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Business Pants — 326 episodes

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Tim Cook’s old new job, light socket crypto, permadirectors at Enphase, and 13G nanny state

2

Tyson plant closure, Tim Cook still CEO, ISS should fight, Dollar General preach

3

BLAME: Target’s costume, Callaway shoves a woman, Altria’s new director

4

Meta/Mark’s settlement, Target apologizes, and things we used to care about

5

GOOD? UHG lawsuit, Gen Z hates AI, Disney vs. FCC, anti-pervert glasses

6

L3Harris’ misconduct problem, Mark’s bad week, the SEC quits SEC’ing

7

L3 CEO out, SEC proposals out, Bezos philanthropy out, Zuck isn’t cool

8

Meritocracy = boys, DOGE fraud, Zuck’s publicity stunt, simple minded governance

9

IN OR OUT: SpaceX earnings, Uber sex assault, governistas, meritocracy

10

Cracker Barrel hires Herschel, fake apologies, and AI will kill us by 2036

11

Zuck reads your kids to sleep, pervert glasses, and dual class federal elections

12

OpenAI’s rogue AI, Trump’s governance diarrhea, EEOC’s Andrea Lucas hates data

13

BLAME: RJK Jr recalls, Zaslav’s summer camp, Target’s Swiss Army execs

14

Tech exec fear, Paul Atkins’ war on you, Jamie Dimon says a lot

15

GOOD GAME: Zuck’s NOT a bozo, social media resistance, women to the rescue

16

Zuck’s tough week, women save climate data, and Sonnenfeld fights for dictators

17

In or Out: JPM succession team, Nintendo, and iconic CEO clothes

18

JPMorgan week, ESG ratings are back, AI doublespeak

19

NUGS: Zuck’s vending machine offer, Bezos hates everyone, Thiel does ESG ratings

20

Conservative media dictatorships, manbaby secret clubs, and Zuck has a Casio

21

SpaceX fetish IPO, Trump’s Chinese phone, beef vs. Ebola, AI religious exemption

22

BLAME: Carnival data breach, Danone methane reduction, GM loses a director

23

BP’s bully pulpit, index funds hate your rights, Dell buys a contract, and baby name lies

24

Bezos spouts, CEOs hate employees, SpaceX IPO gaslights

25

GOOD GAME: Booing AI, Musk loses, BYD and public transit win, empty Waymos

26

Companies kill benefits, activist wants manly Victoria’s Secret, Buffett turns off the lights

27

BLAME: Coinbase’s AI job cuts, Starbucks’ $10 “affordable” coffee, Bezos at the Met

28

CEOs silent millions, DEI dies, Altman’s sorry, Gorman’s Disney problem, Chip Wilson won’t leave

29

IN OR OUT: New Rexnord and AIG CEOs, Dana White, Autodesk board refresh, Spirit Airlines

30

CEO turnover boom, Texas rejection, and white guy leadership victimhood (man feelings)

31

Tim Cook steps over, Swiss envy Singapore, Ford’s EV oops, and the corporate groin

32

Allbirds’ pivot, Illinois’ AI law allows nuclear war, Amazon’s dead worker, Reed Hastings steps off

33

BLAME GAME: Microsoft carbon fails, Booking.com hack, Amazon + OpenAI love, Sheriff and Feeler

34

Sam Altman the sociopath, reasons for hope, McD’s CEO says it’s mom’s fault, and men failing up

35

GOOD GAME: Activist takes our advice, EPA vs. microplastics, UA union deal, endless shrimp

36

Oracle’s bloodbath, Musk’s SpaceX, company “overstaff” gaslight, Jamie Dimon says

37

QUIZ: Air Canada’s CEO step down, Xerox governance, and Starbuck’s investors hate sugar

38

Meta is tobacco, Trump loves French oil, FedEx’s fake tariffs, “blame AI” CEOs, Larry Fink’s anxietywash

39

BAD GAME: Zuck’s AI CEO, Larry Fink worries about capitalism, Grab’s double extra vote shares

40

Return of the OG toxic bros, board pay security blankets, airlines whine, and wishing for EVs

41

NUGGS: Travis Kalanick is back, Peter Thiel takes back, airlines buyback, Starbucks union fights back

42

War on women, war on Iran, war on investors, but Jack Dorsey has a “Love” hat at least

43

BLAME GAME: Broadcom pay, McDonald’s burger, Geo Group “coup”, Iran war

44

Vanguard cowers, Dorsey’s AI employee apocalypse, Netflix flinches first, and Burger King’s HAL

45

Good news: Google’s data center, tariff rulings, Trump targets a director, and farmer says no

46

Goldman wipes DEI, AI will wipe white collar work, platforms censor ICE critics, and merit is a gaslight

47

2026 continues the bro-IPOs, plus OpenAI’s curious sexual discrimination firing

48

Epstein (non)accountability, Disney’s shiny CEO toy, Nike vs. EEOC, Texas oil blacklist is illegal

49

Epstein execs, Target’s new forceful boss, Disney new CEO, SpaceX mashups, and Pfizer’s inspiration

50

CEOs on ICE, the SEC kills small investors, the manchild economy, and AI navel gazers

