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A White Belt’s Theory of Everything. from 2021-10-05T20:00
You're not everything you could be and you know it.
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The Red Rope Treatment II from 2021-07-28T20:27:45
If you're reading this then it's already too late
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A History Of Violence from 2021-06-15T20:00:03
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm
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Martell's Box from 2021-03-16T20:00:03
Jimmy grew up poor, but by God he knew he wasn’t going to die poor
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The Rio Mar from 2021-02-02T21:00:08
There isn't any folly a man won't contemplate if there's money or a woman at stake
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Conclusion - The Pitch from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Might as well have something work for you while you're asleep. https://www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com/
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Episode 77 - The Girl in the Red Dress from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sometimes all your Christmases come at once.
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Episode 59 - Running with the Bulls from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The lack of money is the root of all evil
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Episode 100 - The Power of Round Numbers from 2020-12-15T21:00
Not the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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Episode 99 - The Last Straw from 2020-12-08T21:00:05
How were any of us friends? I don't know... friendship gets harder to understand every year of your life.
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Episode 98 - Confessions of an Economic Hitman from 2020-12-01T21:00:05
We're gonna need more tinfoil
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Episode 96 - The Village Idiot from 2020-11-05T22:52:25
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and none of us are sure about the universe.
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Episode 95 - Stand up Straight with your Shoulders Back (dub) from 2020-10-27T20:01:02
Welcome back Dr. Peterson. (feat Akira the Don)
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Episode 95 - Stand up Straight with your Shoulders Back from 2020-10-27T20:00:02
a universal strategy for success
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Episode 94 - Swimming with Sharks. from 2020-10-13T20:00:04
Once upon a time we knew the price of everything but the value of nothing.
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Episode 93 - The Embassy Pen from 2020-09-29T20:00:04
Billy Irish and an EOF at the Gansevoort
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Episode 92 - A Silent Majority. from 2020-09-15T20:00:08
There is no normal. There is the past and the future
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Episode 90 - Thrown in Brooklyn from 2020-09-01T20:00:07
for certain Americans all roads lead to 8th Avenue.
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Episode 88 - Succession from 2020-08-12T20:00:13
If you can't ride two horses at once you shouldn't be in the circus
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Episode 86 - FIASCO at TAO from 2020-07-28T20:03:06
Shut the fuck up and go get me another vodka soda
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Episode 80 - Goose's Day Off from 2020-06-08T20:00:18
you’re in a story whether you know it or not or not.
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Episode 79 - 50 Deuce from 2020-05-26T20:00:13
after-hours back then was just such honest fun, it calmed even the most neurotic of us down in no time
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Episode 78 - Rickshaw Racing in Times Square from 2020-05-11T20:00:14
Once upon a time, the city lights were shining just for us
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Episode 76 - Captain Magic from 2020-04-13T20:00:15
An introduction to GLG - the most dysfunctional company in the world
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Episode 75 - The Cobra Effect from 2020-03-30T18:13:42
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
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Episode 74 - Surviving the Bear. from 2020-03-23T20:00:10
Listen up, you might learn something
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Episode 73 - Life in the Time of SARS from 2020-03-16T20:00:08
Almost everything fails and some things succeed overwhelmingly
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Episode 72 - Hogan’s Bottom. from 2020-03-05T21:00:10
Please stand by for a public service announcement.
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Episode 70 - Utica Saint from 2020-02-20T21:30
when bad seas hit some sink, some float, but perhaps most of us just drift away…
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Episode 69 - Salad Days (HC Mafia Part 2) from 2020-02-11T21:43:31
Does Wall Street make people crazy, or are crazy people just attracted to Wall Street?
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Episode 68 - The Healthcare Mafia from 2020-02-05T22:05:48
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
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Episode 67 - A Tale of Two PMs from 2020-01-29T23:01:39
Mental illness is an asset on Wall Street, not a liability
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Episode 66 - Raptors from 2020-01-21T21:37:04
You only get to meet someone like Richter once.
