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Business Pants – 2022-11-03

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Nuggets live. From your ESG nugget Farm. It's a slap tastic, nugget pack Thursday here at the Bloomberg data mine. Join is always by our BS correspondent. Matt mascardi, I'm non-alcoholic oatmeal. In today's ESG infused bag of ESG sent to nuggets called November 3rd, 2022 nuggets. That was like from choking before you started speaking to yelling at the end. I've, let's, that's good recovery. We are business news reimagined. We are ESG news. Ready. It's not nuggets time ready? Matt. Let's see it. Before you keep talking. in our, The NFL's two favorite fakes are a fake punt. And a fake black team owner headlines. Oh ouch. Byron Allen set to bid on NFL's. Washington commanders. That's the name. Matt always trotting out Byron Allen to shut up all the people who say the NFL as a horribly. White racist. Group of Team Hunters. I did see that. Dan Schneider hired Bank of America to explore a sale Explorer Explorer. What does that mean? The higher than to call Byron Allen? Yeah, to see if he's available still. Thanks our put out a press release. Zuck was right. Go long on meta headline of the week. UK Farmers earn more money as social media influencers after rough year. From influencing look like, why do we need to grow real food? Why, I mean why do we need real anything? That's true in, you're right. Zuck is right however, Are they influencing cows? That the like who do they, who's their influencing Target? In our hey, Ma. Yes. You can finally come out of the bunker. I looked up probably it means almost certainly. So I think you're safe tell Dad headline of the week. He kind of went in and out of that accent. That's because I still have covid throw. China is allowing another rocket body to fall, to Earth uncontrolled this weekend. It probably won't hit you. That's a good headline. I like that headline. I didn't really realize that probably meant almost certainly. I wish that was more wishy-washy than that. That's almost all the way there probably. Yeah, probably close, isn't it? Well, I mean maybe I use it wrong like when my family says like can you take us somewhere? I'm like probably which means no probably could. you know, in our hey Ma Now, you have to come out of the bunker stop. I know what permanently means, it's not my fault, elon's a dick, we're gonna need another bus pass, tell Dad headline of the week. Twitter. One of the first companies to let staff work from home permanently after the pandemic plans to order employees back to the office. You know, that's not that bad though because there's only going to be half of them returning because the rest of them are getting fired. So that might be all your friends. Yeah, I have I have endless droves of friends at Twitter. When do we cancel our Twitter accounts? All right, I remember I canceled mine back when he first tried to buy it. Remember, I think I've just, I think it's we're just all my strictly a LinkedIn group. Microsoft, one follower was really mad not to mention that with the revenue we generate from this show. We couldn't afford an eight dollar a month check mark. Anyway, I know I you hear that people. I know there's people listening to this show so let's make this happen. Can you give raid us and subscribe. Don't and in the first time I engage, this is my first segment today, I'll end it on this one that I'll very, very truly handed over. You'll see what I'm doing here in our Maybe the ESG haters are right. Headlines of the week. Climate change to produce more rainbows. Yes. And to keep it going for our double rainbow ESG nuggets. I'm going to hand it over to Matt, what he got, come on in our Climate change is so woke. Stop climates gay, agenda headline of the week, climate change to produce more rainbows. See, I took a different way. Like I like your, I like your, I like your path. I immediately thought of the anti-woke reaction to climate change, creating rainbows. That's just it's like gay pride month in this country. Now, every month, I'm since I'm old, I remember in the 80s and 90s, I remember that homophobes would always be. They angrily say that they, that we were ruined the word gay, like, like gay used to have a positive meaning and we've ruined it. So maybe we've ruined Rainbows, too. Rainbows are dead to us in our speaking of dead to us. Hey, Ma call Vivek and tell him. He won and tell Dad headline of the week. BlackRock expands corporate voting choice to more clients. That's exactly what Vivic wanted. You want to know how popular it is. Only 25% of the available assets that have, that choice are actually voting themselves. It's just like America. No one wants to see. The stem make you feel sad. You seem sad everything makes me so sad. Yeah I do. I feel down today. This will pick you up in our after your 9 a.m. with civil rights leaders, you have a 907 with NASA who's upset that your last launch brought