Raging Moderates: How Trump’s Iran War Could Break the GOP (ft. Ben Shapiro)
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:40.7 | Hey, thanks for listening to Raging Moderates here on the Proffchi feed. This is just a preview of today's episode, and soon we'll be leaving this feed entirely. |
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| 0:49.6 | Spotify, or wherever you listen. We're dropping new episodes every weekday evening, so you can now get Scott and me five days a week. Subscribe on YouTube or check us out on Substack if you wanted ad-free. All right, here's a preview of today's show. Of course, there was always going to be fragmentation in a second term of a president. Because whoever is the uniting figure is no longer going to be the uniting figure three years from now. And so people inside that, that broader kind of movement start to look at, okay, who's the next guy? What is the next thing that's going to happen? And in the Republican Party, where there's pretty significant debate between a wide variety of wings on a lot of these matters, that is breaking out into the open. I don't find any of that particularly shocking. The only thing that I do find shocking is some of the sort of conspiratorial nonsense that has been promoted by some of these |
| 1:33.4 | major influencers. |
| 1:39.3 | Welcome, Raging Moderates. I'm Scott Galloway. And I'm Jessica Tarlove. Today we're joined by one of the |
| 1:44.1 | most influential voices. I don't want to say on the right. I'll just say one of the most influential I'm |
| 1:45.0 | I'm Skye Galloway. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm just saying on the right. |
| 1:47.0 | I'll just say one of the most influential voices. |
| 1:49.0 | Also, I'm just an enormous fan of Ben, and we were just saying off mic, it's weird that we haven't met before. |
| 1:55.0 | And really, don't know as, you know, I hate the land acknowledgment of saying I don't always agree with him, but I don't. |
| 2:02.0 | But I appreciate the moral clarity and just the reasoning. |
| 2:05.5 | And literally the last person I would ever want to see on the other side of a stage in a debate, he's been a forceful defender of the Iran war calling it the single bravest foreign policy move of his lifetime. |
| 2:16.4 | And even as the ceasefire hangs in the balance, visible fractures begin to emerge within the MAGA coalition, we thought the best guest to have here would be, of course, Ben Shapiro, host of the Ben Shapiro show and co-founder of the Daily Wire. Ben, it really is a real pleasure to have you. Thanks for being here. Now, Scott and Jessica, I really appreciate you having me. It's very kind of you. And of course, I've listened to your show for a long time as well. So if you aren't already, please make sure to subscribe to our YouTube page to stay in the loop on all news politics. So let's get into the news of the day. And then we'll zoom out and talk a little bit about the state of affairs in D.C. and between the parties, we're just hours before the ceasefire deadline and the U.S. and Iranian officials both |
| 2:56.4 | sending mixed signals, naval confrontations escalating in the strait of Hormuz, and peace talks |
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