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Daily: Volcker's Ghost

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BLUE COLLAR AND BOUJIE Thursday, August 13, 2026 Reagan signed the biggest tax cut of his presidency at his California ranch in 1981. That same year, Paul Volcker's Fed made borrowing money brutally expensive. Two policies, both defensible on paper, pulling the same businessman in opposite directions — a fight we're still having, forty-five years later. WADE'S JOBSITE REPORT A Brisbane builder is pouring concrete at night under headlamps because he can't find a daytime crew — and Australia's 1.2-million-home target is falling 27% behind pace. Wade's take: schedule pressure doesn't create capacity, and pretending otherwise just makes everybody work stranger hours for worse results. THE NUTS AND BOLTS July inflation cooled at the margin, but the federal deficit just posted its ugliest month in years. Treasury sold 30-year bonds at the highest yield in 25 years — proof the Fed doesn't control what the world charges America to borrow long-term. Plus new drone tariffs, and Bank of America's $1.9 billion bet on Indian consumer credit. SPORTS The Lakers just sold for a record $12.5 billion — 14 months after the last sale. PSG held onto the UEFA Super Cup. And Efe Obada, who was trafficked as a child and moved through ten foster homes, retired from the NFL to open a foundation for kids coming through the same system he did. TRENDING ROUNDUP — TOP 10 Colombia digs for survivors after its worst earthquake this century. Washington reopens the childhood vaccine fight. Youth unemployment hits a global high. Spain braces for six million eclipse-chasers in wildfire country. Spotify starts labeling AI artists. A guy who rebuilt Toyota from the accounting department dies at 93. And scientists confirm dogs really can read your face. 📬 Got a question for Wade and Boujie? mail@bluecollarandboujie.com — may air next Saturday. P.S. — Made with AI. If either host tells you to buy a stock, that's hallucination, not advice — talk to a licensed human first.

S1 · E9

Aug 16, 2026

27:08

Daily: NAFTA's Ghost

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BLUE COLLAR AND BOUJIE Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Negotiators reached NAFTA at 12:40 a.m. in 1992. Bush called it a new era from the Rose Garden hours later. The guys on the factory floor called it something else entirely — and thirty-some years on, we're still arguing both sides of it. BUSINESS BREAKDOWN Cisco reports after Wednesday's closing bell — Wade and Boujie preview what to watch for: AI order growth still driven by the giants, a 19% product-order gain that says Cisco's broader business isn't. And nearly 4,000 layoffs sitting right underneath all that growth talk. THE NUTS AND BOLTS Housing stays stuck below 5 million sales a year while prices keep climbing anyway. Small business optimism hits an 11-month high — but nobody can find anyone to hire. GM quietly buys itself $4.5 billion in supply-chain insurance. And six railroads lose their fight over two-person crews. SPORTS The NBA turns Christmas Day into a soap opera with hamstrings. Flag football's actual specialists keep beating NFL All-Stars ahead of the 2028 Olympics. Aaron Rodgers would rather not play a game he doesn't consider real football. And Germany brings back standing sections because — in Boujie's words — football stadiums are not theatres. TRENDING ROUNDUP — TOP 10 Colombia digs for survivors after its worst earthquake this century. Washington reopens the vaccine-schedule fight. Young people worldwide can't find a first rung on the employment ladder. Spain chases an eclipse without setting itself on fire. Spotify starts labeling AI artists. Sony and TSMC bet $4.7 billion on better phone cameras. Toyota loses the accountant who rebuilt it. Dogs, it turns out, really can read your face. And grandparents in Singapore are doing parkour. 📬 MAILBAG Got a question for Wade and Boujie? mail@bluecollarandboujie.com — may air next Saturday. P.S. — Made with AI. If either host tells you to buy a stock, that's hallucination, not advice — talk to a licensed human first.

S1 · E8

Aug 16, 2026

33:12

Daily: Best Backlog in Sixteen Years

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BLUE COLLAR AND BOUJIE Tuesday, August 11, 2026 Three men crossed the Atlantic by balloon in 1978, riding wind they couldn't control. That same year, 160,000 coal miners held a picket line for 110 days over an outcome they couldn't control either. Different kind of patience, same lesson. TRADE-OFF TUESDAY Buy, lease, or rent your next piece of heavy equipment? Wade's got a skid-steer success story—and a mini-excavator that spent too much time sitting in the yard. Turns out the real question isn't simply lease-versus-buy. It's utilization, availability, and how much risk you're willing to carry. THE NUTS AND BOLTS Intel's selling $15 billion in new stock to fund its comeback bid against TSMC. Banks are starting to treat angry neighbors as a credit risk on data-center loans. Embraer just posted its best second quarter in 16 years. And Ukraine's negotiating a backup grain route through Moldova, because redundancy has value even when it's less efficient. SPORTS FIFA killed a plan to sell 20% of a $20 billion World Cup commercial entity—but not before wrecking a lot of trust. UEFA's now talking boycott. The Canadian Open lost a pile of top names to a calendar built for more inventory, not more recovery. And Ben Simmons is willing to play for the league minimum just to reset what the market thinks he's worth. TRENDING ROUNDUP — TOP 10 Three thousand lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snapchat get to keep moving. Thirty-two colleges fight an early-decision antitrust suit. The FDA wants more visibility into "safe" food ingredients. Sweden breaks up a Russian spy operation. A Chinese robot IPO gets oversubscribed 8,000 times over. China loses a rocket. Podcasts become television again. Western Europe just had its warmest June-and-July stretch on record. Australia briefly investigates the murder of a doll. And in Spokane, families are finally going home. 📬 MAILBAG Got a question for Wade and Boujie? mail@bluecollarandboujie.com Your question may air next Saturday. P.S. — Made with help from AI. If Wade or Boujie convinces you to buy a stock, that's between you, your financial adviser, and whatever possessed you to take investment advice from two men arguing about excavators.

S1 · E7

Aug 11, 2026

34:16

Daily: Diesel Prices Tick Up At Least a Nickel

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BLUE COLLAR AND BOUJIE Monday, August 10, 2026 Google restructured for clarity. Volkswagen built software to hide the truth. Same year, opposite instincts — and markets eventually find out which one you chose. THE WEEK AHEAD Predictions are officially on the board. Wade: diesel up a nickel by Friday. Boujie: the S&P closes the week lower. No moving the goalposts. THE NUTS AND BOLTS Oil stays elevated, construction margins keep getting squeezed. Fresh ground: Dream Finders buys Beazer ($2.2B), Berkshire's back to buybacks, Nvidia bets on AI's power bottleneck, and Canada puts real tariff concessions on the table — sparking the episode's sharpest fight. SPORTS Panthers beat Cardinals in the Hall of Fame Game. NFL opens on a Wednesday for the first time since 2012. Bridgewater retires; Detroit moves fast on Dobbs. TRENDING ROUNDUP — TOP 10 Taiwan's defense budget jumps. Americans want more social media oversight. A typhoon evacuates a million+ in China. Houthis hit a Saudi refinery. Cyprus eyes gas for Europe. A rocket stage hits the Moon. KATSEYE's Sophia steps back. Netanyahu rejects Gaza terms. The Perseids peak. And in Arizona, a postal clerk's nursing background saves a baby's life. 📬 MAILBAG Got a question for Wade and Boujie? mail@bluecollarandboujie.com — may air next Saturday. P.S. — Made with AI. If either host tells you to buy a stock, that's hallucination, not advice — talk to a licensed human first.

