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The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Will the U.S. Go to War With Iran? — with Karim Sadjadpour

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.45.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Scott Galloway to break down escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. They discuss whether military action is imminent, what a strike would actually accomplish, and whether the Islamic Republic could survive sustained U.S. pressure. Karim explains why this moment may be the regime’s weakest point in decades — but also why regime change rarely unfolds the way outsiders expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Episode 385.

0:04.5

385 is the area code covering Salt Lake City, Utah.

0:06.9

In 1985, the Breakfast Club premiered.

0:09.2

What to a pregnant teen and the fetus have in common?

0:14.1

They're both thinking, shit, my mom's going to kill me.

0:35.3

Go, go, go, go. Welcome to the 385th episode of the Prop Gapod. What's happening?

0:41.3

It's almost the end of February, which means we've completed or nearly completed a month of resist and unsubscribe. The idea was over the course of a month to try and put a dent in big tech, subscription growth, and send a

0:46.5

signal to the markets and to the president, believing that the only time the president

0:51.3

checks back from irrational and sometimes depraved policies

0:54.9

is when the bond market or the stock market declines. So we pulled together a list at

1:00.4

resist and unsubscribe of what we call ground zero. That is companies, big tech companies mostly,

1:05.8

that are very sensitive to subscription growth or lack thereof. And then what we call blast zone, and that is companies directly enabling ICE.

1:13.9

And the belief was that this was the stream we could pull where 40% of the S&P is just 10 companies,

1:19.7

and these companies are highly sensitive to any sort of checkback in growth.

1:24.5

The two objectives were one, signal and two incentives. Signal, trying to educate the

1:31.1

American public, that they have this weapon hiding in plain sight, and that weapon is the most

1:36.8

radical act in a capitalist society, and that is non-participation. The second was incentives, and that is have big tech executives

1:46.1

ranging from Tim Cook to Jeff Bezos to Sam Altman, check back and realize that it's just

1:51.8

not a one-way street, that if they enable, if they are sycophants, if they, quite frankly,

1:58.2

just continue to ignore the depravity and the anti-capitalist activities

2:03.4

of this administration that it'll be good for their shareholders. And to send a strong signal

2:08.3

that results in an incentive where they think twice before showing up at premieres or talking about

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