Business Pants – 2022-07-07

Hello. Hey. Live from the Amazon Prime offices in downtown Miami. It's a Thursday quiz show Thursday here at business pants. Woohoo. My favorite day now join is always biking come out of my terrible funk by Emma Trend. Dumpster lurking. That's a terrible nickname Emma. I don't like a trend. Why would you call yourself that? And Matt put me on your board mascardi. I'm soggy toast. Someone should put Matt on their board. You know what? Matt, you don't know this, but every time I see on LinkedIn, like a job offer for a board member, I do click on it and think, like, could do this and so far, I don't think you could Really, honestly, like, some of this stuff is so obscure that I don't, I don't think it could. I don't ya. I give up and today is yellow flavored coffee mug of brown scented nuggets called July 7th 2022. Big fat, fun quizzes. Come on, Yes, I have a quiz Amazon. Let's do some quizzes. You ready quizzes? Let's quiz up. I have nothing prepared, and I'm ready for it. Excellent. Good. Don't patronize me. Here we go. Let's do this. Come on. Number one. Who. Matt, we cover a lot of directors and Executives here. If you flow. So it's appropriate that the first word Nerf there's a quiz who who Is the new creative director for Diet Coke? Oh, I know that answer, you know, the answer, how do you know this answer? I might it was everywhere and we're gonna alternate. So I'm gonna go first. Wait, it was everywhere. This this is, I honestly like everything I picked up my quizzes, so obscure. It was someone really funny. Yeah, talking in the mic. Yeah, that would even funny or if you talked into the mic, I don't even see her mic. There's she's my little baby down here. Here, I was it like I'm some. Yeah, that's great. You're stalling. Give me an answer. Oh my God. I want to say like a Kardashian. Okay, incorrect. As a child of the 90s I can tell you it's Kate Moss. Oh my God. That's right. I'm disturbed that, you know, that so well and Emma this doesn't bode well for us the quiz because when Matt gets the pop culture ones, right? You're screwed. I'm really upset about that too. Okay, maybe you can make up points here. That is the correct answer. Kate Moss, what is a creative director? Is she qualified for this? I don't understand how could she be creative director. How is this possible? All I remember, is heroin Chic. That's all I remember. That was her thing in the 90s. She's now almost 50 years old and I don't know what she's created since she's created the night. I think little something I saw that. I thought that's what the thing was like, what's happening. Yeah, her famous quote, is nothing case. That's good as skinny feels, which gave a million people, that's an anti-feminist, right? The she said it, she said, okay, bonus question. I had fun with this one name, the diet coke slogan. I have a lot of Them here for you name, the diet coke slogan. Kate Moss, new creative Drifters Diet Coke. Is this a real new slogan? Yeah, did all. Live your life. Do what feels good. Life is how you take it, light it up yours. Love what you love, what life should be like Open happiness. Hello you. Stay extraordinary. You're on because I can I know I gave you way too many options there. I literally I fell asleep but here's the new slogan. What? What 2022 to you? You said 35 thing. I I like actually having 35 options feels 2022 to me and Emma and I hating all of them all so feels 22 to me. So I'm gonna go with that, okay? Isn't tasted all the original one. Am I get? Super serious know. It was like yeah. No, you're not wrong. It was something like taste. The no Taste, the rainbow Skittles its taste. The feeling taste, the taste of it, right? Like if it tastes is in there. Yeah. Oh, with. Hello you. Because that's the one I'm hoping for, I'm gonna go with cadima speaking to her mic, you know what? I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna reward points. For everybody here. Yeah, if I could find the right sound effect, there it is. Matt, you are right. You kind of you kind of landed on why I did this because it's 2022. So, we have 400 options, they're all and Emma. You're also, right? These are all, these are have all been Diet Coke, slogans. Every single one of them? Yeah. All right, cool. The new one is love what you love, but but I just had to include them all because they're all equally. Well, stupid I guess is the word. I think lighted up should come back. What does that mean in the age of? What does that mean? Light it up. I just like light it up and have a Diet Coke. I think they're actually talking about like having a light up joint and drink a Diet Coke. Like I think that's the ad campaign. Okay, moving on. Rose question. One question, one Radio Shack is tweeting. What? To Mark its new what strategy. So I got a double their what are they tweeting and what's their new strategy Radio Shack? What are they tweeting? What's new strategy? I can is it my turn first go go. You memes and nfts. And what's their new strategy? Radio Shack. To Market. Isn't it just like isn't Radio Shack just having a big turnaround and it's all of a sudden doing crypto stuff. I got. It so memes and crypto. I think that. Yeah, I think crypto thing is, right. I thought they were getting called out for like expletive-laden. Yeah. Okay. You're both annoying. Have you been reading? The news? Is