Name: Scott Galloway | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #547
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Scott Galloway | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #547

i have some new tour dates to tell you about for 2025 i'll be in toledo uh ohio
oh h i'll be in
rama ontario in the canada i'll be in pittsburgh eugene oregon we pull in kennewick
seattle
washington victoria bc in the canada belton texas san antonio durant oklahoma
am i
dio texas oxford mississippi over there tuscaloosa alabama tallahassee florida
and rosemont
illinois um that'll still be the return of the rat tour when will everybody
know it's the return of
the rat tour yes some of it changes over time but it's not a new tour so
hopefully we'll get it done
soon we just there's places to go you know so get all your tickets at theovahn.com
slash t-o-u-r and
thank you so much for your support i am excited to announce that um i'm
starting a foundation i'm
starting a foundation so thank everybody for coming out and seeing the live
shows and stuff and um yeah
we're going to have a foundation and so it's going to be exciting that next
year we'll be able to uh
do things through that so it's one step at a time but i just wanted to say um
just thank you guys for
the support and i'm excited to see what else is possible amen baby today's
guest is a professor at
nyu um he's the host of the prof g markets podcast he's a marketing and
business expert and a public
speaker i'm most interested personally in his work uh that often explores the
issues that young men are
facing in the changing world i'm really grateful for his time today it's one of
the reasons that we're in
new york city today's guest is mr scott galloway
scott galloway thanks for coming man i can't tell you how excited my staff is
that i'm here
i've never literally when when my chief of staff found out i was coming out she
wanted to come with
me i said what is it about your content uh you like he said no i just think he's
really hot oh yeah
my my is it a man or woman yeah yes um no mary gene rebos uh friends for 20
years wonderful woman and my uh
my uh uh prop g markets co-host ed who i can't get to come into an office
decided he was coming to this
with me so you're you're a legend at prof g work from home yeah they always
show up yeah um thanks man
yeah i uh i gotta get over to prof g then man the next time i come into the
city we'll have to get
over and uh yeah we'd like that and have some experience over there that'd be
cool you know and
i appreciate that and um yeah i feel lucky to have an audience you know i think
sometimes it kind of
blows my mind you know yeah and i think i mostly just keep working yeah you
know that's like the only
feel like like the thing i know how to do best like my biggest relationship is
probably with my work
you know i was thinking the other day somebody's like you're gonna get a wife
and i'm like well i have
you know 40 hours a week i have this woman you know i have this work is like
feels like my wife you
know a lot of times um but i just did pop press pause there i think that's i
think young people have
to have a sober conversation with themselves around trade-offs and that is i
ask my kids when i say my
kids my students where they expect to be economically and in terms of influence
and 70 percent of them
expect to be in in the top one percent within 10 years and what i have found is
that if you want
to be in the top one percent from an influence from a real spiritual reward
from your work from
a financial standpoint you pretty much have to go all in for 10 probably 20
years the capitalist society
is very good at figuring out who's really in you know in it for the full 110
percent i don't know anyone
who's reached the level of success you've reached without pretty much going all
in on work and it
comes at a trade-off it comes with a trade-off of relationships comes with a
trade-off in terms
of your own fitness your own mental well-being but from the age of like 25 to
45 i really don't remember
much else than working really yeah and i'm not saying that's the right way
right yeah no but it was my way
yeah and i don't regret it huh yeah it's funny because i think i do i i think i
lament sometimes
not like it's so funny you say that like this afternoon i know i have like
about two hours
you know and i'm like do i go to an aa meeting or do i stretch right those are
like my two
like which one is going to help me more for tomorrow like you know like
but really like it's like yeah do i do some type of a fitness thing or do i do
like a wellness thing you
know like a so like a recovery thing but um yeah it's funny i just i thought
about that a lot recently
like because work was like something that i think was like i knew what the
return could be right so
it was a manageable relationship whereas i think other relationships for me and
i'm not uh getting
into self-pity those have been tougher to manage or i didn't have as much luck
and um not not luck in
meeting women but luck in actual managing relationships yeah and so then uh i i
was like
well but this relationship i can manage you know and i know what the return can
be based on my investment
and there's not a ton of emotional uh pain involved in it for me or other
people you know unless you
work for me sometimes i can get a little heady you know yeah and this is going
to sound crass but
the opportunities your selection set for mating will broaden as you become more
successful
professionally that's the cruel truth of capitalism the trade-off will become
the relationships with
your parents your relationship with god i know you're a spiritual person the
relationship you have with
yourself but you'll it's the world is unfair as it relates to men and that is
as long as we
our trajectory of success professionally and economically is upward we are
afforded a disproportionate number of
mating opportunities so wait so say that part again that the end part again if
you have money you can
get laid okay yeah okay yeah if you have money you can get laid um but then but