51

The feckless Minnesota CEO response: George Floyd vs. Alex Pretti

52

Jamie Dimon is non-binary, Chip Wilson hates Chip Wilson at LULU, anti-woke winning the proxy

53

BLAME GAME: WestJet’s cramped seats, Walmart’s exec planning, SEC proxy voting, Netflix movie list

54

Brian Cornell and Target’s silence, Bill Ackman’s fat mouth, and the manbaby economy

55

Silence on Minnesota, public oil company graft, Grok’s children problem, where are investors

56

2026 Predictions: corporate governance ghosting, CEO retentions, mass labor movements

57

Venezuela oil exec takeover, Musk’s child exploitation, rich people are richer, and blowhards predict stuff

58

2025 QUIZ: women on boards, ESG regression, DEI rebrands, plus 2026 headline predictions

59

BP’s new CEO (and failed ex-chair), nepo tantrum at WBD, tech bros say life’s not worth it

60

McDonald’s CEO Kempczinski hates you, Tim Cook gets paid, Ryanair’s O’Leary retires (eventually)

61

No more proxy advice, Lululemon’s succession, CEOs just sayin, and Apple’s new lawyer

62

WHO DO YOU BLAME with Doug Chia: Paramount’s hostile daddy, protein Doritos, Kimmel’s contract

63

Costco does right, AT&T does DEI dirty, robot dog poop, billionaire safety nets

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Dell’s $6bn “gift”, OpenAI’s code red, Costco as moral center, and proxy advisors say no to a director

65

WHO DO YOU BLAME: Campbell’s poor people rant, OpenAI sex bears, Kohl’s succession, Walmart HR

66

Cracker Barrel’s racist investors, no more shareholder proposals, and trigger headlines

67

Larry Summers distraction, SNAP governance, and Eli Lily’s David Ricks outs himself

68

Cracker Barrel’s activist and Disney say no to DEI, Doug McMillon steps down, Alex Karp’s ‘Rosebud’

69

Jamie Dimon says, Elon Musk says, robots love you, and Robby Starbuck’s new campaigns

70

Musk gets paid, the anti-anti-DEI wave starts, CEOs say the darndest things

71

Altman says stop being polite, tariffs bite, CA’s billionaire tax, Dimon will help Mamdani

72

TRICK OR TREAT: OpenAI is for profit, Goldman CEO can’t count women, John Malone “steps down”

73

BLAME GAME: Target layoffs, OpenAI vs. China, Hormel’s recall, F5’s cyber breach, and future terror

74

Musk’s robot army, East Wing payoffs vs. NBA scandals, and Benioff the Protector

75

Biggest CO2 spike ever, billionaire corporate nations, GenZ should proxy vote

76

RIP shareholder proposals (or views), Marc Benioff needs an off switch, and hot women hate cybertrucks

77

OpenAI goes porn, Jamie Dimon says things, Best Buy CEO can’t sleep, no more shareholder proposals

78

Bari Weiss is a DEIdeology hire, conservative foot shooting, Musk is rich, and CEO exits

79

QUIZ: Japan’s MAGA, Asia’s influential women, robot taxes, Tim Cook’s replacement

80

War on women, bro-co-CEOs, fake CEO retirement, and boards say vote them out

81

IS IT GOOD? AI regs in Cali, EU -37% carbon +60% GDP, white dudes are winning board seats

82

Kenvue is a target because Trump can’t say acetaminophen, billionaires want you to shut up and work, and more Disney

83

Kimmel’s back ex Sinclair, Oracle’s 4x CEOs, Office Depot’s gay wedding designer moment

84

Kimmel and Disney’s political expedience, Exxon bought its vote, and algorithmic autocracy

85

Charlie Kirk corporate censorship, cutting back earnings reporting, Exxon buys its votes

86

Murdoch and Ellison, Voter choice at Vanguard, and Charlie Kirk and the hopeless man problem

87

NUGGETS: AI bro on AI crime, Apple chair takes $20m, Conoco CEO’s my bad, Murdoch identifies Australian

88

Nestle fires CEO, Trump’s tech dinner, Harvard wins, and Norway not allowed to divest

89

The Stupid Awesome Game: Nestle’s CEO fired, sharks are woke, Tesla’s shareholder proposals

90

Intel robbed the US government, the anti-DEI losing trade, the DEI purge, and Bezos feels “icky”

91

Cracker Barrel bends over, Zuck’s gift of headphones, Lisa Cook fights, and Kimbal says “pay the man”

92

Trump’s ESG scorecard, Cracker Barrel logo meltdown, and trees are bad for climate change

93

QUIZ: The shirt proxy vote at O’Reilly’s, Alex Karp’s elite board, Crowdstrike’s equity award, Target’s CEO search

94

Chairman Trump’s capitalist takeover, Walmart feeds employees, revised climate reports, fake jobs data

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Nvidia’s graft payment, Apple’s 24kt gold gift, Jassy says fire more, Zuck enables stalkers, and Texas flesh eating flies

96

Intel CEO Tan’s Trump problem, AT&T CEO Stankey’s memo, and Duolingo’s new “manbro” language

97

Barclays quits climate group for climate, Tesla’s fake pay, CEOs are men, Harley’s golf CEO: Nuggets

98

Wells Fargo abandons governance, Scharf’s payout, Brown extorted, Barclays’ climate bail, and cowering