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Episode 65 - Champagne Problems from 2020-01-13T21:00:17
I think you’ll agree a Palestinian executing orders for a big Jewish financial institution is an ironic enough situation... and then this happened.
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Episode 64 - The ECB Generation from 2020-01-06T21:56:47
regular programming will resume next week.
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Episode 63 - Macroaggressions from 2019-12-31T19:53:27
and now for something completely different
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Episode 62 - The Santa Hat Chronicles. from 2019-12-23T15:47:10
A short story of excess and carnage from the days of “Minimum T&E Spend”
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Episode 61 - New Amsterdam from 2019-12-16T22:32:15
just so you know, this is not going to be normal.
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Episode 60 - Goose IV from 2019-12-09T20:59:41
It's in bad weather you find out how good the sailors around you are.
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Episode 58 - Gasoline Stripper from 2019-11-25T23:15:03
Train wreck. noun.
1) A total fucking disaster... the kind that makes you want to shake your head.
2) Something that is so bad that you don't want to keep watching or following but yo...
Episode 56 - King's Highway from 2019-11-12T21:39:02
The White Rabbit was understood to be the biggest cocaine user on Wall Street… and as you can imagine, there was some healthy competition for that spot.
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Season 3 Preview - A Very Wall Street Affair from 2019-10-15T20:55:25
How Jefferies and Fidelity ruined the whole business for all of us. Also, dwarfs.
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Episode 53 - Lunch at the Top of the World from 2019-09-17T11:07:40
“No friction” is the watchword of Wall Street. AI doesn’t go to lunches, it’s just relentlessly efficient. All revolutions eat their own children - eventually all of my peers were replaced by a PC.
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Episode 52 - Zen and the Art of Client Maintenance from 2019-09-09T20:30:50
Let's fast forward to the present
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Episode 50 - The Lido Room from 2019-08-26T11:11:05
Don't hit the brakes until you hear glass smash
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Episode 49 - Goose III from 2019-08-18T10:24:25
Part 3 about our late great friend.
And that was Goose - it didn’t make any difference what he was doing that night - if he was the birthday boy or the best man - if he saw someone outside his...
Episode 48 - The Perfect Crime from 2019-08-12T20:34:54
Charles Ponzi once sold the Eiffel Tower in a con. But the best scam I can personally think of was an exploitation of a MeToo issue before there was a MeToo. This is my understanding of what went d...
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Episode 47 - Compliance Culture from 2019-08-06T17:35:12
Big Ships, Little Ships, There’s nothing like Friendships
Some Ships sail East. Some Ships sail West.
But the best Ships are Friendships. Of which I know best…
Episode 46 - Spice Market from 2019-07-29T01:15:09
After skipping out on the bill at Pastis, Ed and the Jewish JFK make their way over to Spice Market. Both of them are trouble waiting for a place to happen… And then they meet me.
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Episode 45 - Pastis from 2019-07-18T21:40:15
If there’s a better example of how New York City has changed than the fact that the restaurant Pastis was replaced by a Restoration Hardware store… well, I can’t think of one.
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Episode 44 - Tarzan in the City from 2019-07-08T11:25:10
I recently heard Pastis reopened at 52 Gansevoort. Now if you didn’t live in New York City back in the early 2000’s, you may think, so what?
But it’s more important than you think.
Episode 43 - A Reflection on Networking from 2019-06-26T19:59:33
Let’s start off by picturing two salesmen who arranged to meet at Pastis after the market closed one day. And then throw in some Chuck Norris jokes.
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Episode 42 - Mr Wall Street! from 2019-06-20T11:00:41
This podcast is the follow up to Episode 38 and deals with a trader we called Goose, because he was the world’s best wingman. Goose also features in Episode 18 when he surprised us rolling out of a...
