Put Your Bias Down

Scott discusses the Dow removing Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, and Raytheon Technologies from the index and why the Dow gives us cold comfort. He also answers listener questions about Spotify going vertical, adding a technical co-founder to your software startup, and generating customer stickiness. Then, Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiothoracic surgeon and Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show, discuss COVID-19 with Scott. Dr. Oz gives us his view on where countries got it right and wrong in handling the pandemic and what to think about in terms of reopening schools. We also learn about Dr. Oz’s media career and what’s next on his agenda. Please take our quick survey to tell us how we can improve The Prof G Show: https://forms.gle/xVRfqCKrrNr9xzor5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Scott Galloway?

  Episode 24, 24 hours in a day, 24, an overrated series with Kiefer Sutherland, not a leading man, his father Donald Sutherland, now there's an actor. When I was 24, I had just finished my two-year analyst program at Morgan Stanley, moved back in with my mom, did not know what the dog was gonna do. Let's be 24 again, moving with the dog, we're talking shepherd's pie on Sunday nights, doing your laundry and unconditional love. Episode 24, go, go, go!

• 0:37Scott Galloway?

  Welcome to the 24th episode of the Prof G Show. In today's episode, we speak with Dr. Mehmet Oz, the renowned cardiothoracic transplant surgeon and Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show. Dr. Oz discusses the state of play concerning COVID-19, how we should be thinking about the reopening of schools, and which countries got it wrong and got it right as it relates to COVID-19. What's happening this week? The Republican National Convention. Let's talk about the strategies of each of the parties' conventions. The Democrats are basically saying, "Don't be afraid of us here." John Kasich, he's a Republican and he likes this. Senator Jones, a moderate, their attempt to pull off the mother of all pivots to the center to say, "Don't be scared of us." And then the RNC was, "You should be very scared

• 1:20Scott Galloway?

  of them. They're a bunch of lesbian tech journalists who own Subarus and independent bookstores, and they're coming for your money, and they're coming for your future, and we're gonna have bedlam and looting in every suburb." It was very much, this is coming down to a battle of the ages, and it's pretty straightforward. The Republican Party has a two-pronged strategy. The positioning is, "We are the white patriarchy." And to be fair, there are a lot of people, including women in this country, who believe that the white patriarchy works. And then if you look at history, there's a reason why the white patriarchy has been the kind of the dominant... Force in some of the most productive countries in history. Now, whether that's right or wrong, let's be honest, that's wrong, but that is their positioning.

• 2:02Scott Galloway?

  Hold on to the white patriarchy and to their tactic, that's their strategy and positioning and their tactic. They're outwardly saying, we're going to suppress the vote, whereas the Democrats are saying, hey, we're just not that scary. We're moderates. It's a bigger tent. And they're basically making a referendum on Trump, that this just is, whatever we are, we're just not Trump. We're the lesser, the lesser evil, if you will. I thought both did a pretty good job leveraging the mediums. I don't think we're ever going back to stadiums full of whack jobs and the red, white and blue hats and pins. The DNC and RNC conventions, I think, are pulling the world forward again 10 years. We're going to see a lot of changes around remote. What else did we have this week? Wall Street Journal had a fascinating article saying that we are having a K-shaped recovery.

• 2:47Scott Galloway?

  That's one of those things I wish I'd thought of, K-shaped recovery. A K-shaped recovery is essentially the markets are hitting all-time highs as hundreds of thousands of people are still without. Now, what's happening here? We have a weird dynamic, the best of the best, the companies that consolidate, the companies that have cash, the companies that have invested in automation, which are tax code favors, because you don't have payroll taxes. So not only is there an organic move towards technology, it's artificially juiced by a tax policy where basically robots cost less than humans. So we're incentivizing putting people out of work. If that sounds morally corrupt and just stupid, trust your instincts. We also have lower tax rates on the wealthy, lower tax rates on corporations. We've essentially decided, we've essentially decided to transfer trillions of dollars in wealth,

• 3:32Scott Galloway?

  because our nation has become a lot more productive. There's been a lot of prosperity. There's just been no progress. And the shareholder classes boomed, which creates this upward cycle of the top 10% who own 90% of the stocks. At the same time, at the same time, we found that only 50% of America could not survive a month without wages or had less than $400 in savings, but we never tested those lows. We never found out how scary that would be. As the tide never went out. Well, what do you know? The tide has gone out and we have about a third of Americans who say they can't pay their rent. Think about wealth work. Think about what's happened in terms of the wealthy and the trickle down. And there was some trickle down, the masseuses, the people serving you your food at that fancy Four Seasons, the person, the security guard or the janitor at the office

• 4:15Scott Galloway?

  building you used to go to, a ton of services, middle and lower income wage jobs in the middle of cities where wealthy people are commuting into work. Now what's happened? People traveling less, people having less people in their homes, people not going into the office. And we're having a destruction, a destruction of jobs across the most vulnerable, 10%, only 10% of people who make more than $100,000 have been laid off. It's 40% among people who make less than $40,000. If you make more than $100,000, you're more than 60% likely to be able to work from home. And only 10% of people who make less than $40,000 can work from home, meaning they put themselves in harm's way as they lose money. This is, we have woken up from some underlying unhealthy trends around income

• 5:00Scott Galloway?

  inequality and we've woken up in a dystopia. Everything has been pulled forward 10 years. Moving on to happier things, the Dow is shaking up. What does this mean? Salesforce, Amgen and Honeywell International will replace ExxonMobil, Pfizer and Raytheon Technologies. And also, this comes after Apple's decision to enact a four for one stock split, which is great for shareholders and investors, but reduces Apple's weight on the index. Bloomberg reported that Apple holds 12% of the 30-stock index. This basically takes tech from being 27% of the index to 20%. It's the equivalent of the Dow saying, okay, we're going to take some profits off the table and diversify our portfolio, which

• 5:42Scott Galloway?

  all of us should probably be doing, giving techs run up. What do we have here? We have companies that now account for a unhealthy portion, unhealthy portion of these indices. Also, speaking of unhealthy, these indices, what numbers are damaging? What numbers are damaging? Do you know your PSA level? Do you know your cholesterol level? These are damaging numbers, are numbers you should keep. Tabs up, but what is the most damaging index? And that is the existence of this number hurts the world? Simple. The Dow. The Dow gives us cold comfort. The Dow is at an all time high and allows our leadership to lie to us and say that America is doing okay. No, it's not. The Dow is nothing but a proxy on the wealth of the top 10% who again see above own 90% of the stocks.

