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Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Elon Musk’s Federal Government Takeover

Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6673 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov break down Elon Musk’s growing influence in the government and the legal battles piling up against him and DOGE. They dive into Trump’s latest federal worker buyout plan, his controversial comments on Gaza, and the Democrats’ strategy to push back.  Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov.  Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you think talking about finances in general is hard, try talking to your parents about money.

0:07.0

What you don't want to do is like, do you have any money, what's going on?

0:11.0

You don't want to come at them in a more adversarial way.

0:15.0

Or, as I said, you don't want to come out like you're now the parent.

0:19.0

What to do about the ups and downs of your 401k?

0:22.5

If you or someone you care about plans to retire soon, that's on the next explain it to me.

0:28.4

New episodes every Sunday morning.

0:36.0

Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Scott Galloway.

0:38.4

And I'm Jessica Tarlev.

0:40.0

Jess, did you watch the Super Bowl?

0:41.7

I did. It was so boring.

0:43.7

Yeah, it wasn't a good one. We would do for a bad one.

0:46.1

Did you stay up?

0:47.4

You know, I wasn't planning to. I'm not into sports, and it started at 11.30 p.m.

0:51.9

And I made this big to do about, I was basically this axis of evil

0:56.3

between shitty fatty food and then the diabetes industrial complex and that the game is boring and CET.

1:02.2

And then, of course, my 14-year-old said, Dad, you want to watch Super Bowl? I'm like, yep, let's do it.

1:06.9

And so I stayed awake until the halftime show, which I thought was awful, by the way. And I get I'm not Kendrick Lamar's audience. But I thought the whole thing was just a giant snooze. What did you think? The game itself, I wasn't much interested in. I'm not the biggest NFL enthusiast. I was like the side stories. So, you know, I want as much Taylor and Travis as possible. I thought that, you know, Trump was the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl, which kind of surprised me. I'm not sure why that hasn't happened before. So, you know, there were side stories going on that were kind of interesting, but the game not so good. The halftime show, I wasn't wild about, you know,

1:47.6

it wasn't Bruno Mars for me was such a good half-time show, which I'm sure is a very lame

1:52.8

pick in all of this, or Jana Jackson and Justin Timberlake. Actually, a friend who was over was at

1:58.3

that show and got to see the nipple.

2:01.7

So we talked about that for a while, but overall, not great.

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