Mandy the real estate whiz and Andrew the tech product manager on dental dams and the timber business, the investment merits of strip malls in Florida, and interest rates’ effects on real estate.

2:20 When it gets colder, only the savagest of savages self-select into going out to party

3:05 FYI - lot of dudes at the Christopher Street subway stop

4:15 Hot Take: East Village is the hottest area in Manhattan

4:50 Neil went to a park where thousands of dogs were dressed in Halloween costumes

6:00 Multiple cactus are cacti. FACT

6:35 Discourse on the word “moist” and its appropriateness. Guys are OK with it. Women hate it.

8:50 Andrew and I went to high school together where Wild Things was filmed. Ransom Everglades allowed ‘Wild Things” to be filmed on campus, collected lots of $$$, and pissed off all the parents. A+ savage move. Moist movie.

12:40 Sex-ed is horrifying.

13:00 Neil doesn’t understand #abstinence

13:30 If you’ve ever used a dental dam, please reach out to the Sup in Business podcast to discuss

15:30 SUP Mr. Doriol. Hope you’re a coder now

15:50 Bitcoin - has anyone made big money? How do you not sell? Mandy’s mom knows Bitcoin millionaires

18:25 Neil says Bitcoin is not a value investment

18:45 Mandy discusses her family timber business

19:30 Arborists are the dental dam of the timber industry

20:45 Key business lesson from Mandy: “Trees grow”

21:25 Neil thinks value investors have way too much free time and need to learn to code

22:00 Lot of wolves out there. Kill a few and you’ll create a rainforest.

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22:30 Andrew’s family business is a law firm. But Andrew took a different path working at a gaming startup. Quanty, but not codey. He moved into developing products.

25:00 Neil: coding is a gift from god to humans and this is the perfect time to learn it.

27:10 Hot take: strip malls are in, especially in Miami! Floridians love strip malls.

28:15 Parking at Publix in Miami. You will not walk more than 15 seconds.

31:15 Can Mandy ever go to a strip mall? City people don’t understand what a strip mall is. Or what a Trump voter is.

32:15 How do you define a 7-cap? cap-rate = real-estate term.

33:00 Mandy is gonna move to Brooklyn, the Pacific Northwest of Manhattan

35:00 Mandy makes her interest rate bed and now has to sleep in it

36:20 Real estate is craps. Everyone at the table has been winning forever. Luck may soon turn.

37:45 Mandy on why WeWork actually has value. They have the “it” factor. They’re buying their own properties. WeWork can now add value to their space, own it, and sell it. Mandy thinks that’s better than Regus.

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Aaron the former Google / Obama / Uber and future Nielsen employee on wedding gifts, how McDonald’s and General Motors are in, Chipotle is out, and whether you need an Apple burner phone

1:40 Monday scaries > Sunday scaries

1:50 Aaron spends a year writing wedding thank you notes. Except I got mine in a week.

3:30 PSA: Send cold hard cash for weddings. $$$

5:00 Venmo your wedding gifts. Sup Venmo. Wanna sponsor us?

7:05 Armageddon =  best movie of all time

7:30 Returning wedding gifts is a pain in the ass

8:10 Neil’s master wedding plan = hold the open bar hostage until the guests venmo him gifts

9:05 Aaron apologizes for using the word “handicapping” on his last podcast

9:20 Neil discusses “liberal” words

10:50 McDonald’s is in, earnings are out and it’s super-profitable. Neil predicted it.

15:00 Chipotle is OUT! Aaron inappropriately uses the word queso.

16:20 Chiptole earnings are down. The stock is down 10%+. Still priced at 60x earnings.

17:20 Why do people hate pesticides? WTF

22:15 Ricky and Morty’s szechuan sauce at Mcdonald’s.

23:20 General Motors is BACK! Stock went from $30 to $45. Was 6x earnings at $30.

24:30 Aaron: GM is the insider. They were well positioned to succeed. They get the tech.

25:15 Bacardi 151 is the best college drink. Low carb, high impact.

26:00 Aaron discusses a past project where he installed new, mobile POS systems in restaurants to do away with receipts

28:00 Aaron gets political with the NRA (National Restaraunt Association)

31:00 Neil looked at and invested in an auto seat maker (Adient)

31:55 Aaron talks about the new Apple iPhones.

33:00 Dongle talk. Cover your kids’ ears.

34:00 DOUBLE DONGLE!!!!

34:30 Just replace your iPhone battery for $80. It’s like a new iPhone for peasants.

36:30 Hot take: keep your phone on yellow batterysaver mode.

39:20 Neil rants on the taking away of the home button as liberal oppression of the nuclear home

41:50 Everyone should have a burner phone

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Aaron on Canada Goose, Amazon's new HQ, and Blue Apron

1:25 Canada (Canadian?) Goose (Geese?)

5:30 Mattress Wars ft. Casper, Sleepopolis

8:50 Selling bamboo socks / SEO

15:45 Amazon is looking for a new HQ and wants incentives! Warning: lot of DUDES coming to your city if Amazon comes. Amazon can change the South Side of Chicago for the better

20:00 Chicago / midwest has tons of universities to feed tech talent into Chicago

21:15 Do Catholics have a monopoly on Catholic guilt?

28: 35 Blue Apron    

32:50 Neil and Aaron discuss whether kale is a scam perpetrated by the food industry. Vitamins are a scam. Why do you need 100%+ of your daily requirement of anything?

45:40 Neil saw a mouse at Macy’s. Macy’s is dead.

49:05 Aaron’s professional life advice

Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Discussion with Mary (intellectual property lawyer) and Dr. Randy (radiation oncologist) on their perception of the business world and other post-brunch topics including Boca Raton, race, and Louboutin vs. Louis Vuitton 

2:15 WTF is a Rorschach Test?

3:00 Boca Raton is so hot right now

4:25 Doctors are POOR when they start out

6:25 Rumbings of race talk

7:00 Indian parents are nuts.

9:00 Louboutin vs. Louis Vuitton. Difference? Trademark implications.

10:20 Mary talks about the Louboutin trademark case

11:15 BUSINESS IDEA: make cheap men shoes and paint the bottoms red

12:00 Randy talks about a cloud sculpture in Chicago; no one has a clue what he’s talking about

13:00 Go see “A Clockwork Orange” in NYC. Neil can’t because he has ADD.

15:15 Mary’s recommendations on best bars in Washington D.C.

17:00 http://rick.bookstaber.com/2017/10/can-we-have-etf-meltdown.html

Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Interview with Sam, former investment banker and current venture capitalist on the demise of AIM, whether Eminem really freestyles, and WTF the Iran deal is. 

0:00 Introduction and the Sup in Business? theme song

2:00 Farewell to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)

5:38 Getting rid of cell phone distractions and focusing

10:22 Neil almost has a seizure

11:28 Unilever makes another hilariously racist ad

14:23 Eminem freestyles on Trump. Real?

16:08 Sam hangs out with Ja Rule at Catch

19:45 Vitamin B-12 for hangovers?

21:40 WTF is the Iran deal?

23:09 Bank of America and Wells Fargo earnings. Key insight: blame grandma!

24:52 USA Men’s Soccer fails to make World Cup

27:00 Sam once again namedrops Catch in Meatpacking

27:20 Q+A with Sam Jones on oil / cost of whiskey

29:15 No one has any idea what to say about oil

30:55 Discussion on aging and turing 30 years old

31:45 Sam (the 28 year old) philosophizes on getting older

32:40 Sam’s advice on working life

33:55 Sam and Neil’s NYC Fall recommendations (Catch included)

Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music