• 6:26Scott Galloway?

  Spoiler alert, they're killing it. What would be better indices? What would be better indices? Better numbers? How about life expectancy? Down three years in a row for the first time until 2019. And then it ticked up because it looked like we were getting our arms around or beginning to address the opioid crisis where there are 50,000 or 60,000 unmarked graves, mostly of middle and lower income kids or young adults that no one gives a shit about. Right? That's right. We were losing more people to opioid overdoses every year than died in the entire Vietnam conflict. And then boom, we started to address it. Last year, for the first time, life expectancy began its upward march again, like every other country in the world. And then what's happened? Opioid overdoses have skyrocketed in March, April and May.

• 7:10Scott Galloway?

  And we are going to see again, a reduction in our life expectancy. What the hell does it matter if your 401k is up? If your kids or your neighbors or your friends are dying from deaths of despair, which have skyrocketed? And what's the problem? What's the problem? There's too much death. I think it was Stalin who said, one death is a tragedy. Millions of deaths is a statistic. That's where we are. I believe this administration would be guilty of manslaughter if it was 10, 20, or 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, or the incompetence had led to dozens of deaths. But because there are 175,000 deaths, we can't wrap our minds around that. We begin to lose our empathy. Empathy is strongest when it's one or two people you know, suffering.

• 7:52Scott Galloway?

  The moment it becomes dozens or hundreds of thousands, you end up in a country where 53% of a political party, guess which one, think the number of deaths so far is, quote, acceptable? End quote. You have your head up your ass. End quote. If you think 175,000 deaths is acceptable. Remember all the bullshit and concern and faux empathy around the two people who died in Benghazi? Well, guess what? That's how many people were losing every four minutes from the incompetent handling of COVID-19. One death is a tragedy. Millions of deaths is a statistic. Well, folks, we're moving towards a statistic. We'll be right back.

• 8:31Scott Galloway?

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• 9:12Scott Galloway?

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• 10:54Scott Galloway?

  Welcome back. It's time for Office Hours, the part of the show where I answer your questions on business trends, big tech, career advice, and more. I'm not sure what "more" means here. But anyways, if you'd like to submit a question, please email a voice recording to [email protected]. First question.

• 11:11Speaker 02

  Hey Prof G. My name is Sam and I'm currently quarantining from Kansas City. You've talked about Spotify pursuing vertical integration as a way to differentiate themselves from Apple Music. It appears they are doing just that with acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor, and more recently Spotify's $100 million deal with Joe Rogan. My question for you is if it makes sense for Spotify to backward integrate into music content production, for example, acquiring Warner Music Group, which is a large music publisher and record label. Spotify could prioritize new music releases on their platform, or even make certain music or music videos exclusive to Spotify, further differentiating themselves from Apple Music.

• 11:52Speaker 02

  In total, Spotify and Apple Music represent a third of Warner's revenue stream. Warner went public earlier this year and has a market cap of $15 billion versus Spotify at $50 billion. I'm curious if you think a combination like this makes sense. Thanks.

• 12:08Scott Galloway?

  Sam from Kansas City, first off, I want to acknowledge that I know where Kansas City is. It's obviously not in Kansas. It's in Georgia. It's in Georgia. And by the way, you don't sound like a Sam. You sound like a David from Austin, Texas. Anyways, anyways, let's talk a little bit about vertical integration. Most of the companies that have added tens of billions of value, of stakeholder or shareholder value, have one thing in common, that is they're vertical. They both manufacture the product, distribute it, service it, retail it, etc., which kind of blows out this initial notion of core competence. Try and describe what Apple's core competence is anyway. Anyway, Spotify should absolutely reverse engineer into content production and they're

• 12:49Scott Galloway?

  doing this with the acquisition of Gimlet and the Joe Rogan deal. And you're exactly right. They're getting into the business of content creation because it's very hard to maintain any differentiation. Google has a different search product than Bing, i.e. a superior product. And when you're all pushing the same content, all you can really do is get into curation or technology around assembling different playlists. And I think Spotify does a better job of that, but eventually Apple will catch up. So then it becomes, all right, what proprietary content can you have? And they're going after podcasting because proprietary content around rock and roll is much harder because it's a mature industry. And yeah, it makes sense to go buy Warner Brothers, but it doesn't when you look at the price. And the reason why Warner Brothers is able to garner a $15 billion market cap

• 13:33Scott Galloway?

  is that they sell to a variety of different players. And if they all of a sudden went proprietary to Spotify, you have a company they purchased for 15 billion that is maybe worth two or three billion because they give up 70 or 80% of their revenues if they're not selling it to everybody else. And at the same time, would it be worth $13 billion that they would lose in value to have proprietary content? Probably not. You could create a lot of your own content with $13 billion, but producing your own or creating your own music studio is a pretty difficult effort. And most, most artists like the idea of going vertical or starting their own label, see above what Jay-Z did, but it doesn't work because you have to be able to monetize it across different platforms. The company

• 14:16Scott Galloway?

  that's managed to pull off this gangster hat trick was Disney that started pulling their content from other platforms and took a substantial financial hit in the short run as they weren't selling to anybody but just going vertical with their own Disney platforms. Keep in mind, Disney though, has about, I think about $150 billion market cap. So they can do this, whereas Spotify doesn't have the firepower to start investing in and maintaining their own music content. Now, podcasting they're doing, then the question is, the question is, could they forward integrate? Could they forward integrate Sam from Kansas City? I think the gangster move here that makes sense from a strategic advantage standpoint and also from a valuation standpoint is I think, I think, and I'm predicting here.

• 15:00Scott Galloway?

