Does Power Corrupt?
Power Corrupts
Brian Klaas
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The title of this podcast is Power Corrupts. But is that true?
In this week's episode, host Brian Klaas has the microphone turned around on himself, as he's interviewed by Emma Nelson about his new book, Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week there are two episodes of Power Corrupts. |
| 0:05.0 | They're a bit of a departure from our normal script, so please bear with us, but I hope |
| 0:09.5 | you'll still find them interesting. |
| 0:11.5 | Today's episode has me turning the microphone around on myself. |
| 0:15.2 | Rather than interviewing some shady crooks or experts on money laundering, I'm being |
| 0:19.3 | interviewed by Emma Nelson, a top-notch journalist based in London, about whether it's really |
| 0:24.0 | true that Power Corrupts, as the podcast title suggests. |
| 0:28.7 | That's because my new book, Corruptible, who gets power and how it changes us, comes |
| 0:33.3 | out next week on November 9th, 2021. |
| 0:36.7 | I am sorry about the self-promotion, but I have found it to be the most interesting |
| 0:40.7 | project I've ever worked on in my life, and I learned a ton while researching it, so |
| 0:45.6 | I hope you'll find the discussion intriguing as well. |
| 0:48.7 | Tomorrow there will be another episode, which includes a lengthy excerpt from the audio |
| 0:53.1 | book version, read by yours truly. |
| 0:56.3 | If you pre-ordered the book or the audio book, you'll get access to an exclusive bonus |
| 1:00.7 | episode of Power Corrupts. |
| 1:02.9 | Just go to my website, www.BrianPCloss.com, close with two A's and one S, click on Corruptible |
| 1:08.9 | in the top right corner, and fill out the form. |
| 1:11.9 | If you do that, you'll get a link sent to you on November 9th, with a full episode of Power |
| 1:16.3 | Corrupts that won't be released publicly. |
| 1:19.4 | I hope you enjoy our conversation, and thank you for listening. |
| 1:27.3 | Brian, it is a delight to have you online to ask you about a book that clearly looks |
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