00:01:34 · Ed Elson, Scott Galloway, S4
[00:01:34] S3: Who's [00:01:34] S0: that? Democracy, bitches. Ed, how are you feeling as a young man? Are you hopeful? [00:01:51] S3: Totally. Hopeful. Fired up. It's been a great week. I haven't been getting a lot of sleep because I've just been, you know, I'd... Doing that midterms election livestream is reacting to that. But, you know, this is this is a big week. [00:02:06] S0: That came up in my feed. It's like bad public access television talking about the elections. And you're off, like, doing a gang bang, with with... You know? You're not only cheating on me. You're doing an orgy. [00:02:19] S3: It's a collaboration. It's not an orgy. It's a crossover is what we call it in podcasting. [00:02:23] S0: I love that. My favorite is the the camera work. The you'll say something, and then they'll they'll pan to to Anthony going [00:02:34] S3: It's called television. This is it works. [00:02:36] S0: Agreeing with the young man. Where are you right now? Where... I don't get this background. [00:02:41] S3: I'm in London. I'm I'm heading home to New York tomorrow. [00:02:46] S4: What are you doing in London? [00:02:47] S0: You don't even tell me you're leaving anymore?
00:02:47 · Scott Galloway, Ed Elson
[00:02:47] S0: You don't even tell me you're leaving anymore? [00:02:48] S3: I thought I did. I'm... I was in London for the livestream. Remember, Restless Politics is a UK company, so we very weirdly traveled to London to react to what was happening in The US. So we woke up at 02:30 in the morning London time, headed over to the studio, and then reacted to the greatest great... One of the greatest congressional defeats in American history. So it... Look. It was it was a great night or it was a great morning here in London. [00:03:14] S0: You went to London to do a podcast on American elections? [00:03:19] S3: Correct. [00:03:20] S0: Pretty sure your employment agreement prohibits that, but I'll I'll get back to you this afternoon with our lawyers. Pretty pretty sure that means you forfeit all your equity. [00:03:29] S3: I'm pretty sure that's that's advertising for our show. [00:03:33] S0: That's marketing. We're gonna see a big bump. Enough of this shit. Let's... Ed, how fantastic are we feeling today? How fantastic [00:03:41] S3: How how are you feeling? So you're on you're on tour. Is that correct? [00:03:45] S0: Yeah. Look. I woke up yesterday. It it looked good when I went to bed on... When was it? Tuesday night. And I woke up Wednesday morning, and I just sat on the edge of my bed watching CNN and then thinking, is this real? I'll go to Fox and see if it's real. I'd go to Fox and I'd see a bunch of like [00:04:03] S3: Oh, god. Those reactions were incredible. Just utter dejection.
00:04:03 · Ed Elson, Scott Galloway
[00:04:03] S3: Oh, god. Those reactions were incredible. Just utter dejection. [00:04:08] S0: I'm like, wow. It is real. These people don't even know how to, like, wallpaper over this. [00:04:12] S3: That's right. And And then they flip. Suddenly, they realize what's happened, and then finally, after years of just total and utter delusion and sycophancy, they realize, oh, actually, maybe we made a mistake, especially when you consider the fact that their ratings have fallen 30% in the past year. So they clearly made an error, and it clearly didn't work out. So now they have to figure out what to do next. But, boy, was that Fox News. That was fun to watch. [00:04:38] S0: Yeah. You're gonna essentially see all the the mag seven tech guys and all the podcasters to fillet them. They woke up yesterday morning and decided they're Democrats again. You're about to see all of these tech bros start to, you know, make more noises. I mean, these guys these guys are like, you know, they're... They'll they'll go to any glory hole that looks hard with power at the moment. You're gonna see all of a sudden a very significant pivot to the left in terms of the rhetoric from the tech CEOs. But, anyways, I'm... I was so... I spent so much time yesterday just processing it, and I realized I was finally starting to... Like, my emotions were starting to bubble up when I was watching Goodfellas and began to sob. [00:05:20] S3: Is that bubbling up, or is that fully reaching reaching a boil? [00:05:25] S0: I think I'm just at a simmer at this point. I have liter [00:05:28] S3: More to go.
