The Need for Accountability

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Michael Smerconish, the host of a daily radio program heard on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel and the host of CNN’s “Smerconish,” discuss their thoughts on the insurrection that took place last week at the U.S. Capitol. Michael explains how the media has led us to this polarization and shares his experience as being a radio host for the past 30 years. Follow Michael on Twitter, @smerconish. (11:30) Scott opens with why we shouldn’t applaud the tech CEOs for kicking the President off their platforms and how the violent event that unfolded last week marks a need to vaccinate our nation with a new respect for institutions and greater accountability. This Week’s Office Hours: CPG brands, the digital advertising bubble, and a prediction about AMC Theatres. Have a question for Scott? Email a voice recording to [email protected]. (50:20) Related Reading: Stupid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I know opening joke here trying to read the room a bit. This is this is an ugly week and it's
0:17.6	difficult to find humor or levity. I am a enormous beneficiary of the generosity, capitalism,
0:27.1	incredible full body contact, friction, liberty of America as are the majority of you who are
0:33.9	listening to this and the notion that a duck dynasty mob could overrun our government,
0:40.7	throw their feet on the desk of the speaker and to see our elected representatives. They call it
0:46.5	the House of Representatives for a reason. Every 650,000 out of us get a representative and to see
0:52.3	them cowering in legitimate fear that they were about to be murdered. I see as a violent
1:00.2	incursion, insurrection and absolute devastating blow to America and at a minimum, incredibly diminishes
1:10.5	our standing abroad. What moral authority do we have to preach to anybody when we let misinformation
1:16.9	go on high gear in a result in a mob and somehow they get into the capital. So it's been a week
1:23.6	since the violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the capital and the internet platforms have suspended
1:29.1	or banned the president's accounts. The deadly event that unfolded last week is a culmination I
1:36.0	believe of the last four years. Already Republicans are calling for healing. Healing for us to come
1:45.0	together, which is Latin for we don't want to take responsibility for what has gone on here.
1:50.5	The notion, all this hate and being addictive, uh, invective online, the notion that somehow this
1:54.8	was a shocker that we couldn't we couldn't think this could happen. You know, that dog just won
2:00.7	hon and I believe the part of repair, if you will, is not reuniting or glossing over what's happened
2:06.5	here, but tracking down everyone who's set foot in the capital, finding out which elected representatives
2:13.3	knowingly spread misinformation, finding out which government officials be they policemen or
2:18.3	firefighters coordinated and conspired with this mob and then meeting out punishment. And a sad
2:26.1	state of affairs is that we seem to be begging 30 somethings with nose rings and sociopaths running
2:32.5	Facebook. We seem to be begging them to close their accounts because we have such a flaccid,
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