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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Google is God

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Marketing professor and entrepreneur, Scott Galloway, explains how Google is God, Facebook is Love, Amazon is Consumption, Apple is Sex, and their collective market dominance needs to be broken up for the sake of democracy… and innovation. Plus, Ralph talks to Michael Merhige about the political philosophy he developed while working as a CIA operative and in the military.



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.7

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting great to jump. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan,

0:22.3

log with my co-host David.

0:24.3

Hello David, how are you today?

0:25.8

I'm incredibly excited about today's show. Incredibly.

0:28.8

It's going to be a great show.

0:30.8

We also have the man of the hour.

0:32.4

Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph?

0:33.6

Yes, I'm excited too, but I think it's going to be a credible show, not an incredible

0:38.5

show. We will try to make it as credible as possible.

0:44.0

But David, did you know that Google is God, Facebook is love,

0:48.0

Amazon satisfies your every need and Apple makes you sexy?

0:51.0

Does that work for you?

0:53.0

Absolutely.

0:54.4

Or put another way, they are the brain, the heart,

0:57.3

the intestine, and the groin.

0:59.6

That is how our first guest, Professor Scott Galloway, describes the irresistible innate appeal of those

1:05.6

four big tech companies, which by the way have a market capitalization of $2.8 trillion. That's equivalent to the gross national product of France. Professor Galloway wrote a book about these companies called The Four, and the title of his article in Esquire is one of my favorite titles of all time.

1:24.4

It's called Silicon Valley's Tax Avoiding Job Killing Soul Sucking Machine.

1:29.4

I think if I ever have a disco band, I mean you can call it that.

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