  That Spotify should acquire Sonos. I think it's got about a one and a half billion dollar market capitalization. It's the divisive choice in the homes of wealthy households, which kind of set the tone for everyone else because we all want to pretend that we're wealthy. But I think this would be kind of a sweat off their brow, a 3% dilution to forward integrate into devices or hardware, or if you will, shoot a flare across the bow of Amazon and Apple who control the rail. So yes, vertical integration is absolutely what Spotify needs to do. They reverse integrate into some content, probably podcasts, and forward integrate through the acquisition of Sonos. Thank you, Sam from Kansas City, Georgia. Next question.

• 15:40Speaker 03

  Hey Scott, David in Boston, Massachusetts here. I've learned so much from the Prof G show and I've been a religious listener since May. So keep up the great work. I'm learning a lot from you. And now for my question. I've started talking about founding a business with a good friend of mine who's also a former coworker. We think our best startup idea is for a software company. My friend manages the development and deployment of a software product, but he's not a programmer and I'm a salesperson with limited technical skills. We're at the stage where we want to start developing our product, but we aren't sure of who should build it. Should we start a search for a third co-founder with a technical background? Or should we outsource our development until we've established product market fit, got a little revenue coming in the door, and have a better sense of whether or not

• 16:25Speaker 03

  this business has legs? What do you think, Prof? Thanks.

• 16:29Scott Galloway?

  David from Boston, thanks for the kind words, the generous words. So you answered your own question. If you look at the majority of tech companies and software companies that have gone on to be successful, the founder, or at least one of the founding team, is a tech guy or a tech gal. And that is someone who has a vision, someone who can stay up all night and actually build things. It's the builders. The earth is not being inherited by the meek. It's being inherited by the builders, not the branders, not the managers, not the biz dev guys. He used to be the CEO, was just a salesman. You have to be able to sell. But on your founding team, if you want to raise money, you need a technologist on the founding team. Are there exceptions? Sure. But the majority of tech startups now,

• 17:13Scott Galloway?

  the founder or part of the founding team can code like no one's business. So yeah, I think you answered your own question. I think you need a third leg of the stool here, and that stool has zeros and ones all over it. Thanks very much, David from Boston. Next question.

• 17:29Speaker 04

  Hi Scott, this is Everett from San Diego speaking. I really enjoyed your take last year regarding Slack and their growing competitor, Microsoft Teams, who created a similar service, but essentially for free. Similarly, I see DocuSign leading the e-signature space, but they're facing Adobe, a company that could leverage their size and undercut DocuSign's prices with their Adobe Document Cloud. What strategies can these software companies employ to generate customer stickiness? Or will regulatory bodies have to step in to maintain equal levels of competition? Thanks and have a great day.

• 18:00Scott Galloway?

  Everett from San Diego, thanks very much. So what can these do? What can these plucky, young, more innovative startups with better products do to fend off their big Darth Vader corporate evil titans that will bundle the product, basically featureize their product and maybe even offer for free, similar to what Internet Explorer did or Microsoft did with Internet Explorer and basically put Netscape out of business, which at the time was the fastest growing company in America? And by featureizing a browser, basically put them out of business and bundling it with their suite. There's not a lot they can do. What they can do is vote for leaders who actually have the sack to embolden the DOJ and the FTC such that those regulatory bodies can find their voice and their backbone again

• 18:44Scott Galloway?

  and be again upholding our antitrust laws. So Microsoft is coming for Slack. Teams is a good product, Slack is a better product, but there's a decent chance that Microsoft could put Slack out of business. There's also a very good chance that Adobe could put DocuSign out of business by just flicking a switch and saying, okay, document signature services are now free and part of a broader package of Adobe's suite of products. I think in the short term, if they don't want to count on a feckless DOJ or FTC to step in, obviously innovation is the answer everyone throws, keep making the product awesome. I think these companies probably need to pull a man by its dog and that is I would

• 19:24Scott Galloway?

  think that over time Slack should consider a merger or acquisition by Atlassian and take on, try and become more like Microsoft Office before Microsoft Office becomes more like Slack. In sum, Put pressure on Washington DC and regulators to do their goddamn job or to move upstream and try and become Microsoft before Microsoft becomes us. Thanks for the question, Everett. Keep sending in your questions. Again, if you'd like to submit one, please email a voice recording to [email protected]. We'll be right back.

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• 21:15Scott Galloway?

  Welcome back. Here's our conversation with Dr. Mehmet Oz. I met Mehmet and his wife, Lisa, in 1999. And I wanted to have Mehmet on the show for a couple of reasons. One, he is a very thoughtful and famous doctor, now probably the most famous doctor in the world, maybe with the exception of Dr. Fauci now. But I think Mehmet has been unfairly cast as this conservative. I find our politics have become so polarized and our thinking, our slow thinking is, well, are they a zero or one? Are they red or blue state? And the moment we decide if they're red or blue, the other 50% decides to hate that person. And Mehmet has gone on Fox, he's made some

• 21:57Scott Galloway?

  provocative, aggressive comments about reopening schools. But I have found, and I'm not friends with Mehmet, but I'm friendly with him, that Dr. Oz is a thoughtful guy. And I think he's been unfairly cast as this kind of red state doctor. That's just not the Mehmet Oz I know. And I wanted to have Mehmet on because I think that there needs to be more oxygen given to people that require more nuance and people whose viewpoint require more of our slow thinking. Or specifically, I want to support more raging moderates. The number of liberals who identify, or number of Democrats who identify themselves as moderates has plummeted,

• 22:38Scott Galloway?

  while the number of people who identify themselves as liberal has skyrocketed. Why? I think we're all very busy. I think we all get angry and social media platforms embarrass the other side by figuring out who we want to see embarrassed and plays on our tribal instincts. But I think we need, for those of us who are from the center, and most Americans are actually, when you ask them about their political views in the center, I think we need to be more thoughtful and give people a chance to provide a nuanced view. And I think that's what we try to do here with Dr. Mehmet Oz. Anyways, our conversation with cardiothoracic transplant surgeon Mehmet Oz. Dr. Oz, where does this pod find you?

• 23:15Speaker 05

  I'm in New Jersey. I'm at home. We've got a studio in the basement, so it's made it a little easier to keep up with the news. We actually built it at the very beginning of this whole pandemic, because my show is in China, so I had a pretty good insight into what might happen here. I never thought it would actually hit us the way it did, but we built the studio as a backup and it ended up being a wise move because we never had to shut down.

