Podcasts about large adult sons

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 everybody! Thank you for sticking around. We are mentally, physically, and emotionally recommitting to our once-per-month release schedule. This week in the news we mostly discuss the Amazon unionization drive in Bessemer, AL. We also talk about a rash of billionaires dying in helicopter crashes. If you're a billionaire, your chances of dying in a helicopter crash are around 1/500. Billionaire #1: The Bass Brothers, 6/10 on the David Koch Memorial Asset Liquidation Index All of the billionaires in today's episode happen to be Texans. Lots of big, beefy boys in the bunch. The Bass brothers inherited their fortune from their uncle Sid Richardson, one of the big mid-20th century Texas oilmen. We spend most of our time talking about Richardson and his partner Clint Murchison. Although most people have probably never heard of these guys, they had every president from FDR to Nixon doing personal favors for them. They were two of the five richest people in the US for a time. They funded LBJ's political career and had bunga bunga parties with J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy. Also, they made their fortunes by running criminal enterprises that used political influence to avoid having to obey laws. Billionaire #2: Janice McNair (and son), 7/10 on the DKMALI Janice McNair owns the Houston Texans NFL team. She also has a large adult son, Cal, who has been compared to Billy Madison. For some reason, he runs the team. He also hired an evangelical life coach named Jack Easterby as Executive Vice President of Football Operations. Easterby is a wild character who seems to have fallen fully formed from Danny McBride's brain. Janice and Cal McNair are trying to "be better" after husband/dad Bob McNair got in trouble for making racist comments. Links: Bass Bros: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/jan/05/cover-oil-politics-la-jolla/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Rich https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/06/24/the-bass-dispute-at-yale/03c68321-5857-4fdf-a4f5-223973a645fb/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161030/Hyatt-Bass-adds-security-Manhattan-home-mother-Anne-held-hostage-Connecticut.html McNairs: https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/12/10/ex-chaplain-jack-easterby-houston-texans-chaos-after-power-struggle-daily-cover https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/04/05/texans-bob-mcnair-inmates-comment

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 promote “shared prosperity.” We encourage you to flip through the conference program and take note of who they invited to speak (link below). Gives off a real “Garden of Earthly Delights” energy. It’s a garbage organization run by an actual criminal, Michael Milken, the “father of junk bonds.” At the conference, Milken did a keynote panel with Ray Dalio (see last week’s episode) where they talked about reforming capitalism. There’s an article from the LA Times that covers the panel, but as of now the video hasn’t been released online. We’re flagging this as another entry in our journal of recent instances of billionaires making a big public to-do about their ideas to reform capitalism. They’re coordinating their rhetoric as election season heats up to hedge against the outside chance that a left-of-center wave election happens. Then we enter two Large Adult Sons into the census. Both of these guys inherited gigantic businesses from their fathers. First, we discuss Scott Simplot and the Simplot family. The Simplots are the Idaho potato farmers who supply McDonalds with most of its frozen French fries. We go deep on potatoes and discuss their history as part of a larger story about Native American genocide, colonialism, the Industrial Revolution, the Little Ice Age, and modern agriculture. Last, we talk about our other billionaire for this week, Ross Perot, Jr. Joe walks us through Perot’s exploits as the Magellan of helicopters, his feud with Mark Cuban, and the global logistics hub / residential community he built, Alliance, Texas. Oh, and also: one time Joe accosted Ross Perot, Sr. in a public restroom. Refresh your memory on Michael Milken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken Milken Institute Global Conference Program: https://www.milkeninstitute.org/assets/Events/2019-Global-Conference-Program.pdf LA Times coverage of conference panel: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-milken-conference-ray-dalio-20190502-story.html Scott Simplot is a potato man: http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/edComm/magazine/summer04/outstanding.html Alliance residential areas: https://www.alliancetexas.com/community/residential

