Mark Maron’s chaotic opener mocks financial disclaimers with "Jew-sounding advice" satire before faking an interview with a fictional Adolf Hitler—then pivots to introduce Alexander Skaggs (ex-"Finco") as Truanon’s market correspondent. The episode skewers ARK Invest’s Kathy Wood, branding her a "snake oil salesman" for media dominance over Dr. Fauci, while debunking her claim that ARK stands for anything but the Ark of the Covenant—setting up a sharp critique of hype-driven investing. [Automatically generated summary]
What's up, buddy, ETFers, ETF a tears, ETF people who own ETFs, beautiful older women who might own a very successful ETF, who are unfairly maligned by a lot of people.
The minute the market starts turning around, maybe things get a little wonky, you abandon the ship.
And here's the thing.
My name is Mark Maron.
I am racist.
Wait, you know what we do have to say before we continue?
I really, by the way, I want to hear the sausages made.
Couldn't think of what to say next.
I know.
This is what you always do when you can't.
You just say something crazy.
Yeah, well, I'm just saying what you're saying.
I don't think that was that crazy.
That's probably true.
Everything that's about to be said, by the way, is not financial advice.
I forgot that we have to say that.
No, we don't.
Yes, we do.
No, we don't, because this is financial advice.
No, What I am about to give you on this episode is financial advice because I'm a certified financial advisor, certified by the grace of God.
No, we are not financial advisors and nothing we are about to say is financial advice.
Nothing Liz is about to say is financial advice.
But as a Jew, everything I'm about to say is not only financial advice, but sounded financial advice.
Just play it.
Hello, my name is Dark Mark Maron.
And I'm interviewing Adolf Hitler.
You know what?
Here's the thing.
First of all, do people still listen to the podcast?
Does that still exist?
Ours?
No.
Marin's podcast.
I'm sure they do.
He would do it that interview.
Hitler?
Sorry, would you not interview Hitler?
I don't think I got anything to ask him.
You don't have anything to ask him?
What the hell?
My whole thing is, dude, how are you still alive?
No, that's a very good question.
Question number one.
You know what?
Also, not intuitive.
Not a lot of people would think to ask that one.
Also, I would ask him, how's your Spanish been coming along?
Argentina all these years.
Ha ha ha.
Bet he regrets not being obsequious to Franco now because could have learned a little beforehand.
Hi, my name is Brace.
I'm Liz.
Hello.
We are, of course, joined by producer Jank Chomsky.
This is Hitler.
Yes.
Yes.
We were saying the same thing at the same time.
Yeah, Hitler's not here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hitler is, I want to be clear.
Hitler is not here.
We do, however, have another person that is here.
Oh, sorry in advance for her listening to this, but we do have the fantastic, highly anticipated return of Miss Alexander Skaggs, who used to.
What did you call her before?
We should go back to that.
Finco.
Oh, yeah, our Finco.
Yeah, she's our Finco.
Fuck, I meant to say that when she was on.
Yeah, she's the Finco, Truanon's financial correspondent.
Yeah, that didn't really catch on.
Finco.
Well, yeah, but it's FinTech did.
I invented that as well.
Yeah.
Well, we've got market talk with Lady Skaggs, which I'm very excited about.
You always, you know, I love to talk markets.
I think we should open, though, with me talking shit about a successful woman.
How's that for an intro?
Yeah, well, I could say a lot more, but actually, I do have a lot to say.
So for those of you who, like me, get 100% of their news from the front page of Reddit.com, you might have heard about a woman who's been in the news a little bit lately named Kathy Wood.
Talking Kathy Wood00:00:45
Are you familiar with this thought, Liz?
She's been on TV in the past year more than Dr. Fauci.
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And just a snake oil salesman.
Before we get into what her company does, I'm going to get a little to the backup.
But for the record, her company is called ARK.
Yes.
ARK.
A-R-K.
I said ARK.
As if that was saying out the word.
No, A-R-K-ARK.
It doesn't stand for anything, actually.
Actually, it does.
Although it's a fake stand for something.
Yeah, I'll get to that towards the end.
But it technically stands for allocating research knowledge or something like that.
But to be completely clear with you, it is actually named after the Ark of the Covenant.