• 23:40Scott Galloway?

  Yeah, it's, it's crazy how the world of content has changed, just in terms of the expectations have been lowered, which in some ways makes, makes life in some ways a little bit easier. And let's, let's start very broad perspective. Give us your sense of the state of play around the pandemic. What, how would you describe what is going on? Surprises? Where you think we're making progress? Give us kind of the state of play, if you will.

• 24:04Speaker 05

  So then let me start off with the good news. Yeah. Cases are dropping across the nation. There are some states that are still suffering, but the vast majority are headed in the right direction. We have reduced the chance of you getting admitted to an intensive care unit if you're sick enough to go to the hospital in half. That's in part related to better protocols for managing patients and getting them into the hospital in timely fashion and recognizing weird things that happen with this virus, like your oxygenation drops to a level that you should be in a panic mode and you won't even know it's called happy hypoxia, hypoxia meaning low oxygen. So these kinds of observations now have become wildly enough appreciated that some belt states, for example, had significantly better outcomes than where I am now in the

• 24:49Speaker 05

  New York, New Jersey area in terms of overall patient management and mortality. We've got clinical trials showing that there are some medications, generally repurposed old, cheap medications like steroids that seem to help a lot because the common pathway that the virus uses to kill us is often not specific to this virus, but a reaction to the body's reaction to the virus, which is typical when we're fighting other viruses and other conditions as well. So if you can avoid the overreaction of the immune system, the civil war that results in the body when you have already killed the virus, but you don't realize it, so you start slaughtering or causing problems in your own cells, then you can keep people alive. And we actually are making gargantuan headway on the vaccines.

• 25:31Speaker 05

  There are dozens that are out there and know that the business schools around the country are looking at these different opportunities because some of these companies are going to do fantastically well. There are whole different business models used to allow the promising candidates to start making product quickly, even before they've proven their vaccine works, so that if they do actually show effectiveness and safety, that we'll have the hundreds of millions of vaccines required to allow success. So we'll know, I do believe by the end of this year, that we've got some really promising candidates, certainly by the beginning of next year, 2021, we'll say, okay, here are three vaccines that work. Some of them have never been made before, like the mRNA vaccines, others are traditional

• 26:15Speaker 05

  ways you make vaccines. Two thirds of the population will feel comfortable getting vaccinated, one third probably won't. But that's okay, because we only need to get about sixty percent of the population protected against COVID-19 to start enjoying a little bit of herd immunity, and we can talk about where we are today, even before the vaccine with that regard. So that's all the good news. Bad news, we're dead last in the world, pretty much. Granted, our data's probably more honestly collected than in some countries, but you know, we're not doing so well, at least among the Western civilized countries, uh, Western civilized, I mean, med healthcare systems that are sophisticated enough that they could cope with it. People have invested a lot of effort into healthcare in these countries, so we should be doing better. A lot of it's because of our public health, um, infrastructure being not as strong,

• 26:59Speaker 05

  in some ways rotted, because we haven't invested in it over many years. And part of it's because we, as Americans, you know, we don't like to be bossed around, that's created some problems. So we got a lot more virus than we thought we'd have, and we have a scared population, and, uh, we have scared leaders who are worried about making mistakes and getting, and being held accountable for some very unpredictable outcomes from almost whatever they do. And so, uh, we're really cautious in some places, and not cautious enough in others, and everyone's claiming they're doing it in a science-based way, but as a doctor, I'll say the science doesn't actually help us as much as we would have hoped to exactly know what to do and what to say to the average American.

• 27:39Scott Galloway?

  Yeah, yeah, I just, it's kind of, I don't know, there, there's so many variables here, right? But I look at, I think of, okay, Germany lost ninety people, ninety COVID-related deaths last month, last month, we lost eighteen thousand. When you look at Germany, when you look at South Korea, and it feels like, okay, China, I understand there's a different political system, a different culture that lends itself, uh, more easily to a radical shutdown that's probably not feasible in, in the United States, but Germany and South Korea are democracies, and you'd like to think that they value freedom as well. What are the two or three things that they got right that we've gotten just so wrong?

• 28:16Speaker 05

  Well, start in the very beginning. They had a way of testing their population and contact tracing people who were tested. And they are liberal democracies, but both those countries specifically were okay with people who got sick having to tell other, you know, government workers, healthcare workers at who they were in contact with. We bristle at that. We have an allergic reaction to someone trying to find out who we were with last night and going after that person to make sure they're not infected because, as you know, it's just not part of our culture. But then, I gotta say, Scott, everyone points to those countries and, you know, they're, they're also different than us in a lot of other ways. There are homogeneous populations. South Korea had been hurt by viruses several times this decade,

• 28:59Speaker 05

  as have all Asian countries. So they were already hyper-aware of, you know, distancing and masks and things that might be effective. The Germans are, you know, they're organized people. But look at the Swedes, which is the real story. And I was actually always amazed how it seemed like so many were rooting against Sweden. But the Swedes were trying a very different approach. And just to make sure everyone was on the same page, they basically said, we're gonna do all the things America's doing right now. Social distance, wear masks if you want, you know, don't crowd restaurants, but we're not shutting down. We're just gonna keep the doors open and do the best we can. And they messed up in the nursing homes, just like we did here in New York and New Jersey. And half their deaths were from nursing homes, which are privately run in Sweden. And so they didn't have the kinds of quality controls that sometimes, you know, you cut corners if you've got a

• 29:41Speaker 05

  privately run business where no one's watching that stuff. But overall, even though everyone hammers them for having higher rates of infection than Denmark and Norway, I mean, my goodness, Stockholm is a more cosmopolitan city in many ways than, than much of Norway. So you're gonna have more international travelers. You would have expected to have a bit more cases there. And right now, their health minister has been defiant on this and saying, listen, you know, we don't have any more deaths. We don't see that many cases. We don't even think you need to wear masks anymore. And sweet stuff that I don't recommend for America. But it's so interesting, this is a health ministers. I mean, the Fauci of Sweden is saying this stuff. And if you look at their curves, and you're, you know, I love your blogs, by the way, because they're all data-driven. I like, you, are those cartoons drawn by you?