99

Rate It: GL/ISS sue Texas, Honolulu sues oil, Starbuck’s Mesopotamian employees, Hooters

100

The enigma of Satya Nadella’s board, kiss cam fallout, and Glass Lewis and ISS fight back (finally)

101

Kiss cam surveillance, director “license”, baby antisemitic Grok, and “woke” is dead

102

NEO turnover, Yaccarino sexually harassed by xAI, Dollar Tree’s buyback, and Ackman’s tennis career

103

BLAME GAME: Fishback’s meritocracy, Forward Air’s missing 8k, Carnival’s hip hop, Robinhood’s crypto

104

Buffett donations, Bezos’ nuptials, racist investors, and Musk is sorry

105

Musk’s “America Party”, director nonassessments, Hoag’s Netflix rejection, and Zuck’s manhood

106

Zaslav’s payday, Tesla’s robotaxi test, AI cash burn “for humanity”, tech boys love defense spending

107

Kraft de-dyes, Zaslav’s fake pay drop, Amazon’s hour of SAF, Whirlpool finds a woman

108

Boeing crash, Starbucks discovers people, Texas bans Texas, everyone’s a coward (except Hulk Hogan)

109

Zaslav loses, Texas is put on Texas’s ESG ban list, and a Netflix director is busy

110

BlackRock back in Texas, pride out everywhere, Zevra’s proxy battle, “reverse discrimination”, and Taser billions

111

FTC advertiser war, defense is ESG at Allianz, yoga climate goals, Musk v. Trump, and immortal (rich) humans

112

Musk is a fake, Boeing’s sweet deal, Tesla investors like fraud, UHG’s vote, and penguin poop

113

Blame game: Tesla’s EU sales plunge, Pepsi climate rollback, Ball CFO leaves, Meta’s renewable buy

114

Harvard directors on boards, Verizon trades DEI for Frontier, and Blackrock’s new “Whatever” fund prediction

115

Executives hate their boards, Musk out donations, Walmart eating tariffs, and W is for Woke

116

Sir Witty avoid fraud probe, the anti-woke think Exxon is woke, investors are confused about Harley

117

Andrew Witty gets paid, steps down, stays on, John R Tyson sucks at his job, gets board seat, and other nuggets

118

Proxy firm fight at Harley, CEO Pope names, Zuck’s people replacement plan, Tyson names Tysons to board

119

Kohl’s romantic CEO, Meta’s pony tail fetish, CEO pay confusion, and Goldman hates the word “black”

120

Blame game: Amazon’s tariffs, ChatGPT’s personality, Starbucks’ union negotiation, Novavax’s new board member

121

Business Roundtable wants to end shareholder proposals, Subaru’s knobs, OpenAI hate humans, and Ralph Lauren’s line of 2x4s

122

ICYMI: Baby boys want all the energy and books, Google/Meta lawsuits, and shareholders cower before Exxon

123

Sam Altman says Miyazaki should get over it, AI vs A1, and Zuck testifies

124

Adverbs are bad, tariffs are bigly, Enron’s desk gets pardoned, cybertruck flipoff metrics

125

CEO chokes, Trump’s tariff penguins, ESG needs a spine, chicken nuggets, and Starbuck at Heritage

126

France is for DEI, Primark CEO #MeToo, Tesla rage, Fink’s new-old letter, and Bill Burr needs a job at ISS

127

Nikola investors lose, climate targets accelerate, oil execs buy Teslas, and ISS can’t find ANYTHING WRONG at BP

128

Who to blame: Hormel’s CEO search, “eat now pay later”, DOI vs. DEI, and Signal’s woke board

129

Tesla neglect, Musk’s hurt feelings, anti-woke boohoos, and Ben & Jerry’s mission governance

130

Jamie Dimon says death to ISS, billionaire snowflakes, board burnout, CEOs feel “stuck” by Trump

131

ISS’s Disney flip flop, EPA sells cars now, OpenAI demands no guardrails, and CEOs get $$$

132

Conservative snowflake word policing, illegal to boycott Tesla, Qantas’ chair, and nepobaby merit in Biz Nuggets

133

Kroger’s CEO fired, State Street’s ESG loss, meritocracy is fake, and corporate blame games

134

GOOD GAME: ESG is now “resilience”, Kroger’s CEO leaves, Tesla owners hate Musk, State Street loves nominating committees

135

The WWEification of the US, Capital One’s keeping the interest, and DEI “wins” at Apple

136

Blame Game: Buffett’s genetic skill, United Health’s shareholder pushback, JPM Dimon’s flip floppery

137

The joke of meritocracy, unhalted engagements at Blackrock, and Coca-Cola's DEI double down

138

Blackrock and Vanguard “pause” corporate meetings, SEC’s boardroom power shift in the sarcastic Good Game

139

Goldman: DEI has “served its purpose”, ISS: no DEI “factors”, and passive investors: stop proxy voting

140

BIZ NUGGETS: ISS’s gender/race pivot, plastic straws, Disney’s DEI backpeddle, and WFH with a helicopter

141

Musk’s DOGE is an investor problem, make the anti-DEI movement measure merit, and nanoplastic teaspoons

