Podcasts & Content Update

I guess I've decided not to be quiet.

Just a quick update on a few other ways you could encounter more ME, if in fact MORE NADIG was on your agenda for 2025.

“Making content” can be crippling. Anyone who’s ever had a “story budget” or even just a regular column knows the challenge of the blank page. When it comes to “audio visual” content, the challenge multiplies because the complexities of shooting, editing and distributing are a lot hairier than just pushing “Submit” on a blog.

Which is why I decided to stop mucking about and just join the folks over at Excess Returns. Excess Returns is an “open source” YouTube-centric investing channel run by Jack Forehand, Matt Ziegler and Justin Carbonneau. It’s “open source” because nobody’s selling anything, and nobody’s pitching anything. It’s JUST great content which, hopefully you’ll agree, is curated and edited with respect for the viewer.

I’m doing two regular podcasts on the Excess Returns platform now:

Rabbithole with Dave Nadig

Here’s stuff that I find annoying about podcasts sometimes:

• They’re really long.

• They’re generally unedited.

• A lot of times, the guests repeat the same surface level comments they’ve made elsewhere.

I get the “why” of all of these, they just aren’t the kind of stuff I like to listen to or make.

MAYBE Rabbithole is Different. The pitch is simple: I grill one guest on a mutually agreed upon single question, for half an hour. We go as deep as the two of us can possibly go. And it’s always going to be edited down to 30 minutes of content, with a few minutes at the end for the guest to pitch whatever.

Think of it as Hot Wings, but for your brain tolerance, not your pain tolerance.

Here’s my first episode, with Barry Ritholtz. Yes, Barry has a book coming out and it’s great and you should buy it. But I don’t let him talk about it really at all. Instead, I asked him basically one question: What do we as individual investors get wrong about Money, specifically “U.S. Dollars.”

We get deep pretty quick, going through not just behavioral issues, but theories of money from Keynes to Simmel to Marx, but with an important caveat: I’m not an economist, I’m just someone who reads too much.

Every few weeks I plan on grabbing someone else, taking their reading list, going down the rabbithole, grilling them mercilessly, and editing it down to 30 minutes.

Click Beta

The second show I’m doing is Click Beta, which could not be further removed from Rabbithole. Click Beta is Matt Zeigler from Sunpointe, Jason Buck from Mutiny Funds and myself, trying to digest the broad, global-macro news environment from whatever expertise or stupidity we bring to the table. For example, this week, we got way out over our skis discussing US Sovereign Wealth Fund shenanigans, the role of stockpiles, the liability of gun manufacturers to managing tail risk in a crazy market:

or last month, where we went nuts about the coming tariffs and why you should buy all the dips:

It’s loose. We laugh a little. There’s no googling, so we all agree to come in with our own reality tunnels intact, and with full understanding we’ll be wrong about stuff. But hopefully, it’s a useful discussion between real people about real issues.

And…

Other than these two shows, which I’m genuinely stoked about, I’m continuing to make Zines, publish here, and consult with clients. My unwillingness to stay quiet about things I think are awful for advisors and investors is surely going to limit my client list, but that’s just fine. I sleep very well.

If you want to reach out (or want to chat at Futureproof in Miami in two weeks!), you can just hit reply to this message or find me on literally every social platform I can stomach as just plain-ol’ @DaveNadig. Cheers.