back space back bacteria. And then at 9:22, you have a deposition with the lawyer, representing your black car manufacturing employees, who are tired of swastikas in the bathroom stalls, apparently, and then at 9:37 a.m. the Neuroscience division wants to discuss what you'll do about the tortured monkey carcasses, whose brains wouldn't sink. I can push your 9:44 a.m. with the structural engineer about the traffic jam, and the tunnel under Las Vegas, but only till 9:47 a.m. since you have a 948 a.m. with yay, to discuss the merger of parlor, and Twitter, headline of the week. Oh, Twitter owner, Elon Musk met with civil rights leaders Tuesday. You actually calendar. It's been seven minutes. Seven minutes meeting with the like that. Just imagine that guy's calendar. He's running 19 companies. Yeah. Badly all of them like mediocre to badly. in our, Definitely chagrined about being called woke. Maybe I'm more vexed. No, it's not. It, I'm not really offended. I'm like 22% indignant and like, 78% Huffy. You know what, I take umbrage with being called woke. That's what I feel headline of the week. CEOs focused on stakeholder, capitalism. Take umbrage at woakes CEO. Label says it's just good business. Oh, I'm branch. Look that word choice. I don't even know what that means taking umbrage. You don't see Umbridge a lot. That's what I'm saying. Only a CEO would take umbrage. Yeah. It's not like you don't like playing like Gus the, you know, mailman taking umbrage with something. Well, the SEC just announced today that they're actually might be an Umbridge clawback policy. They're working on like that. That's that's good. Governance policy. And our ah, did you hear? I'm not allowed to throw a chair at the ref of my nine year old rec league soccer match anymore last time the raffle only needed four stitches. I barely hit him. His country's going. So fucking woke headline of the week. FAA warned about going woke as parents banned from cheering their kids at football games. What does that mean? So apparently, what's okay? Yeah, it's the UK like, you know, the under League the kids shirts but like on their way to pro-kids kind of thing and they have one day one day where they asked parents to just cheer respectfully well teams because they were basically having like full-on like screaming at refs and kids and it was like, you know, hellscape well I'll tell you. Here in America. We do have this rule at our soccer game is where your Not supposed to. What are you? Not you not supposed to cheer for your there's something like a Json to this, some woke Jason real. But you know what? The good news, nobody listens. Like 50, it's just 15 different parents pretending like their coach on the side lines barking at the kids and putting them into utter confusion. They look like the coaches, the kids, the parents are going to go left. Yes, exactly. It's like that. In our now, if only, they would find a way to get them out from, between the fibers of my rugs. Since I step on them every fucking day headline of the week, Lego breaks ground on 1 billion, carbon neutral Factory in Vietnam. Vietnam, they can build a carbon neutral Factory but they can't make it so that I don't step on them in, like, rip up my feet. This will can't seem to find anyone and I guess people in Denmark don't need jobs. No, they don't. I probably Danish company. Proudly. Yeah, you know, in our You know who else was wronged here? Me. That's who I have to cover this bullshit, it's giving me PTSD. I mean I know the actual victims got nothing but I'm the real victim anyway. Headline of the week. CBS and moonves to pay 30 million to resolve sex assault claims. That 30 million dollar settlement, to resolve. The claims was a settlement with investors. Oh, so far victims, shareholders assault shareholders that victims of the sexual assault. Have received zero dollars. Oh You're headed. You're nuggets are depressing. Come on. This is supposed to be our comedy. Oh, here's the here's a come on. Here's a fun. One in our, hey, Ma Tumblr still exists. Tell Dad, headline of the week. Nudity comes back to Tumblr, but sexually explicit images still banned. Oh wait, what, what's the difference? Apparently you can like like show some level of nudity but it can't be like porn. When does nudity become nudity? When is Tumblr still a thing? Like, does anybody used to talk what's on Tumblr? Like Marissa Meyer uses, it? You've been on Tumblr recently. All right, I'm gonna finish up my segment because it's not picking you up, you are? I thought you were dead. You're like, ready to be done? Apparently, talking for two hours about how to make this podcast day. Joe Rogan Style Show Just yeah, I had two hours of yourself sales pitch this morning. Was someone telling us how to grow the show, grow our podcast and I realized that he's right, we're failures. That's very sad for you in our Hey, quick question. Are you guys busy? I have like a little thing. I could use some help with. I'm not sure which