Business Pants – 2022-03-11

Live. From the recording studios at ESPN 4. In Bristol, Connecticut. To business points, right? Yeah. Is that a real place? Yes, it just created a ESPN 4. Just for us, just for our little show here. This man's Friday joined as always, by are the data Queen Emma lurking, Matt mcgard, I didn't even get to any corny snarky nicknames. What a disappointment I am. And today sucks since you're introduction today, in honor of the month, Friday the month of March, we are doing our March sadness. Sadness tournament. Yeah. The basketball tournament will be seated this Sunday, but we thought we'd jump the gun here. Let's beat them. We usually are too late. We're usually. Yeah, we're always too late. Lagging. That was an elegant fade by the way. Am I like how you just cut them? Yeah. Riverside. All right. Put a fader up. For those, if we, for those of our loyal fans, I hope we have really loyal fans. They know the routine here, every year, we put together our own March sadness tournament, where we determined the the saddest Corporation really that, and I'll tell you why it's a status Corporation because here, the criteria Biggest stock drop, right? That's one of the points. Most Google searches for the name of the company sucks. So like if we're doing say, apple will search for apple sucks and then I'll be a point, right? And then, finally, this year, we're adding something new the most green Washi statement either from their Twitter account or just from their news, releases on their website. So, we're gonna add those up. That's how you score. That's how we determine, which companies the saddest that's, you know, it's that's our works. Matt, help me out here. Did I get it basically, right? Yeah, the one big change from last year is we're using greenwashing this as a point? Yeah, that's the one big change. Which means when you're seating these things, it's not the worst company in the world. The winner is going to be the one who stock drops and they greenwashed and people search for that company name in sucks. It's that's your criteria here. Okay, let's get to And Matt, let's let's start doing this. We have this broken up into four divisions. We have a few. We have at least one new division this year. But this is how the show is going to work. And Prescribing, the settings, we're gonna argue about it. Because we like yeah, argue about stuff. Okay. Everyone here is an asked so much, prepare their own seating and then the four of us. We're going to try to figure it out together and under six hours, right? That's the goal under six hours. I don't know if we're gonna do it. Here are the four divisions this year? We have we have a CEO's rule. We always have CEOs rules. Come on. We have fake public. These are companies that are pretend to be public corporations, but actually they're controlled by a usually a single entity. Like, as in Ford, Ford is controlled by the Ford family. So it's not really a public company. We have the drugs Division, I think that's a new division this year. Drugs, that includes everything from Starbucks to McDonald's to Netflix, just all the drugs that the people love, all the opiates that keep us calm and keep us hooked. And finally, in honor of Matt, I added a metaverse category this year. They're just from our dystopia World. These are eight companies big in on the metaverse and just another word before we get going, is that you'll notice that some of these It just like in the real basketball tournament, some of these companies could have been in more than one bracket. Let's just say right like meta, for instance, Facebook meta. I really easily could have put in CEOs rule. I mean, who's better The Mark Zuckerberg? I could have put them in fake public, because what is there? A better fake public company that meta but I put them actually in the metaverse because they're, they're, I think they're leading the charge here. I mean, the change the name. So anyway, you get the point. It's a little bit arbitrary. So let's get to it. Let's start seeing. Come on. Listen to this all day. Can we just listen to this music? We just the show. Matt, and I wonder if you're happiness. This isn't sad music here. Yeah we need to like we need our senior head. Shake that quickly. That's what we really like a Reverb or like can we like muddy it? So it's sadder. Maybe next year. Next year. We'll do that. Yeah, we should. Well we can drop it an octave then it's like Matt and honor of your excitement. Can you want to pick a bracket and we'll get going. Yeah going with let's can we. Can we go top to bottom? Let's start with this Topia because I think that's already the most excited about it. Start with the metaverse. These are eight companies. I chose that all Are deep in the metaverse and I'm going to read them out in Apple Medical order here. And I will say that I did pick the teams for each bracket and if you really if you're angry, if you think there's a major omission and you want to fight for it, I'm open to that too. Let's just get to it. Let's get to it. All right, here we go. Ready are Ready? Here are eight companies. 18. Sorry, 18 in the dystopia metaverse. Brackett Apple. Facebook, which is really Meta Meta. So Apple meta, Microsoft, Nvidia. Roblox Shopify. Snap. Chat. And square, which is actually blocked. All right. Who you guys got for number one. Who wants to? Who wants to lead off? Come on, let's get this going. I to me number one is obvious but I'm curious about number one is obvious. Can we all just agree a number one is okay, what is your number? Yeah, rename myself to fit into the division and literally, yeah. The most influential company my number eight. What? Why? Because on meta? Why give us a quick reason because you're wrong but give us a quick reason. Why? Number one. Yeah, well I thought that like square and Shopify would be at the top of dystopia because what they do is actually dystopian meta is just mainstream now. Okay. Well maybe because you didn't because you weren't responding to the chats in the in the Friday Channel. Slack thank you slack for providing artificial its criteria of This company, plus sucks on Google. I thought it was a free-for-all and that was a suggestion, right? Because Damian, you did tell Emma do it if you want. That's true. You have an unlike and I have square slash block is my number one, because I think they're great. Okay. I will say that I like, I like this is the way we did the seating like this because I thought there'd be insanity, but I also tell her audience that Ari was the one person. He was the one person who did not reach out and ask me, any questions about what we're doing today. So this is this is what I was sure about what I was doing. Here's the reason why, here's the reason why I met his number one, first of all, the three criteria are stock drops company sucks. And woke washing greenwashing Brown, washing some sort of washing, right? Facebook needs to keep the stock low to avoid antitrust regulation which means you're not going to see stuck increase plus there in the middle of like, you know, basically putting themselves in the center of a war, you know, information misinformation problem. So I can't imagine the stocks gonna go up that much. No, it's gonna go down, which means you get more points down is more points because it's March sadness. It's not March happiness. This is the problem with our players. March happiness. Plus we're already getting the woke wash with Sheryl Sandberg saying yesterday that Facebook is bad for you. Yeah. That that's not true and then everyone hates them. Who doesn't search for Facebook sucks on Google? I like three or four times a day. It's a score Trifecta. Wait, wait, or does it have to be met? That's a good question, Emma. Yeah, I'm doing Instagram WhatsApp. Wow. So Meta has a said, no one. It searches for meta sucks. That's gonna be that's gonna let the problem. Yeah, let's move this forward because I'm gonna have to overrule. You are talking about a metaverse bracket here. Clearly meta. When is the number one seed? Who wants to weigh in a number two are gonna let you