the problem because I'm picking like the most obscure things. Yes. So, there they are tweeting obscenities as part of, as part of their new crypto strategy, so, but they are intentionally to eat obscenities. To help bolster their new. I think I nailed that. I don't think memes counts. No, sorry I know you both know. I literally said it is headline. I know that memes were in there. I know bonus question. Retail e-commerce. Ventures is the new company. The owner's Radio Shack. What percentage of the executives there? Who were not Chief people officer or women? What percentage are women 0? I lead you into that. The correct answer is actually 9% but I, this is all leading to this double bonus. Question, what? Nine? All these double bonus question, what? Color are chief? People officer Jenna, Lynch's hair and eyes. I need a complete match here. Complete match. What color is General inches hair and eyes? Come on! I need a complete match! Look, Jenna Lynch. Feels blonde and blue-eyed. That's what it feels like. Oh, no. Because didn't we talked about this about? I I think that she's brunette brown eyes. to Matt, I say, Emma, you're totally wrong. I'm gonna paste the picture in here for just for you to. Unfortunately, this is a podcast, but I gotta paste a picture here. Just so you can see who the chief people officer. Moving on Jenna, I love Jenna Chief people officer, London, blue, all so just walked out of a 1993 swimsuit. Know that's like alternate reality Pamela Anderson right there, that's metaverse. Yeah, it's not really, it's really Next Level. Oh like yeah, it's it's like DraftKings, strategy, moving on while you were being distracted by the evils of greenwashing and ESG, add UBS to the Credit. Suisse Ernst & Young old-fashioned Noni ESG data sheet of Palazzo. Summer 2012, concert series As you BS will pay head tickets to that, 25 million dollars to settle SEC. Fraud charges relating to an options trading strategy, where UBS Financial Advisors were not out of quickly. What? And did not understand the what? I see I read Matt Levine. So I know this answer too. Okay, I'm gonna demolish Emma today. Yeah, just really maybe we go Amigo first here, what were they not adequately? What was going on there? Just fill in the gaps for me. This is for the UBS. Not ernstein. Yeah. Okay. She's like feverishly, Googling quietly. We're not really. What can't? What doesn't want to financial advisors are not adequately what? We're not adequately. I don't think they, I think it's, they don't understand ESG. Maybe and I I have no idea about the first one. I have not. What's really? We're not adequately adequately trained about a derivative product that they were not understanding that you wouldn't lose money, but that was not true. I just give points out because I'm gonna move on. So the takeaway here is the financial advisors at UBS are not adequately trained. And do not understand the risks. This is what's going on at UBS. Fascinating. I yeah, I don't know if anybody's ever met a financial advisor. I was one where you like it doesn't make me discrimination discriminatory against financial advisors know, financial advisor understands the risks or is adequately trained. Well, hopefully a Stuart Kirk will go after them. Look, let's go to, let's take the algorithmic, train to dystopia land for the next headline, algorithm claims to predict what in US cities. Whoo, that's what I do. Not know I do. Matt, you guys are kind of taking the fun out of the quiz. You you're all you're answering it correctly because you've read the stories. Go ahead. And algorithm and it's in dystopia land. So it's going to be something horrific and dystopic and it claims for predict I think it's 90% Acres. I think it's going to predict. Covid. Spread Emma. Crime. I'll give you partial credit. See that pre-crime partial credit. Yeah, it's crime before it happens. Yeah, as Minority Report. That's yeah, you got it. You're right. I am stupid. Bonus question. Bonus true or false question. This algorithm was developed through research funded by a Peter Thiel controlled entity. In the data, was provided by meta platforms. Is that true or false? Oh God, I want to say true, but I think you're I think you're actually just gaslighting us because you're just playing to every one of our buttons. I'm gonna say fall. Yeah. You you know me too. Well it was a created by DARPA and the University of Chicago. Do we know anything about darker? Like I think they connected to any kind of Corporation. I was looking for a lynx today. I couldn't find anything explicit, I'm DARPA gives out a lot of Grants. Yeah, so probably probably that's the answer. Moving on billionaire at lesson CEO Scott Farquhar. Did what name? What did he do? In Las Vegas nightclub. This is the CEO of Australian company, atlassian, what did he do? Go ahead, Emma. As I'm gonna nail this question, you know this too, this is really feeling it too shit. Please Noble Garrity. Oh, suck it, Matt. He saved a guy's life in. That is correct, yes, he did that. Yes, he performed CPR on a man, having a suspected heart attack. Bonus question here. Since that event what has happened to atlassian? Share price. Anyone. It dropped like a stone Emma. Yeah I think it dropped a lot. Why would you think it dropped? Why did you go right to that answer? It's gone because so all I got right up. It's it's soaring