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Episode 41 - Herzog, Heine, Geduld from 2019-06-14T09:34:29
This was a long time ago, so I'll make it quick
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Episode 40 - A game of thrones from 2019-06-04T23:21:22
Walking into today's lifeless, silent trading floors might as well be another planet when I think about the desks I cut my teeth on 20 years ago. And this episode is about why that is.
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Episode 39 - Opening Night at STK from 2019-05-30T21:59:23
People still complain about a lack of diversity on Wall Street, but let me tell you it was very unusual to come across someone from Central or South America on a trading desk 15 years ago.
Episode 36 - Rochdale Securities LLC from 2019-05-03T10:59:11
...It suddenly dawns on Paddy that Apple reports earnings after the close… and he’d never even heard of this sales trader’s account before. He has the back office look up the client’s paperwork and...
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Episode 35 - Cocaine Cowboys from 2019-04-30T18:43:37
Anyone in New York back in 2006 will recall it as the winter of snowstorms. The record was broken recently, but before that you have to go back to 1947 to find a comparable snowfall.
So t...
Episode 34 - Dove Hunting with Paul Tudor Jones from 2019-04-26T09:45:44
Living in the year 2010 was like arriving at a party that’s already been broken up by the cops. But then I accidentally got invited to a weekend with three billionaires... guess I’m going dove hunt...
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Episode 32 - Gilt by association. from 2019-04-22T17:24:09
A quick explanation of the US tax system via an anecdote of beer and violence.
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Episode 33 - The Dismal Scientist from 2019-04-22T11:14:56
This episode is about an economist named Dwyer...
it’s unclear why hedge funds have in-house economists, since everything a hedge fund manager does is predicated on making asymmetric deci...
Episode 31 - Saint Jude from 2019-04-11T16:18:09
Who was the Mother Teresa of Wall Street back in 2000? And what happened when The Wizard came to town?
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Episode 30 - Robbie Stephens. from 2019-04-03T00:53:33
Apparently there are two firms with this name.
I'd better be precise in my speech.
Episode 29 - Barbarian Days from 2019-03-31T22:52:59
...let’s quickly recap where we left off; I’ve found myself in a herd of clowns out on a Thursday night and we’re on our way to an ASPCA fundraiser at the Interactive offices. We just bailed out of...
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Episode 28 - The ASPCA Charity Bash from 2019-03-28T20:48:50
It’s 2010 and a sales trader invited me to an ASPCA charity function at the Interactive offices. He can’t talk up this fundraiser enough... this is part one of a two-part podcast on how we ruined it.
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Episode 27 - The 2010 Flash Crash from 2019-03-27T10:54:16
How I missed the Flash Crash getting coffee and then destroyed a Ritz Carlton in Philly.
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Letter to My Younger Self from 2019-03-13T19:12:03
Wait, you’re telling me you have to keep doing something that you decided was a good idea 15 years ago? Would you trust that guy back then?
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Episode 26 - Simple truths, bluntly spoken from 2019-02-28T11:28:45
How Iceland blew up the world in 2008
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Episode 25 - Free Market Racketeering from 2019-02-25T01:40:01
What was a typical day like for a sales trader back in 2004?
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Episode 24 - Dollar Bill from 2019-02-14T17:53:46
The most interesting thing to me about the television show Billions is not Bobby Axelrod, who is an inherently unrelatable character, but his trader, Dollar Bill. This is because there are probabl...
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Episode 23 - The Suicide Shift from 2019-02-08T22:05:06
Why on earth you’d let a former dictator’s secret policeman have the run of your office overnight while no one else was around, I couldn’t tell you...
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Episode 22 - Stories from the Floor. from 2019-02-03T00:53:37
I read somewhere that when guys like me talk about how New York “used to be better”, what we really mean is that we used to be younger.
There’s some truth to that. But without a doubt one...
Episode 21 - Welcome to Italian night at Au Bar. from 2019-02-03T00:50:39
Au Bar was what they used to call the downstairs club of Lavo on 58th Street. Yup, that place.
