The Week: Iran, IPO Mania, and the New American Dream

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the week from Prof.G. Media, where we break down what mattered and what it all means. I'm George Hahn and it's Friday, June 12th. Today we get into what the Iran war is revealing about American power.

Then, nearly a trillion dollars in new stock is about to hit the market. And finally, why optimizing your life? might be the surest way to miss it. Let's get into it. This week, Scott sat down with two of the sharpest foreign policy minds alive, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and staff writer at The Atlantic, and Fiona Hill, former National Security Council official and one of the world's leading experts on Russia and geopolitics.

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