win number two because you already feel defeated, okay? I have Shopify is number two because what is more dystopian than Shopify? Mafia the female lead Mafia. That is so tell me and a good. What is the Shopify Mafia? This is like breaking news. You know, what is this? This is okay. So you know the PayPal Mafia? Yeah. Yes. Same concept except Shopify Tech leaders. The female readers are funding women LED startups. Yeah. Is this a real? He does that. Beat, Matt. It is dystopian of our society. It is where I want to live, like okay. I will say this breaking my brain today. I like that. You have shop over number two because to me it was the easiest number eight seed in this entire oh my easy number. Eight was Facebook. Okay. Well everybody does it like that is not just actually what was your number seven because that's probably the real number two, Nvidia. There we go. Now, we're getting which I always call new video. The video Emma. What was your Emma? Did you even tell us your number one was meta? Write my number one was medic. Yeah, that's correct with us. Back at her meta delay. There. She's got this. Lovely Manhattan delay there. What's your number? Two seed. Emma! It was Apple. I know I went for the easy choice but I did go for Apple. Yes, correct. That is correct. I mean, it's based on. I will say it's basically correct. I had Apple Microsoft to two and three. I don't think it really care how they go, but those are Microsoft is four. Okay, who did you have a number three, man? So number three is Roblox. Roblox. Number three, and The the reason why Roblox is number three is you have a you have a serious like sex party problem on Roblox that they're actively trying to like get you not to pay attention to by saying that they care about privacy and stuff like that. Plus you know no one cares about roadblocks in the middle of a real war and Roblox is as dystopian as as sort of gets in building the metaverse. I don't think I think Microsoft's a little too adult to be the number three in March said, this is what I really, that's what that's what made me put them higher because I think they're just like everything else they do. They're going to have a way to figure this out. Are you where do you have apple in Microsoft out of curiosity? Well, let me tell you about Roblox, which is my number six, which would be your number four. But I put them there because I was reading. That's what she saying. That because she is occurring to her that she reversed ranked, everything she's supposed to rank the worst. First, the Reaver So but whatever. So now did Neil did Ari, no, it's not. Yes whatever. Anyway, Roblox May rank games, which I'm sure they're already doing based on how long they're being played for. Okay. The most confusing show ever, pretty bad but I will I'm sure changing kids safety, you know for profit. Okay. Okay, yep. I like it. No. Let me repeat the question because maybe it came out a little garbled or maybe I spoke it in French. I don't even know. Where did you have apple and Microsoft ranked Ari? Let me try that again. I had them as three and five. Apple three Microsoft. Yeah I could buy that. I think Apple's too Apple's clearly a two because everyone put them up in the top three. But myself five, I could buy. Yeah, Emma. Would you have Microsoft Microsoft I had it for? So I'm not too too far off from that. Can I is it? Am I allowed to punch Emma through the Riverside and I didn't matter that you restart because that was like a 20 second delay. So you know how apple is running ads in Texas opposing the yes laws that further discriminate lgbtq you. Yes. Now is this social washing or is this for real social washing? You think that they don't believe in that? You think that's like a PR stunt? I mean, I mean I know that it's a closed. Um, like Tim Cook, right? Like the openly one of the only openly gay CEOs in the known universe. Yeah. and he's come out and said this is, Not great and we're gonna run some ads in Texas. Like how do you rate that in the greenwashing? I buy it, I think. Yeah, I think it's sincere. I buy, I mean, I think this year, too, which is why my three really means you're seven. What you're okay. I'm I see what you're saying. I get what you're saying. You know, it's funny. Yeah. Did you hear about the the FaceTime glitch on Apple? No. Go ahead. You go to FaceTime your face timing. A person, two people faced having together and then you can invite a third person so you invite them to join the call. And even if they have an answered, you could hear that third cell phone. I think we're really, isn't that nuts? I think we're on to him. Yeah, that's where we are right without them and I would do that. Let's call somebody. Oh Matt you realize you see that Emma just laughed at a joke that we told him yesterday show, just see that. I don't know what to do. I knew this guy, I'm glad we started with this bracket because I knew it would be a train wreck because there's really is other than the top. I it's just a mess. So, Matt, come on. Help us out. Tell me your, put them all in the place for me. What did you like you, you got meta apple. One two. I think that's not in question. I had roadblocks three and Microsoft 4, keep going. Um, square is five and mostly because the push into crypto, right? Like makes Square sort of like, that's important. Very important. Six is Snapchat because they're getting all the Facebook outflow, it's just going to like it. I like it. So they can't be seated. Last seven, eight, Nvidia just Falls below the radar. Nvidia, is the architect of dystopia but they don't get any bad press. They don't do any green washing, they don't say anything right. Like so from a scoring perspective, they're gonna end up being a low scoring team. They're like a defense team defense first right low scoring and This. Yeah. And well, I'm playing the game. This is I want to know, like the seating is based on this potential score. I like it. I like it. And then you've got eight is Shopify without a doubt shopify's at the bottom, because of course not only is no one care about them, nobody ever will care. But no, no one. We're in the US like Canada might as well not exist. Like and the, the Shopify Mafia where it's like, a group of women helping each other. God, does it get less scary in March sadness than that? So, that's the seating, that's my seating. You guys are making me sad. That's I wish I had already Meta Meta, showed its at agencies the metaverse. And what they thought was it looks a lot like Snapchat. So are you had Snapchat number four? I'm if you can hear me, do you want to quickly give me your rankings and we'll figure this out and jump out of this bracket? My ranking sorry version of this game or the YouVersion of this game or the map version of this game has to ask. She's gonna delay. She's gonna ask another question back to me so I had to be it's not already. Yeah, one meta, 2. Apple 3 Square for Microsoft 5 Roblox 6 in video, seven Shopify and eight Snapchat. Those are my rankings. I don't agree with the snapshot, all right, so it looks like to me. I'm gonna I'm gonna get us out of this category because again, like, I feel like we're bogged down, I'm gonna go basically, based on our Average assessment here. Microsoft slots into number three. Four looks to be roadblocks you. Shopify, definitely a I'm gonna put Nvidia at 7 even though it pains me because I think you're right. Matt. They are the architect of the, of the metaverse. But yeah, talk about a company falling under the radar that might become our overlords one day, Snapchat is six. Yes, and square. Which is actually block, we're calling it square number five. All right. There you go. Those are our rankings for the dystopian bracket and we will put these on our website. We'll somewhere we have a website. We do you have no idea. How many people are reach out to saying the following. Can you help us with our website? And then no one responds to me. Maybe they want money or something. All right, it's always let's let's move on to our fake public bracket. Come on. Yeah. See how quickly we can get the music going