: Sandy Weill and Citigroup (Part 2)

  

Part 2 of our profile on Sanford I Weill and his role at Citigroup we will take a longer look at Citi group in our last part of this trilogy. This episode covers Sandy Weill’s ...

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Episode 159: The Hearst Family (Part 2)

 We continue our profile on the Hearst family beginning with more details on the Hearst that started it all! Rounding out the end of his life with his family tree going to today. The harrowing...

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Episode 157: The Hearst Family (Part 1)

 In our 2 part series on one of the richest families to ever exist, the basis for the Orson Wells classic Citizen Kane and a man who was kicked out of Harvard for shenanigans involving mailing...

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Episode 156: Bernie retrospective during Corona

This week we discuss the saddening and maddening news that the Sanders campaign has ended. We give Sean a lot of shit for some dirt only on this episode. WE apologize for our delay and episodes wil...

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Episode 154: The Bailout Bill 2.0

We discuss the continuing and worsening covid-19 emergency in New York City and take an in depth look at the $6 trillion wall street relief bill that just passed congress. It's getting money direct...

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Episode 152: David Green (Co-Founder of Hobby Lobby)

 In your quarantine seclusion please enjoy our look at the hobby lobby co-founder who is literally funding the religious right to the terrible oppression it has always been known for. This epi...

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Episode 150: Eric S. Yuan (Zoom CEO)

We use Google Hangouts to explain the rise of Eric Yuan and Zoom video conferencing -- all from the quarantine underground. Eric wants you to socially distance yourselves from his personal history ...

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Episode 148: Grubstakers - Tough Crowd

This week we hound Sean for being a naz/bol on twitter. Leading to a discussion on the current political moment. Insights, opinions and tweets do not reflect on Grubstakers LLC. It was a Hyperbolic...

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Episode 146: Eric Lefkofsky (Groupon, Biden donor)

Eric Lefkofsky is here and he wants to tell you about his new business idea. In this one we cover the man who started Groupon, Starbelly, Tempus, and several other companies with quick IPOs, massiv...

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Episode 144: Reed Hastings (Netflix)

We discuss Netflix CEO and charter school/Pete Buttegieg pushing billionaire Reed Hastings. Hear about his humble upbringing in a private New England prep school and how he pushed out everyone who ...

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Episode 142: Dan and Farris Wilks

On this particularly silly episode we profile fraternal fracking billionaires, neo-enclosurists, and sitcom hating religious zealots Dan and Farris Wilks. This is our dumbest episode yet and Yogi w...

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Episode 140: Reid Hoffman (Buttigieg donor)

It's another Buttigieg supporter and this time it's the man who invented MySpace for careerist psychopaths: LinkedIn. We've endorsed his skills at making less money selling his property to Microsof...

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Episode 138: Iowa Caucus reaction

You know what it is. We take a look at the disaster that was the Iowa Caucus. Hot takes involving those that funded the app, and much much more. Regular episodes resume next week.

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Episode 136: Gabe Newell

On this beautiful winter episode we cover Joe Biden donor and former video game developer Gabe Newell. We discuss how amazeballs it is to work for Valve, either as a paid employee or as an uncompen...

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Episode 134: James Simons

This week, we enter the Matrix of James Simons and Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that performs unnervingly well at the expense of math classrooms and equality. We cover RenTech's 82% retur...

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Episode 132: Larry Robbins

This week we profile Larry “The Human Thumb” Robbins! Join us as we discuss how he barely beats the S&P 500 only sometimes, his lawsuit regarding building an Ice hockey rink on his property...

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Episode 130: Iran and Andy's "Blern" Story

In this episode we attempted to cover Larry Robbins but got sidetracked by the prospect of war. Also Andy tells a completely fictional story about getting fired from a company named Blern which has...

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Episode 128: Walt Disney and the Disney Company (Part 3)

Happy New Year! It's time for Part 3 of our Disney trilogy, and like all trilogies produced by Disney, we scraped from the bottom of the barrel for this one. Lotta dark stuff going on in the land w...

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Episode 127: Walt Disney and the Disney Company (Part 2)

In this episode we continue the Walt Disney saga from the free side by diving into his relations with labor, his megalomaniacal obsession with creating a new kind of city, and his, er, love of chil...

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Episode 125: We answer your questions!

This week we take a temporary bye to answer the questions some of our most loyal listeners sent to us. Learn how we all met, what recreational legal activities we did in our youths and many more mi...

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Episode 123: Chris Cline (New King of Coal)

This week we cover the life and misdeeds of the former New King of Coal Chris Cline. We cover his humble roots of being a third generation coal miner, the conspiracy theories involving his helicopt...

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