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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: Accountability Matters

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Michael speaks with Brian Klaas about his new book, "CORRUPTIBLE: Who Gets Power & How it Changes Us." The pair discuss the psychology behind why we choose the leaders we choose, how power attracts the wrong type of people and why it's relevant to our current political system.

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Hey, Michael Steel Podcasts, listeners. Michael Steel here with another quick take from

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1:14.2

Welcome back everybody. Michael Steel here. Great conversation with the author of the new

1:19.9

book Corruptible. Who gets power and how it changes us? None other than Brian Clausch.

1:25.6

You can follow him on Twitter at Brian Clausch. That's K-L-A-A-S. And so Brian, I wanted

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to get into, I got to pull it up real fast because I loved this part of the book. It was

1:42.4

the chapter six, bad systems or bad people. And you start off with the great question. It

1:49.2

was the best way you could tease the opening here. You go, what can you learn about humanity?

1:54.6

Watching how people behave while sipping coffee at Starbucks. In fact, turns out quite a

2:00.9

bit. Tell us about that experiment, which really, I thought it was almost like the Good

2:09.4

Samaritan experiment, put on a much grander scale that really kind of put a finger on a

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