in the next 40 seconds? oh, I'm really Ari's having seizures not dancing. I'm not sure which is what here's the company is in our fake public bracket. Again, these are all the companies that pretend to be public companies really, they're not Airbnb. Berkshire Hathaway Comcast That's a nod to the actual March Madness, Tournament Ford, Nike Spotify Walmart. And finally, Zoom our favorite pandemic play Zhu, here we go. Who wants to lead us off? I got Comcast number one, why he's already. He's just your number eight Ari. Nikki. Oh my God, I have no idea what's happening now. Like I love this. No Nike chaos. You guys go. No, I love it. Give me your top three. Come on. Help me out. Okay, I got Comcast zoom and Walmart. well, I did have one in our pies so this Because people hate those things. That's true. They do. Yeah. Comcast Matt. Come on. Yeah people do hate, is there. Another company you just like all cable companies, all internet providers? It's just like an American thing. We hate them. Yeah. But you're not in Zoom, everyone's just zoom 15 Heitz it. That's gonna go down. No one's gonna do it anymore with your list. We got four, five, and six. Four. I have Spotify. Yeah. Berkshire Hathaway. Okay and then I have forward at number six, I wish you have Airbnb at 7, Matt. Come on. That Airbnb is the top seat. Why? Why is this even though the good the good PR from from Ukraine? There are two million refugees coming out of the Ukraine and they they're taking the their standard 100,000. I think they're just gonna they're I think they're going to I think they're a very green Washi company to avoid you. Asking about the ass heaping problem. Okay, I think yes but still they're still doing. Okay. Right. Cuz I'm I'm buying you were buying it. You're buying it 100,000 still seems important to me. Okay. But you have the number one. Interesting. Yeah, well I mean they're all so like they're unlikely to like the I don't feel like the stock is going up in the next two weeks. It's not like does anybody and how much do people hate more people are doing? Sure, the pandemic is a pandemic is no is ending, that's false because if you are, if you're in the United States right now it feels like it's getting warmer except for the fact that we have our big dumpy snowstorm coming in like mid March that everyone hates and then everyone's so pissed off about no one wants to go to an Airbnb. Airbnb feels like a number one, seed to keep going, keep going with your checking. The number two, I had Spotify spotify's big, right? I mean spotify's gotta be up there, they're one of the new hated companies. I'm thinking there's still Joe Rogan, decompression, happening, agree, number three, I put forth. Um and this this is controversial. I feel like Ford There I really like their their lightning F150 Lightning like they're electric car like I get it did. Matt just say he like the truck. You've been to it because you know what you can plug the truck in as a battery for your house. What a cool thing it's like oh Your house needs a battery. Matt kind of house you living in because where that we're on a dead end Street. When the power goes out, we're like the last ones to get power back and we don't want to buy a propane generator. So what did you just? So they're gonna live up their car like normal people and complain put their and let your kids. Exactly. You, it's what we do is we've been doing that done breaking from your life from the power goes out. How about that? I got number four is Berkshire Hathaway. How do we not like I know we have Buffet fatigue because we've had 80 years of Buffett that's being that's actually under. I was under Counting But the fact is you've got like Munger coming out with some of the greatest ever. Ever Wendell is dorm. I mean, come on Windows. Don't so much like about that as like a sleeper foresee. I got five Zoom, which I am on the fence about sixes, Walmart, which I was I think we're Walmart did out, seven is Comcast but you're right about Comcast is going to get a like, a lot of Comcast sucks. But they don't do any greenwashing and then eight is Nike. I just say this before, I asked him for her rankings, as I can, I just tell you the, my dorm special my first year, my dorm window. My room was so important because I would always use that window to see when my buddies were starting to go to the dining hall. I mean, if I didn't have that, I didn't have a cell phone, I guess. People have cell phones, not damn it. Yes, he mongers, right? All right. Well, Munger again. He's unwittingly because he he's unwittingly getting us. It's a pre metaverse play, right? Why would you need Windows in the metaverse, man? You don't, you don't need them. You know? It has Windows. That really does not need Windows airplanes know, terrifying. All right. Um, are 30,000 feet in the sky with no way. What is he so much weight? You see, you've already seen it. You how excited I am? Every time I fly over Greenland. It's Greenland. It's cool. You know how much extra you know how much extra fuel burning just because you want window. Well, I'm not going to DC because I'm bored. I don't have anywhere in two and a half years. I told her know where am I? Not a plane told Ari to take Amtrak. But what did she do? And I'm not taking her significantly, more carbon for slight convenience. Yeah. Thank you. I took an Amtrak to Boston and I loved. It was beautiful. Emma, help us out what he Okay, public bracket, go ahead. Um, I am not going to help the chaos. I don't think. Unfortunately number one probably not Spotify to Nike 3, Walmart 4, Airbnb, 5, Berkshire Hathaway, six Comcast 7, zoom and eight fort. Well I don't know me. I think that I'm gonna ours were pretty identical here so I wonder if we're we're honest something. All right let's let's try. I don't know why you guys have zoom ranked. Zoom zoom is on its way out. I don't care about too many more. Yeah I don't think there's anything controversial about Zoom at this moment in time. Wouldn't that be a problem for zoom? Based on what I'm seeing I'm seeing Spotify is the number one. Yeah, and I kind of like this because Spotify got a lot of press This winter but how you guys all feel about the Spotify. Number one seeds, big public Division. I don't think this is Joe Rogan thing is over yet. Yeah. Much to match Chagrin. I think we're gonna have to go two three on Wal-Mart Berkshire. Um, those are those are the Heavy Hitters. I mean we like seeing them up there. They're kind of like the you know how Duke probably gets a little bit of a lift. Even at their team, isn't that great that year? They'll get a little push in the rankings Walmart wrong choice? Walmart said I'm betting against Walmart round one that's what I'm doing. Um number four, looks to be Airbnb. Let's put Let's put Zoom at five. This is, this is just the, the Riff Raff at this point Nike six. Comcast 7 for 8, there you go, there are fake, pop like division ranking Spotify, number one, Walmart number two, blah blah, blah. You'll see it posted somewhere. If you care this much, oh, no posted on posted, on our LinkedIn account on ice show on Freeport LinkedIn account. Well, we'll do that. Like in an actual racket that we do have an actual bracket. Yes. Moving on to our CEO's rule the vision. Emma figured out that if you just let it run in silent, you can just turn up the volume. All right. I think we all agree on number one, he has rule. These are you know, this is the one kegger that makes me a little bit sad because there I had to because I just explained the top of the show. You know, there are a lot of great companies that could be. In this division we talked about Tim Cook already my guitar but you know, but this is where we're at. So I feel sad but yeah, I agree with the art to me. The number one is obvious but I don't know what you all picked. Same obviously, not obvious. Okay, no, I have sales force, Mark Benny off his number one. Okay, I even know I had him at number five. I'm not I'm not hating that. I don't hate. I have a three. Okay, I think he are. You gonna get a like, this gonna be a lot of greenwashing stuff