This week, the thing Nick, Jordan, and Dave love about baseball is ejections! We talk about Tim Anderson and Brad Keller's ejections - bulls**t and a different kind of bulls**t, respectively - whether the Red Sox are actually bad, if the White Sox are cool - and what even makes a team cool? We also wonder whether Pete Alonso is a Large Adult Son® and ask Dave what made Manny Machado's bare-handed play at third so great because Dave was a real-life baseball player. We also wonder whether the age-old tradition of third basemen shaving broadcasters has any place in our modern world.The other baseball podcast we shout out this week is Shea Anything, the Mets podcast hosted by Doug Williams and Andy Martino.Thanks as always to the great @drawawalk for our artwork.Links:Leadoff Grand Slam on TwitterLeadoff Grand Slam on Apple PodcastsLeadoff Grand Slam's Website(Recorded 4/19/19)

On this episode, we dig into sequels -- CHILDREN OF THE CORN 5: FIELDS OF TERROR and HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE (or, PINHEAD IN SPACE)! We also talk about French perverts, Steakums, clove cigarettes, and the difficulty of doing a HELLRAISER movie in, I cannot stress this enough, outer space.

Music: "I Was In A Cult" by Teddy

This week we watched the 50 year old The Lion in Winter, about the scheming large adult sons of the Plantagenet dynasty while they fight over who gets to inherit the throne. There are witty one-liners thrown around at a shocking speed.

THE FIRST PODCAST TO BE ENTIRELY ENCODED IN THE CRYPTO-BLOCKCHAIN OF BITCOIN, but is also about sex with dolphins, so there's no reason to not give me all of your money. I'll talk about Alissa Nutting (@alissanutting)'s book Made For Love, but also Large Adult Sons, prose style, why I had to be graded 69, orgies, molly, bitcoin, dank memes, dolphin sex, Aziz Ansari breaking my heart, initial coin offerings... and I issue more terrorist threats! Music by Pink Mass: https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/infrared-horizon and Vastum: http://sentientruin.com/releases/rotting-sky-sedation Follow me on @DeathSentencePC

SHOW NOTES EPISODE 142: “Would I Lie To You Year In Review” It's New Year's Eve and Host Dave Bledsoe has already started drinking, though it's after 11 AM on a Sunday so it's unusual. On this special Year In Review Show, we count down the 12 Big Lies of 2017 (It was a HARD selection process.) Along the way, we riff on Casey Kasem, and provide some parenting tips from the 70's (Do NOT use these today!) We talk Large Adult Sons and why Barack Obama ain't got time for your shit. (He's retired, leave the man alone.) FINALLY we unveil some long overdue updates to the show! (Sadly, same old Host). We think you will like them. (As much as you like ANYTHING on this show.) Our Sponsor this week is Duplicity, when you need to lie but can't be caught lying, try Duplicity. We open the show with Jean Luc MacBeth and close with The Full Moon Band asking if they would lie you? (The seem honest to us.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urn_UTmffO8 Show Music:David Hyde Music https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic/piano-rock-instrumental The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Soundcloud www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Citations Needed: January 2017: Crowd Size https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/the-facts-on-crowd-size/ February Flynn I barely knew the guy https://www.factcheck.org/2017/02/trump-spins-flynn-facts/ March Wire tapps https://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/examining-trumps-wiretap-claim/ April Hitler never used gas https://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/hitler-chemical-weapons/ May Comey firing lies https://www.factcheck.org/2017/05/trump-fire-comey/ June He doth protest too much https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/explaining-trumps-russia-tweets/ July Don Jr lies https://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/trumps-misleading-defense-son/ August Many sides https://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/trumps-phoenix-fiction/ September Proof? https://www.factcheck.org/2017/09/kobachs-bogus-proof-voter-fraud/ October Clinton Uranium https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/facts-uranium-one/ November Missed this one! https://www.factcheck.org/2017/11/trumps-bizarre-plane-story/ December All the FBI Lies https://www.factcheck.org/2017/12/factchecking-trumps-criticism-fbi/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices