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Imagine delegating your decisions to a group of people online, some of whom are total strangers. Imagine sharing the most intimate parts of your life in order to get their approval. Imagine answering your personal problems in the same way a bank asks its shareholders to vote on corporate outcomes. This is the life chosen by Mike Merrill. Since 2008 - when he created 100,000 shares of himself and sold them at $1 each through his website, KMikeyM - he has asked his ‘investors' for advice on his choice of romantic partner, diet and body art. This is not for a TV show. It's not for a book deal. It's for real. In this conversation with Olly, Mike traces back his unconventional lifestyle to the DIY art scene in Portland,Oregon; his brush with corporate share-prices whilst seated at the front desk of a trucking company; and the anti-corporate activism with which he spices up his dates… ____________________ Meanwhile, Ollie Peart has decamped to Camberwell for this month's Zeitgeist, in an attempt to approximate the trend for ‘immersive' exhibitions. With a budget totalling £50. Armed with an Oculus headset, a projector and a hacksaw, can Ollie convince Olly of the merits of experiential art? And are interactive super-exhibits the future for museums and galleries? Warning: includes the return of Captain Spronk. _____________________ Elsewhere, we revisit a classic edition of the Foxhole, where Alix Fox advises a horny student on his three-times-per-night escapades. From the comfort of a Vauxhall Corsa.  Finally, music this month comes from ethereal groovster Eliza Rose, and her ace new track, ‘Better Love'. _____________________ Support for this episode comes from: Listeners like you. Buy us a beer

In a casual interview episode, I’m joined by Mike Merrill. Mike, or KMikeyM, has been doing one of the longest-running art project on capitalism as the world’s first publicly traded person, selling shares of himself to friends and strangers for 10 years. Shareholders then vote on his life decisions. Having just launched my own experiment in community-based capitalism with Oh My Dollar!’s patreon, I thought I should get his advice. We talk about how his personal self-image fluctuates based on his share price, eliminating his personal credit card debt, finding your own “personal rap video” version of wealth, and why everyone should set a dollar bill on fire in front of an audience at least once. This Show is Brought to You by our Listeners This show is supported by generous listeners like you through our patreon. This episode was underwritten by the Tamsen G Association and Surreptitious Huggermugger Foundation. To learn more about ways to support Oh My Dollar! and get cool perks like exclusive livestreams and cat stickers, you can visit ohmydollar.com/support/  About Mike Merrill, AKA KMikeyM Mike Merrill is the world’s only publicly traded person, which means he sells shares in himself and allows the shareholders to vote on his life. He is obsessed with concepts and focuses less on practical details, leading to many half baked projects. He is currently “writing” a ghostwritten crowd-sourced fanfic about himself, lives in a cabin in Los Angeles, and had left technology to work in advertising. Disclosure: I coached Mike through some personal debt and was paid in “shares” of him, so I’m a shareholder. In this episode, we discuss: Index Fund of People Is the whole stock market an art project?Should the cats that follow me on instagram get half votes on my haircut or double votes?Why money feels like wizardry and wealth is a spellHow Mike’s self-value has ended up correlating to his stock valueIf you’re an anxious person, putting your retirement portfolio on autopilotMike’s using the model of a stock market to represent a decision making engineDressing in Brooks Brothers (as the personal embodiment of capitalism) in hyper-casual PortlandHow this project has changed Mike’s relationship to money (and it’s not really necessarily positive)Your own personal rap video and what wealth really means to youWhy you should burn a $1 bill Resources from this episode: KmikeyM.com website – maybe you’d like to buy some stock!Alexa skill that says KmikeyM’s share price!Millionaire Next Door – a classic personal finance book, the largest survey ever conducted on the lifestyle of true millionaires (most clip coupons)Download your own “Things I want tracker” Other episodes your might like Curbing Impulse Purchases & Regrettable Spending– the original episode about the “Things I want Tracker”Budgeting Rule #1: You Do You– all about spending according to your own values (AKA “create your own rap video”) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug and Brent talk to Mike Merrill about snacks, being in the army and how he sold himself to investors for $1 a share! Brent says "that was a really good episode." Learn more about Mike at KmikeyM.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Day 48. This morning, my friend @KmikeyM asked if he could make the video for today's song! Since I hadn't started yet, I though that would be a fun collaboration. I decided to experiment with adding a bunch of industrial glitch sounds in the background of this one.

K. Mike Merrill & Steve Schroeder (aka The Business Boys) follow the money and break down the Sony Hack, Uber, and Shark Tank. Music: 2 Bears – Money Man Challenger – Science of a Seizure Wendy Carlos – Rocky Mountains … Continue reading →

Jen Bekman, Zoë Salditch, and Mike Merrill were our guests live on stage at the XOXO 2014 festival in Portland, Oregon, as part of the Story evening that also featured Hrishikesh Hirway's Song Exploder, featuring a song by The Thermals; John Roderick (The Long Winters) interviewing Chelsea Cain; and Harmontown with Dino Stamatopoulos.Jen Bekman founded 20x200 in 2007 to provide art at accessible prices. She spoke about her in work in 2012 at XOXO. Then she had a terrible, no good, very bad year. For a lot of reasons, she can't discuss the particulars of what happened, but she had to reboot 20x200: its site, its technology, its art, and its trust with existing customers.If you have beautiful digital art, you need a place to display it. That's the idea behind Electronic Objects, a massively funded Kickstarter project from a month ago. But Zoë Salditch's interest is less in the technology than the uses to which people will put it. In the midst of producing their EO1 model, they have artists in residence working on concpetual ideas and are considering one future for their hardware as a platform for art — maybe 20x200 and EO have a lot in common?With most people, saying "I can buy and sell you" is a boast about one's own ostensible net worth. With Mike Merrill, it's the literal truth. Mike is a publicly traded company, and shareholders can vote on the course his life takes, including how he pursues romantic interests. Shares in KMIKEYM have traded as high as $25 and typically change hands in a band of $5 to $10. Volume is low.This is our last regularly scheduled episode as we go on hiatus and consider a path forward. Keep watching this site and @newdisruptors for news about future projects.Sponsors and patronsThis podcast has been made possible through the support of sponsors and patrons.gifpop, the makers of physical renditions of your animated GIFs through the scientific magic of lenticular printing! Take a GIF with up to 10 frames and receive a version that you can tilt for animation, or buy a design from featured artists who receive 80% of the purchase price — or even submit your own work for consideration for sale. Listeners get 10% off a gifpop order by using coupon code DISRUPT during checkout.99designs: Have dozens of designers from the over 310,000 that are part of 99designs's network submit ideas for your logo, Web site, T-shirt, car wrap, or other design project, then pick the best and have a finished, professional result in a week or less for a flat price. Our listeners can visit this special destination page to get a $99 Power Pack of services for free!Thanks to our Patreon backers for all their support! Bryan J. Clark, Pasha Alpeyev, Andy Baio, Matthew Blai, Alex Bond, Henry Brown, Anirvan Chatterjee, Ready Chi, Jordan Cooper, Craig, Tarun Gangwani, GravityFish , Accounting Guy, Gregory Hayes, Brian J. Geiger, Jonathan Mann, Mike Mansor, Kris Markel, Roman Mars, Andrei Matetic, Gordon McDowell, Andy McMillan, Rönne Ogland, George OToole, Elliott Payne, Garry Pugh, "r," Neil Richler, James Robilliard, Kay Schumann, Jonathan Stark, Kyle Studstill, Ted Timmons, CJ Tully, and Ben Werdmuller.(Photo by Brad Dowdy.)

The business, community, and star making machine that is YouTube is discussed with our guest, Mitchell Davis, who is one of YouTube’s most watched personalities. YouTube is the 2nd biggest website in all of the world and serves up a … Continue reading →

It’s been a long time, but the Bright Future of Tobacco has risen on a new era. The soothing voices of Steve and Mike return to your life to help you focus on business and culture and feel like you … Continue reading →

MEXICO Minisode! Faster, smaller, and packed with information this minisode covers MEXICO! Be inspired by the richest man in the world, learn about the rising baked foods company that is sweeping the world, and sit back, sip your mezcal, and … Continue reading →

Mike makes an attempt at the title King of All Media. You will like writing and outsourcing your personal life. The number one movie doesn’t matter and we’re heading for dark times. SHOW NOTES Music: Into: The Joggers – “Back … Continue reading →

On tour with a rock band, CHAIN TAINT, Adam Forkner explains music industry revenue streams and he has a new project that BFOT invested in, Tracy Morgan audiobook, Online Eyeglasses, Trucks, commercial characters go to the big screen, iPad. SHOW … Continue reading →

Ideas for Animals, Sports Passion vs. Corporate Contract, Future Primes & March Madnesses, Updating the NBA All Season All Games Betting Project, Special Guests Bring Exotic Treasures, Embargos, Military Goods —> Civilian Life, Future Ghost Games. It’s the unofficial basketball … Continue reading →

Sarah vs. Ted, Connecticut River Valley Tobacco, Currency Issues in South Carolina & Chile, Cash Money Gets Into The Oil Game, The Thrill of the Miniature, Augmented Reality, Media Roundup, Li-Ning, Convincing us of Corporate Makeovers. SHOW NOTES Intro Music: … Continue reading →

The end of an amazing thing. The final days of the Department of Safety. SHOW NOTES Intro Music: The Joggers – “Back to the Future” Thoughts on Brand Loyalty: TooManyBrands.com, A Coca-Cola Family, The Dirty P, Markets becoming dichotomous, corporate … Continue reading →

It’s episode 1 and Mike and Steve talk about Domino’s Pizza and the ups and downs of a business who tells the public that their product stinks, inspirational drunk Slovenians, and holidays that we should think twice about before celebrating.