• 30:23Scott Galloway?

  No, you're kidding? No, I have a team of people much more talented than me.

• 30:27Speaker 05

  No, I'm kidding. But I, I love the cartoons. But when you draw the cartoon of Sweden, it, it looks like a curve of any other country that was locked down, except they never locked down. So it, it challenges the basic concept. Of what we did throughout the Western world. You mentioned China. China did not shut down during this virus. They shut Wuhan down, which is like a hundred million plus people. So it's a big deal. But I mean, they literally bolted the door shut, but they didn't shut down Beijing. And so in this country, when we said, okay, everyone shut down, even though most counties in the country never had a case, everyone's going to shut down. And then, you know, people wait around for a couple of months, nothing happens, they don't know anyone who got sick, and they start to say, well, was I was I misled? I mean, did they, are they just crying wolf all the time? And people started to act out. And I think that was,

• 31:11Speaker 05

  most people would agree, the cause of resurgence in the South. We just want to make sure that in the fall, coming up right around the corner, we don't repeat that same mistake, that we begin to act like Europe was acting, because guess what? In Europe, they got one tenth or less of the cases that we have. Yeah, total, forget about deaths, I mean, total cases. So they're doing something that works. So let's just copy them. We don't have to reinvent the wheel here.

• 31:33Scott Galloway?

  Yeah. So in Florida, we now have more deaths per day than all of Europe combined. And on Sweden, just in terms of data, I have read, and maybe it's not accurate, but I've read actually that the data on Sweden shows that the mortality rate is much higher than bordering countries, and that they didn't get any economic benefit to sort of this semi staying open, that the economy has contracted at the same rate. They've gotten all of the bad taste. They've gotten, by my senses, higher mortality rates, but none of the, or all of the calories, but none of the, none of the great taste, that their economy has contracted. I would argue, or at least the stuff I've read, and I can't, we all go into kind of our own bubbles, and maybe I'm being selective. But I'm under the impression that

• 32:13Scott Galloway?

  Sweden is evidence that the semi, the semi lockdown did not work, that they actually looked back and would, if they could do it again, would have done it differently. You see it as evidence that that is a viable option, kind of this pursuit of herd immunity, if you will?

• 32:28Speaker 05

  If you talk to the Swedish leadership, they're not going to acknowledge. That this was a mistake. Yep. If you point to economic issues, you're absolutely right. Their economy did contract and they did not get the benefit you would have hoped if your country stayed open. That's stated. That's primarily because they are truly an island in a continent that completely shut down. So if only Georgia stayed open, but every state around them closed, they're not gonna, you're gonna lose everything that has to do with international trade, which is why Stockholm and Sweden have done well in the last decade or two. So I think that's not really a fair mistake. I'm speaking as a doctor, as a scientist. And the guy who's making these decisions in Sweden, again, they're Fauci, the head of their pandemic response team, is saying, I can't control the economy and I can't control international trade.

• 33:13Speaker 05

  What I can tell you is that most people would have expected that if we didn't shut down, we would have increasing numbers of deaths that would dwarf everybody else. Instead, we had a lot more deaths than surrounding Nordic countries that are not as prone to international travel, I'll say, as we are, but we had less death than London and, you know, the English, which is a comparable country to us. We had far fewer deaths per capita than a lot of other countries in Europe. So we definitely weren't the worst either. So forget about whether we're right or wrong. Is there something to be learned from what we did? And this, both the Swedes and the Germans have published papers arguing that up to a third of their population

• 33:52Speaker 05

  may already have some immunity to COVID-19 from past coming cold viruses, which are often coronaviruses, that have afflicted them in past years. And that's not because of antibodies, because they don't have antibodies. It's because they have killer T cells, memory T cells that remember a past coronavirus. So that might mean that up to a third of the population in some areas of the world already are resistant to bad COVID-19 infections or maybe infections at all. So that gets you, let's say 30%. Then you have another, in some parts of the world, five, 10. And here in New York City, we project up to 20% of the population has already been exposed to the virus. So that gives you the 50%. So you mentioned herd immunity. I mean, we're not there yet, but the Swedes would argue they're getting close enough. And the actual number required for herd immunity may be less than 50%.

• 34:37Speaker 05

  And again, depending on how it's managed in a population. So they're arguing that without any other real treatments, they've been able to bend the COVID-19 infection curves down. They are correct about that. Now, why it happened, we can debate.

• 34:51Scott Galloway?

  Yep, yep. So, you know, my sense is you're a glass half-full kind of guy. I'm a glass half-empty kind of guy on this. See, I'm curious to get your thoughts on the fall and school, both K through 12 and higher ed. My thesis is that America, I don't want to say falls apart, but America feels real strained when tens of millions of households where their kids are stuck at home. You're talking about developmental disability, you're talking about economic threat to the to the household. But at the same time, a lot of schools are opening and closing or just not opening at all. What's your view on K through 12?

• 35:24Speaker 05

  Well, I don't think you should lump them together, Scott. I think you've got to divide, you know, K through five or K through middle of school, because the older kids have the ability to distance learn. They do tend to get the infection and have some symptoms, much more than, for example, the kindergarteners, where, I mean, thank goodness, one of the few good things about this virus is it doesn't seem to really cause a lot of morbidity around younger children. There will be some, and some syndromes afterwards, but generally speaking, the virus is spared younger children. And plus, they're not going to wear masks, they're not going to associate distance. So the question then becomes, these kids, in theory, with some of the CDC recommendations, which I think are very wise, separating the desks, feeding the kids in their classrooms,

• 36:07Speaker 05

  not letting them congregate. So therefore, you actually change their arrival times to school, change their pickup time. So you reduce the chance they'll be hanging out in the locker rooms and contaminating each other. That you can actually get kids safely through the school system. Now, that's the kids. Their teachers, when they go home, if they've gotten it asymptomatic, can they contaminate grandma? I mean, those are big issues. And I don't think anyone really has an answer. The modeling hasn't shown that to be a devastating impact on society. But and Europeans have been able to go back into the classroom without experiencing horrible problems, as have the Asians. But there have been examples of outbreaks. But there's two realities here. One, we are going to have infections in school. And the question then

• 36:49Speaker 05

  becomes, what do you do? If you segregate the kids into small cohorts of 15, 20 kids, when one kid gets sick, or they get tested and shown to be positive, and if they're asymptomatic, if you can close that one cohort down for two weeks and bring them back, and not shut the whole school down, every time one kid gets ill, or one teacher gets ill, that will be one option. And I think that's the hope of a lot of urban school systems. But we have to have recognition that That's going to happen and we have to, we as a society have to be willing to tolerate that and if we're not, there's no point trying to open schools.

