The Week: AI, GLP-1s, and Scott's Iran War Reversal

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 Prop Gmedia, where we break down what mattered and what it all means. I'm George Hahn and it's Friday, June 5th. Today we get into the growing cost of the AI boom, why one pharmaceutical CEO believes medicine may be more transformative than AI, and why Scott is now rethinking his support for military action in Iran. Let's get into it.

This week, Scott and Ed took ProfG markets on the road. On Friday, they were in San Francisco, the global capital of AI optimism, and Scott had a reality check ready. Nearly 50,000 workers have been laid off this year, supposedly because of AI, and that's almost as many as in all of 2025. For companies adopting AI, the thesis is simple. AI is going to do is supposed to do much of the work that humans do.

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