The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
How to Get Involved in Politics, How Scott Galloway Writes, and How He Follows the News
05 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Welcome to Office Hours with Prof G. This is the part of the show where we answer your questions about business, big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind. If you'd like to submit a question for next time, you can send a voice recording to officehoursatprofgmedia.com. Again, that's officehoursatprofgmedia.com.
Or post your question on the Scott Galloway subreddit, and we just might feature it in our next episode. You're welcome. Okay. Our first question is from... T122-11 on Reddit, and they said, Hey, Scott, I'm interested in your thoughts on how to get involved in politics for someone not currently involved.
I'm a 30-year-old married male with a good job in fintech, and I'm a Democrat voter who's very worried about the future of the government. Currently, I do the bare minimum towards improving our country's politics. I vote and try to stay informed. I listen to podcasts and read the news.
For someone who wants to put effort into contributing, improving our country's future, but doesn't know where to start, What are some actually impactful ways to get involved? Thanks. I think there's a lot you can do. I mean, obviously, the first is to vote. The next is to encourage your family members to vote.
And I don't think you encourage them to vote by lecturing at them your views on politics. I don't know if you have kids or some young people in your life, but I don't think I voted until I was well into my 20s. And I wish someone had kind of, I don't know, kind of drilled into me the importance of your civic responsibility of voting.
And unfortunately, because young people don't vote, old people keep voting themselves more money, right? $40 billion child tax credit gets stripped out of the infrastructure bill, but the $120 billion cost of living adjustment... for Social Security flies right through.
And right now, we're spending about 40% of our federal budget on support for our seniors, whereas we spend 4.5% on the Department of Education and 1.4% on SNAP, which says to me, quite frankly, that either we don't care about our children or old people have figured out a way to vote themselves more money. And the fact that people under the age of 18 don't vote
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Chapter 2: How can I get involved in politics beyond just voting?
Your time, your treasure, and your talent. And that is canvassing, getting involved in the campaign, talking to people about voting. Treasure, obviously, give money if you can. And then your talent, trying to use your platform or get involved in a campaign and see where you can add some value. But I've found working on a campaign to be actually quite rewarding.
I think it's great for young people. If I were just out of college or just out of high school and trying to figure out what I was going to do, I would just see if I could go work on a campaign. I think it's just a ton of fun, a ton of young people. But anyways, lots of ways to get involved, and congratulations on your civic interest. Thanks. Question number two.
Hey, Scott. I like how authentic yet articulate your speaking and writing styles are. Do you pre-write or rehearse your talking points for topics you know will come up throughout the week, or do you just speak on instinct? Also, do you employ any writers to help you with that? I'd love to know your secret. Thanks.
So I'll give you my approach, and then I'll tell you a bit about the resources. I've been thinking a lot about the robots controlling us. And that is people say that AI is going to become sentient and we're no, no, Jeffrey Hinton kind of considered the father of AI says that no species has ever been smarter than another species and not controlled it.
And his view is that if AI at some point becomes more intelligent than humans, that it's going to control us. I'm not sure I buy that. I'm not a philosopher and, you know, defer to Jeffrey Hinton over Scott Galloway, but I think there's always a kill switch in technology But you have right now, I would argue, that AI is already controlling us. What do I mean by that?
I think our narrative and our orthodoxy and our beliefs and our values are being shaped by algorithms. It's true of me, or at least until recently, and that is I spent so much time on social media and on my screen, and there's a constant feedback loop saying, oh, what you said here is right and popular.
And what happens is the algorithms identify kind of your political leanings and then take you further and further left. And the people who are drawn to you or the bots are increasingly like of one narrative and will give you 2,000 upvotes if you say something really mean and biting about the president.
But if you say President Biden is too old to run for president, you get hateful comments or hateful. You know, you just, the algorithms and also a lot of people absolutely weaponize bots to try and shape your view or shut you down.
I've tried to be much better about posting content regardless of what, there's content I put out, I know that it's just gonna go hair on fire and my comments are gonna fill up with rage and how disappointed in me people are. And like, that's not why we're here. So my approach to writing is the following. I want to be fearless.
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Chapter 3: What are impactful ways to encourage others to vote?
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According to a 2025 report by the Reuters Institute, social media and video networks have become the main source of news in the U.S., overtaking traditional TV channels and news websites. More than half, 54 percent of people, get news from networks including Facebook, X, and YouTube, overtaking TV 50 percent and news sites and apps 48 percent.
TikTok is the world's fastest growing social and video network used for news by 17% of people around the world, up four percentage points since last year. More than half of respondents across the market say they worry about their ability to distinguish what's true and what is false in online news.
Again, see above the algorithms or AI has already taken over because if you see something enough, you start to think that it's maybe if it's not true, that it's less false. That's the problem with social media right now is that stuff is incendiary. If somebody says mRNA, Vaccines alter DNA, which is verifiably false. It gets more reach than it would organically because it triggers people.
The algorithms go, okay, if it's going to upset people, they're going to make comments and every additional comment is another Nissan added more money for us meta. So it elevates controversial novel content, which is Latin for bullshit, and misinformation above its own organic reach. And this is why Section 230 protection needs to be removed for algorithmically elevated content.
I don't believe in censorship. The dissenter's voice is important. People should be able to say pretty much anything about pretty much anybody. But should it get unnatural or should it get reach that's greater than it would get on its own organically?
Okay, even if it does, then the social media platform has decided they are a media company editing and creating content, meaning they should be subject to the same standards that every other media company is. is subject to. In terms of what I watch, I find that TikTok and Reels do just an amazing job using AI to figure out that I like listening to boring economists and geopolitical.
I've been listening to this guy, the Geo Hussar, who I think is just fascinating on geopolitics. And to TikTok and Reel's credit, they find just these amazing, I love that these kind of these basement economists and geopoliticians, I find some of them are just fascinating and very good at what they do.
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