• 37:22Scott Galloway?

  When we talk about higher ed or where I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the upside and downside, I think the downside vastly outweighs the upside of having kids back at college. I think they're a group that largely over indexes, upper middle class and from wealthy households, they can take care of themselves, they'll still get most of their college experience even if they have to do remote. And the downside of these, this cohort that's known to be super spreaders, putting them in the density it is the college campus environment just presents all kinds of risks. So K through 12, a risk worth taking. Higher ed, a risk not worth taking and we should close campuses. Your thoughts?

• 38:00Speaker 05

  Generally agree. I think the school systems are going to have to develop strategies that they're comfortable with, but they should err on trying to get the children back into the schools for all the reasons that we mentioned. And I think most of organized medicine is fully behind that, but we have to recognize that if we are not willing to tolerate one child in a classroom getting ill without shutting the school down, there's no point because that is going to happen. And I say this because everyone says we got to do it safely and they define not safely as one child getting ill. If we define that as being cavalier, then it's which is I think an impractical definition of, you know, of what success looks like, then we're not going to end up with kids in school, they're going to be going back and forth, back and forth. I don't think the hybrids work well. I don't understand

• 38:43Speaker 05

  why you'd be in school two days a week, not in school three days a week. I mean, I think there's smarter strategies. For example, if you really are worried about infections in kids, get the high school kids home where they are closer to the college kids that you mentioned, could potentially distance learn more effectively. At least they can speak for themselves and then spread the elementary kids out into the high schools or use unused gymnasiums. So we use the facilities we have to allow more kids to be elementary school kids in school. The colleges, the one issue I'll raise with you, NYU, it's very hard for those kids to stay away from everybody else. But if you're at Anheuser's, right, or a school that is, you know, able to have everyone come on campus, they can't leave, it's like a bubble. Imagine the NBA.

• 39:26Speaker 05

  And you've got all those kids realizing that they're gonna need to buckle down in order to get through the school year, start right now, because and many have, because they want to try to get as much schooling as they can, and recognize that you're at some point probably gonna get shut down, but get as much in as you can. And if you do it really, really well with the frequent syllabus testing, we have available now and isolating kids, but don't send them home because you're just spreading the virus. They stay on campus, they stay isolated in the dorms. Schools have the ability to do that. It's a model. There're gonna be some schools that are successful doing that. You know, UNC, where a friend of mine had his son get ill, and Notre Dame, which I was really one of the first to say we're opening, had to pull back, but both those schools had big frat events, you know, the Greek societies are big there, and they just, you know, they didn't pay attention

• 40:10Speaker 05

  to it. They cost everybody, which is again, my biggest beef throughout this, people kept saying, "Don't cramp my style, let me be free." Freedom to me is being able to go to work and make a living. That's freedom. If I have to wear a mask or not go to a party in order to go to work, make a living, and feed my family, that's freedom. And somehow, we haven't connected those dots as clearly as they did in Europe and in Asia.

• 40:30Scott Galloway?

  I think what's happened at Notre Dame and UNC is more, is gonna be more the norm than the exception. And I worry that universities are thinking with their pocketbooks, and rather than just shutting down for a semester and focusing on online learning and coming out of this with stronger online learning skills, that we've invented this series of protocols that are somewhat, in my view, just totally unrealistic, given the age and given the instincts of these young people. I think it's, higher ed is just not worth, not worth the squeeze here. What would you like to, if in the next 30 days, we could implement two or three things, either at government level, behavioral level, say in the next 30 days, clean slate, we need to not suppress the curve, we just need to crush

• 41:14Scott Galloway?

  the curve, what would you like to see the nation or our leadership put in place?

• 41:20Speaker 05

  Well, if I could just change a question in time a minute. Sure. I just don't think we can eradicate this virus. And Yep. If we use that as our definition of success. We're gonna fail. We've got a case positive rate under 1%, which by anyone's definition of success is, you know, we did it. The goal here is to make sure that our vulnerable members are not ill. I'll just give you a number. If you look at New York City, 96% of the people admitted to our largest healthcare institution for COVID-19 had a risk factor of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, or chronic lung disease. Right? Yep. 88%, this is important, 88%, so almost nine out of 10 people admitted to these institutions had two of those risk factors, not just one.

• 42:03Speaker 05

  You weren't just heavy, you were so heavy, you were also diabetic. So we sort of know where the risks are. Now, that doesn't mean you won't have sequelae or long-term consequences, but as a member of the media who speaks daily on this topic, it is bothersome to me that whenever we see an outline case, a 25-year-old who gets sick, all of a sudden The front page. That's the headline, right? Yeah. So if I was czar, I'd say, okay, the people who are vulnerable, we have to do everything possible to get them out of the mainstream of life, including, for example, if in a, in a population that is, that is in the bottom half of the financial pyramid, if the grandson has got to go to work to make a living and he's a frontline worker, which are the jobs that are so critical now that generally are, you know, done by folks, especially people of color.

• 42:47Speaker 05

  When they get home and grandma has to live in the same multifamily dwelling because there's no money to send her, we've got to figure out ways of getting grandma out of that environment. In New York City, when we crushed the actual new cases and we were still having people admitted, they were all coming from home. People had not left their home in months. We're getting admitted to the hospital because of that very scenario I described. So we need to have a structure, and this has been done elsewhere, of taking that population that fills our hospitals, our ICUs, and really hurts our country, and get them out of the way of the mainstream of life. Then we need to get everybody else through a, I think, a logistically achievable goal with frequent population screening, because you don't know when you're sick, and then contact tracing, and then let people go back to work.

