Podcasts by Zero Sum Empire
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Hustle Culture and Radio Propagandists: Jay-Z and John Catsimitidis from 2021-11-01T12:00:24
Housekeeping: We take a minute at the start to talk about a new segment we are introducing, tentatively called “The Mindset Segment.” We are taking suggestions for a better name.
In the N...
Insider Trading and Risk Society: Steven A. Cohen and David Hindawi from 2021-08-19T20:06:40
We’re adopting a new episode naming strategy. We’re doing descriptive titles. Complaints will be stored in the cylindrical file!
In the News: We discuss the recent outer space adventures o...
Vultures and Vampires: Bruce Karsh and Bernie Marcus from 2021-06-09T19:41:11
Billionaire #1: Bruce Karsh: 3/10 on the DKMALI
Joe introduces us to Bruce Karsh, a vulture investor. Vulture investors buy distressed securities from failing companies or people, and the...
Large Adult Sons Incorporated: The Bass Brothers and the McNair Family from 2021-04-05T19:05:51
Zero Sum Empire's hosts have had a busy year that included two new babies and entirely relearning our day jobs because of the pandemic, and that's made us a little slow putting episodes out. Sorry ...
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Jerk Patterns: The Ziff Bros and Scott Cook from 2021-01-08T16:25:54
Billionaires in the News: Zero Sum Empire goes international. There were two strange international billionaire stories we wanted to talk about: the death of the world’s richest banker, Joseph Safra...
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Girlbosses and Brewmasters: Safra Catz and The Santo Domingo Family from 2020-11-29T00:39:37
Billionaires in the News: American Billionaires as a group surpass $1 Trillion in increased wealth during the pandemic. Elon Musk gets COVID, launches manned spacecraft, and makes a fool of himself...
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Devils at the Crossroads: Robert Rowling and B. Wayne Hughes from 2020-10-08T10:00:37
Billionaires in the News: Trump has COVID. We have been imprisoned for 6 months by a reactionary minority political faction in the United States. I’m losing my grip on reality. The pharma billionai...
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The Colonizer Next Door: Mark Zuckerberg and The Duncan Family from 2020-08-06T02:46:35
Billionaires in the News: We start with Elon Musk’s dumb online behavior and decide we’re never going to talk about his tweets again. A little about Trump and Gislaine Maxwell. The Lincoln Project ...
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NFHell: Denise Debartolo York and Jeffrey Lurie from 2020-07-04T05:00:21
I checked Twitter while I was writing these show notes and noticed that today—the very day we are releasing an episode about two billionaire NFL owners—the Washington Reds***s have announced that t...
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The Business Algorithm: Excellence + Greatness = Success: Mort Zuckerman and Leonard Stern from 2020-05-12T05:00:24
We are back with a new episode after an extended break. We talk about why we were gone in the episode. I think we forgot to mention that we are also returning to our regular schedule of releasing e...
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The Jaunt: Steve Wynn and Travis Kalanick from 2020-03-10T04:00:30
Welcome back everyone. This episode ended up orbiting around the idea of being suspended in a universe beyond time and causality. It’ll make sense in context. The podcast is on a monthly schedule n...
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A Century of Corporate Paternalism: Fisk Johnson and Joe Liemandt from 2020-02-05T16:12:08
WE’RE BACK!!! Welcome (back) to Zero Sum Empire, the podcast that’s taking a critical census of the mostly-anonymous American billionaire class. Sorry we’ve been gone for so long. Joe was on patern...
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Walled Gardens: John Menard, Jr. and Jeff Green from 2019-12-16T11:01:23
It was a lot of work to get to 20 episodes. Thanks to everyone who’s listening. We are excited to start the next season of shows in the new year and have a lot of great ideas for improvements.
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Meaningful Pursuits: Jerry Moyes and Gary Rollins from 2019-11-13T06:19:11
This week’s News segment begins with hedge fund billionaire Lee Cooperman crying on TV and (what else?) Michael Bloomberg announcing he’ll run for president.
Jerry Moyes: 7/10 on the Davi...
Casters of the Universe: Brian L. Roberts and Haim Saban from 2019-10-30T03:01:16
It’s almost Halloween and you know what that means—only 7 months until Mother’s Day!
In the news this week: It looks like Steve Mnuchin bent the U.S. treasury rules for designating opportu...
Tears of a Clown: John Doerr and Thomas Tull from 2019-10-15T13:46:48
First: sorry for the delay in getting this episode out. Joe was traveling for a wedding and we also decided to switch our release days to Tuesdays. We are back to releasing an episode every two wee...
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Big Ag Drag and The Pump Chump: Austen S. Cargill II and Paul Fireman from 2019-09-23T00:18:50
Intro/Billionaires in the News:
Back to the Future II is neoliberal propaganda (shout out to Micah Bateman). T. Boone Pickens dead; Robert Smith tells young people to respect capitalism; Sackle...
