Grubstakers

This week we got a real humdinger of a billionaire. We cover Stephen Allen Schwarzman, former Chairman of the Strategic and Policy Forum for Donald Trump, Co founder of Blackstone Group, and all around unfeeling psychopath. He may be the highest paid CEO in the world and landlord to over 100,000 American families but don't think that has caused him to lose touch with reality. He still thinks that asking him to pay higher taxes is like when Hitler invaded Poland, something any rational person would say in public

This week we discuss Mavs owner and sexual assault allegations denier Mark Cuban. We're joined by comedian Mike Recine to talk about Shark Tank and the hard work it takes to convince Yahoo to spend $6 billion to buy your business then immediately shut it down when the dot com bubble crashes. Also some talk about the difficult decision to fire Sean from the podcast.

The Grubstakers take on Ken "The Italian Stallion" Lagone! Andy Palmer read his book "I Love capitalism," but does it convince the reader? Don’t forget to pretend like you’re working, and strap in you got Grubstakers!

Its a canadian murder mystery episode! Who killed Barry Sherman and Honey Sherman eh? We would like to extend the killers an open invitation to appear on a future episode of our podcast anonymously, feel free to visit Andy at his address to confirm. It's aboot time we get down to the bottom of this bag full of milk. Its time for Grubstakers!

Oleg Deripaska certainly has more Ivan Drago then Apollo Creed in him. This week we are joined by Talia Lavin. Learn about Oleg’s many oligarch activities, his role in the Russian aluminium wars and the 2016 US elections. Enjoy it!

Episode 18 of Grubstakers is our first international episode. We leave the US behind and take a look at the richest citizen of Australia, Gina Rinehart. Learn all about how the only daughter that Lang Hancock actually acknowledged paternity of built her vast fortune by skillfully inheriting his claim to the largest iron mine in the world then having commodity prices go up. Plus more family drama than could be contained in the mini series about her that she got banned from tv.

Part 2 of our Koch extravaganza is here. We dive into the many reasons the Koch brothers have used their resources to cause massive unrest, cancer and even death! Man these descriptions are less uplifting, but the content is pure. Enjoy!

This week begins our Koch Brothers 2 part extravaganza! We discuss all the juicy details of that Koch family. The good, the bad, the worse, the oh wow that is terrible. Let it rip and continue to commit. It's grubstakers.

Hoo boy this week episode was late due to legal red tape.Nevertheless our episode is about hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer and man is this dude a piece of work. If you don't believe us check out our research on our tumblr page. Enjoy!

Another week another billionaire, but this week all our info is alleged. None of the information came from factual websites, and this satire podcast is purely for entertainment. This description was approved by DreamWorks SKG/Dreamworks Records, Asylum Records, Geffen Records/Geffen Pictures, and DGC Records. Listen to it... or whatever, and buy the upcoming box set of Nirvana! This one features pieces of the actual note!

This week's episode is about Howard Schultz, but this description is about you the listener. If you have been enjoying the pod let us know by DMing Andy and telling him how the clips he played this episode were too long and didn't represent fair use but were in fact wholesale content plagiarism. We discuss the Philadelphia incident, Starbucks' labor practices (firing people for unionizing), Schultz's rather questionable compensation package and the apartheid state he chooses to share it with.

On this special episode we veer into the multi-billion dollar weapons industry and how US foreign policy often functions as an advertising opportunity for companies like Raytheon and Lockheed. The revolving door between the big 5 arms makers and all branches of government along with the prevalence of lobbying should make any person concerned as to whether our euphemistically titled "defense budget" actually serves national interest or is simply a expensive subsidy for these firms and the Wall Street banks that control them. Plus Andy makes the genocide in Yemen funny!

On episode 11 we talk about hedge fund billionaire and star of the documentary Betting on Zero, Bill Ackman. Hear not only of his inspiring story betting that Herbalife would go down to zero dollars in value but his own quest to reduce his personal net worth to that amount through a bitter divorce and a terrible investment in the fraudulent Valeant pharmaceuticals. We had to release this one now because at $1.08 billion and falling he won't qualify to have an episode made about him much longer!