142

Who do you blame? WF’s Scharf’s pay raise, Target’s DEI drop, Ryder’s governance fail, Walgreen’s stock plunge

143

Deepseek’s $30 AI, negative ESG news is a buying opportunity, and the suckup economy

144

GOOD GAME: Deepseek vs. tech manbabies, Blackrock vs. Tennessee, Dimon vs. the anti-DEI

145

DEI and manflakes, CEO pay hikes, Microsoft reforests, Air Products, Will Hild’s a middle schooler, and cheese

146

The American Oligarchs, alpha male cosplaying tech bros, TikTok and the US company China Threat, and retiring DEI

147

NUGGETS: “Retiring” DEI, Meta’s masculine energy, meritocracy of Dana White, CEO replaced by CEO, and activist action

148

2025 Predictions: goodbye shareholder rights, the anti DEI movements wins (and loses), and woke retail zones

149

Costco vs. racist investors, tech bro victimhood, Altman cries, and Zuck sucks up

150

2024 News of the Year

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Walmart’s award, E.L.F.’s award, and the real top 100 methodology

152

Witty’s op-ed, billionaire permitting, Murdoch loses

153

Health care fallout, plus the 100 Most Powerful People in Business dissected

154

An NEO murder, Musk’s pay re-re-reversal, a woke lawsuit for BLK, and corporate cowardice

155

A Portrait in Corporate Patriotism with Greg Penner of Walmart, plus a game that gives thanks

156

FRIDAY WRAP: WWE government, Jaguar and the non-US anti-woke movement, airline CEO blowhards

157

Get surprised: Bakkt acquisition, investors love Air Products’ board, Vanguard’s 4 for 1 policies, and KFC China CEO’s weird fetish

158

FRIDAY WRAP: Meritocracy RIP, Jamie Dimon’s governance take, missing 8K at Tesla, and Kraft Heinz’s bad week

159

“Your body, my choice”, billionaires want you to have their babies, and a 4 year “skip Trump” cruise

160

FRIDAY WRAP: Did accountability die in capital markets? Plus, CEOs win, climate passes, and monkeys escape

161

Who would you elect? Zuck vs. John Arnold, Boeing now vs. Boeing before, driving a Tesla vs. driving anything, and Howard, Susan, or Peter Buffett

162

TERRIFYING: 23andMe’s board, “dangerously cold” ice cream, and the governance US election

163

FRIDAY WRAP: McDonald’s had a week, Southwest’s board “shakeup”, Boeing’s board get sued, and Techno Optimism revisited

164

POP QUIZ: Roblox, female leadership, HSBC’s glass cliff CFO, and Jana vs. Lamb Weston’s econ majors

165

FRIDAY WRAP: CVS’s board coup, Zuck’s firing spree, and “social independence” board fines

166

THE GOOD GAME: EV sales are UP, E.L.F.’s “Not So White Paper”, GSK’s $2.3bn settlement, Musk confuses Vegas

167

FRIDAY WRAP: Pfizer’s Yale backer, Boeing’s intransigence, and Hindenburg’s Roblox hellscape

168

BIZ NUGGETS: Toyota’s DEI flipflop, not WeWork WeWork, AI > climate change, and the Buzzfeed obsession

169

FRIDAY WRAP: Dockworker strike/unstrike, Texas stock exchange is not woke, and parrots fight back

170

QUIZ: Texas Stock Exchange’s DEI board, CVS activist, Schwab’s new CEO, and Weight Watcher’s new CEO

171

FRIDAY WRAP: CommerzBank’s new crystal waterfall CEO, ex-Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun’s last laugh, OpenAI’s flipfloppers, and Jamie Dimon says

172

GOOD GAME: Female director mandate in UAE, Cards Against Humanity vs. Musk, and Amazon’s transpo problem

173

FRIDAY WRAP: 23andMe board resigns, Tyson food’s “smart beef” lawsuit, anti-ESG law killing proxies

174

BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing’s strike costs 3 Dave Calhouns, Robby Starbuck < board cowards, and Musk makes men own 100% again

175

FRIDAY WRAP: Alan Shaw’s fun times, Southwest has no board left, D&D AI, Deere’s DEI hypocrisy

176

THE GOOD GAME: Southwest’s board shakeup, Norfolk’s CEO gone, one Peltz off Wendy’s, and Newsmax’s IPO

177

FRIDAY WRAP: VW’s ex CEO trial, Hasbro is a healthcare company, shorting testosterone, and big oil curriculum

178

BIZ NUGGETS: DEI u-turns, AI and Facebook hear you cough, Calhoun’s giggle in space, and ESG proposal zero support

179

FRIDAY WRAP: Telegram’s Durov arrested, Starbuck’s new remote worker, DEI coward data, Musk threatens a judge

180

FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s pay vote, OpenAI’s new board bro, Google’s monopoly, market meltdown, vegetable health care, and cybertruck google eyes

181

GOOD GAME: Musk’s montessori play, Google’s antitrust, and woke-free zones, plus unfettered board intelligence

182

FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s new CEO, Amazon’s assassination sales drop, unelected directors, machism is so IN, and Zuckerberg’s swear

183

Who’s Fault Is It Anyway? Director’s behind headline, plus the DEI-iest boards in the US

