Wall Street Wildlife

Wall Street Wildlife is an investing podcast about individual companies, options mechanics, and the part nobody films: what happens in your head while a position moves against you.

Luke and I disagree often, which is the point. He is patient in ways I am not. I take asymmetric bets he would not touch. Listening to two people argue honestly about the same balance sheet teaches more than listening to one person be confident.

Where to listen

• YouTube — full episodes, deep dives, and shorts
• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• Patreon — members get trade alerts, Q&A, and episodes early

Deep dives

Some companies deserve more than a segment. Those episodes run long, occasionally very long, and start from the physics or the regulatory history rather than the ticker. The satellite-telecom one required learning how spectrum licensing works before any of the numbers meant anything. That is the format I enjoy most, and the one that has aged best.

WSW Options University

The podcast is where we think out loud. The course is where the mechanics get taught properly, in order, with the parts that lose people slowed down: wallstreetwildlifeoptions.com. It runs from what an option actually is through the Greeks, risk sizing, and the spread structures worth knowing.

Fire Philosophy conversations

The other set of recordings, and a different register. Dale Wright and I talk through Zen, Nietzsche, consciousness, and whatever we have failed to resolve in writing. Those live alongside the essays at Fire Philosophy, and the writing page explains the project.

Why a philosopher does this at all

Markets are a laboratory for judgment under uncertainty, and they grade you in public. Holding a thesis while remaining genuinely open to its refutation is the same discipline I teach in a rhetoric seminar, except here the tuition is paid in real money. The about page makes the longer version of that argument.