The Week: Elon’s $366 Million of Influence, Washington’s Corruption Problem, and the Skill AI Can’t Replace
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

The Week: Elon’s $366 Million of Influence, Washington’s Corruption Problem, and the Skill AI Can’t Replace

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 202619 min
  • Politics

George Hahn connects the dots across the week's biggest stories: what Elon’s political spending actually buys, why Kimberly Guilfoyle shouldn’t be the only one resigning, and what we lose when we outsource reading and writing to AI. We’d love your feedback as we build this show! Let us know what you think: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Ina Garten and each week on Happy Hour I invite new and old friends for a drink and a fun conversation at my kitchen table in New York City. On this week's episode I'm joined by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. We talk all about attending a fashion show in Paris together, throwing dinner parties,

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How much have you spent on your pet's medical care this year? Maybe more than your own? Twenty-five years ago, it was very rare to hear of a pet having an MRI. Now it's kind of standard if a pet presents with an issue.

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