184

FRIDAY WRAP: Kamala, Boeing guilty of fraud, solar production boom, and bony boneless wings

185

BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing Starliner gets “closer”, Palmer Luckey’s car mansion, and DEI presidents, plus a list of boards as old as Trump

186

FRIDAY WRAP: Crowdstrike’s dual class, Roaring Gen Z, DEI cutting board members, and Tesla’s coffee mug problem

187

GOOD GAME: Record EPA penalty, OpenAI board moves, human games at Nintendo, and hippos

188

GOOD GAME: Prescription vapes, 5:1 CEO ratio, climate in exec pay, proxy perks, and IMMUNITY DIRECTORS

189

FRIDAY WRAP: Chesky’s AI friends, Gilead’s HIV shot, dual class Dolans, philanthropy washing, and a Giant Wiper

190

BIZ NUGGETS ft Tesla’s Giant Wiper, Starliner’s one way trip, AI triple meetings, Dolan hires self, an Autodesk quiz, and sidelining nerds

191

FRIDAY WRAP with Tesla’s vote, Supreme Court’s fakeout, Tyson’s heir, and Disney’s 3D chess

192

THE GOOD GAME featuring carbon offsets, Apple AI, and AI pizzas, plus airline board skillz and Vivek’s BuzzFeed shoulda list

193

FRIDAY WRAP: Jewish female climate scientists win, Robyn Denholm’s payday, indestructible metal, and anti-woke stock exchanges

194

BIZ NUGGETS, featuring Darren Woods feels bullied, renewables are energy Ozempic, and which board has more skills

195

FRIDAY WRAP: Exxon wins, Vivek’s dual class education, bird flu in alpacas, and Helen Toner says we were right

196

THE GOOD GAME, with DOJ vs. Live Nation, Glass Lewis says no to Elon, and a director throwdown: Top Five CEO Payers

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FRIDAY WRAP: OpenAI week, CalPERS vs. Exxon, Meta’s AI bro board, and Google’s blinker fluid

198

BIZ NUGGETS featuring Boeing investors, Exxon’s board, OpenAI vs. ScarJo, “superalignment”, and a “pointless director” list

199

FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s AGM is embarrassing, ISS changes its stance on CEO pay, and E.L.F. Beauty’s Dick campaign

200

THE GOOD GAME including carbon capture, EU ESG rules, and Tesla parking lots, plus E.L.F.’s “Richard” power on boards

201

FRIDAY WRAP: Norfolk’s half win, Dorsey and the board, batteries in CA, child labor at McDonald’s, and woke vs. not woke food

202

BIZ NUGGETS with Boeing’s new investigation, “non technical” epithets, and Qantas, plus TOP FIVE CONNECTED BOARDS

203

FRIDAY WRAP: Paramount’s dual class disaster, high speed rails, Philips pays out, and UAW wins

204

GOOD GAME, plus director Hall of Famers and directors with the MOST RESTATEMENTS

205

FRIDAY WRAP: Bans of TikTok and non-competes, ADM’s audit committee, Oklahoma’s anti-ESG rollback, and space junk

206

BIZ NUGGETS, with Tesla’s pay, Cybertrucks, and SBTi, plus Top 5 most influential directors and female powered companies

207

FRIDAY WRAP: Tesla’s proxy gaslight, DEI gets twisted, McDonald’s French fry smell, and e-scooters win

208

THROWDOWN: The Good Game wraps, and introducing DIRECTOR PERFORMER LISTS

209

FRIDAY WRAP: WOMEN’S NCAA BASKETBALL DOMINATES, SWISS WOMEN LEAD THE WAY, NEPO BABIES ARE…BABIES, AND THERE’S A NEW DATING APP IN TOWN

210

FRIDAY WRAP: Disney wins, China’s mother friendly benefits, Texas uses Boeing vs. DEI, and Meta’s racist AI

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MARCH MADNESS GOOD GAME: Round 2, including Musk quashing free speech and Google’s Incognito delete

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FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s quasi shakeup, childcare profits, Fink’s letter, and free director data

213

THE ALL BOEING BIZ NUGGETS: Calhoun, Kellner leaving, but the cronyism is here to stay!

214

FRIDAY WRAP: Reddit pops, Anguilla wins the AI race, ISS is pointless, ISS sucks, and who pays for ISS

215

GOOD GAME: March Madness edition! Get your bracket ready for best headlines of the last year…

216

FRIDAY WRAP: OpenAI’s Facebook board, QVC’s racist, clean energy investment spikes, and an MSCI EM ESG ETF down 0%

217

BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing fails audits, Blackrock’s engagement “resource constraints”, Altman is back on top

218

FRIDAY WRAP: SEC’s new climate rule, JetBlue’s dead merger, ISS’s “ESG skeptic” policy, and Musk v. MacKenzie Scott

219

THE GOOD GAME: Blackrock’s “transition finance”, SOC drops the SBUX slate, and Musk sues OpenAI - is it all GOOD?