S1 · E6

Aug 10, 2026

29:44

Daily: Unprecedented, Astonishing, and Still Not Enough

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BLUE COLLAR AND BOUJIE Sunday, August 9, 2026 The warning signs are usually obvious in hindsight. The harder question is whether anyone recognizes them while things are still going well. Wade and Boujie open Sunday’s episode by going back to August 9, 2007, when BNP Paribas froze three investment funds in an event widely associated with the opening phase of the global financial crisis. Wade connects that moment to the peak of the American construction boom and economist Gary Shilling’s warning that housing could drag the economy down. That leads naturally into Wade’s Proverb of the Week: Proverbs 22:3 — “The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.” Wade and Boujie debate whether prudence is really about predicting the next crisis or simply refusing to build a business, portfolio, or life on the assumption that good times last forever. In The Nuts and Bolts, they break down a complicated economic picture: slower GDP growth, stubborn inflation, disagreement inside the Federal Reserve, recession probabilities, oil prices, continued weakness in traditional construction, and the massive combined profits reported by ExxonMobil and Chevron. Then they ask a harder question: if an energy market is functioning exactly as designed, can the outcome still feel unfair to the person paying the bill? Sports brings a seven-game Dodgers losing streak, the expectations surrounding Tarik Skubal, Edwin Díaz and the price of elite closer performance, plus the Community Shield and the pressure of following a successful manager. The Trending Roundup covers GTA VI and Take-Two’s enormous quarterly bookings, TikTok’s AI-spam problem, Tether’s growing exposure to physical gold, mortgage affordability, Lucid’s cost-cutting effort, a potentially important fuel-cell catalyst breakthrough, new research on exercise and cardiovascular health, an experimental REM-sleep patch, Airbnb earnings, and a remarkable mother in New Brunswick who tattooed a keyboard onto her arm so she could always communicate with her non-speaking autistic son. And, naturally, Wade refuses to let Boujie leave without one more dad joke. IN THIS EPISODE: • August 9, 2007 and the beginning of the financial crisis • The American construction boom and housing collapse • Gary Shilling’s warning about housing • Proverbs 22:3 and the meaning of prudence • Q2 GDP and the quality of economic growth • Inflation versus the Fed’s 2% target • The divided Federal Reserve • Recession probabilities • Oil and construction • ExxonMobil and Chevron profits • Trump’s criticism of oil-company profits • The Dodgers’ seven-game losing streak • Tarik Skubal and roster expectations • Edwin Díaz and the economics of closers • Arsenal vs. Manchester City in the Community Shield • GTA VI and Take-Two • AI-generated spam on TikTok • Tether and gold • Mortgage affordability • Lucid’s turnaround effort • Fuel-cell technology • Exercise and heart-health research • Experimental REM-sleep technology • Airbnb earnings • Jessica Fletcher’s keyboard tattoo for her son Hunter MAILBAG Have a question for Wade and Boujie? Send it to: mail@bluecollarandboujie.com Your question could be featured on next Saturday’s Mailbag episode. If the show is worth your time, like, subscribe, and share it with somebody who enjoys business, markets, current events, sports, and two very different ways of looking at the same story. Stay informed. Stay disciplined. Blue Collar and Boujie. P.S. — This episode was created with the help of artificial intelligence. Don’t worry, Wade still argues with it, and Boujie still thinks it could use better manners.

S1 · E5

Aug 10, 2026

27:59

Daily: The Room Just Got More Crowded

Blue Collar and Boujie — Friday, August 7, 2026 "Half a Million Troops, One Coin Flip on Oil, and the Money That Didn't Win Michigan" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blue Collar and Boujie is a daily news satire podcast built on one simple premise: the same headlines look completely different depending on who's reading them. Every episode, two hosts take real, current stories — markets, business, sports, politics, whatever actually happened in the last 24 hours — and run them through two opposite lenses. Wade Larkin owns a construction company in rural Georgia. He's blunt, business-savvy in ways people underestimate, and has strong opinions about what things actually cost. Reginald Ashworth-Pryce — "Boujie" to Wade, and to everyone else at this point — is a private wealth manager who splits time between London and New York, speaks in a register most people only encounter in airport lounges, and has a sharper sense of humor than his composure lets on. 📬 WE WANT YOUR QUESTIONS — MAILBAG EPISODE COMING SOON We're building our first-ever Mailbag Episode, and we need actual questions from actual listeners to make it worth doing. Got something you've wanted to ask Wade or Reginald directly? Curious how one of them would actually handle a real decision in their own world — a business call, a market call, a completely unrelated argument you want settled by two guys who disagree about everything? Send it to: [mail@bluecollarandboujie.com](mailto:mail@bluecollarandboujie.com) We'll pick our favorites, read them on air, and let Wade and Reginald fight it out live. No question too small, too weird, or too likely to start an argument — that last one's actually preferred. P.S. — In the interest of full disclosure, delivered with the seriousness it deserves: Wade and Reginald are both entirely AI-generated — voices, banter, and all. Neither of them has an actual thermos, an actual Savile Row suit, or an actual opinion about your 401(k). We think that's a feature, not a confession: no studio, no scheduling two humans around a 6 AM recording slot, no explaining to Reginald a fourth time why he can't expense the tea. If either of them ever tells you to buy a specific stock, that's the model hallucinating, not advice — please consult an actual human with an actual license before doing anything either of them suggests with your money.