see. All it takes is that you got to get your CEO know like social media. Social justice statements about abortion. Save someone's life. It is shot up. Yeah, give him the high. We're down 30% in the last six months, like everybody else. July 4th up, 13% just move, it, don't don't 13%. Oh, everybody else you're looking like closely at the eclipse? Come on, literally this you basically just said the Market's up 13%. Yeah, their stock is up 13%. Since he saved someone's life that's those are known facts. You can't hear that. Your correlations are double bonus question. How did the CEO describe the event? What did he say? Anyone know. Wasn't it? Something like I didn't read the story. I just saw the headline, something really like not it was something just that didn't mean much. It was honestly the word I'm thinking of is like eventful like the event was eventful. I'll just give you points for trying. Matt gave up the quote was give up. This is from Emma talk from a publicly traded company. The code is He was the most dead person I've ever seen. We may never get a quote from a CEO like that again. So I wish thank you. I wish moving on, only three more. so, you can all Rest assured, Delta CEO, Ed Bastian apologize for cancellations and delays over the whole day travel weekend saying this level of disruption and uncertainty is unacceptable. True or false, Delta Airlines also made a public statement offering trouble expense reimbursements up to 6,000 dollars for employees who will need access to out of state health care and Reproductive Services true or false. I believe that's true, but they did not specify whether it would be on Delta Airlines what it might. Actually they might they might reimburse travel. Flying other are Emma. I don't think that's true. I feel like I haven't seen Delta in the mix points. Go to Emma, Emma lurking. So here's the so no Delta is one of the companies that's not taking a stand and where you know where that six thousand dollars comes from, it comes from this Delta through passengers, a pizza party and offered 6000 gifts gift cards for the delays isolations. I definitely see that Matt, you can get pizza parties and 6000 gift cards, but you can't necessarily get reassurance that they'll cover your yeah. Cost too for your abortion. Well, it's probably for the best because they can't get anyone anywhere they get people around, right? I mean, so everyone wins. That's an area, two more. Here's the headline. Elon Musk is smart, but he doesn't understand what, according to a tech CEO, what does he not understand? According to Tech. CEO me to have an answer there. Matt can go ahead. Oh, that's a awkward. Yes, G. It's Rebecca megillah. She's the CEO of clarity. She's a friend of mine. Oh okay. Well, That's the best answer we've ever really had. Is that? Oh no sorry I'm a. What is your answer? I'm sorry. What do you think? What does he not understand? Human emotion. Let's that true too. But we know this because of his Asperger's Tigers, that's not what I mean, right? Right. But that's not what the headline was going for, Matt, you are absolutely correct and I didn't know you knew her but that's, that's Clarity. So you ruined the bonus question. I wanted you to identify the gender of the CEO. Can I just say for your friend? Matt, this is the most eagerly CEO I've ever seen on the company's website in the profile. It doesn't even list her name. You have to click through to her LinkedIn profile just to see who she is. So I have nice, her lack of ego. This is why women should run everything. I love it. Super nice. She's we spent a couple hours just chatting. It was been, she's super nice. Okay. Rebecca, please advertising our show. I think your past due. Come on, when you waiting for And finally, in the Thursday quiz spectacular. Here we go. This is this is a triple blank question, so it's going to annoy map but I think I was gonna like it. Hey, what store in Nashville is offering free what to people who have had, what? Oh God. He just was a Mad Libs. So what? So this type of store Nashville's offering free what? to people who have what Let's start with the store. What kind of a store is anyone know? Yeah. Amazon mute Emma's talking, but she's on mute she muted herself before she started time. I do know, I do know the answer to this. Oh Emma, go ahead. Fill in all the blanks. If you are a hot dog store in Nashville is offering free. I think hot dogs to how dare you to people who have had vasectomies. Almost you're almost there. Yeah, the answer is offering free shakes. So hot dogs would have made more sense, but ironically, that's what I was. I wouldn't have found that funny. I don't know why, but I wouldn't find it funny for a hot dog. Sort of offer free. Hot dog. They're free shakes for vasectomies. I like that one. Yeah, but the hot dog in vasectomy. The penis thing. Come on, that's that's like a one-to-one. It should be that or if you want to get gross with it, I suppose, if you get a vanilla shake, there's also a gross metaphor there. Oh yeah. Yeah, there's a growing on that. There's what I would do is I'd offer free hot dogs. I just cut the tip. Okay, I don't know. You guys are maybe that some people that that's how. I don't know. It's not gonna be awesome. Yeah, what do you got? Alright, starting off with our first trending story of the day which is back to our