220

FRIDAY WRAP: Starbucks pivots on unions, Pornhub could regulate social media, the Business Roundtable is with Exxon, and Dr. Jones wins

221

BIZ NUGGETS: Boeing loses a wing, Wayfair’s “great” layoffs, Elon’s tunnel ooze, Toyota’s “unexpected movement”, and Norfolk’s “board”

222

FRIDAY WRAP: Reddit’s dual class fake public IPO, Tesla can’t expand, Boeing’s “culture refresh”, and pork flavored everything

223

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Reddit’s IPO, activist slate madness, and Norfolk Southern’s day of re-reckoning-ish

224

FRIDAY WRAP: JPM, SSgA, and climate quitters, Disney’s board vs. unions, Ford’s CEO is a sore loser, and Delta pays employees

225

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Tesla runs stuff over, Boeing’s bathroom math, and Voter (lack of) Choice at Blackrock

226

FRIDAY WRAP: Money and drugs at Tesla, NH doesn’t criminalize ESG, Exxon’s investors love a board that sues them, Southwest’s tiny butt seats

227

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Governance risk abounds, Musk to “shut up, not step down”, Meta’s Oversight Board oversight, and Blackrock Sez

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MONDAY NUGGETS: Directors at Tesla used drugs too! Exxon keeps suing! Novo Nordisk’s surprise! AI gets an HR rep!

229

FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s poor now, woke-free beer is also governance free, Stuart Kirk loves governance, Meta investors celebrate child exploitation

230

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Do we finally care about who’s on the board after they pay Elon Musk $55bn… and it’s rescinded?

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MONDAY NUGGETS: Forget ESG! What is the point of ESG! Governance is hypocrisy! Also, TKO, Boeing, LVMH, OpenAI, Tesla’s governance problems…

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FRIDAY WRAP: Exxon sues their owners, Florida bans social media, the Empty Chair at Starbucks, billionaire insider trading, and Dwayne Johnson wins

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Director of the week is an Empty Chair at Starbucks, plus revisiting Boeing’s “skills” matrix (not on there: door plugs)

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BIZ NUGGETS: Board "takes seriously” ADM accounting probe, Boeing door plugs suck everywhere, Musk’s hostage situation, Dollar General’s DEI>growth?

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FRIDAY WRAP: Musk’s ultimatum, the millionaire’s tax fund, NH criminalizes ESG, Meta does child sexual harassment super well

236

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Tesla’s board held hostage, Boeing’s board sucks, Disney’s board slate omission, OpenAI’s board confusion

237

FRIDAY WRAP: Boeing’s teary CEO, St. Paul’s all-female city council, Bill Ackman’s plea for sympathy, Gen-Z missed COP, and SBUX “ethical” sourcing

238

WOKE WEDNESDAY: Bill Ackman removed the I from DEI, and Boeing’s board gets a bro report

239

BIZ NUGGETS: Weekend roundup including Boeing’s missing airplane wall, Ackman’s soft logic, OpenAI admits to stealing, and ESG in Kentucky

240

2024 PREDICTION SHOW: AI Insurance, FedEx board turnover, Musk FIRES Linda Yaccarino, volcanic rock dust, unions, and Disney succession

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Bill Ackman’s DEI rant, Musk’s DEI rant, Harvard’s DEI board, and the idiocy of the anti-DEI movement

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2023 PREDICTIONS? We sucked at them

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CORPORATE THEATER HOLIDAY PLAY: The succession of Klaus Industries

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: The 2023 Anti-Woke Awards Show

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FRIDAY WRAP: 2023 YEAR IN REVIEW... bigger a$$hole, Musk or investors? More exhausting, climate change or discrimination? Happier, labor strikes or royal family clauses? Plus, the winner of the year

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WOKE WEDNESDAY NUGGETS: The Altman text chain! The COP28 nudge of the future! Elon Musking! Conservative Disney! And all the other nuggets...

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FRIDAY WRAP: Greedflation works! Tesla blockades! COP28 attendees flew a looong way! Taco Bell's "stain resistant sheets"! Plus, Bill Ackman, STFU!

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Iger will "definitely" probably step down, Altman was not "candid", the GOP hates SBTi, ISS, and Glass Lewis, plus AT&T's political congruency

249

FRIDAY WRAP: Mungeer dies, Musk says "go eff yourself", the 2 year geothermal plant, State Street's "voter choice" gaslight, Monsanto's toxic lights

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Charlie Munger RIP, we were right on OpenAI, and a business news headline Who Wore It Better game

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: The death of governance via Bret Taylor and Larry Summers, scapegoating the women at OpenAI, and the protected tech class

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MONDAY SPECIAL: Sam Altman, OpenAI's real governance, and the cheapest acquisition of a 90bn company by Microsoft

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FRIDAY WRAP: Musk's an antisemite, Musk's antisemite enablers, the "glass defense," the Big Four's first female CEO, and the Monopoly Go obsession

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FANCY EXPERT: NYU Stern professor Alison Taylor talks ethics, transparency, and ESG

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Union voting AGAINST their settlement, McDonald's sexual harassment, MSCI's (non) conflict of interest, and NYU's Alison Taylor interview clip

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FRIDAY WRAP: Vince McMahon is a risk factor, the ghost of Adam Neumann, the ghost of Bob Iger, Meta's Oversight Gaslight, and checkout robots unionize

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FANCY EXPERT: The Nell Minow Podcast

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Anti-anti-anti-anti woke news, an absurdist good game, a clip from the great Nell Minow, and a word from our sponsor ESGauge

