I'm Yasi Salek and I'm the host of BandSplain, a show where we explain cult bands and iconic

artists by going deep into their histories and discographies.

We're back with a brand new season at our brand new home, The Ringer Podcast Network,

tackling a whole new batch of artists, from grunge gods to power pot pioneers to new metal

legends and many, many more.

Listen to new episodes every Thursday, only on Spotify.

Is Scott Galloway?

Scott is the host of several extremely popular podcasts about tech and business, like Pivot,

ProfG Pod. He's a big maher in the world of tech and media. He can also be pretty controversial.

He picks fights with Facebook and Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and he has a new book out this week

called Adrift, which is a chart filled tour of politics, business, tech, and culture.

I think it's fair to say that some of the episodes that we do on this show, many of the episodes

that we do on this show are very focused. I think of them like an espresso shot of news

analysis, like trying to seek to explain something very concentrated and specific, whether it's the

Ukraine Counter-Strike or the psychology of self-talk. But I also want this show to occasionally

have room for the very opposite, for wide-ranging conversations with people that I admire about

stuff that isn't necessarily in the news that week. It's about bringing on a big brain

to tell me about what they're obsessed with and what's got me obsessed and we can share our

obsessions and unlock a few ideas about the world and how it works. This episode definitely fits

into that latter category. Scott and I cover a lot in the next hour. We talk about tech addiction

and internet regulation. We talk about what it takes to be a good pundit today and why decent people

in the takes slinging business should feel a little bit guilty about their relationship to

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