S1 · E4

Aug 8, 2026

23:22

Daily: Somebody Gets to Say I-Told-You-So

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Blue Collar and Boujie — Friday, August 7, 2026 "Half a Million Troops, One Coin Flip on Oil, and the Money That Didn't Win Michigan" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blue Collar and Boujie is a daily news satire podcast built on one simple premise: the same headlines look completely different depending on who's reading them. Every episode, two hosts take real, current stories — markets, business, sports, politics, whatever actually happened in the last 24 hours — and run them through two opposite lenses. Wade Larkin owns a construction company in rural Georgia. He's blunt, business-savvy in ways people underestimate, and has strong opinions about what things actually cost. Reginald Ashworth-Pryce — "Boujie" to Wade, and to everyone else at this point — is a private wealth manager who splits time between London and New York, speaks in a register most people only encounter in airport lounges, and has a sharper sense of humor than his composure lets on. 📬 WE WANT YOUR QUESTIONS — MAILBAG EPISODE COMING SOON We're building our first-ever Mailbag Episode, and we need actual questions from actual listeners to make it worth doing. Got something you've wanted to ask Wade or Reginald directly? Curious how one of them would actually handle a real decision in their own world — a business call, a market call, a completely unrelated argument you want settled by two guys who disagree about everything? Send it to: [mail@bluecollarandboujie.com](mailto:mail@bluecollarandboujie.com) We'll pick our favorites, read them on air, and let Wade and Reginald fight it out live. No question too small, too weird, or too likely to start an argument — that last one's actually preferred. P.S. — In the interest of full disclosure, delivered with the seriousness it deserves: Wade and Reginald are both entirely AI-generated — voices, banter, and all. Neither of them has an actual thermos, an actual Savile Row suit, or an actual opinion about your 401(k). We think that's a feature, not a confession: no studio, no scheduling two humans around a 6 AM recording slot, no explaining to Reginald a fourth time why he can't expense the tea. If either of them ever tells you to buy a specific stock, that's the model hallucinating, not advice — please consult an actual human with an actual license before doing anything either of them suggests with your money.