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MONDAY KETCHUP: China's robot population, Bumble's executive chair, chatbot liars, AI CEOs, and Starbucks' Two Pump Dumps

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FRIDAY WRAP: Union victories, SBF defeats, Uber driver victories, 2050 target defeats, weight-loss drug victories, and glass cliff CEO defeats

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Good? ESG? News? Plus Bio-Techne's governance joke, groupthink measured at IBM, and a new show announcement

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SPOOKY MONDAY KETCHUP: Scariest headlines, who will survive after the auto strikes, and a terrifying fact about "public companies"

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FRIDAY WRAP: Israel over Lewiston, billionaire pays millions, Engine No 1 does a number 2, Chipotle passes on costs and e coli for efficiency

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WOKE WEDNESDAY EXPERT EDITION: JON LUKOMNIK JOINS THE SHOW!!!

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MONDAY KETCHUP GAME SHOW EDITION: SAD BILLIONAIRES, AMAZON SELLS URINE ENERGY DRINKS, HAIR TO THE RESCUE IN VENEZUELA, SCOTTISH WATER, AND CORPORATE JARGON THAT WEIRDS OUT GEN Z

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FRIDAY WRAP: Techno-Optimist human nihlism, shirtless CEOs, GM unionizes (a bit), Tesla's creepy terminators, operatic gender balance, and NLPC's greatest proxy yet

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Marc Andreessen hates ESG (and “ethics”), glass cliff update, anti-woke is now “parallel economy”, and 5 things we hate to defend

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Rite Aid’s bankrupt (board), CEOs rule (countries), Ford’s America loses (more CEO pay), Universal is Disney, things we hate and things we hate to love

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FRIDAY WRAP: CEOs and the war, MSFT and XOM deals closing, Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize, OpenAI’s “flexible” core values, $341bn low wage share buybacks, and aliens vs. ESG

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Everything bad happens on X, Walgreens new fake CEO, Goyder fake apologizes, and it’s all motherhood’s fault

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FRIDAY WRAP: CEOs with big curly hair look like criminals, an Uber killer has arrived with actual employees, and rich people continue to lie about stuff

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: RETURN OF THE GOOD GAME!

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MONDAY KETCHUP: DOJ uncovers ‘embarrassing’ court doc, Tesla gets sued, Fink calls for ‘more hope’ and an SBF QUIZ in honor of his trial starting tomorrow

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FRIDAY WRAP: Verizon CEO’s mood tracker, strikes strikes and more strikes, human body shield CEOs, GET OFF OF TWITTER, and exhausting lady bit part costs

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Qantas’ glass cliff CEO gets grilled, Verizon CEO Vestberg’s “mood data”, sneaky GOP DOL ESG rules, and Tay made a man woke

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Lego bails on oil-free foot damage, EV's tire problem, child labor at Tyson and Purdue, and Altria's the BEST board of the week

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FRIDAY WRAP: Murdoch is OUT, replaced by Murdoch! Biden's Climate Corps launches! Bjorn Gulden's sympathizes, apologizes for Kanye! Qantas pays glass cliff janitor CEO less!

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EXPERT BONUS: Daniel Cash, author of A Modern Credit Ratings Agency, talks how credit ratings history bears on ESG ratings future

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: ESG adjacent headlines, carbon disclosure, and an SBTi special look with words from fancy expert Daniel Cash

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Rate the stupid with Jann Wenner, Vivek's 64 degree Army Rangers, Clorox's cyber experts, and DocGo's fake degrees; Plus, Dirtiest Directors on Earth

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FRIDAY WRAP: UAW's strike, Looney resigns, Carrefour's shrinkflation labels, anti-woke = ESG, lithium vs. Native Americans, and a Disney sale prediction

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: The Oily show, with BP's Looney exit and next CEO prediction, NFL's oilmen are racists, and Vince McMahon's lifetime appointment

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Brattiest CEO, saddest stakeholder news, most dystopian headline, CEOs jailed, and a Friday roundup

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Qantas glass cliff siren, Elon headline roundup, and Aubrey Capital's ESG clickbait op-ed is idiotic? (question mark)

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FRIDAY WRAP: Roz Brewer jumps off the glass cliff, Nissan's battery re-use, Tariq Fancy blows HARD, ignoring "fluffy" ESG metrics, and West Virginia's con game

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Anti-woke proxy vote dilution, bad members stay bad at 3M and Boeing, and Tariq Fancy's underqualified underqualification quote

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Blackrock votes with management (gasp), Jim McRitchie wants more than 10 seconds to vote, Hispanic directors lose, and IT'S TIME TO RECLAIM THE ESG ACRONYM

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MONDAY TEN: MSFT's AI travel guide to the food bank, Iowa's AI book bans, Kalanick's fail up academy, Meta is a utility, ships use wind, and BM of the Week Lakshmi Mittal

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FRIDAY WRAP: Montana kids win on climate, CalSTRS "punishes" directors by doing their job, Hawaiian Electric is the new PG&E, and the Uihleins are billionaire nepos

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: DeSantis has "moved on" from Disney, Damion does Discover Financial's succession plan, Montana kids win climate ruling, and NYC pensions look to toss anti-oil suit

