IP... Frequently: A Not-Very Intellectual Business Podcast

It's the 250th birthday of the country, and David wants to do one modest thing to mark it: set off some fireworks that comply with Rhode Island state law. What stands in the way is a neighbor filming from a poison ivy patch, a permit regime that demands unanimous consent from the same people who once called the police on a four-year-old's backyard birthday, and an armed officer from the De...

A DEI vice president at JP Morgan Chase attended the Knicks' first championship parade in 53 years, spotted a full Nicks-themed trash can, dumped its contents on the sidewalk, and walked home with it as a souvenir. She has since been fired. David Pridham and Brad Sheafe use this as the jumping-off point for a larger conversation about what happens when an entire political movement is built on...

Iran gets the full wrath of the United States and lives to tell about it, which David and Brad agree is the worst possible outcome short of nuclear war. They chart a path from regime change fantasy to Marshall Plan optimism to the grim realization that toddlers negotiate the Strait of Hormuz better than world powers do. Then it's the Obamas opening an $850 million library while lecturing every...

When the official White House page declared Harambe a "true patriot" on what would have been his 27th birthday, most people scrolled past. David & Brad take a moment. Because once the government is producing gorilla memorial content while simultaneously installing a UFC octagon on the South Lawn for America's 250th, you have to ask what exactly Valley Forge was for. As it turns o...

The economy is in freefall. Democracy is crumbling. The president is an idiot and we're all going to die. That's the story in the news, anyway. Meanwhile, the Dow just hit 50,000. David and Brad take a moment to appreciate how markets, unlike the media, don't have a narrative to protect. Also on the docket: Joey Chestnut, 17-time Nathan's champion and reigning Bologna Showdown king...

Eleven people on the planet have hantavirus. The CDC calls the risk "very, very low." The media has labeled it a crisis. Brad Sheafe is slightly more skeptical about a disease you'd have to wallow in rat droppings to contract. Meanwhile, Carnival Cruise Lines is having a week, the Pentagon has released thousands of UFO affidavits featuring aircraft that defy known physics, and Bigfoo...

People are dead on a cruise ship because someone thought a garbage dump was a birdwatching venue. The CDC, fresh off its COVID credibility tour and a poster advising Americans to masturbate through monkeypox, wants you to take this seriously. David and Brad are not sure you should. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has released the UFO files. Also: deviled ham is real, the airplane boarding process is a civ...

The boys are back and waste no time on the JP Morgan fiasco featuring an office sex slave, Viagra pellets, and seductive cannons. From there it’s full clown world: a Kamala donor sprints through a metal detector at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner waving a shotgun while the President, VP, and half the succession line sip cocktails in the same Hilton where Reagan got shot. Then a California w...

David and Brad are still deep undercover on a global fact-finding mission. While the boys gather fresh intel, here’s some of the best clips from recent episodes. First, we harken back to the Taco Bell Ultramarathon, where runners are required to choke down burritos, chalupa supremes, and Baja Blast without launching a tactical rear-guard action. They also watch a pack of middle-aged white ladies i...

Some podcasts do a Best Of to celebrate. David and Brad do one because the evidence needed to be organized. Judges demanding biological proof of French first ladies. Presidents trolling Congress with sombreros. A Biden portrait that's just a picture of a machine. Pull up a chair, because the archive is undefeated and the world has only gotten weirder since.

The trouble with keeping something big under wraps is that eventually, the bubble bursts. Case in point, Bryon Noem, husband of the former Secretary of Homeland Security, was quietly sending tens of thousands of dollars to fetish models and circulating photos of himself in fake balloon boobs across the internet until, inevitably, it all came out. When confronted, he simply said, "I don't...

Europe watches from the sidelines as the United States proceeds to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, and somewhere in the New Mexico desert, a retired general is wandering around looking for alien debris. Meanwhile, a quadruple amputee (and champion cornhole player) committed, executed, and survived a murder with more operational competence than NATO has shown in years.

Brad and David cut through the fog on the Strait of Hormuz, where tankers sit idle because insurers won’t risk Iranian drones. The same reluctance shows up at home: repeated attacks tied to radical Islam get soft-pedaled as “vehicle incidents” or “motives unclear,” even when the perpetrators shout their ideology loud and clear. From campus stabbings to synagogue car-rammings, the pattern is obviou...

