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Live. From one day before, our March sadness, tournament seeding, show that's tomorrow or Friday show. Slide that in there nice and 363 days before you can ignore the next International women's day. It's a thirsty Thursday edition of business. Pants joined us always by elaborate Ml lurking and Matt macrocephalus. Muscat Mascari, I don't need I don't even know. This is yesterday's script. You're just that's a that's a compliment macrocephalus. Let me have a large Cranium, very large Cranium. Come on, take the car. All right. Yeah or all right, I have gigantism. There's no, there's no work. I'm a guy who forgot to update his joke from yesterday so I'm Gonna Keep moving on. And today's sauce flavored edition of nugget shape is nuggets called March 10th 2022. Our return to our old-fashioned business nuggets. I love these, I love it. A visit from Walker stand and Emma, does the most Emma thing ever, I guess or right. I don't know. Yeah, because you didn't write any script here so you don't even know it's happening. That's what Fourth wall, fourth wall. Let's go. Oh no, I keep going, I love his nuggets. All right, let's do business nuggets. Nug me out. Emma, do you want me to announce the categories or so you can ding it or you want me to go? You just go, you go right on ahead. All right, here we go. Yeah, go. Let's do it. Let's start with our apology tour. you know this category anyway, well she's I can do it but she's not the ding it and our Hey, Ma. They did it. They finally managed to cram the terms covid racist and Sesame Street in the same headline, tell Dad headline of the week. Estee Lauder exact ousted. After posting racist covid-19 meme, featuring Sesame Street characters. Damien. Yeah. That was his excuse, you didn't read it carefully and if you saw the meme it's hard not to take it as like at a glance racist. So good. Well, what didn't I read carefully? I'm confused. Not you Estee Lauder. oh, In our which part of you of this are you actually sorry about that it's 2022 and you continue to have men, only business divisions or that you tweeted about it on International women's day headline of the week Bain Capital, Stefan Cohen is sorry for men, only tweet on women's day. Yeah, that's part of I don't know which parties. I don't know. It's really 50/50, I would say, right? Was it? The all isn't it? No, no. They're not gonna fire them up. So it's gay. Can only be the Optics. in our, when you intentionally replace injected, black men with asbestos with Controversial prison testing headline of the week. Wow, sorry. That's a tough one. Just a hard one to swallow. Yeah, Johnson and Johnson's controversial prison, testing resurfaces in baby powder lawsuits. That's right? What Bloomberg is leaving out there which I don't even know why because every news agency now clickbait says to death, but Bloomberg has some reason decides to hide. The fact that that Johnson Johnson was actually injecting black man, with his bestows with controversial prison, testing that I was Bloomberg. Seriously, I'm pretty sure you can't yada yada your way out of. Thank you injecting black men with his best, terrible Bloomberg, terrible. Come on I'm more angry at the headline writers that I am at Johnson and Johnson right now. Not true. All right, moving on to Big Data. in our, Wait, what? I thought the entire business model was a data mining scam. Headline of the week, Facebook, most viewed page. Last quarter was removed as data mining scam. You covered this story already mad. Yeah. It is not good point. It's a good point. The nuggets. in our imagine reading this headline after being in a coma for 30 Years Part 1, Headline. We love the multi-part headlines. In the Ukraine conflict. Fake fact, checks are being used to spread disinformation. It's really that was coming. Like you don't need a metaverse to be meta anymore. Can I ask or grammatical question? Yes, this information versus Miss information. Do we have an opinion? Is there a correct one? Which is it? I I think I'm team misinformation. I have nothing until I'm saying about that. Yeah. Well I'm as a child of the 80s and 90s, I like the discs. Yeah, so I'm gonna because like you just somebody. I know this is disrespect, but I'm gonna go with a throwback. To disinform is to disrespect and misinform. I like the portmanteau dysfunction. I'm team discs, and all so Emma. This headline came from Pro publica and they actually care about stuff. They do, they must be right. Listen back. Yeah. Yeah, North end's business inside her It moving on. Oh, that's business. Inside in our, wait, what? I thought? Social media is bad for everybody, headline of the week, meta, CEO. Sandberg said social media is bad for dictators and that's why Putin block Facebook in Russia. She met only bad for dictators, right? Oh, okay, does that what she meant? I don't really know what she meant, but hasn't? She got up to the script yet, like doesn't he realize it's bad for everybody. She knows this. She got that report, she knows, she knows she's in the news. Let's go on to the blowhard index in our most convoluted in laborious headlines. So far in 2020, which is saying a lot headline of the week. Here we go. Brace yourself. Elon Musk says he will travel to a high radiation location and eat locally grown food on TV. After his tweet calling for more nuclear, powered energy in Europe, draws criticism Jesus Christ. Wow. Hey, how's he doing with that