On this beautiful winter episode we cover Joe Biden donor and former video game developer Gabe Newell. We discuss how amazeballs it is to work for Valve, either as a paid employee or as an uncompensated contributor desperate to get their foot in the door. We also talk about all …
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Episodes
Below are all the episodes we saw fit to record and release to you fine folks. Episode pages include citations of sources used in the episode as well as a link to billionaire pages providing a brief written bio. Some episodes are only available in full at our Patreon. To find a particular billionaire quickly use the handy search feature in the menu bar. Paginated for your pleasure.
Episode 136:
Gabe Newell
(Full episode on Patreon)
Episode 135:
Gerry Schwartz & Heather Reisman (Billionaire Pete Buttigieg Supporters)
This week we take a extra deep dive into the Canadian billionaire power couple Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman. With his predatory private equity acumen and her tenacity to run other bookstores and plant shops out of business they have accumulated a vast net worth which they’re using to host …
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Episode 134:
James Simons
(Full episode on Patreon)
This week, we enter the Matrix of James Simons and Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that performs unnervingly well at the expense of math classrooms and equality. We cover RenTech's 82% returns during the 2008 crash, their $6.8 billion tax avoidance, the brain-drain of PhDs from public universities, and more
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Episode 133:
Lawrence Stroll
This week we profile a billionaire north of the border Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll! Join as we discussed how he cheapened American brands Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors with the help of his business partner Silas Chau. Together they made billions in investing in name brand clothes, …
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Episode 132:
Larry Robbins
(Full episode on Patreon)
This week we profile Larry “The Human Thumb” Robbins! Join us as we discuss how he barely beats the S&P 500 only sometimes, his lawsuit regarding building an Ice hockey rink on his property and lastly his charitable organization amazing at throwing events but not so good at ending the …
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Episode 131:
Friedrich Flick and the Flick Family
We take a deep dive on two of the world's youngest billionaires, Victoria-Katharina Flick and Karl Friedrich Flick (born 1999). How did they get so rich? Well, hard work and inheriting their grandfather's slave labor war crimes fortune. That's right: many of the people who carried out and profited from …
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Episode 130:
Iran and Andy's "Blern" Story
(Full episode on Patreon)
In this episode we attempted to cover Larry Robbins but got sidetracked by the prospect of war. Also Andy tells a completely fictional story about getting fired from a company named Blern which has no relation to one of Larry Robbins's charitable ventures by the name of Zearn.
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Episode 129:
Thomas Kaplan and United Against Nuclear Iran
Welcome back. We're ringing in the new year with Thomas Kaplan, an obscure minerals billionaire who happens to be a major funder of the "not a CIA/Mossad front company" United Against a Nuclear Iran. The man loves gold, panthers, Rembrandt, and genocidal war. Also we forgot to mention in the …
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Episode 128:
Walt Disney and the Disney Company (Part 3)
(Full episode on Patreon)
Happy New Year! It's time for Part 3 of our Disney trilogy, and like all trilogies produced by Disney, we scraped from the bottom of the barrel for this one. Lotta dark stuff going on in the land where dreams are made. There's also a weird cameo (Epstein). Anyway that …
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Episode 127:
Walt Disney and the Disney Company (Part 2)
(Full episode on Patreon)
In this episode we continue the Walt Disney saga from the free side by diving into his relations with labor, his megalomaniacal obsession with creating a new kind of city, and his, er, love of children. We also work in some Billy Joel.
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