The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2026-07-18 · 16 min · 1,765 words

No Mercy / No Malice: 1999.AI

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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. I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice. When the dot-com bubble burst, the contagion began with B2C, then spread to B2B, and ultimately hit infrastructure. A similar pattern is forming in AI, with cracks emerging at OpenAI. 1999.ai, as read by George Hahn.

Jamie Diamond once defined a financial crisis as something that happens every five to seven years. Well, it's been 18 years since the last crisis. As you age, cycles become more visible. You've seen this movie before and begin to recognize the moment as a point on a curved line. Slowly,

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