The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Scott’s Thoughts on Joe Rogan, Year-End Reflections, and Hiring Great People
19 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Or post your question on the Scott Galloway subreddit, and we just might feature it in our next episode. Our first question comes from Spongebob Spackpants. That's what we love about Reddit. And they say, Scott, have you entertained or been approached about going on Joe Rogan? I think your message would actually resonate a lot with him and his audience. What are your thoughts on Rogan?
So my first thought is that everybody in podcasting should probably send a royalty to Joe every time we do a podcast, because I do think he blew open the medium. And also, he's enormously successful, good at what he does. I give him credit for it. I don't think he's a bad actor. I don't think he's purposely malicious. The other thing I like about Joe is that he has...
He's sort of set a vibe for podcasts, and that is podcast culture, I think, is a little bit more gentle, and I try and practice this. And that is, I don't try to play gotcha with who are my guests. I try to present them in their best light. I'll occasionally push back, and it's a fine line, but...
I want to let people run and give them the benefit of the doubt and then push back enough to challenge stuff that my listeners are probably asking. But I don't want to be a food fight. I don't want to be Abby Phillips or Fox and trying to call people out for a TikTok moment. I don't do that. I'm not looking for sparks. And I think Joe kind of set the tone there. I think he's generally speaking...
pretty, he attempts to position people in their best light. I think it was a huge mistake for Vice President Harris not to get down there. She should have taken the bus down there if needed, and it would have saved her three weeks of going on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox for three hours. This is actually legitimate.
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Chapter 2: What are Scott's thoughts on going on The Joe Rogan Experience?
I think everybody on the media knows him a great deal. But I do think Spotify and Joe were reckless with other people's health and created unwittingly greater death, disease, and disability than was necessary. Well, that got serious fast. Question number two also comes from Reddit. NaturalSwimming294 asks...
Hi Scott, with the year coming to an end soon, what would you say are some of your highlights and what didn't go as planned? That's a really generous question and it took me a minute off mic to just sort of ponder on it. So I'll start with professionally, what went really well? My book came out as the number one New York Times bestseller, Notes on Being a Man. That was very exciting.
It was a lot of work and it culminated in that and that was very rewarding. I had never hit number one before. I've hit number five, but I never hit number one, so that was really exciting. The live tour for Pivot was really rewarding. We did seven cities in seven nights. Live podcast, who would have thunk it?
I wouldn't have thought people would show for a live podcast, but it was really nice to meet people and quote, unquote, engage with the fans. We hosted about 15,000 people across seven venues. So those were sort of, I think, the professional highlights. We've hired some really good people. Our business is strong. So professionally, things are going well.
On the downside professionally, I didn't make that much money this year. I usually make a bunch of money from investments. And this year, I invested in a Bitcoin treasury company and most of my stocks have just been flat. So I think I got spoiled making a lot of money and it feels like this year everyone's making money but me. So that's kind of disappointing. Although, why the fuck do I care?
I have enough money. It hasn't changed my life, but still it weighs on me mentally when I'm not making good money. I feel addicted to money. So that's sort of, I guess, the net-net of my professional life. Personally, look, the worst thing that happened, my father passed away. a few months ago, not surprising, 95 lived a very robust kind of the American dream.
But like, you know, I had like many people, kind of a complicated relationship with my father and him passing stirred a lot of those emotions and I was just sad for him. But that was obviously now, you know, my only family really is my sister by my dad's third marriage other than my own kids.
uh so that was that was uh difficult as it should be uh the best thing i'm trying to think the highlight personally for the year was i did a college tour with my oldest and it was just me and him and over like 10 days we went to seven cool little towns ranging from evanston and Madison to Chapel Hill and Charlottesville. We just had, it was just so nice.
We'd check into these little weird hotels, grab dinner, and then do a school tour in the morning. And it was just really rewarding for me to spend that much time with him. And also very, what's the term?
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