This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent, Brent, and Elgrove Fricks to talk about greed.

Sorry for the simplistic intro, but that's all I could wrangle out of these people

for something to say at the top of the episode.

How's this for an intro?

There is this wonderful tradition in American film of guys in suits,

I think usually with slick hair and very nice watches, motivating salespeople to make a lot of money.

This is like a motif. There's a movie called

Wall Street from back in the day, Michael Douglas. You seen this movie, Elle? You're making big eyes.

No, I was thinking of the other one and then you pivoted. I'm going to get there. I'm going to get

there. Oh, good. A lot of the things I've been reading about greed

actually make reference to this speech that Michael Douglas gives where he says greed is good.

There's this other great speech in this movie, Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, Alec Baldwin. Yes. Always

be closing. But the one actually that I want to talk about is the wolf of Wall Street. Is that

what you were thinking of? Yes. That's what the eyes were for. Oh, okay. So this is not just like a blanket

recommendation to everybody to go out and watch this film. I don't know if we'd recommend any of these

movies, really, technically. But there is this amazing scene. In Scorsese, he don't need to do a whole analysis of his work.

But greed is a major motif in a lot of Scorsese movies.

And Leo DiCaprio plays this guy, Jordan Belfort.

He's a real life person who swindled a lot of people out of a lot of money.

And he's talking to his sales room. He's talking about

facing problems. And he says, at least as a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in

...