Grubstakers

Reid Hoffman, Buttigieg supporter and friend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, wants to growth hack democracy. Listen to the full episode at https://www.patreon.com/grubstakers

This week it's one of Pete Buttigieg's wine cave billionaires and top ACRONYM donor Seth Klarman. We couldn't find anything wrong with him so we just spent the whole episode saying nice things. Overall? Great guy.

By popular demand we've unlocked our recent episode running down what just occurred in the Iowa Caucuses. After we recorded this episode DNC chair Tom Perez immediately followed the news that Bernie Sanders was victorious in Iowa by announcing that there would be a recount. As we've always said this is all just a big misunderstanding and there is no bias at work here. New Hampshire votes February 11th. You know what to do: https://berniesanders.com/

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This week we take a look at Columbia University with our spy on the inside Stephanie. We discuss how the business school operates in teaching the propaganda of capitalism to students all over the world for a profit. From biased views of how business can and will save the world to never really solving the issues of murder, sex abuse as well as racism rampant on their campus. Tune in and tune out you got the Grubstakers.

We channel our inner Chris Hardwicks and it's grotesque.

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 fundraisers for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Why have so many billionaires lined up behind his dark horse candidacy and what do they hope to gain? And did these two scions of Canadian business actually do anything to “earn” their money besides asset stripping, corporate bust outs, age discrimination, and fraud? Find out here! *EPISODE CORRECTION*: Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman *have not* donated money directly to Pete Buttegieg. Canadian citizens are not allowed to donate to US candidates for federal office. They did however use their Nantucket mansion to host a fundraiser for him so providing that material benefit is to us functionally equivalent to being donors. Apologies for not clarifying

Find out how James Simons company cheated the IRS of Billions vis a vi you and me! Full Episode on Patreon.com/Grubstakers

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, cheapening the products, and selling their shares at a profit before people realized what they had done. This money was then used to buy a yacht named Faith, which resulted in a British deckhand being drowned, a failed music career for his daughter Chloe stroll and a career F1 racing for his son who doesn’t seem to really know where he is most of the time. All that and more coming up on Grubstakers!

From our Patreon episode on Larry Robbins beating the court to fulfill his lifelong dream of not needing to walk too far to a hockey rink. . For the full episode and more fuller episodes, check out www.patreon.com/grubstakers

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 the holocaust were able to pass on the profits they accumulated first to their children and then to their grandchildren. The effects of that stolen wealth are still being felt today, but remember the rich are only rich because they do more for society than the rest of us! Some of the sources used: The Book "Nazi Steel" by Marcus O. Jones https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/world-s-youngest-billionaires-are-shadowed-by-ghosts-of-german-past https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-inadequacies-of-justice/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/22/germany.secondworldwar https://web.archive.org/web/20041219072628/http://www.adl.org/braun/dim_13_2_flick_print.asp

Published Jul 25, 2019 The premium episode is all about the Koch brother for the left Tom Steyer. The man who became rich from poisoning the planet to now considering being against earth poison because he wants a vanity project because he's jealous of his older brothers. Younger brothers never change. This episode lacks the presence of Steven because the man wouldn't let a foot soldier of the 9-5 get off time when he was supposed too.

This is an entirely made up story about a fictional company named Blern. Any resemblance to any persons or companies living or dead is entirely coincidental. For the full episode, visit: https://www.patreon.com/grubstakers

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 episode that he's a bundler who's raised $25,000 for none other than one Joe Biden. Also also Andy confuses Rembrandt and Raphael at one point and is kind of embarrassed now.

It wouldn't be a Disney property without a tacky celebrity cameo. On this clip we talk about how once upon a time you could take snorkeling trips from the Disney Cruises at Little St. James Island, among other things. Full episode at https://www.patreon.com/grubstakers

It's a list of Disney properties set to "We Didn't Start The Fire". This shit is so stupid and we're sorry for subjecting you to it. For more visit https://www.patreon.com/grubstakers

In our final episode of the decade we run down the 2nd largest media conglomerate in the world, the Walt Disney Company. In this first of three parts we start with Walt Disney's birth in Chicago in 1901 and continue all the way up to his company introducing another death star as if its an original plot device. Along the way we learn about a man and an empire that has abused copyright law, bought the US government wholesale to change said copyright law, flirted with Nazism, busted unions, snitched to Joseph McCarthy, and offered family cruises to Jeffrey Epstein's private island. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that former Disney chairman Richard Cook was on the flight logs. Check our patreon for Parts 2 & 3. Here's the referenced Paste article about Walt's Nazi links: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disney.html

This week we go to Brazil with special guest Michael Brooks. We cover Edir Macedo, an evangelical pastor who teaches that the true path to salvation is giving him lots of money and possibly your newborn. We also talk about his associations with Jair Bolsonaro and the smash blockbuster Nothing to Lose based on his life. This one was recorded right after the election in the UK so we're a tad shell shocked but we kept calm and carried on for you fine people. Follow Michael Brooks on twitter @_michaelbrooks, check out his YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2UY1hxlMr4_7Az_iQ82HQ, and support him at https://patreon.com/TMBS

From our Patreon episode on the deceased new king of coal Chris Cline featuring Kahn Fight. For the full episode and more fuller episodes, check out https://www.patreon.com/grubstakers

It's the IKEA episode on furniture entrepreneur and "not a nazi anymore" Ingvar Kamprad. We discuss Ingvar's innovations in do-it-yourself furniture, made-from-illegally-logged-wood furniture, crafted-by-child-slaves furniture, and crushes-your-toddler furniture. It's one of our more light-hearted episodes.