that comes out of that, dude, right. Like in fourth, really like that. And like, look the fact that they might be genuine about some of it. I, it's just gonna be a lot. We're gonna get a lot of points for that. I'm just where I'm thinking about points. So, okay, we are not going to get more points out of anyone but Elon. Yeah, well that's why I have number two, so much I have data. I Did this like his secret baby? That's true. Not that much really care. But you're smiling over there. Oh, she doesn't want to put. Elon is obviously my number one. Oh, I'm going on a while you're at it. Keep going. I mean, I think that my number two and maybe this is a hot take is Jamie Diamond. Yeah that's my number two take that's my number two it is a hot take. It's not gonna be that hot really okay not um number three I'm going Salesforce Mark Benny off. Yeah, keep going. Yep. And then number four, Uber Dara. Yeah, Uber. And then BlackRock Larry Fink number five, and then City group number, six, GM Marybeth, number seven. And finally, oracles have for cats ate. So you put the three women at the bottom of the rankings. Is that, is that a political statement where I did? Okay, why do we want to know? Actually, I didn't notice it, but I don't know the women feel like they're gonna suck the lease. Oh, yeah, I like that. Yeah. Do you want to address the fact that in the original company set? The Damien proposed he included injury from Pepsi who's been retired, like five years. I blame the I've just blame nothing. I blame nothing. It's my own stupidity. Matt what keep going with your list? I'm curious. You have Benny off one. I'm curious about your top four here. I got Benny off, number one, number two is Elon number three and I think those are uncontroversial as one and two, in some order. Number three, I have Larry Fink, although what we found every year with Larry Fink is that he doesn't they don't perform well they don't yeah nothing really happened. That much I have Mary Barron number four. I have number five is Citi group. Jane Fraser. Number six is Dara. I don't think Uber's gonna be in the headlines much and less. There's some like big event Um talk about social washing here Ukrainian people. You can have a free rides up to 75 bucks it's also like somebody or somebody actually needs needs a car on the border and being willing to like Risk getting bombed Jamie Diamond similar to Larry Fink is sort of red herring e right. Like he never scores well here and then I have saffron 8 I don't even know how South Africa. It's got in here. He's a demon like find another woman like there's no way might be. There's she does not even like she's not even in the same list as these people. I'll be like I'll be honest with you part of my crushing here, where am I pretty or just very well known CEOs and I had a list in front of me and I also wanted to be, you know, that we talked about a lot or companies that we talk about a lot, I didn't want to talk about your African, talk about Oracle, okay, well that I'm open to you want to kick around. How is we all not on here? like, I know you wanted Disney and another category, but this like But whereas Sundar we're soon to our pichai, there's no good on this list to anywhere. That's the other problem is that I know this is yesterday and I was hoping I'm glad you know this. How when I was doing my laser fake public nor CEOs when I was doing my list yesterday, I noticed that I inadvertently omitted alphabet, Google for my final list I sent out to you guys. So I was, that's why I put the the message in slack saying, if you want to add any companies that I admitted, please do. So, I agree with you. Matt, let's get alphabet into this tournament. You want to get one in right here. I see you replace that for cats out. If oracles out that actually means they were my number eight is well, we need like a live receding. There's no way sooner or purchase number eight. There's no way. No, but there's no way. He's number one, he's number three. He's gonna shove everyone down. Remember why? Google is a problem. Is that wasn't there? Didn't we have a problem searching for Google sucks. Wasn't there like a overall system? Kind of like over I am taking outside for cat. I agree with you. That was a user error on my part. I'm ashamed, fully ashamed. You should be, I think BlackRock should be number seven, because that's boring. Okay, that's going on with your rankings. I agree. Okay, well, I had Tesla number two, I had Uber number three. Salesforce number four. I had GM. because of like Evie and everything happening there, five Citigroup, six, JP Morgan because boring 7 Black Rock, Wait, Oracle. And what. So what was your number one? Tesla, Elon all screwed up with Aries rankings here. Number two and three are once again. Uber Salesforce. This is a lot of user error. Yeah there's a lot of user error. All right. Matt. I'm gonna, I'm gonna turn this one over to you. Why don't you rank? Our CEO's rule category for us. Come on, do it. Well, obviously I think I think elon's number one, I think we have to do Elon number one but what we're seeing actually is at the averaging them out. We, we, mostly like are confused. We're broadly, I think. All right, here we go. I think top three. We got, we got Tesla, Elon Musk sales, force Mark bunny off. Number three, alphabet or new entry sooner purchase. I agree with that. I think that's fine. And I think it gets really hairy when you get underneath that. I think we have to go both Emma and Ari were hot on Uber. I think Uber's number four, then like that and that that gives us we're gonna play in the first round. Yeah, I mean I think whoever he gonna win, I think GM is probably right? And then Jamie dimon and then BlackRock and then Jane Fraser Jane Frazier. All so doesn't really belong in this list. She's misplaced misplaced sadness. Had a gene frass. She's the eight seed. All right, that's our CEO's rule category. Once again as equally confusing as our previous category, previous bracket, let's go to our final bracket, the drugs division, Okay, I think here we'll be more aligned, right? No, yeah. Well. Here, my face, is that who you have here? My eight, favorite current, eight favorite drugs. In America are really, you know, most of the world at this point. I think you should know from me where where my number one will be but we'll see what happens. Here we go. Are the drugs here, the drugs, the drug teams Activision Blizzard. We had that we had to put them in the tournament. I just had to honor them somehow acupuncture. Amazon of course, Disney McDonald's Netflix, Robyn hood. Kind of, I snuck that one at the end. Yeah, it's an 8 seed. It's like Gonzaga get to Starbucks of course and Twitter. All things Americans and North Americans and Europeans even are addicted to all eight of these drug teams. Who wants to get going? Are you here? Are you, I want to raise backwards. What's your what's your number one drug? Well, number one, I think it's awesome. Yeah, I love what are he says? Things like this. What is obvious to you. We are all addicted and it's gonna be like Robin Hood or Twitter or something. Yeah, Amazon Amazon. Okay? That makes sense, I have them right to that. I'm with you. Number two, I think Netflix. Yeah, I had Netflix number one seen. We're aligned on this one. Ari. What keep going. Nice going. Number three McDonald's. We just love the non-food McDonald's. I prefer Popeyes. Yeah, keep going. Oh, I prefer. Papa what about shit going? Um, number four, Activision Blizzard. I have. Twitter at five. Starbucks at 6. Robin hooded seven and then Disney. Oh, I like that. Number one seed is your eighth seed. Tell us why Disney's number one yesterday I did one for me. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I did a whole bit how in the last three weeks Disney has literally said and done everything both ways. They said they ignored the don't say gay bill. Then they weighed in on the don't say gay bill, but they edit out the Gaze from their movies. They are in Russia, then they're out of Russia there. They've done all the things. You know, I can shift out of mine down once a week. It's okay. Listen, I I had Disney at number three so I'm not, I don't think it's crazy. You guys have number one, you know, what you're exuberance for. This is made me realize that. No, not only Disney is not only is an important current drug in America. It's really been one of historically. Speaking in the corporate world, is really been America's longest drug, right? Like coming up? Yeah, yeah. Longest drive in especially, I mean, in this list, I mean it predates McDonald's. I mean, Netflix and Starbucks. I mean those are recent additions so I'm agreeing with you guys. I'm gonna put Disney number one yeah going with your rankings number two, I have Starbucks, the unionization filings have more than doubled since wait one Union finally in Buffalo. So the Starbucks number two, but there's okay. But that's an interesting point you bring up Matt. So as more and more stores are starting to vote Yes on unionization. Does this make people like Starbucks more or hey, because have the opposite thing, they'd like Starbucks know? Because you're gonna have powered out there talking about Holocaust blankets. I mean, like they're trying to kill everybody had that, that's already happened. I know that, but I just can't wait till he talked about Holocaust moccasins and Holocaust like we got it we have a whole Holocaust, you know, like how set to go through any rankings. Keep going. So I have Starbucks number two. Number three is Amazon, I think it's hard. I of course flip those two on, I think you'd be Okay, number four is McDonald's. Moving out of Russia means. They're just gonna have to bring Travis Scott back somehow to make. Everybody forget that Something's Happened. A lot of his lawsuit from that tragedy in Texas. And let's just make sure they don't crush anybody at his next concert number five. I have Netflix. I don't I don't know how Netflix Netflix feels like. It doesn't have a lot of push for scoring here. I don't know. You're gonna write. I mean, to me, I mean America and and Beyond is so addicted to Netflix. I don't think anyone would even dare say, Netflix sucks because they'd be worried that Netflix would cut them off forever. They're just great. I am betting on another thing happening in March, like, with Dave Chappelle. Oh yeah, I mean like, but, but that's like a new ribbon thing, right? Yeah. A new special. Where he? Where he disparages someone know. I him. Oh, okay. I could be actually, Dave Chappelle. Yeah, I have Activision at number six. I think Activision is at the lowest point. It's gonna be, I actually think that they're there. They now have upward trajectory, because they don't even bother trying to like greenwash this anymore. They're basically just like, have they ever I wonder what was for not getting a woman on the one more woman on their board was like We were busy like three years. We were busy thinking about other things. They're not even trying like this. So it's like, they're not, they're not greenwashing you, whatever number seven, I have Twitter. And number eight, I have Robin Hood. Robin Hood. Just wait. Why do you have Twitter? So low because Twitter historically, actually Twitter was the champion last year. Is that right? Yes, they were but it was almost entirely off of last year we did social sentiment and we did. But Twitter sucks was just like a meme last. Like, it was just heavy last year. I just don't see it. Continuing, well, in the same way here, we're gonna ramp up for elections. Gonna, I'll tell you this much, okay, tournament is three weeks long. It's not the it doesn't go. It's every month. Don't forget though, Twitter joined the Microsoft alphabet path by pointing their new CEO perog wall. Yes, I'm already Tongue Tied, I think Twitter one of the The Mastermind reasons behind that is to get deflect attention away from Twitter. I think Twitter is trying to get out of this Twitter sucks. Verse that it lives in. So I, I think it's part of their part of their plan going forward. It does seem to be like, less attention, Like A playbook, like, understated quiet. Indian male CEO is the way that no one, and no one pays attention to you anymore. You humble, not looking for attention, you know that stuff. Ah, Dude, guaranteed next three weeks. There will be a harassment thing on Twitter again. Oh, well, then it'll make the news. Well, that, that might, that may be. Oh, Matt, I should notice that when Jack Dorsey try to go to Africa, a professor Scott. I forgot his name already Professor Scott. I know you're listening. I know you that probably offended you. He was really upset about Jack going to Africa. Now, the new Twitter CEO went on paternity leave. I didn't hear, I didn't hear one complaining about that. Well, he's not the CEO house. So shouldn't be shouldn't be allowed to go on paternity leave out there. I mean the problem was that Jack Dorsey had two jobs and was gonna go hang out with brown people. That was just the problem. Was he going to Africa for expanded out? There is, what is like, part of? Like the Emma Philistine in your seating. What he got here in the drugs division. Disney one, Disney McDonald's, two Starbucks, three Activision Blizzard 4, Amazon 5, Twitter 6. Robinhood 7 Netflix 8. Oh, Netflix eight. Wow. All right. I think a clear Disney's a clear number one here. Despite Ari, although in Reverse Ari world, she actually did have Disney number one. So yes, I guess it all the opposite. Re-land yeah, Robin Hood is the clear number eight here. I think no one's gonna be too upset if I throw Amazon at number two, McDonald's slotting in at 3 even though, oh yeah, I don't know why I'm at doesn't like that. But it doesn't I doesn't matter because now that she's Emma delay. Lurking, I don't really care what her input is anymore. McDonald's. Number three, know I had two. I'm happy with McDonald's at 3. Yeah, no, she's happy. Okay, okay, Starbucks for makes sense to me which pits them again in the first round. Be very exciting pinging them against Netflix, which I find pretty exciting. And then down at the bottom Activision at 6. Twitter. 7 those. Those are your 2022. March sadness. Brackets. The brackets up. If you do want to play along, we will post this on LinkedIn and our website. Maybe I always say that, but I never do that. So, you know, no one ever goes there. Anyway, that's good, that's good, that's good marketing. And before we get out of this segment, March sadness, segment, first of all I want to hear the music again. Second of all Matt tell people again, how the point system works in the we'll just bail out of this. All right? Start us through the music. oh, all right, March Sadness, the rules for March sadness. Bigger stock, drop bigger, the biggest percentage. Stock drop gets a point more greenwashing statements, get a point and more. Google searches for company. Plus sucks, gets a point. So, it's a, basically, a three-point game and there have been ties in the past, and we've had to come up with tiebreakers, we make those up as we go along. It looks like our our first big games. If I'm looking through the final bracket here, I think the first big game, the game, the games to watch in the first round are going to be Microsoft's, squaring off, it's against Snapchat and just copy a division. That's a three versus a six. That's what I like it. I'm curious about that one because I do think Snapchat's. Got some legs there. To take out the three. I'm curious about Apple in the video. It's like the The Quiet One versus the loud one. I like that. Yeah, it's there's some good. Tokyo ones. But I don't think any of them are arguably as good as Berkshire Hathaway against Nike where you have, you really like you have you have like a brand that talks a lot about like being woke and stuff against literally a 99 year old man. Right anti woke company so anti-walk that they just they just jumped five billion dollars into oxygen control petroleum. Yeah, that one's gonna be great to watch that one unfold. I think there's probably a sneaky good game in Amazon versus Twitter because Twitter is last year's Champion that's gonna