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Episode 2 - Remastered for Animation from 2019-01-25T19:21:14
We re-recorded this for the 2nd episode of the animated series we are working on. The first episode can be found at www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com although it still needs a lot of work.
Ou...
Season Two Preview - The Dinner Party from 2018-11-21T11:39:18
Season 2, which includes stories from the Spotted Pig, details how Iceland blew up the world economy, and includes many more Australian jokes, will be released soon.
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Episode 19 - So, you’re going to get fired. from 2018-11-05T19:37:27
The most valuable advice anyone ever gave me about Wall Street... and then my favorite Wall Street firing story.
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Episode 18 - GQ’s Wingman of the Year. from 2018-10-30T21:14:38
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Episode 17 - The robots are coming (warning, wonky) from 2018-10-29T10:19:39
It’s worth saying this stuff out loud just this once, because trading jobs like this barely exist anymore. But if you were a trader in the aughts you had one of the best seats in the world.
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Episode 16 - Time's Up from 2018-10-22T09:35:39
Wall Street is the last bastion of male dominance in an area where there’s no reason women can’t be just as successful as men. Now how on earth did we pull this off? Can it last?
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Episode 15 - Everyone should have an Eddie from 2018-10-19T10:16:23
"Simple, you take the waiter aside before dinner - give him $200 cash, your black card, and tell him your important clients may be a little nuts but you'll take care of him if there's a problem. It...
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Episode 14 - 12 Rules for Life on Wall Street. from 2018-10-13T11:07:05
What if Jordan Peterson was a sociopath rather than a psychologist? Part one of a two part episode with some advice to aspiring traders.
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Episode 13 - The Numbers Game from 2018-10-12T18:12:45
Don't get married. Don't have kids. Do not resuscitate.
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Episode 11 - Altruism is selfish. from 2018-10-03T21:18:03
What if one of the biggest fundraisers on Wall Street was conceived by a bunch of idiots in a strip club? That couldn't have happened, right?
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Episode 10 - An Urban Dictionary for Wall Street from 2018-10-01T11:07:31
"Account 10 5 W from Hedgistan wants to front-run Crispy's orders before your Dumbfuckistan clients take any offers on this Tracy Lords idea... can your Delta One trader stop me out and put it on t...
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Episode 9 - Bringing out my inner communist from 2018-09-10T14:24:03
Three random stories about Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns and the Quantum Fund during the Financial Crisis
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Episode 8 - The Red Rope Treatment from 2018-09-10T14:21:47
Back in 2003 the biggest traders on buyside wanted some strange things...
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Episode 7 - Up to my Ass in Alligators from 2018-09-10T14:19:06
Think the SEC completely asleep during the credit bubble? GFY!
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Episode 6 - Same Day, Same Way from 2018-09-10T14:15:40
How were hedge funds set up and what really happened on trading floors back during the Internet boom? It's worse than you thought.
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Episode 5 - Wall Street's worst kept secret from 2018-09-10T14:10:38
Did you know there's a Zagats for Rub and Tugs in New York? That's the classiest thing you'll hear about in this episode set in 2001
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Episode 4 - Paddy Nailz from 2018-09-10T14:08:40
Paddy is a legend on Wall Street. But what happens when a legend burns out during the financial crisis? Cue things breaking.
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Episode 3 - The non-#MeToo moment from 2018-09-10T14:05:50
Why has there been no #MeToo movement on Wall Street? We explain this conundrum with two anecdotes and a C-Bomb from 2004 in this episode.
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Episode 2 - 10 5 W from 2018-09-10T14:03:38
Bond traders are 10 out of 10 disagreeable people. How disagreeable? Well, there's something insulting for everyone in this episode.
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Episode 1 - The Pelican from 2018-09-05T10:42:48
The greatest Wall Street story never told. Until now.
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