there's trade-offs too
huge trade-offs yeah one of the things i wish i'd done i wish i had started
with kids a little bit
earlier i only i have two boys one of my biggest regrets is i wish i had a
third i wish i had a daughter
i think a lot about like how much i'm enjoying it and i was working so hard
that i didn't have a lot of time
with them and you know they're gone you know that that eight-year-old that you
know used to come in
and sleep in my bed with me on the sunday mornings he's gone and i see the kind
of the gentleness my
friends have with some of their girls you know i really messed up and i'm
blessed to have two boys
i'm a glass half empty kind of guy i look at stuff i know rationally i'm
blessed to have two boys but
i look at it like i wish i'd had more kids how old are you yeah i'm 44 i need
to have i need to get some
children uh so i would like to get some i i mean i don't know much about you
but i would argue that
i i'm not one of these people that says you can't be happy without kids but i
didn't want to have kids
i wanted to be rich and awesome those are my priorities in that in that order
yeah and what
i found is all of that is a means to an end in a capitalist society you have to
be able to be
economically viable otherwise your kids are going to feel that stress it's
going to put stress on your
your partnership but for the first time in my life you know there's these
moments theo where you're
you're watching premier league football and your kids roll in and and they jump
on the couch and
the dogs come over and your kids just sort of naturally throw their legs on
yours and it's the
only time i've ever had this feel and maybe if you've had it other places where
i'm like this is enough
you know when i was your age coming to new york stand a hotel like this i
wanted every afternoon i'd
start thinking where am i going tonight that's cool i was at equinox yesterday
is there a cooler gym
i'm at zero bond is there a more exclusive club i'm hanging out with this
interesting hot group of
people tomorrow can i hang out with more interesting more hot people this is
how much money i made this
month can i make more it was just like more i want more where did it come from
sorry go on and more and
the only thing the only time i've ever been like okay this might be enough isn't
usually in the presence of
my kids that's interesting man you know i have moments of yeah i think there
was like i do
remember like leaning against my dad when he was on the couch or something and
like a shirt that he
would wear or um that's like probably the fondest memory i have of him you know
of like just leaning
in you know like and it didn't really matter like what was going on it was just
like being right there
um or of like your dad touching you on the back of the neck that kind of stuff
i think is is very
important for kids like it's such a uh like a safe position that a dad can put
their son in kind of
like not choking but just one hand and um what made you create that first idea
that more is the thing
you know because obviously you've seen that you know guys we want to feel like
the hunters the
gathers you want to feel like the the create the the person who can put it
together the provider right
yeah but what made it you think so crucial like in that next thing like that
higher was it almost
like an addiction kind of to achievement a little bit um i know the exact
moment i got my act together
and i got really motivated growing up i had i described my child as remarkably
unremarkable wasn't
especially good or especially bad i was raised by a single immigrant mother
lived and died a secretary
yeah it was but it wasn't a bad life um but the moment that changed everything
for me was my mom
got my mom got very sick when i was in graduate school and she called me and
said you need to come
home my mom's not a dramatic person and so i flew home and went into a
situation that was she had been
released early she we were kind of underinsured she just had her second mastectomy
she'd been through
chemo and the hospital basically booted her out kind of prematurely and i
walked into a situation i just
did not know how to handle wow and i started calling nurses and nurses were 35
bucks an hour and we just
didn't have that kind of money yeah and that feeling you'll feel this and you
maybe you feel it now with
your your staff and um your parents but as a man i think you have a very
healthy instinct around protection
and this woman who'd been so good to me i couldn't take care of her and to be
honest uh theo was
humiliating and that was when i said okay um i got to get my act together i got
to be able to take care
of my mom so that was that was really sort of my driving i thought okay i didn't
want to save the
whales i didn't want to be a good person i didn't want a close relation with
god i wanted economic
security for me and my mom yeah and that was and also the other flip side of it
isn't nearly as noble
i also noticed that my male friends whose parents had homes in aspen and were
driving bmws
were hanging out with higher character better looking women than i was yeah and
that women were drawn
to men with resources not only because they could offer them a better life but
because it reflected
discipline and character and that they might be um better dads yeah but my the
bottom line is the the
thing that got my or motivated me was women trying to take wanting to take care
of my mom and wanting
to be more attractive to a potential mate that's when i got my act together
yeah and i guess that's
really that probably the truth for a lot of and some of that's nature right
yeah 100 yeah because
women want to be felt safe you know oh dude i remember this dude mr willie put
a fence up on his
fucking house in our neighborhood and people were like look at this fucking
hero over here you know
because nobody else had it that's what takes the fence well it was one of those
double door fences
and we're like this guys oh they they think they live in a damn estate you know
nice and uh but yeah
i think there is something about that about being