donation to the UN to stop? Poverty, is he busy doing that locally grown food sources? Oh sorry it was it was World hungry. Yeah. In our most annoying slash patronizing slash condescending slash irritating slash slash slash slash slash use of job land and career land headline of the week Morgan. Stanley CEO is pushing for a return to the office and says employees need to give up on job land and focus on Career land. Did he mean Job? Lot know, do you think he's super proud of himself today for being clever? I think he's, he's, how long do you think he had like this team of 14 brand people? Call me. All right, you're snarky headline for you. Morgan Stanley? See how great? Oh, up next in our broke culture? in our, you had me at Activision, says it failed. Headline of the week. Activision says it fail to hire another woman for its board due to Microsoft deal. Complications, I just wanted to get that story in again. Yeah, I mean we gotta keep hammering that story. I don't care how many times it comes up. That's the funniest joke I've ever written. I don't know why. We're the only one in our least. Shocking headline of 22, headline of the week in battled Activision. Says it is facing labor, shortages and increased attrition. What? And the last one is black people. I don't like in battle, they don't like that, miss battle this, battled which battle because it implies that like someone is doing something to them when they have brought all of their own chaos upon themselves. That's I get, hmm. Yes, enslaved versus know it's it's like I I think it's more like she Emma doesn't like that seems like Activision was invaded in a special military. Operation by Bobbi Brown Rose. And finally in our bro culture and this will be the last nugget headline for this segment. They'll be more coming later. Oh, thank God. And our you're just somebody more famous is brother, so, shut up and Best hyperbolic use of violently opposed by a snowflake Urban Cowboy billionaire headlight of the week. Elon musk's brother. And Tesla board member says he's violently opposed to cryptocurrency. Oh, violent Choice Awards during the the war in the UK and not to mention that. Do you think this kills, Kimball, that they can't even name him in a headline? Like, he, he's nice. He's just, I like that. You call Elon Musk Kimball's, brother better. Yeah, I gotta get back to that. I'm gonna take a break from the Nuggets. Matt. Take a swig of cold coffee while I give you a stakeholder. Capitalism woke stand edition of Disney's last three weeks. That's right. This is an all Disney hit headlines. Let's do this thing. Headline. Disney launching new residential communities for fans. That's right. Disney is trying once again to get back into residential development. And if Disney's history is a guide, we hopefully can expect more of this quote homeowners have complained for decades of shoddy construction. Requiring expensive repairs in Disney grew criticism, Drew criticism for a lack of diversity in the town's population. That's right. A blacking gay free Disney Experience of the future anyone. Oh wait. Headline. Disney CEO, Bob chapek chapek addresses companies response to Florida's. Don't say gay bill. It was a head. Fake Bobby says they now love the Gaze. He even made a single phone call on their behalf. Wow, oh, Wait. Headline. Disney sensors same-sex, affection, in Pixar films. According to letter from employees. Wow. If you're worried your lesbian girlfriend, might offend someone just change the word to partner in Russia and Putin will be super cool with it. That's right. Disney censored out and he references to gay characters are gay affection in their films capitalism works. Oh, hold on. Wait headline Disney. And Warner Brothers will pause movie releases in Russia. Capitalism doesn't work when you invade a sovereign neighbor. And you're, you're sanctioned. Wait. We edited out all the gays for this. That's what we were cool. We edited it out, the Gaze. We're good with this. Where can I make up the money now? That we're so woke. Oh wait, headline. Disney plot sports betting push in bid to revitalize ESPN. Oh, that's right. The Locust thing at all the focus thing you can think of sports betting. Oh nothing says woke like a plus three spreads team bludgeoning another white billionaires team until the CTE kills all the players money for the win. Am I right? Oh, wait headline. Human Rights Campaign, refuses pledge money from Disney CEO, Bob chapek waits for Meaningful action. Fuck you all. We can't win the woke War. That's our Disney Edition. Stakeholder capitalism and that's headlines from just the last three weeks about what is doubling down on bed on sports betting, I just read that. 64% of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck and this is Disney's idea is like, let's get people to bet more. I just like Ping ponging back and forth, between what's the wokest thing? We can sound like we're doing and the least woke thing. We can sound like we're doing in seven, eight, headlines in three weeks. That's what we're here for, Matt. Thank you for being you. Let's get back to the Nuggets. Yeah, here we go. CEOs rule. Hey Ma, can you turn the TV down the robot to giving lifestyle tips? Again tell Dad headline of the week. You with me on that one, Matt, the robots are giving lifestyle tips. Again, here's a headline. I'm with you. Google CEO, Sundar pichai says, he uses nsdr or non-sleep deep. Rest to unwind. I find a mentally don't knows. if I'm awake, I'm stressed, I guess not like I guess he like sits down when he's tired, I guess that's One. I don't get that one. I like mostly deep rest. Yeah mostly the best part about that is that is an actual headache from Business Insider. Yeah, this is them covering the news and I thought you said the best part is that it's an actual acronym and SDR. Yeah. Somebody's somebody who's like we need to acronym this because it's used so much in our Stephen schwarzman is still a greedy a hole and how come nobody cares about greedy? A holes making over 1 billion dollars a year anymore headline of the week. Blackstone CEO income top to 1 billion dollars in 2021. I hate this company. One billion, thank you. That's a lot. in our, 2028 metaverse headlined prediction. Dumb. Teenager dies in Florida after subsisting, only on Virtual Wingstop, chicken wings for nine days, straight headline of the week. Wingstop has filed a trademark to sell chicken wings in the metaverse. I was hoping that your headline was the real headline that, of course at the onion ready. Whenever you want it. Was his 2007, Lee racist and angry? I will say this is ironic because Emma confided in me. I know I shouldn't share this because maybe I'm reaching HR protocol but she can fight it in me yesterday. I believe that she always has had trouble writing headlines. Oh yeah. Well if she just spent more time at a virtual Wingstop. Yeah. Maybe she should get some inspirational things. I'll try that out in our. Imagine reading this headline after being in a coma for 30 Years, Part Two headline of the week. Yeah, revisit All Star 02, electric sports car comes with 56 miles per hour drone. I mean, okay, I guess they've solved world hunger at this point. Did that's the perk. What do we do with the Drone? You just run it into things that you want to kill a bird. What is that? What is a drone need to go? 56 miles an hour. Where is it going? Exactly. Oh, you can listen to these questions for days. I love it. and now, our floating Valley in the desert. Sounds like a job for the metaverse man, headline of the week. Wow Saudi Prince tuck like that more Saudi Prince wants Wall Street to help fund 500 billion dollar plan for a floating Silicon Valley in the desert. I don't even know what any of that means. Pray. I think billionaires are now just so freaking bored. That they literally are thinking of the most ridiculous things that they can do. Let's go to Mars, let's make penis shaped Rockets. Let's float in the desert. What if we build a city at from scratch in the middle of nowhere? Where, you know, all Innovation can happen, it's they're so bored. So bored in our imagine reading this headline. After being a coma for 30 Years Part 3, headline of the week. That's getting like Freddy versus Jason, a crypto investor lost 120,000 dollars from clicking on one bad link. I don't care about that crib. I mean, it serves you, right? What is that bad? Like you think Matt? What could what do you think? What could that been? Yeah, I probably put it down payment on a Disney residential property. Moving over to stakeholders rule in our finally, a strike that nobody actually cares about headliner of the week. Major League Baseball, Kansas on another week of games as lockup continues. I don't think anybody cares, literally, no one cares about it. You know what, not a single person in our Wars category, in our nothing tastes better than a 10-piece chicken McNuggets made with fear and anger headline of the week. Moscow residents rushed to snag McDonald's meals before the fast food chain shot. It's restaurant in Russia. Fear and anger is delicious in our additively imagine reading this headline after being in a coma for 30 Years. Part 4. Yes, is the final installment, Matt sorry, Headland of the week Ukraine, cancels crypto airdrop rewards for donations. What could that possibly even mean even now? If you don't think you need to be in a coma 30 years to not know what that is. And let's walk let's wrap up the nuggets for this week with three from our woke data category and our to be fair, to Kroger The lead levels in the lead flavored baby back ribs, marinated in spicy key lead, lime sauce. We're perfect and delicious. Headlines of the week. Kroger sued by Environmental Lawyer claiming the grocery giant salad, kits, fruit and Grant crackers. Contained lead levels that were too high. How does one? LED that's what I was fixated on too. I mean, is it like a Serena? I don't understand that one. Do you base them LED like I don't like how does that happen in our. So you're basically admitting that you're too cheap to run background checks in our users on and that some of them have violent criminal past. Now this is a value added up selling moment if I have ever heard one headline of the week. Sorry about that one. That was a lot Tinder, Tinder will. Now let users run a background, check on their matches in Boutte users with violent criminal, pasts Oh, that's just scares me in every direction. Discriminating against violent criminals. Yeah, I don't know. I can't wait for them to, like, on earth, like that, like people who wore black face to a Halloween party and boot them too. She's just, I don't why stop at violent criminal past, let's find everything. And finally, in business nuggets, my business nuggets for March 10th here in woke data in our bomb, best ESG headline of the week headline of the week. And Russia's War, sends wake up call ESG investors. Wake up is the best