The full Grubstakers team are back together to talk about out and proud Republican Peter Thiel, his love for young blood, his hatred for mean news outlets that point out how bad his hedge funds are, his need for all data and CIA startup capital, his love of the mythical and how he considers diversity a myth, and his impeccable stage charisma. We also talk about the market game on BestBrokers and how we're all in the red because the stock market is on fire (the bad kind of fire). Anyway, give it a listen or Hulk Hogan said the N-word in his sex tape for nothing.

We got #23 on the episode check out how many eggs were cracked to make the Jumpman worth a billion dollars. You can fly! Rate, review and subscribe also we have a twitter where we get into many shenanigans, ahem, henanigans too. Guest: Clark Jones can be found at http://www.theeclarkjones.com/

On this episode we discuss Warren Buffet, the friendly grandpa billionaire who just wants to pay more taxes than his secretary and control every single airline. Yes, strangely enough the 3rd richest man on Earth actually owns a lot of things. You're putting money in his pocket every time you have a Dairy Queen malt or buy a Duracell battery. Most disturbingly he controls almost half the mobile home market and his companies foreclose on extremely poor people at 3 times the average national rate. Listen to hear all the things you'll never read in the sycophantic business press profiles of the Oracle of Omaha!

It's a special emergency episode responding to the recently passed Senate Bill 2155. It's such an emergency we released it a day late. We talk about the efforts by some Democrats to portray their watering down of Dodd-Frank financial regulations as a defense of small "community banks" and how corrupt and hollow these kinds of lies are. It's interesting we promise. Listen to the whole thing there's a game at the end. DO NOT SKIP TO THE GAME.

On this week's episode we examine the life and times of Oprah Winfrey, the only African American female billionaire in the world. We discuss her journey from poverty to wealth and some of the hucksters and scam artists she's inflicted on America along the way.

Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire ever who sacrificed his friends to build his social network. We talk about how he has caused depression to the masses,a myriad of poor judgments leading to him falling up, and other details about the supposed boy wonder. Find out all the trials tribulations and more on Grubstakers. Enjoy! Here's the tumblr with some of the research we did and any necessary corrections: https://grubstakers.tumblr.com/post/171605558152/research-for-episode-5-mark-zuckerberg

This week we ditch the format and talk generally about the Sackler Family who own Purdue Pharma, how antibiotics in our livestock is making superbugs and the overall process to get a drug approved in the United States. Enjoy! Here's the tumblr with some of the research we did and any necessary corrections: https://grubstakers.tumblr.com/post/171327246627/research-for-episode-4-sackler?is_related_post=1

The richest politician in history? In episode 3 we explore the life and works of the billionaire former mayor of New York City. He always said his vast wealth would prevent him from being influenced by lobbying but his Wall Street first policies and the explosion of homelessness under his watch raise questions about that. Also why didn't he fix the damn potholes? Here's the tumblr with some of the research we did and any necessary corrections https://grubstakers.tumblr.com/post/171240660062/research-for-episode-3-michael-bloomberg

In the wake of the Falcon Heavy launch many are wondering about the story of Elon Musk, the man who single handedly took credit for the work of countless SpaceX engineers. From his origins founding Zip2 with money his father earned from the apartheid government of South Africa to his tireless fight against the scourge of unionization we discuss what is known about this mysterious man and his journey to the front page of Reddit. Here's the tumblr with some of the research we did and any necessary corrections: https://grubstakers.tumblr.com/post/171240033962/research-for-episode-2-elon-musk

On the debut episode of Grubstakers, the only podcast about billionaires, we examine the life of Jeff Bezos founder of amazon.com and the richest man on Earth. We trace his rise from humble nerd fucking his subordinates to his innovative idea to bankrupt and ruin every mom and pop bookseller in the country to his more sinister current form. Perhaps the most horrific labor abuser in America his fortune was accumulated through staggering exploitation. Don't listen if you want to feel good about your amazon prime account. Support current and former amazon employees in their struggle to unionize. https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/ Here's the tumblr with some of the research we did and any necessary corrections: https://grubstakers.tumblr.com/post/170516717367/research-for-episode-1-jeff-bezos