boy, Elon Musk who reportedly had twins with a neuralink executive. So, the situation is that Siobhan zilla's gave birth to twins a couple weeks before elon's daughter with Grimes was born via surrogate. So okay as it is Thursday, trendy dumpster dive is in the quiz format, obviously sure. So question number one, how Many total children does Elon Musk have now with the addition of the secret twins. Oh nine 10. Yeah 11. Can I add one thing though? It's important to note here that neuralink is controlled by Elon Musk and he is the CEO at neural. So this is not just like a random executive, this is someone, it's like closely under his I mean. Yeah, didn't we cancel? Bill Gates for like, Having sex with people at Microsoft, Emma did in the right wing did so Emma and the right. Yes. But what is the difference here again? I can't answer that question. Um, hypothetically, but the answer is the answer is. I think that kids we know is 10. Does it really? Does it really matter? I mean, they're all big numbers, they all see them I, in my head, I thought he had nine kids, so I'll add two and call it 10 because I can't add now 11. I'll say 11, All right. That is for Matt who is correct? You've been told not to use that sound effect anymore and you went right back to it. I don't understand. Yeah, we gotta delete that. Why is that not to lead it from our life here? We can't know. It has just to annoy. You have to keep it. All right, correct? It's the positive points. Matt, you wanted Mad Libs. You can have some Mad Libs here. I don't want Mad Libs. Please fill in the blanks of elon's tweet. Doing my best to help the blank crisis. A blank is the biggest dangerous civilization faces so far. I know this answer. I know the answer. I'm ruining this quiz. Now, like, you guys ruined my question, it's doing my best to help the climate crisis. A set of twins is the biggest danger civilization cases that might be true Damien please. I think this is, this doesn't he have this as 9 point of view that there's a, there's a, we're underpopulated. Like we have a population crisis. Yes, that would be correct. Which Matt is the exact opposite of your thing in life, where you hate people and there's too many people. So what what's going on here, right? Many people right here, Elon. I'm gonna tell you Thanos was right? Yeah, what but really what does make Elon think that we're underpopulated? Where is he getting this madness from? He might be the only person who said that, oh, I don't understand math and research that he doesn't feel the need to share moving on. Okay. Second trending headline of the day, Amazon will take steak and GrubHub offer Prime users memberships. So Amazon is being given 2% in stock options, in grubhub's parent, company that could have eventually expand to 15%. And now when you have Amazon Prime, you can get GrubHub without any fees for a year for free. Ah, and people seem very interested in that for whatever reason, though, despite my research into it, I don't actually think it's that interesting but here my questions about it. Anyway, yeah, one GrubHub is owned by just eat takeaway.com. How many women does their parent company have on their board 012 or 3? I gotta hope it's zero. This is a leading question. Yeah, it's it feels like it's Damian leading question. It's not gonna be three unless they're bored is 37 people on it. So it's 0 or 1 and I'm gonna go with one because there's feels. Here's why I'm listening. I actually something Damian might do, is what I'm guessing I actually downloaded the GrubHub app. Yes, yesterday to see results all about and all they do is they sell the same food. That you could get at the restaurant and they just add three dollars. So it's like if you're buying a ten dollar cheeseburger, like, five guys, they charge you 13 dollars for us. It's terrible women. Women stand for this. So I'm going to say is no really is it? What a really, what a terrible place just go to the restaurant. The correct answer goes to Matt, he is corrected is one, they have one, your Protege. See now I'm now I'm reading Damien's mind and realizing that that's what I was going for the human rights. I didn't care. All right, and number two, what is Grubhub currently being sued for everything. Unethical, labor practices surrounding gig workers, hidden deceptive, marketing tactics fraudulent, Lester relations, or copyright Frenchman. I'm gonna go for all. I'm going with all every GrubHub, very big gig very, you know, it's not all Uber and Lyft. I kind of like that answer. So I'm gonna give it to you. The real answer is hidden fees. It's not the marketing tactics, but that really said there is a lot going on right now. He's one being the fact that their parents at all a large shareholder in their parent. Company is urging for them to drop their CFO because they think that he has done a crop job And they when it comes to fraudulent investor relations, people are also very pissed because they have I think over the past year, Drop Like 70% and Share value. And people are very displeased and feel about their profits. I want to join this lawsuit because that's just what I just said. Like these right? Like it. The pizza doesn't actually cost 20 dollars, it costs 20 dollars. So what is it worth? This eight dollars. Come from. Well it's that's a scam. I'm sorry a scam. Yeah that's a scam. All right. And