• 43:30Speaker 05

  You know, let them do what's been done in Europe and other countries successfully, because otherwise people are going to get more and more upset about what they're going through. And the decision makers, I'm gonna say this should be controversial, the decision makers are not living the same life as the people paying the price. The people paying the price have lost their hope. And we can't afford for them to do that because they do get upset, they should get upset, and they start striking out, but they don't know what to get mad about. So we need to be able to encourage those people to go back and by following the rules that we know can work because they've been done successfully elsewhere, re-engage life. And that needs to be the upbeat message delivered, Democrats, Republicans, it's not about the politics of this, although I know that is always going to come up. But that's a message that the people who desperately need our help need to hear.

• 44:14Scott Galloway?

  Yeah, it's just, where's the line between giving people the liberty and the freedom to get engaged back and work in their regular lives, but also giving them the economic sustenance they need, such that, like you said, if they need to distance, they can distance. The fear is that, I think the fear is that some people feel a pressure to put themselves in harm's way for economic reasons. It's such a huge portion of our populace is vulnerable, they can't put their health first, if you will. So I want to, I want to, I want to switch gears. So when I first met you, I think about 99 or 2000, you were a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon, and that's kind of it. You weren't globally, you weren't this global brand.

• 44:56Scott Galloway?

  And since then, you've become an influencer, you're, you have made this like crazy, I don't know what you call it, pivot. I'm curious, one, what was the motivation for that? I mean, that's just not, that's not something that just accidentally happens. You clearly had a plan, worked hard at it. And what has been the most, the biggest surprise to the upside and the biggest surprise to the downside around this evolution from what I'll call a surgeon, you were a famous surgeon and famous in your own circles, to sort of this media personality? What, what inspired that and what's been good and what's been bad about it?

• 45:32Speaker 05

  Well, Scott, thanks for the kind words about who I used to be. And I still practice medicine. I'm actually taking my board exams. So, and I, you know, I'm still at your Presbyterian Columbia University. I take great pride in that part of my life. However, the reason I shifted gears, because it was never on my vision board to do media, was my wife. And much of what has happened good in my life was because It although it took her some time, I would listen to her. And what she kept saying was, you're coming home from work, having perfected different, I invented all these devices for repairing heart valves. I was doing a lot of mechanical heart placements and heart transplants. You've figured all these things. And so, in theory, you should feel like a million bucks. But I know you're not happy.

• 46:16Speaker 05

  Because, and you're telling me you're not happy. And the reason is because you're doing heart operations on people who don't need heart surgery. If they had just adjusted their lifestyle, if they just understood what the doctors knew about, for example, coronary blockages or strokes, or frankly, most of the chronic illnesses that plague America, then, then they wouldn't need you to operate on them. And it's not fulfilling to have to do something that is not necessary, that could be prevented if people just knew what you knew. So slowly but surely, she began nudging me to pick up the phone when media outlets called. And ultimately, we ended up making a documentary, 13-part documentary for Discovery Channel. This is back in 2003. And my first guest, the first person I got invited on was Oprah Winfrey.

• 46:59Speaker 05

  And Lisa had wisdom to say Oprah's had health issues, but also Oprah is a teacher. She's the best teacher probably on the planet right now, judging by how much people react to what she says. So if you can team up with her, she can teach you to teach to a large population. She'll support this mission because it's part of her calling. She'd be a minister if she wasn't a talk show host. And meanwhile, we'll get America to think differently about their health. So I ended up doing the Oprah Show dozens of times. She became my partner on my show, which we launched in 2009. And then I had to learn that the answers to the two questions that you really are asking, which is what's good and what's bad. So what's good? You know, people put a lot of emphasis into what you say when you're on national television.

• 47:42Speaker 05

  And part of it is because you do have a team that can theoretically build up the best ideas, you have the budget to make the best demonstrations, you can take wisdom that's out there but not appreciate it, and shine a light on it. And I think that is the ultimate opportunity for television when done correctly. Now, on the negative side, not everyone's happy you're doing it. My own father didn't want me to do television. He said, why are you wasting your time talking to people on television? Well, you could be in the operating room saving lives. And I would answer predictably. I'd say, Dad, you know, if I operate as much as I can potentially do, I'll do 10,000 cases in my life. I speak to millions of people a day around the world. We're in a hundred countries. I can speak to a lot of people about health insights that now that they understand them, they'll be able to react even before they see their doctor and do

• 48:25Speaker 05

  the right thing. However, when you do that, you do upset the apple cart. You begin to empower people in ways that you can't predict. Sometimes they are empowered and do the right thing and lose weight, and their blood pressure gets better and off they go. Sometimes they start doing things that you would never have told them to do and didn't know they were doing, and they'll say it was your idea to do it, and their doctors get upset with you. So you end up being the public guy, taking incoming, and you've experienced that I have. Every single, and these days look around, and every celebrity has incoming that sometimes unpredictably, even from people you think will be your allies. And I think that's part and parcel of what's partly plaguing America today. We're not allowing people to be heroes, even if they don't deserve to be heroes. Probably throughout human history, that's

• 49:09Speaker 05

  been the reality, that people weren't quite as good as you thought they were. But you let people dream that they were great, so you could actually have a few people who are respected in society. And even the people that I respect the most, I see getting criticized. Often, I don't agree with the criticism, but more importantly, I don't agree with the muddying of the water around the clarity they were trying to bring to the world. Even spiritual leaders are facing that now.

• 49:32Scott Galloway?

  Yeah, I don't have a tenth of the celebrity of you, but my sense is, once you hit a certain point, there's a cottage industry in what I call guardians of gotcha, where they get virtue points around examining everything you say, twisting it, attacking you, and kind of there's an industry and sort of... You know, bringing you down, you know, building you up so they can tear you down. And, you know, I, I find it disappointing that it, that their job isn't to interrogate what you said and learn from it, or to push back. And, and some of the pushback is healthy, you know, we should be questioned. We should have our assertions tested. But it gets very heated and very personal. I was, you know, I was thinking about you, you know, I, I know you, but I don't know you well. But I've never thought of you as someone who's really left or right.