drugs. Yeah, I'll tell you when I'm looking forward to off the bat is my, my most favorite adult in the room. Jane Fraser. Citi group versus my least favorite Hilton room, Elon Musk. I'm excited for that battle. That is not even gonna be a battle. It's gonna be, I love going to change, blow out with. So Come on, it's gonna be a blowout. I do think, actually, all of the CEOs rules division is basically stacked for a blowout blowout wins. I think the drugs division McDonald's versus Activision. Can you can see that one Activision? Taking actually that's a, that's a marriage kind of made in heaven, right? Those two. I don't know why they have all those seem like cross marketing opportunity. Guys, some Mountain Dew over the top and you have like a weekend in With no sleep where if only injure Nui was in this competition and then and then I think to round out. Interesting games is probably Starbucks vs Netflix. I do the drugs division is my favorite new division, well, great division this year, that you're right to point out. Matt Starbucks and Netflix to me are, like, probably America's favorite Brands to be addicted to. I, I really there's Sensations. It really are a great matchup. It's amazing that they aren't like, I know everyone likes, you know, industry, classifications and asset classes, and when they're investing, whatever clowns? Yeah, this is Starbucks in Netflix are the same thing. I don't know why they're separated. They're the same thing. It's brilliant to have them head-to-head, so that's it. That's our turn. Yeah, excited. All right, we'll check in. We'll check in every Friday. We'll update the the games the tournament. And what, before we move on, from the segments, are what are we? We talked about this a little bit. What are we playing for like what's the, what does the winner get I think the winners should get whatever the winner wants from our Etsy Shop, the three losers will pitch in and buy the winner. Their choice. I'm gonna get a new hood. I want to new hoodie. That's what I want. I'll add some yeah. Etsy shop too if we want. Okay. Hopefully Damian is hitting because if I win all I want, all right, I'm not, I'm not gonna win Ari owes me a crop top. I think I will win. I think Arjuna went too? All right, just the thought of you wearing one though, makes me like, here's the deal. If you're listening to the show, if you're a fan of the show. Yeah, and you write us who you think, write us out a bracket. Like I don't care if you hand write it on a napkin and take a picture and send it to us. If you win the bracket, I will send you a t-shirt from our Etsy Shop, you give me your information. Oh my God, freefloat will pay to send you something if you get the champion correct, for this bracket, so that's really All over this, I would say Matt even if they even just a lot of bracket will send them a t-shirt from March sadness. Okay, that was our very Convoluted 2020 to March sadness. Bracket, thank you, everybody for seeding. Let's move on. Oh, we have a fancy expert. For this week who was not joining us live but who we am and I actually interviewed a little while back. Emma, I'm gonna let you take over the fancy expert segment of the show. Thank you. That responsibility probably should lie with me because you're the fanciest out of the four of us. Is that? It obviously, do you think you're the fanciest? I don't think so, I've had moments, but yeah, not maybe not right now. No. All right. Earlier this week, we covered a story about the revamped board and Leadership at Dollar Tree. So let's keep our Dollar Store Obsession going with her fancy expert. Who wrote on labor issues at Dollar Tree subsidiary, Family Dollar fancy expert, revealed thyself. My name is Jack newsham, I'm a senior reporter at Insider writing about legal Affairs, in the legal industry. We were very curious about a legal strategy, called Mass, arbitration used by lawyers representing employees who have signed a way their right to sue in their Employment contract. Masturation is the process where where in thousands of individual people using the same lawyers, bring legal claims typically in a confidential process typically with the American Arbitration Association, or some sort of private sector, dispute resolution provider. But in the course of learning about some of these Exemplar cases, I stumbled across hundreds of claims that are had been brought against Family Dollar. And indeed, the contact information for Are hundreds of these claimants. So, what we had Insider did is we started talking to them and getting their stories learning about their experiences and perspectives, just like the Dollar General employees, we interviewed last year, Family, Dollar workers are struggling with extremely long hours. Harsh upper management and dangerous work conditions, in theory, Mass arbitration sounds like a good workaround for mistreated workers to receive restitution for the harm. Done to them, without breaking the terms of their contract. But what does that restitution? Actually? Look like a lot of these arbitrations they don't end with people getting their day in court, they end with people getting money and whether it's an amount of money that their They love to get or an amount of money that you know they're just okay about getting that. That's how it's often ended and if you want you know to stand before room and tell your story, the end of the day, well the American system of justice is not very well tailored for that and especially the mass arbitration is not sales Taylor for that settlements predominate and that's just how it is. Given the ongoing horror stories about the working conditions at various dollar store. Chains we asked Jack what the hell is up with the dollar store industry? Why is it so prone to labor abuses? I feel like A greater level of, you know, discontent and stress emerging from Dollar Stores, you know? As the economy is sort of bifurcated, sometimes, these are the only options for retail and food shopping and some communities. So even as you know, some workers, take pride and the work, they sort of the services. They're providing to those communities. They're also, you know, stress. They're also, you know, feel sometimes at risk to their personal safety to an extent that isn't isn't true for some other retailers. So, there is something special about dollar stores. I think Now we understand Family Dollars, outrageous, turnover rate. Of course, Family Dollar is keeping that specific number. A secret, I couldn't actually find a turnover rate for all employees at Family Dollar Tree. They would say our turnover rate has dropped by expert, but they're still disclosure stuff. What the underlying turnover rate was like how how long until the average employee gets sick and leaves. We asked Jack what the best course of action is for any employee who feels their being mistreated by their employer. I wouldn't be a good journalist. If I didn't say, you know, talk to journalists, you know, talk to me specifically Um you know I I'm a professional. I've been doing this for several years. I try to you know build trust that said I'm not I'm not a lawyer at the end of the day and I can't tell, you know, what's gonna give you an ironclad legal case. I think some some general truism, you know, would apply. Just how you might think when you get in a car crash that you should, you know, get out safely and start recording things and, you know, making sure that no claim comes to bite you in the butt, you're down the line. Yeah. If you think you're being mistreated you should you should keep records of that and you know, keep your options open because you know, knowledge and and records are power. There's the things that I as a journalist like to see my own sources have. And if you are interested in telling your story, Jack, would love to hear from you. I love the people's stories, so I hope if anyone's going through those processes, you'll get in touch with me and share your thoughts. I'm on Twitter at the news ham, the newsham, my last name any wssa. Adam feel free to DM me or shoot me an email Jane newsham at