Podbit · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Galloway supported the US military strike on Iran, believing it could topple the regime and liberate the Iranian people. He was wrong. He failed to account for the Strait of Hormuz, the geopolitical complexity, and Trump's incompetence — and says he needs to own it.
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The final question triggers Galloway's most reflective segment. On DEI, he still believes in affirmative action but now thinks it should use an adversity score rather than race — Trevor Noah's kids don't need a hand up, but a white kid in Appalachia with an incarcerated father does [1] — Scott Galloway "Galloway used to be a DEI advocate. Now he thinks DEI departments signal a problem already solved and that affirmative action should be bas…" 15:55 . On taxes, he has moved from a 40–50% ceiling to advocating 50–70% rates above $10 million a year, arguing that money above a certain threshold produces no additional happiness but could fund universal pre-K or healthcare. He has softened on gun absolutism, now accepting that most licensed gun owners are responsible. On trade, he credits Trump with correctly identifying the asymmetry of trade with China, even if the broader tariff approach is wrong. His sharpest reversal concerns online anonymity — he was once a zealot for it, but now thinks platforms should require verified identities behind anonymous accounts to prevent weaponised false reporting. And finally, he takes direct responsibility for supporting the US military strike on Iran: he believed weakening Iran's military could trigger a popular uprising against the regime, but admits he vastly oversimplified it, ignored the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint, and failed to account for the incompetence of Trump and Secretary Hegseth [2] — Scott Galloway "Galloway supported the US military strike on Iran, believing it could topple the regime and liberate the Iranian people. He was wrong. He f…" 21:35 . 'I got that wrong and I need to own it,' he says — a genuinely rare moment of unhedged accountability from a public intellectual.
Galloway was once a free speech and anonymity absolutist. Now he thinks anonymous accounts should require verified identity behind them — not to end privacy, but to end the weaponization of anonymity to destroy people's lives without consequence.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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