00:05:28 · Ed Elson, Scott Galloway
[00:05:28] S3: More to go. [00:05:29] S0: I have been I have been dancing, which is not good for anybody. [00:05:32] S3: I saw your dance moves, actually. I thought they were very good. I was actually quite impressed. [00:05:36] S0: I appreciate that. [00:05:37] S3: But but but let's stay on Goodfellas. Why why... What what got you? [00:05:42] S0: I think I was just ready to emote, and then I watched Shawshank Redemption. I couldn't stop. I could not stop crying. I'm like, he found them in Mexico. I wonder if they're friends now. Well, that'll do. I just... I've been very... And then, like, I can't even watch Modern Family, but the... It really is. I really do think... I was trying to grasp my emotions yesterday. I'm just so happy for... Mean, there's always shit you don't like, but every minute it just kept getting better. I'm like, oh, wait. First openly gay senator. Oh, wait, first Native American governor. Oh, wait, we've only had three black governors in history. Now there are five. By the way, good for the Republicans, nominated or they elected a black governor in Florida. There's doctors, people who actually understand science, a ton of veterans who have served their country. I mean, there's just so many wonderful candidates that overcame shitheads that shouldn't have been running for senate, but they were the sister of some former senator and the president liked them, or a guy who'd been impeached by his own party and had taken money to protect a pedophile. I mean, it just feels like America woke up and said, Jesus Christ, I am back. This was an emotional week
00:07:02 · Ed Elson
[00:07:02] S3: because it basically... I mean, obviously, it was a blowout win for for Democrats, but it also feels like a blowout win for democracy, which I think a lot of people were genuinely losing faith in. And it seems as though... I mean, what was so, I agree with you, disturbing about the depravity, the cruelty, the brazen corruption. I mean, the fact that our government was literally being run by mob bosses who are criminals. I mean, literal criminals, proven convicted felon of sexual assault, So we already knew that. Plus the corruption, that was very apparent, and I hope we'll now start to see some some justice taken. And, of course, he went... Then went and removed all of the agents at the agencies who tried to investigate him for his corruption. But it seemed the fact that we had voted this guy in twice was America saying that we endorse this, and this is... We're okay with this, and this is who we are. And the reality is that, you know, the elections were pretty close, and I think, honestly, the Democrats shut the bed, especially the previous election cycle because of what happened with Biden. And so we weren't getting a very pure signal, I don't think, in 2024 of who the nation really is. But this time, it feels like all of the facts were on the table. We all understood what was going on. And this was America saying, yeah. Actually, we're not cruel and depraved. Actually, we believe in decency. We actually believe in kindness. We believe that there is a way to be strong and kind and generous at the same time, which is what so many of these candidates have exemplified. Like, Talarico's speech at the end, maybe we should pull it up and have it handy, but it was all about love Mhmm. And generosity. And that was what he said about Paxton as well. I mean, he went on diary of a CEO, and he he he was asked about Paxton at the end. He said, I love I love this person because he's he's a child of God. I mean, that is there's a there's a level of strength and generosity that seems to be bubbling up in the party right now that really resonates with people. Like, this is actually for the most part, as we have tried to argue multiple times, for the most part, people are good. Agree. They're good, and they're kind, and they're generous. And this was America saying that's who we are.
00:09:25 · Scott Galloway, Ed Elson
[00:09:25] S0: I think that's really well said, but the... I've been watching, you know, closely watching politics and elections since I was, you know, for a while now. And this really is... This is not since Nixon was, you know, about to leave office has there been this type of route of the... I think there's 435 congressional districts. Not a single one flipped to Republicans. Not a single Democrat lost to a Republican yesterday in the entire House of Representatives. [00:09:59] S3: Just unbelievable. And by the way, victory lap because we predicted exactly this. My my June prediction was landslide. [00:10:07] S0: You predicted it. You were much more bold in looking at the numbers. I... As as someone who's... You know, I'm like a beaten dog that's just sort of scared to come out of the corner regardless of how nice everyone seems, And I was much more cautious. I'm like, I don't know. Anyways, I'm I'm very happy, and I've decided to wear these blue Democratic sunglasses or glasses which make me look like an aging porn producer in honor of the election. [00:10:33] S3: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna agree with you, but I'm not gonna disagree with you either. With that, shall we get into our intro and discuss next steps? Let's do it. [00:10:43] S0: Now is the time to fly. I hope you have plenty of the wherewithal.