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams: Bharat Desai/Neerja Sethi and Conrad Prebys from 2019-09-09T02:08:28
Remember fidget spinners? Joe doesn’t.
(2:18) This week in the news: We talk about the Amazon fires and their relationship to soybean farming and tariffs. Then, in celebration of David Koc...
Exploding Head Syndrome: The Cox Enterprises Heirs and Richard Peery/John Arrillaga from 2019-08-25T21:00:25
Billionaires in the News: Trump wants to buy Greenland. As I write this show description, I realize I missed a huge pun opportunity when I failed to say “Trumpelstiltskin.” It’ll make sense when yo...
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Random Acts of White Claw: Philip Anschutz and David Sun from 2019-08-12T01:00:05
In place of our normal intro this week, Joe made me offer a disclaimer about my behavior during the podcast. I tried to loosen up to promote a more relaxed vibe, so I drank a bunch of White Claws w...
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Relentless Positive Action: The Stryker Siblings and Victor Fung from 2019-07-29T01:00:05
The Mueller testimony gets us talking about the decline in Americans’ ability to experience a common reality with other people, which we take as a harbinger civilizational collapse. Billionaires in...
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Dawn of the Lead: Herb Simon and Ira Rennert from 2019-07-14T19:38:29
I’ll be honest, we didn’t do our best pun work with the title for this episode. Dawn of the Dead was filmed in a mall, and we talk about malls…and we also talk about lead poisoning, so…it kind of m...
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DAF Punks and Lumber Lords: Ned & Abigail Johnson and Maggie Hardy (Magerko) Knox from 2019-06-30T21:06:09
We begin with a disturbing revelation about Chad’s private life. Yes, it’s true, he owns an essential oil diffuser. Please don’t judge.
Billionaires in the News this week is a response to...
The SnackCast: Tom & Judy Love and George Bishop from 2019-06-17T02:17:31
This week we open up with a frank discussion of Chad’s recent bout of shingles (which is the reason we missed last week’s episode).
Our billionaire in the news this week is Jan Koum, crea...
Footin’ on the Pritz: Tom Benson and The Pritzker Family from 2019-06-02T19:42:16
Footin’ on the Pritz: Tom Benson and The Pritzker Family
Billionaires in the News: This week, Mackenzie Bezos became the world’s third richest woman and signed The Giving Pledge. The Givin...
A Song of Fire and Chainsaws: Sumner Redstone and Michael F. Price from 2019-05-26T17:13:03
First, we realize that we don't know what words like dude, buddy, bro, chief, and man are called. (I looked it up after the show. They're called "colloquial vocatives"). Billionaires in the News th...
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Better Not Call Saul: Bernard Saul II and Riley Bechtel from 2019-05-12T20:25:05
First, we set a long-term goal for the show: By 2021, get more listeners than the flat earth podcast. We can only do it with your help, so please either subscribe to our podcast or find a way to sa...
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The French Fried Potater and the Helicopter Circumnavigator: Scott Simplot and Ross Perot, Jr. from 2019-05-06T00:38:03
Lots of stuff in this week’s episode. Keeping things a bit looser. First, we discuss the Milken Institute’s Global Conference 2019, where “thought leaders” celebrate “the power of ideas” and promot...
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Siphon Off the Rich Juice: James Coulter and Leslie Alexander from 2019-04-28T16:43:15
Billionaires in the News: Billionaire Ray Dalio, CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, is worried that capitalism might not be working for the majority of people. So, he wro...
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Can Rebate Fraud Be Racist? Absolutely: Stanley Druckenmiller and James "Jimmy" Haslam from 2019-04-21T17:13:02
This week on ZSE we start out by talking about the Notre Dame fire, the hypocrisies involved in philanthropic giving, and diagnose another billionaire brain disease we’re calling Ozymandias Syndrom...
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The Beach is Closed: Patrick G. Ryan and Vinod Khosla from 2019-03-24T15:00:37
Your hosts are back with another hot track. This time, we talk about The Baker Center for Leadership and Governance's 2018 poll on American confidence in social institutions. You'll never guess who...
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Little Boxes, Little Balls: Clemmie Dixon Spangler and Kunio Busujima from 2019-03-24T14:37:09
In this episode's "Billionaires in the News," Joe and Chad discuss Elon Musk's decision to chief that loud with Joe Rogan to prove to the world that he's a Normal Man. Then they talk about Clemmie ...
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Trailer: Welcome to Zero Sum Empire from 2019-03-23T22:41:39
Welcome to Zero Sum Empire, the podcast that introduces you to the mostly anonymous billionaires who own the majority of the world’s wealth. Each week, we randomly select two lesser-known billionai...
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