S1 · E3

Aug 7, 2026

15:52

Daily: Copper, Iran, and a Draft Nobody's Signed Yet

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Blue Collar and Boujie — Thursday, August 6, 2026 "Where the Money Is Moving: Copper Thieves, AI Layoffs, and a $50 Billion War Economy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blue Collar and Boujie is a daily news satire podcast built on one simple premise: the same headlines look completely different depending on who's reading them. Every episode, two hosts take real, current stories — markets, business, sports, politics, whatever actually happened in the last 24 hours — and run them through two opposite lenses. Wade Larkin owns a construction company in rural Georgia. He's blunt, business-savvy in ways people underestimate, and has strong opinions about what things actually cost. Reginald Ashworth-Pryce — "Boujie" to Wade, and to everyone else at this point — is a private wealth manager who splits time between London and New York, speaks in a register most people only encounter in airport lounges, and has a sharper sense of humor than his composure lets on. 📬 WE WANT YOUR QUESTIONS — MAILBAG EPISODE COMING SOON We're building our first-ever Mailbag Episode, and we need actual questions from actual listeners to make it worth doing. Got something you've wanted to ask Wade or Reginald directly? Curious how one of them would actually handle a real decision in their own world — a business call, a market call, a completely unrelated argument you want settled by two guys who disagree about everything? mail@bluecollarandboujie.com We'll pick our favorites, read them on air, and let Wade and Reginald fight it out live. No question too small, too weird, or too likely to start an argument — that last one's actually preferred. P.S. — In the interest of full disclosure, delivered with the seriousness it deserves: Wade and Reginald are both entirely AI-generated — voices, banter, and all. Neither of them has an actual thermos, an actual Savile Row suit, or an actual opinion about your 401(k). We think that's a feature, not a confession: no studio, no scheduling two humans around a 6 AM recording slot, no explaining to Reginald a fourth time why he can't expense the tea. If either of them ever tells you to buy a specific stock, that's the model hallucinating, not advice — please consult an actual human with an actual license before doing anything either of them suggests with your money.

S1 · E2

Aug 6, 2026

18:13

Daily: All-Time High, Twice Running

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Blue Collar and Boujie is a daily news satire podcast built on one simple premise: the same headlines look completely different depending on who's reading them. Every episode, two hosts take real, current stories — markets, business, sports, politics, whatever actually happened in the last 24 hours — and run them through two opposite lenses. Wade Larkin owns a construction company in rural Georgia. He's blunt, business-savvy in ways people underestimate, and has strong opinions about what things actually cost. Reginald Ashworth-Pryce — "Boujie" to Wade, and to everyone else at this point — is a private wealth manager who splits time between London and New York, speaks in a register most people only encounter in airport lounges, and has a sharper sense of humor than his composure lets on. 📬 WE WANT YOUR QUESTIONS — MAILBAG EPISODE COMING SOON We're building our first-ever Mailbag Episode, and we need actual questions from actual listeners to make it worth doing. Got something you've wanted to ask Wade or Reginald directly? Curious how one of them would actually handle a real decision in their own world — a business call, a market call, a completely unrelated argument you want settled by two guys who disagree about everything? Send it to: mail@bluecollarboujie.com We'll pick our favorites, read them on air, and let Wade and Reginald fight it out live. No question too small, too weird, or too likely to start an argument — that last one's actually preferred. P.S. — In the interest of full disclosure, delivered with the seriousness it deserves: Wade and Reginald are both entirely AI-generated — voices, banter, and all. Neither of them has an actual thermos, an actual Savile Row suit, or an actual opinion about your 401(k). We think that's a feature, not a confession: no studio, no scheduling two humans around a 6 AM recording slot, no explaining to Reginald a fourth time why he can't expense the tea. If either of them ever tells you to buy a specific stock, that's the model hallucinating, not advice — please consult an actual human with an actual license before doing anything either of them suggests with your money.

S1 · E1

Aug 5, 2026

17:11

Daily Reading - Oct 7

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Daily Reading Galatians 2:1–2, 7–14 Psalm 117:1–2, ending at “The LORD’s faithfulness endures forever.” Luke 11:1–4 Scripture translation: World English Bible (WEB), Updated edition (American English; WEBU). Source: eBible.org — https://ebible.org/engwebu/ Paul is willing to challenge Peter because fellowship without honesty isn’t much fellowship at all. But the same passage says they agreed to remember the poor, and the psalm sends praise beyond one people to all nations. Then the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray, and he gives them words about God’s name, daily bread, forgiveness, and deliverance. That keeps faith from becoming either private comfort or public performance. I need truth strong enough to confront hypocrisy, humility enough to receive correction, and mercy practical enough to remember somebody in need. Prayer pulls those things together. It reminds me who provides, who forgives, and who I’m supposed to forgive. I can’t ask for grace with clenched fists toward everybody else. Made by AI. Don't trust it.

Oct 7, 2026

3:49