Elon & Vivek's Podcast Aims Government Accountability

30 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Elon & Vivek's Podcast Aims Government Accountability" (created 2024-11-30T01:00:36+00:00). The excerpt is a short dialog between two unnamed speakers discussing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy launching a “Doge Podcast” / Department of Government Efficiency intended to expose waste, fraud, and abuse in government, solicit public feedback, and use podcasting as a medium for transparency and accountability. The speakers note the value of podcasts for public engagement and contrast this approach with typical government reluctance to be held accountable.

So Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, they are launching the Doge Podcast.
I'm now all in. I'm focused on making sure that we actually accomplish the goal rather than just talking about it.
So Department of Government Efficiency. This is interesting. The fact that they're launching a podcast to talk about all the changes they're going to make to the government. They're also going to ask for feedback to people.
We want to bring the public along with us to lift the curtain, to take us behind the scenes of what actually that waste, fraud, and abuse in government looks like. However bad you think it is, it's probably worse.
And they also know that podcasts are the new medium, so they know how valuable that medium is. And I think it's a super smart thing to do because they're not just doing this in a vacuum, they're holding themselves accountable as well to the public. Most government departments, they don't like being held accountable and they just kind of sit back.