America’s Economy Is Entering a New Era — ft. Noah Smith

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**Scott Galloway** (1:45)
Today's number five. That's how many cups of coffee per day are safe for most adults and may even have health benefits, according to the American Heart Association. Ed, what do you call sad coffee? What's that? Dispresso.

**Ed Elson** (2:09)
A lovely joke to start our Friday episode. How are you doing?

**Scott Galloway** (2:14)
I'm doing great. I'm in LA, which I absolutely love. I would turn the camera around, but I'm worried the tech team would freak out.
But I'm overlooking the Hollywood Hills, and I absolutely love it here. I love California. I love Los Angeles. It is 80 degrees, but it's dry out, so it just feels... I mean, when you and I were in Miami and it was 89, it felt like we were in a air fryer.

**Ed Elson** (2:41)
Suffocating.

**Scott Galloway** (2:41)
Yeah. This at 80 feels pleasant. It feels...

**Ed Elson** (2:45)
That's very nice.

**Scott Galloway** (2:46)
It's... Yeah, I love it here, so I'm happy I'm a little bit chat-lagged, but... And unfortunately, what the podcasts that start, you'd think I'd figured this out at 2 p.m. in London, start at 6 a.m. in LA. So I was up at... I was up at O'Dark 100 hours this morning. How are you, Ed? Enough about me. I have enough about the espresso part of this.
What's going on with you?

**Ed Elson** (3:10)
I'm doing very well. I'm very excited because tonight I'm going to go see The Odyssey. So I've been waiting for over a year. Have you seen it?

**Scott Galloway** (3:19)
No. I want to see it in IMAX. I want to see it with my boys. So all of these things get in the way of actually...

**Ed Elson** (3:25)
Going and seeing it. Exactly. I just sort of cut my losses. We're not going to go see IMAX. We're going to go see it regular, but that's okay. I just want to get out there and see it. So I will give you my review. But the reviews have been spectacular. Ninety-eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics calling it a flawless masterpiece.
So I'm very excited about it.

**Scott Galloway** (3:47)
Yeah. Well, I'm refusing to see it, because a black woman is Helen and a transgender man as a warrior.
That's just- That's the line. Not being accurate to how you cast a myth, which to me is an oxymoron, you get to do whatever the fuck you want. It's a myth, folks.

**Noah Smith** (4:04)
Anyways, I can't get over that bullshit.

**Ed Elson** (4:06)
I would like to know the percentage of people who are upset about the Odyssey casting and who believe that the Odyssey is a factual historical story. That would be a very interesting statistic that we should get some survey data on. But yeah, that wasn't enough to keep me away. I will be watching it, and I'll be very excited to see how it is. Who knows? Maybe I won't even like it.