inside.com. Thank you so much to jack for sending down with us and chatting. We really appreciate it, giving that you certainly have much more important things to be doing. Thank you for walking us through Mass arbitration and answering our barrage of questions. We can't wait to have you back. Hopefully sometime soon. Ah, we have a let's we have a little Bridge, our, our usual segment, this week's instead of voting on our stories of the week, why don't we just announced them? I'm most excited about are the data Queens goodly a story the week because it involves her. I've asked Ari to report to us on her, very exciting conference. She went through this week, but yes. So we'll get to that in a bit. I will start off the story of the week. My story of the week. I think anyone is listening to this show. All week would know it is my, my it's really a non-story. But my story, the week is the total disregard for international women's day from the Press, from the, from the, from the mainstream, press the business press everybody. My prediction of the week actually involves this too but that's my story that we can. As Matt has already alluded to the story. I really focus on two was Activision saying it failed to hire another woman. Yes. For due to Microsoft deal, complications because we don't you know here at business fans we don't get disclosure like this very often like I will say my my hood off to Activision Blizzard because There. I mean again it's it's obviously a deflection and a lie but they said something. At least I don't know like Just getting any kind of disclosure is wonderful for us. Just saying something, and, but that is the most ridiculous. Excuse, you'll ever hear as Matt pointed out. They had 48 months basically, to a point this woman and the 47th month, they blamed the sudden interest that Microsoft had an acquiring it. So clearly their crazy That's the nice. That's a nice version. I hard to not put that as a story of the week. Yeah, that's my and the asshole of the week, go ahead. Matt asked, Holy Week, I think the asshole the week, There's there, I think it's a Thickly I while I would. Like to do Activision and just pick one asshole. I actually think it's already like six times know. I think it's the it's it's like the woke tumble of companies getting out of Russia what Tumblr like that. It's like because last week the same conflict was happening. They were still bombing civilians and whatever and a bunch of companies were like. We're going to see how this plays out. It's not really our thing. Like the crypto groups were not, we're not going to block anything. They were just, there were companies who were still sort of reticent sitting on the side lines. Waiting to see what was gonna happen and this week we had them all basically come out, they all came out at all at once and they all issued statements about how they couldn't stand. The yada yada yada of yada, like it wasn't happening the week prior. But really what it was is McDonald's was saying can we afford 50 million dollars? Oh what is it? 50 million a week that they make in Russia? Month. Can we afford to Global Revenue? Yeah. Kill a month. Can we afford to lose that? Yeah, so I really like that this kind of like Cascade of companies. There was a first wave of companies who are like, oh no this isn't gonna work and then we got all the Wimpy losers who couldn't make a stand at the beginning. Coming out this week, you're my asshole of the week, I like that. You know who started this was shell, actually shell decided to originally to buy Russian oil and then apologized for it and then, yeah, you're right. Then we saw a woke tumble most notably. The woke tumble was McDonald's Starbucks. I know I'm getting something. But yeah, there was some of the retail at the top decided it's actually in the week. I actually covered this again and who won the week but so let's move on. So that's your absolutely. I love that term by the way. Whoa tumble. Oh, are you rushing out? Good list of the week. Please, you went on a conference this week, could you please tell us? Yeah, I went to go meet so my corporate governance nerds. Oh okay which are different nerds and what I'm already offending already. What just met them? Do you want to tell us the name of the conference? Might that be my start? It was the spring 2020, getting the backpack together. Put on by the Council of Institutional Investor like the cie conference and Washington DC, where you hung out with a good friend of mine, former msci, colleague Gregg rule Yeah, very exciting. Let me cry. I tagged along with him a lot. Yeah. Crossed your dinner too, and right. yeah, so it's funny because we talk about, you know, directors, all the time and in on during the panels that the council held There were a bunch of directors that were speakers any of our favorites. One and actually Mary was there. Okay? One of our favorite and our March 10th? Mary GMOs seed? Yeah, she was talking about the future of automobiles. Okay. Well, that's what she would do. I guess what? You know, that's the whole time I was sitting there, like, Emma would hate every word coming out of your mouth, right? Yeah, industry. Like they always do that. They've been doing this since I have a kid, they're always talking about the future of automobiles. What, why are they so fixated on the the cars of the future? Why don't we talk about the cars now? What cars, 119 or I have It and how I can maintain it and how it's good for the environment, not to throw it away, to keep it, like, why are we so far in the future Marybeth? They sell something? Can you imagine if they got up and they would be like, let's talk about our cars from 1973 like that would not exactly go well people but keep your cars until they die but you got gas lit already. That's gotta be the good list of the week. Oh, that's true. I then sat on a different different panel. Yeah. You sat on the panel next to it. Oh sorry. No, Jason damn. It you in the corner. Okay. Freezing my ass up. That's right, because they keep the temperature to man's, you know, Natural State. Anyway, one of the speakers at this panel was an executive from Hilton Hotels and the name of the panel was elevating employees, voices, or something like that. And man, if you were to just listen to this woman, you would think that Hilton rolls out the carpet not for their customers, but for every single employee including like, hourly workers and it was just bananas, right? Like she was talking about how yeah, their corporate employees, you know, they can work from home, they don't have to come into the office, but now they are developing all this stuff so that the people who have like housekeepers who are, you know, engineering maintenance. People who have to go in and do something, they have more flexibility over their schedule and just sitting there like, okay. Great. But also are you gonna mention that? You know, you laid off 20% of your workers last year and that you not, you specifically, but the board of directors at Hilton The CEO got a gigantic pay raise and he's number six on the top 100 CEOs. Like, who are overpaid? It was just, I was sitting there like looking around, like, oh my gosh. Is anyone else getting this? Does anyone push back? Is anybody push back or something? Like, what is the point of delivering, a speech like that, at that kind of a conference? Who was she thinks she's talking to? I don't know. Well, if I don't know, but everyone she's way too friendly. We did do like yeah, we did a show, awoke data show our other podcasts, which we need to revive for season 2, season 2 is gonna come soon. Good. We did a show where we actually featured Hilton and the Hilton CEO Christmas seta and how he got a massive. He's like the Steph Curry of CEO pay ratios, he's got the absolute, he's absolutely crushing it all those him. Okay, yeah and Judith Mikhail, who is there? The pay committee chair is directly connected to the setup through board connections. We did a whole show about it and then have ariesa listening to a panel where they were like, we love our employees and it's like, well, you