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MONDAY KETCHUP: SBF's in jail, women just need "P&L experience", Blankfein wants back, Starbucks wins diversity challenge, McDonald's hides the ESG, and BM of the Week Tim Kenesey at Kraft Heinz

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FRIDAY WRAP: 49ers Jed York gets himself chegged, UPS applications spike, Live Nation's bros are the real "Summer of Women" winners, and Zoom flipflops an AI training

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: S&P ditches ESG (but doesn't), AA gets sued for ESG (but isn't), Missouri bans ESG through paperwork, and Zoom wants its employees to avoid its AI

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Top 9 stories with Tesla shakeups, Nikola's new board member of the week, Tyson Foods, and Zoom's using your therapist calls for AI

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FRIDAY WRAP: shiny glass cliffs, AI Jesus, dual class shares enable sexual harassment, and Florida still sucks

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WOKE NUGGETS: Uber populist math, AI Abe Lincoln and Jesus, trips to Venus, steering at Tesla, and the war on woke nobody asked for

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Weekend top fives with wind-powered cargo ships, AI and Palantir's F-U share class, Musk's unregulated spaces, FERC's grid moves, Royal Caribbean smog, and Jessie says "gender matters"

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FRIDAY WRAP: AI's voluntary guardrails (that always works!), OilyFans BP billboard, tech bro layoff earnings, and how women more likely to be replaced by AI

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Interview with House Rep. from Ill. Sean Casten of the House Financial Services Committee on ESG, wokeism, and having Republican friends

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Barbie’s Wokeness, Voluntary AI Guardrails, Elon’s Brother Gets Xed, and Free Float Sunscreen Products

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FRIDAY WRAP: Tesla's director clawback, the Data Prince is born, Public Square's anti-ESG pro-patriotic dual class shares, women's soccer non-pay, and a Miles White/Miles Satterwhite rivalry

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Tesla's director pay clawback, Blackrock's new oily board member, Strive strives to be less political, and investors are petrified to do their jobs voting

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Top ten including Public Square SPACs itself, billionaire mental health, and Zaslovian Venmo requests, plus board member of the week from UPS

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Neumann's upfail, Activision deal, Ramaswamy buys ESG stocks, and ESG MONTH: roundup of 18 conservative law proposals on ESG!

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Threads > ChatGPT, Musk manboys Zuck, Ant Group's fine, restaurant bill healthcare surcharge, and Director of the Week from Free Float Analytics

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FRIDAY WRAP: Supreme suckage, cars get their knobs back, Leo DiCaprio is our trusted scientist, Carnival superpollutes, conservative safe spaces, Threads, and Larry Fink stops the ESG

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Massive woke headline catchup, plus we define anti-woke methodology at last

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FRIDAY WRAP: The technically challenged edition, but our platform launched, Musk still sucks, AB InBev still sucks, and PFAS still suck

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Directors get analyzed in the alternative democracy, and Morningstar makes anti-woke pillars

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JUNETEENTH DATA: Black board directors and the gaps of power

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FRIDAY WRAP: ESG Ratings will be a B one day, your delivery driver is about to smell less gross, beer is still gay, and Comcast still sucks

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FILL IN THE BLANK: BLANK CEO pay soars despite company being "not good enough", BLANK is new best selling US beer that also is LGTBQ friendly, and more

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: EU Regulates ESG Ratings, EU regulates ESG data, EU regulates ESG philosophy, plus US bans ESG and shareholders sucks at ESG

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MONDAY KETCHUP: Nepo Soros is antiwoke catnip, JPM settles Epstein, Icahn win-loses at Illumina, and diversity isn't a body count (STUDY)

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FRIDAY WRAP: Zaslav says responsibility, the Supreme Court gets woke, the anti-woke realize things five years later, and Zuck's pedophile network

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CONSUMER DECISIONS SERIES: Using ESG Data to Buy Stuff

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Nerdy ESG Headlines and Our Alternative Democracy

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MONDAY KETCHUP: CNN's CEO is sorry, Activision Blizzard isn't sorry, Twitter's loses more "safety", and director's and political ideology

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FRIDAY WRAP: Chick-fil-A ends the woke wars, Congress ends a debt staring contest, Bobby Kotick comes home, eating disorder chatbots, and fast fashion is back

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THE BAD GOOD GAME: AI will take your eating disorder helpline calls, Zuck gets shredded, buy-now-pay-after you're dead, North Face's Summer of Pride, and Norwegian oil says no to oil

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Nerdy ESG headlines and a monthly Woke Police Blotter with corporate arrests for public wokeness

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CORPORATE THEATER: Woke Company or Not Woke Company?

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FRIDAY WRAP: O'Reilly Automotive's DEF14A orange jumpsuits, Twitter can't handle rubber band watermelons, Ken Paxton forget the "G" in ESG, and Musk's censorshippy-ness

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WHO THE EFF IS THAT?: Board members, in the headlines but no - Sir Andrew Mackenzie, Bill Helman IV, Grace Puma, Anne Mulcahy, John Hennessy

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WOKE WEDNESDAY: Aviation CEOs announce things, Ron DeSantis manufactured the woke mind virus, Target's less proud of pride, and a AGM proxy vote sports roundup

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CORPORATE THEATER: Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, and a Linda Named Yaccarino