• 50:17Scott Galloway?

  I, I, and again, I'm going to speculate that you, like me, are a moderate. I've always thought of you as a moderate.

• 50:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, I am.

• 50:24Scott Galloway?

  And in the last couple of years, you've been, I don't want to call it politicized, but I think everybody, there's this weird dynamic where everybody wants to put you in a red or a blue bubble, and then 50% of the population decides they hate you. And my sense is for whatever reason, you've been perceived as foxy or as the conservative doctor. And that's quite frankly, I, I might be wrong, but that's not the kind of the memet I know. Is it frustrating that, is that, do you believe that's true? My sense is you have been categorized. And a lot of that is now people say, well, I'm going to try and find everything wrong with what he says. Uh, it, it feels like you've been politicized to a certain extent.

• 51:02Speaker 05

  Well, my, you know, I launched last season with Bernie Sanders as my guest, who I actually enjoy him and I appreciate a lot of what he's trying to share with America. Uh, I mean, I had a bunch of the Democratic candidates on. In fact, Kamala Harris, who again, congratulations to her for becoming a vice president in Romney. Uh, she was supposed to come on my show the day that she dropped out of the primaries. So I, I don't think that it's fair to say that I don't respect what the Democratic Party offers. And, and I've had plenty of folks on the blue side on the show. Um, I've also had people on the red side on the show because I'm interested in the wisdom around health. And I don't have them on to bash the other side. I have them on because I'm curious, what would you do about health? How would you fix it? What's, what's your strategy?

• 51:43Speaker 05

  Well, if you think you're going to Medicare for all, I mean, how, how do we actually make that sustainable? Could it be Medicare Advantage for all? I mean, I, I went to business school, Wharton, my goodness. I can talk about healthcare policy issues enough to keep up with political leaders who are articulating hypotheses. And it is, then to paraphrase Martin Luther King, of all the forms of racism, the most disappointing is healthcare inequality. Because you never get out of the starting gate. You never get on the field to compete. And so it's one of those areas that I think we haven't focused on. And I've been talking to a lot of folks who have some clout in this area. I actually think that, I mean, once we get through the Black Lives Matter crisis with criminal justice, we're going to have to deal with the one in healthcare justice. Because, as, you know, I practice

• 52:27Speaker 05

  medicine in Harlem, Spanish Harlem. I mean, I see this upfront. Well, we've got some big gaps in how we provide care to people of color in this country. And that's the good example of that is that I think people who are Democrats and Republicans should be upset about, who want to address. Why would I want to politicize that?

• 52:43Scott Galloway?

  Mm-hmm. So talk to me, last 20 years, in addition to being a surgeon, you've become, you know, you've sort of, I don't want to say owned media, but you have attacked it, owned it, checked that box with indelible ink. What's the next thing? Is it more media? Is it, do you see yourself in public service? Like, what, what is your, if you want to look 10, 20 years out, what, how would your career look different than it does now?

• 53:07Speaker 05

  Scott, I think me and you, and many of the people listening to this podcast, by the nature of their paying attention, are in the change business. I went into medicine to change medicine because I saw opportunities to make heart surgery look different. I went in the media because I felt that if America got the message, and it came from us, trusted people on the inside of the ivory towers, that they'd react. Because I thought America, you know, wasn't doing the right things for the health because they'd never gotten the message before. So I started doing television. I think, short term, I'm focused on building media connections to people so I can meet them where they are. Television, obviously, is the foundation element to what I do. You know, I'm proud of what we've accomplished

• 53:50Speaker 05

  with 100 really dedicated producers and staff. And I know we can do much more as we get more and more clout, both in social media, where we've got about 13 million people following, not just in this country, by the way, but many countries have their own social media platforms. So we're trying to get the word out everywhere. So that's a major focus of mine. But yes, public service is part of my future. And I think that's something all of us who've had some article of success in their day jobs need to think about. We need more people in the boats, rowing the oars, to help America. We've got opportunities to continue to shine a light, not just for this nation, but worldwide. And what hurts me the most is when I go around to many of these other countries, and they say, they lament the fact that we're not- Showing them what great looks like anymore.

• 54:34Speaker 05

  And we need to hold the baton up and say, guys, as a species, we got here. Because we're, we've got a collective unconscious, some deeper wisdoms of insight that we all, deep down in our soul know is real. It's what allows our species 50,000 years ago to come out of Africa, go spread every corner of this planet and build up communities that have thrived. I mean, it's remarkable what's what we've done. Let's not muck it up by forgetting what those roots are all about. And when we don't let that guidance rule us, then we begin to fall into bitter disputes. And we need to remember that we are like raindrops falling into the ocean of humanity. And some of the bickering, the things we're talking about earlier, where people are picking apart

• 55:17Speaker 05

  folks who are trying to make a difference, especially people in politics, by the way, who get maligned, even if they're great people. We've got to get these folks a little bit of a lifeline. Let them get the head above water, let them lead, or get in with them and help support them. And worst, get out of the way.

• 55:32Scott Galloway?

  Raindrops into the ocean of humanity. You have a career. The next 20 years are about poetry for you, Mehmet. Last question, I promise. Go back 30 years, advice to your younger self?

• 55:44Speaker 05

  Make as many non-fatal mistakes as you can. You'll learn from them. You'll be better for it. You won't have any FOMO if you're missing out because you didn't take the opportunity. Obviously, be rational because you don't want to kill and Harry Carey while you're doing it. But take some chances, make some mistakes, it's worth it.

• 56:02Scott Galloway?

  Mehmet Oz is a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon, a media personality, has a new line of goods, products focused on helping people get better the best way possible and joins us from New Jersey. Mehmet, it's great to speak to you. Hi to Lisa and thanks for joining us.

• 56:19Speaker 05

  God bless you, my friend. Keep writing those beautiful blogs, I love them. Mandatory reading.

• 56:25Scott Galloway?

  Our producers are Caroline Shager and Drew Burrows. If you like what you heard, please follow, download and subscribe. Thanks for listening. We'll catch you next week with another episode of The Prof G Show from Section 4 and the Westwood One Podcast Network.