finally our final trending story of today is far-right called us Stonehenge satanic and cheered when it blew up. So there's this trending story about something that I had never heard called the Georgia Guidestones, which is a monument in Georgia and unknown individuals detonated, an explosive device, destroying a large portion of the monument, and all the monument is our massive slabs of granite that have the eight guiding principles of the secretive group. Who did it? No one knows actually who it was all of it is a secret, but they have a guiding principles. Most of which are pretty mild except for two, which are that they're calling for the world's population to be capped at 500 million. So they're anti Elon and but they also encouraged and missed by a lot. In order to improve Fitness and diversity. I don't, I don't know, but this also came to the Forefront of Pop Culture because Alex Jones who in a 2008 documentary pointed at the monument and said that Global Elites were plotting to enslave most of the world. So we have Alex Jones in the mix here. That being said, some people have been weighing in on this and my question comes from that which of these legislators tweeted the following. God is God all by himself. He can do anything, he wants to do that, includes striking down, satanic Guidestones, was it Marsha Blackburn, Marjorie, Taylor, Greene Madison cawthorne or Jim Jordan. I can I want to veto this whole question. First of all, where is the business pants connection? Second of all. I don't like when you say those names out loud. Yeah, I'm really sorry. Um, it's sounds, it was in Georgia, right? And that's Marjorie Taylor Greene state. So I'm going to go with Merger Taylor Greene, why not? Sure. Correct. It was Margarita. Just agree with you stories. I I don't I try. Look at them are. Here's the angle. What is the angle? Where are you getting the information? Could, this is the social media tech companies? Is that possible? What? No way. I mean, like, just, This thing we can find the stupidest thing to send around and get viral on. And who exactly? Are they outraged at like does anybody like anybody in the far left out there being like poor Stones? Did anybody care? Like does anybody care about this? Except for maybe like a bureaucrat and Georgia who was like their job was to sell tickets to go see it? I don't, I don't understand about that. I would love to concretely be able to tell you but couldn't quite wrap it up that I was searching for is I was going through, Margaret Taylor greens investment disclosures and she's invested in a company called Vulcan I think materials or something, but it's a construction company. It's a big construction company and they sell Granite. Like Granite is a part of their business and so I am so sure that they saw some of their Granite from this place in Georgia where like I'm just I'm so you're saying that Because they're going to have to rebuild it, they're going to make money or something. Their stock price gonna go up you know celebrating what she is. An investor. In a company. was the was the thing that, Is pretending this Monument. I think she's invested in the company who uses them. I think Amazon has lost her mind. Matt, I think maybe going to see if I had to go down the rabbit hole of this story. I would lose my mind because like, the Alex Jones who still exists. Apparently blame this on a globalist scheme to enslave. Because Larry Fink, Is this what you're like this? Where your eyeballs bleeding today? Because you've been spending too much time conspiracy theories? Maybe, I don't know what's happening. I don't know what the shows because This is the dumbest thing America is so dumb, we're just so dumb. When do well, what happened? Matt, you can thank you. We always just don't think this the seven white men who control the tech company. The social media tech companies that control our world because they don't have, they have, there's no counterbalance of their power, it's just them. They, they get to do all this fun stuff. Matt, I love, but back in the day was it like I was looking at like a market cap in the 1990s. There's a largest companies were like CBS was one of the largest companies that control by one dude. Right. Sumner Redstone like his company, I its media is always been a controlled Thing it just seems like the idea actually, the enemy. Here is the idea of democratized, when taxi EOS decided to democratize quote on quote everything. They basically just opened the flood gates to. Everyone's opinion should be valued equally right but guess what? That's dumb. I think what we've learned. That's my opinion value at equality. Is that democratized? What? It really means is growth at like, Breakneck speeds, right? That's isn't that what we've learned and all costs? Yeah, that's that's what democracy is truly means. It's just, it's run away growth. And it's getting BCS to to fund this this like Reckless growth, that's what it means. It was happy. Now I'm depressed again. Because Satan. This is the satanic. I don't really quiz cheered us up the way it usually did there. It's, we went off the rails somewhere. I think it was my all my diet coke slogan, so I think I ruined it from the beginning with that. Let's kill it right now. That was business pants. We were free float media. Tomorrow is Friday wrap up show. Join us for that. Otherwise,