years. Come on, it was so nice being asleep, ESG. Our old lady. That's my business. I come on. Bail me out. I know you're miserably bored over there. Yeah, it's time. It's time to be done. Let's wrap this up. As the official fast food. Expert of the business pants? Team here are all the fast food updates you've talked about? Yeah, baby. All right. Headline number one McDonald's says restaurant closures in Russia, will cost the chain more than 50 million dollars a month. So McDonald's, finally caved to public pressure and is shutting down its operations and Russia. And here's the only the singular piece of good news to come out of this is that they will still be paying their Russian employees salary after closing up shop. So at the very very least they aren't taking away vital income from wage workers like I'll take that. I guess McDonald's said that their operations in Russia and Ukraine account for about nine percent of their Global Revenue which on the surprise me that hire than I would want. Yeah, nine percent. Yeah. Right. Like one percent of the population of lower lower than 1%. Yeah. Yeah. But given that McDonald's yearly Revenue was 23.2 billion dollars last year. I think they'll be okay, they're going to be fine. Bonus headline, Moscow, residents rushed to snag McDonald's meals before the fast. Food chains, shut its restaurants in Russia. Here's my one. Hope, I hope that their ice cream machines aren't broken, so that they can get in one last McFlurry. Which is, Eminem flavor, obviously, because that is the best flavor of McFlurry as we are. All aware that, you know, that the flavors better than the flavor is actually terrifying news. That's terrifying. News. Moving on, the it's mini M&M's. They get Frozen. And it's delicious. Number two. Nice. See what you did. I went to the 85 year old. 85 year old restaurant that taught Taco, Bell's Creator, how to make its iconic taco. And it shows just how much the chain has evolved in five decades. So, the court they buried the lead here. That is the headline and they 100% bury the lead. So talk about is known for its hard shell taco the only the only time I've ever been to talk about. I had one of their hard shell Doritos. Locos Tacos, the hard shells, their thing and the founder one time the founder, Glenn Bell. Learned about hard shell tacos, from a Mexican restaurant called The Cafe. In Bernardino. That is his name. No, it is like a white man. What? Yeah, Glenn Bell. Yeah. The white guy named Glenn. Oh yes, the best news. But yeah. So there he got the idea for these hard. Shell tacos from Mexican restaurant called mitla Cafe. In Tampa, Bernardino, California, that's still open. It's still open today. It's like 85 years old and Glenn Bell 8 at meatloaf Cafe and like the so much that he wanted to learn how to make them. So he could ultimately steal them for his own financial gain. The owner of the restaurant taught Glen how to make these tacos and then he opened Taco Bell. He just stole them and Taco Bell in no way publicly acknowledges this because they are thieves and the tacos. I saw a pictures of the tacos and like Cafe Superior. Fuck you Glendale. That's all I have to say about that. And finally, number three, Yeah. Yeah. I mean it number three. Papa John's halts its business in Russia and may take impairment charge. This basically means absolutely nothing. All of their Russians stores are franchise, which means that the only thing they're doing is stopping operational marketing and business support to their franchisees. That's it. That's all they're really doing. And while they aren't going to be receiving any royalties from these stores in these circumstances. The royalties from the Russian franchisees, amounted to less than 1% of their annual revenue last year. So it's not exactly a major blow to their financials and about the impairment charge thing. Honestly, I'm feeling a little confused about it. There was like a 15 million dollar loan made to a Master franchisee. Whatever that means and beyond that. I have no clue. And that's all I got. You didn't, how can you do a Papa John's with that the n-word or Shaquille O'Neal? That's the way you don't feel comfortable with. I'm just saying that. That's the whole thing. He says the n-word, then they hire. She feels a little bit of popular math before we end the show. the percentage, the Population. The of Russia and Ukraine is about 188 million, which is Is. What is that? It's a 2% of the world's like no the greater New York area. Oh wait I'm okay I'm sorry the world population is 8 billion. It's like 0.02% of the world population. Help me out here. That's good. Yeah. Good math. Yeah. And then there, that's a popular math session section, isn't it? And they represent nine percent of revenue from McDonald's. I mean, what the, what, what's going on? What's going on in Ukraine and Russia, what's happening? What's happening? McDonald's is delicious. Look that's just you just get over it. Okay, sorry McFlurry. That's all the biz nuggets. We have time for today, tomorrow, the best bulk of our show is gonna be taking up by March sadness. We're very excited to see every year we do March sadness and we're seeing the worst popsicle companies of the year and we actually play a tournament in which we see who wins. We'll be doing that. Well, most of the show tomorrow and if you don't like that, screw you but come back on Monday and listen to us on Monday. When will do even more content, that is all goodbye.