This week, three of Congress's sharpest legal minds requested a deposition with Hillary Clinton, took a victory selfie beforehand, and proceeded to get absolutely folded in half by a 77-year-old woman before the first hour was up. A masterclass in prosecutorial precision, just not theirs. Kristi Noem, widely regarded as one of the great strategic communicators of her generation, spent $220 mil...

David's on the road taking the pulse of America, so we're raiding the vault. This week's best-of serves up the WNBA's bright green dildo epidemic, an 80-something German named Helmet Hammerhand crushing 293 walnuts in 60 seconds with a raw egg in his fist, the half-billion-dollar Trump judgment that an appellate court quietly reduced to zero, Letitia James and Adam Schiff's sha...

A man in a wig shoots up his kid's hockey game, and the one thing you cannot say is the most obvious thing in the room. David and Brad trace the through-line from the Rhode Island rink to Canadian schools to the Trump shooting and ask: if this were the Gambino family, would we notice a pattern? Spoiler: yes. Also: the Savannah Guthrie disappearance, homeless New Yorkers dying on Mamdani's...

New York's communist mayor can't plow streets or pick up trash, giving New Yorkers a genuine taste of a political philosophy that has literally never worked. Meanwhile, 3 million pages of Epstein documents somehow only put one person behind bars. Plus: a perplexing kidnapping, one man’s catastrophic luck at presidential events, and the latest odds on the Second Coming. Your weekly reminder...

The Hall of Fame gatekeepers have spoken, and Bill Belichick isn't getting in. David and Brad dissect the petty jealousies and false moral superiority that kept the greatest coach in NFL history out of Canton. Then it's off to Minneapolis, where federal agents trying to enforce laws are being harassed by whistle-blowing martyrs with loaded guns (what could go wrong?). The guys tackle the i...

An “influencer” with 12 million followers is warning people that on August 12th, 2026, gravity will pause for 7.3 seconds. NASA's been hiding it. You, your cat, and your car will hover in the air before slamming back to earth in a symphony of shattered spines and dead pets. Forty million casualties, minimum. David and Brad take this opportunity to perform an autopsy on American intelligence, e...

Welcome to a crash course in Gen Z linguistics, from "aura points" to "skibbidi”, before diving into the chaos unfolding across the globe. David and Brad dissect Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters while the Shah's heir lounges in Paris, debate whether Trump should just annex Greenland already, and unpack the dumpster fire that is Minnesota. Between Somali fraud rings, pro...

David and Brad survey the wreckage of New York City under Mayor Mamdani. His housing czar wants to dismantle white supremacy by seizing private property (conveniently excluding her mother's $1.4 million Nashville home.) The hosts dissect the performative self-loathing of white progressives who rail against everything they are while somehow exempting themselves from their own indictments. Meanw...

David and Brad kick off 2026 by examining America's fraud epidemic—from Minneapolis' multi-billion dollar Somali daycare scheme to a Florida congresswoman's $300,000 FEMA-funded diamond ring she tried to airbrush out of her Christmas card. Meanwhile, Trump immortalizes Biden's legacy with an auto-pen portrait and the most savage presidential plaque in White House history. Plus: Can...

David and Brad unwrap some recent spectacular failures in this murder-y Christmas episode. First up, Providence's finest fumbled a campus shooting so badly that a homeless man living in the crime scene building had to solve it himself…all while police ignored him and politicians held press conferences featuring sign language interpreters more dramatic than the investigation. Multiple murders,...

David and Brad dissect the spectacular implosion of Michigan's head football coach, who traded a $6 million dream job and family for ten minutes of pleasure (and that’s being generous). Gene Simmons drops wisdom at the Kennedy Center about staying in your lane, and the guys explain why if you go to Thailand, you’re probably gonna get kidnapped.

Too stuffed with turkey to record a full episode, David and Brad serve up podcast moments from 2025 on a silver platter: climate hysteria by the millisecond, CEOs busted by kiss cams, Harvard's alien doomsday prophet, gender conspiracy lawsuits, and TikTok's home invasion trend. It's the past few month’s best rants, all the tryptophan, none of the work.