Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Trump Family Corruption, Making Tax Policy Fair, and 2026 Predictions
19 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Scott Galloway.
And I'm Jessica Tarlow.
Jess, what a year, 2025. There's been plenty for us to rage about, and we're very grateful for our listeners for sticking with us. This has been rewarding both psychologically and professionally. We've really enjoyed this. I feel like we're the well-lit, less toxic corner of politics right now, or maybe I'm just deluding us.
I think that that's true. I hear that. Like that people also don't want to just listen to like 45 minutes to an hour of pure Trump rage. And we do make an effort to talk about other stories. Those are my favorite stories, actually, when we talk about things like young people renting forever and like what that means and dating and relationships and like that kind of stuff. So it's been great.
I don't know. I'm thinking the new editorial direction is we bring on Scott Bessette to say incendiary, stupid, fucking head up your ass statements.
Like I'm a soybean farmer.
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Chapter 2: What reflections do Scott and Jessica have on the year 2025?
So I'll get back to the script here. We thought it might be fun in our final episode of the year to answer some of your questions, your meaning the listeners. and to hear from you. Over the past few weeks, we've been asking our audience to send us questions in a short voice memo, and we got a ton of submissions, so thank you.
I have not seen these questions or heard them, so forgive me if my—this is like office hours. By the way, Jess, I don't know if you've ever listened to Office Hours. You may not even know this, but I have other podcasts.
That's so weird. You do? I thought that I was your one and only.
That's it.
And then Kara called me your side piece for no reason at all.
You found out. Yeah. No, cat's out of the bag. I'm in a podcast polyamorous relationship. So I'm pod poly. Oh, I like that. Pod poly.
Poly pod.
Yeah, poly pod.
Like poly pocket, but for podcasts.
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Chapter 3: Is life ultimately about competition or cooperation?
So, um, I'm not here with a message of hope, and I agree with you. I'm shocked and surprised that the American public has not had a gag reflex on this toxic, weird razors of corruption we have to swallow every day. Okay. Swallowing razor blades. That was pleasant.
Yeah. Uplifting.
Next one. This is a good one from Amy H.,
Can you please settle a debate? My husband says that he is fiscally conservative and yet socially progressive. I tell him that's a contradiction. We are big fans.
I think it depends like how fiscally conservative he is. So if you're talking about like a couple percentage points off like the corporate tax rate, right, or even the individual tax rate, you know, I could kind of understand how that works. But if you're getting into a world of like, I want to cut massive social programs like
no one should get their SNAP benefits, for instance, or that you're going to go door-to-door trying to means test all of these things. I'm not talking about Social Security. I know Scott is into means testing Social Security. But I think that there's a very big difference, like the delta, in what would be fiscally conservative or what maybe he thinks fiscally conservative is.
Also curious what socially liberal means to him. So I think, you know, most people now are like, oh, I'm socially liberal. Of course I support... Gay rights, gay marriage, trans rights, whatever it is. But then kind of if you dig in about how they feel about social programs, then it gets a little if here. So I need more specifics on it. But I do think that those people exist.
They're kind of like old school Republicans. I feel like at this point, like a lot of the Republicans who switched over to vote for Biden and then Kamala Harris in 2024. Scott, what do you think?
Yeah, it's lazy thinking. People often say that, that I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative. And quite frankly, it just means they're lazy thinkers and they want it both ways. I understand it.
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Chapter 4: How do personal relationships survive amid political divides?
especially over this healthcare fight, that people are going to be even more turned off by leadership, feel like they're not being listened to, and what's the point? And I should start my career on K Street faster or spend some time with my grandkids. And so that's my big swing, that Mike Johnson will not be the Speaker of the House.
I also think Mike Johnson may lose the speakership anyway, and that would be related to healthcare too. But I'm going to go with they lose the majority before the midterms even.
That's interesting. So basically you're saying speaker of the house, Hakeem Jeffries, is what you're saying.
At least for a minute.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's super interesting.
I don't think it's that insane, but it feels big to me.
No, I like it. It's both safe yet provocative. That's the sweet spot.
That's what I want on my tombstone.
Safe yet provocative.
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Chapter 5: What impact does political affiliation have on personal friendships?
I think they suffer from the same disease as Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I think they're both fucking narcissists.
They're going to stay forever?
Okay, well then. What the hell is Justice Thomas going to do? What does Thomas have other than this? Anyway, we'll see. All right, everybody. That's it. That's all for this episode. Thanks for listening to Raging Moderate. Stick with us and tell your friends, please. Also, while you're thinking of it, please, as a Christmas gift to us, please hit that subscribe button.
We're gearing up for a big 2026. We'll be back with our next new episode on Wednesday, January 7th. Jess, have a great week. Happy holidays. Happy New Year. The whole shebang. What a great year.
Everything happy to you and the fam.
Thank you, Jess. Likewise.
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