you have open on your desk right now. But if you've got, like, the next seven years to spare, I could actually use you for something headline of the week. Elon Musk is bringing at least 50 Engineers from Tesla to Twitter. Most have little to no experience designing, social networks, and use an entirely different programming language. Altogether report says, I don't like that. I don't, I, I feel like a car company needs its people. Its you know, there's a safety issues involved. You know, who shouldn't like that. Keep working at the car company. The shareholders of Tesla know, because wrong they love just robbed, the shareholders of Tesla, 50 individuals for a rich egomaniacs. Vanity purchase. They probably didn't know what they're doing at Tesla anyway, with they're probably, they're probably working on the self, the automated car, which is, that's true. They all got recalled. I guess they're not really busy there. Let's wrap up this stuff with some actually non-depressing, headlines, come on. That's up to you. in our, This headline, speaks for itself, headlines the week. So, I'm going to embellish this one, I just love this headline. All right, proving why he's more successful than us. Trevor, Trevor, Noah jabbed Elon musk's early Twitter tenure joking. That if the new owner really wants to make money, he should charge white people to say the n-word. Oh no, I think this is brilliant. why Charlie blue check we can just charge for A burnt speech. Yeah. What if you didn't, it would be like a free speech tax. Like you can say whatever you want, but just know that when you and word or something anti-semitic. Yeah, we're gonna charge you extra. Well, first of all, let's can we throw out the notion of free speech because first of all now you have to pay to be on Twitter and second of all he he's already saying that he's not going to bring back banned people until at least after the elections. So he's already, he's already proven. It's not actually a free speech Zone. He put out that already. He put like two hours ago that I just saw That was, which should advertisers care more about. Freedom of speech, or political correctness. and those are the only two options because the only but I'm saying that I'm saying that he's already made decisions which have Determined that he is not for free speech. He's well my that's because he's he's anti-political correctness. So he yes the decisions like about Free Speech are really not against Free Speech. They just aren't politically correct? Because the show we don't know what we're talking about and our Hey, Ma. I think we finally figured out a good way to sue. Eight-time Starbucks, CEO. Howard Schultz. Tell Dad to find my Stills. In law books. Headlines of the week. I know, I haven't said the word stills and like forever. Yeah, just used to be a big thing when I was a kid. Now, I don't ever see still much. No one's got them drinking coffee, while you're pregnant could make your kids shorter by a few centimeters. Yeah, I'm living proof. in our, in our today's episode of business pants has been maliciously, edited by Matt mascardi. Who denies making Damien sound even super than he really is headline of the week. IPhone maker Foxconn has hit back at maliciously, edited videos of worker deaths, at its facility following a covid outbreak. A malicious editing, maliciously. Edited Yeah, why? You know, I don't know if you know this but I've been maliciously editing the show for the last three know I'm aware. In our, the first 90 seconds was spent arguing. Yay. Versus ye, and Adidas versus Adidas headline of the week. Top, Adidas execs took only two minutes to make their final decision to cut ties with Kanye West. It took that long. How come we don't have reports about everything that the CEOs I want to know the breakdown like just like your Elon scheduling. I want to know everything that's going on. I want to know what. Yeah, two minutes. They didn't have to. Why did they even have to walk in the room? Did they need a meeting on? This was there somebody in the room with the beginning of the meeting was like All right, you know, we should really consider the pros and cons. I want to know, all the I don't want. Like I don't even want just a minute, I want to know every detail of what happened, the full sequence. And finally, in Biz nuggets for November 3rd 2022 in our, I'll take things a CEO being held hostage might say for 500, Alex headline of the week. Unilever, CEO says I'm thoroughly enjoying working with activist investor, Nelson Peltz. Yeah. Who doesn't? Everybody loves it. When someone pulls it, that's our low energy is nuggets. That is Low energy. You are Sad Sack today. That was Damian Ross. I'm at mascardi. Those were some Biz nuggets. Come back tomorrow when we wrap up the week and we'll have more energy because Ari and Jesse will be here, we'll talk to you. Then we should have one of them host the show. Never goodbye.
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