love them approximately like 4,000 times less than your CEO next year? If you Christmas set up being like and I know this is important. Chris as well. Who has been our CEO for, you know. Let me put you on the spot right here. If you go next year, will you be willing to be? Will you be willing to look at the who was going to be on panel's and bring some notes to be willing to fight back? If there's any kind of? Well there's a thing you should, you should have counted her You have to submit your questions. And I submitted my question and they didn't read my talk during the actual not anymore anymore. No, and right after it's done, how can you read anyone? Who's singing? Anyone who's anyone just leaves, right? Like Mary Barrow is not sticking around after her thing and neither did this executive everybody just leaves. Yeah, so I mean you hardly even have time to talk to people at your table being like That's surprises, right? So it's because the next one, the next thing just starts, okay? So foster an actual discussion no, it was That's the deadliest of the week. Thank you. Can I ask you one question? Before we move on to the Emma's, probably the story of the week. It's irritating us. What did you have? You went out. I know, you went out with a an executive director from msci and and his client What did you have for dinner? That night. That's from curious. What did you order for dinner? Paella. Okay. Would you drink wine? I had a drink. Why? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, very desert. So yeah. So it is a it's a Spanish restaurant, right? So the menu, there are a lot of Spanish words and is everybody knows I'm from Peru. So he speaks Spanish. And the drink menu. I was looking at a very quickly and I'm like, I don't think I want to cocktail so then I looked at the wines but the wines were just crazy. So then I went back to the drinks and the, our server had come to take her drink order. So I very quickly look through it and then I ordered my drink And Spanish because that was the name like capital letters. It was the Spanish name and then everybody kind of like looks at me funny right? And I'm like and then someone's like oh Like free, the Beast was the name in English. I was like yeah and then I look back and they have the giant name in Spanish and then in English like in tiny letters next to it. So I am there being like Oh man, please how? I forget the name Spanish that was. Yeah, like oh God, I'm like when I see it, I don't need to translate it so I don't need to look for like the actual name was exactly from this dinner with you. That would have been great. Uh, thank you Ari. I'm kind of surprised who picked the Spanish restaurant. Was it the client rag. Yes, Greg. Greg. I hope you're listening because I don't you can text me. I don't believe that you picked a Spanish restaurant. I don't believe it. I just don't believe I know he's eating habits. I tell him. I'm gonna say there are a lot, there are a lot of Maine, there's a lot of Maine Seafood on the menu. All Right? Moving On. Thank you, Ari Emma. What your most this week, what was? What got you come on. We already talked about it yesterday, but I think it is gonna be a Mainstay of being irritating to me. I'm sticking with Taco Bell for a store that I pulled yes, yesterday about the fact that a man, the founder of Taco Bell, whose name is Glenn, Glenn Bell, the founder of Taco Bell, Dole. A small, local Mexican restaurants, family recipe for their hard shell, tacos and Co-op today for his financial gain. Eventually via the franchise Taco Bell and I'm mad at him about That's why irritating, it's dead so. Well, here's our opportunity to make fun of. Okay, all the time. Just like Joey Romeo. Yeah. So we're good. What have you names to the mix? Glenn Bell, Emma doesn't love you. All right, this show is already 17 hours long. Let's, let's try to get Addie here. Anyone have any, who won the week? Who won the week? I have if you want to think about it, yeah, go ahead. I think that Ari won the week for reverse ranking, you all of her seeds always say. And for the, what was the drink that she said in the Beast, the Beast drink, these are the week. I will say my dovetailing on to Matt's story. My, my snarky choice of who won the week is fast retailing. See you and find her to Dashi and I Write. He's his company owns Uniqlo. Who said, at the beginning of the week that you unique low would not close in Russia because clothing is a necessity of life, but then reverses decision. A few days later after the internet yelled at the 40th, wealthiest person in the world reportedly worth 30 billion dollars. That was a great reversal. I love that. That's my, he won the week for me. I love that. I I'm gonna pick. ESG is the winner of the week and while that might sound like a deep inside or thinking, yeah, look, we had all these companies, leave Russia. All of the sudden. There have been a dozen articles that I've seen in the last like five days about ESG and Russia and how it got wrong and how it got it, right? And what is it, why do we do it? One of one of the arguments is now that bombing shit is ESG. I think that no one wins a week more than when you're so confused about the thing that you can write anything about it, and you'd be right. So I'm gonna go with ESG one. Week. Ari. So you win. So you're so if you win Hilton I I want okay sorry when Ariens the week, moving on before we get out of here. Any predictions anybody Yeah, I made one. What did I say? Yeah, tell me, I forgot. Yeah, you tell me, huh? I forget to I said, you never told me anybody remember? No, but I'll tell you mine, you think it's gonna be a Twitter harassment scandal. Twitter harassment, like like the next month, Twitter harassment Scandal, I love how specific that is Twitter harassment Scandal, mine is a pretty boring. I am predicting that the media coverage of Pi Day which is March 14th will far outpace that of international women's day. Wow, good one far outpace. Wait, did it really did? I didn't at all, March, 14th. 3:14 was there really nothing? There was almost nothing. I there's all over LinkedIn, though. I'm going to predict that after the employee memo talking about how Disney edits out the gay. Any, any potential gay affection in was that all of the Pixar movies. It's it's gay, scrub, you, gay, scrub gay, scrub. I think they're going to come out with the gayest movie. They can possibly make. That's no way to to make up for it. I think it's gonna be Like full of fabulous and everything, they can think of every game, meme, every gay Trope, and then they're going to be criticized for stereotyping gaze. So I think my prediction is go way gay and backlash to that. Maybe maybe they can clone Tim Gunn from Project Runway and then Tim the two Tim guns can just make out for two hours. That would be pretty good. Then it would be 4,000 Twitter posts about how that was Emma. I'm almost buzzed me there but didn't for some reason. Yeah, because she's on a delay. She was thinking about the Clone Tim Gunn making out with himself. It was like, is that even gay? Because it is, it gay to make out with yourself. That's the question. Probably not. Probably not know. We can't talk about this. We are getting into dangerous territory. Oh, we just did we just did? We just did go ahead. Emma. My prediction is that I'm gonna Buzz Matt and Damien a lot next week, that's what I think. Oh, Please like, I love being buzzed. I don't really love it but I do love it. Yeah, maybe the maybe the Twitter harassment Scandal are. Yes is our is our hatred for Tim Gunn's clone. Wow. Wow, we just are gonna make our own prediction come true. Matt has actual work to do, so, I'm gonna, I'm gonna set us all free. That was a business pants. Friday for March 11th 2022, March, 10 minutes Edition. That's the greatest. As demon Ross and are the Dairy Queen and I'm looking at mascar, we are Freeport media. If you like this, well, I have more March that just next week but we'll also have our regular news dumps and regular dumps and probably constipated dumps all week. Next week, we'll be with you then good. I,