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My favorite poll is a short one that has a non-switch and I stick it up my ass. Maybe I should try that. I'm so stressed out. Xanix and Asplay. There you go. That's the peanut butter and shot. You asked me what I was going to do tomorrow night? There you go. Hi everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine at the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher. And I'm Scott Galloway. How you feeling today, Scott? You're posting a lot on the threads, the fast-growing threads.
Yeah, I think that's sign of neuroses. When people say, how are you? I say, you know, I'm okay and then the voice in my mind goes, you're pretty fucking far from okay. I'm actually really stressed. How are you? Are you? Yeah. I'm a little stressed. I'm a little bit clearer with six, so that sort of got me out of my stress. You know, I've just decided to be Zen. I'm going to try to be Zen. Can you decide to be Zen? Is that a decision we get to my mind? Long, I can.
I don't think you can, but I can. Yes. I have a lot of control over my emotions from years of having to be controlled. You know, I watch Menendez documentaries. Oh. We started watching. I find that really disturbing, but it's really good. I love both of them. I like to Ryan Murphy one. And I love the documentary. I thought it was great. I was. I've been watching the original scripted series with Ryan Murphy. Yeah. I'm two episodes in. Keep going. I grew up with that. I was a senior.
I was a first-serien grad school or a senior in college and that happened. That's a big deal. Here's a lot. It's a lot about stories and narrative and what we think about men being abused. You know what I mean? Like the second trial, which they went to jail on, the judge said they couldn't use the abused woman's events essentially because men don't get abused. It was really amazing. Things have changed so dramatically.
And it looks like there's more proof that the father was indeed exactly what they said he was. So this imperfect self-defense thing, they may get out. They do them, they get out. Anyway, that's what I'm watching to feel better. Let me just say I went to Miami for a wedding this weekend. Oh, how was it? I love the breezes. It was nice. It was lovely. It was as she lives in Miami Beach. It was very pretty on the waterway. I don't know which waterway it was. The Venetian Cosway? I don't know.
I have no idea. Anyway, I just took a new one there. It was nice. I stayed at the addition was there for five minutes. It was literally 24 hours in Miami. We got there with Tammy Hatted. So I saw a lot of friends. Did you go to the Mathador room? It's beautiful with all the panel. Not really. No, I didn't. Did you see the bowling alley or the ice rink? Didn't. That's not a lot of time at the addition. That smell? Was that jazz? Whenever. It's lovely.
It's lovely to go off on the beach, etc. But the boy out going to Rose is there specialty at the Mathador room? And yet I didn't do any of that. So I literally, the plane was late. I got there, got dressed, went to the wedding, had drinks on the deck there at the, at the afterwards. And then left the next morning by eight o'clock. I was good. But I have to say, you know one thing I did like and I forgot how much I like. Not just Miami, but Hawaii, the Caribbean. Is that those other reasons?
Orm other reasons? No, there's warm here. It's we have warm weather here. It's more the breezes, the tropical breezes. I love that feeling. You know, it goes. You know what I'm saying? They don't have in London or most places. They really fucking hot women wearing nothing. They are everywhere enjoying those. Oh, it's a warm breeze. I think I wear a halter top. Oh God. Love Miami. Yeah, not London. Love Miami. Love Miami. A lot of tweed. And they love the wealthy older ugly guys. Hello ladies.
That's you. That's you. Yeah. You're not supposed to agree with that. I just didn't say anything. I was. So anyway, so I had a good time. I saw my friend, Jennifer Beals, his own friend, Carrie, Darrell. Hello, name, drop. What was that? That was three and a half minutes in. And you sent me a picture. That's a very bright line. I don't tell you. Yeah, she's great. She's a very tall woman. She's very tall. She took all the pictures to her make as I was way in the back.
Let me just tell you, I was stopped several times at the airport. How about how much people love us? No. Yes, they do. Yes, that they did. But white men, Republicans, when I was like, oh no. And then they're like, I'm voting for her. How do you know the Republicans? I just want to. I just want to. I'm just a little bit more interested in that. No, they said it. I thought I was a little McCain. And you owned a Subaru Forester. So I said that. I'm just telling you, they said it. They said it.
I was waiting for the pushback. And then they're like, I'm voting for Harris. And you all convinced me. That's one of the reasons. And they're like, I love John McCain. I love, you know, I'm always a Republican. All men. And I literally was expecting some in sale nonsense for most of them. So just. It's so funny because I have, I'm not exactly. I have women come up to me all the time and say, I'm now lesbian because of you. That's good. Anyway, that's good. It's usually an ex-girlfriend.
Well, I'm lesbian now. Oh, okay. Thanks for that. I started off lesbian. Watch I'll turn straight because you're so attractive. Yeah. No, no risk there, Amanda. Absolutely no risk there. Anyway, I just want to play a quick clip from Instagram of comedian Ami Kozak. He does this bit called if Scott Galloway was a weatherman. Let's listen. Well, we're facing Wenzier for the forecast is a chance of rain and then an absolute disaster.
It looks like over the weekend there'll be some rain and mixed with some sunshine and then an absolute disaster. So if we don't do something soon, I mean, this is catastrophic proportions in which the weather's just going to be an absolute disaster. We're facing absolute disaster. It is just a disaster for young man. And I love that kid. I didn't know you guys were going to do that. You know what I mean? I'm a narcissist. So thank you for doing that. Makes me feel nice. Yeah, he's good.
It's an absolute disaster. He's got you cold. I always love when people like funny. It's very fun. They usually got you dead on. Thank you. That was really great. We've got a lot to get to on this election day from the last minute polls to the final campaign. But she was plus our friend of pivot. This is who we brought in to make you all feel better today because this will be published on election day Dan Harris hosts of the 10% happier podcast.
Dan is going to tell people how they can manage some of their election anxiety, including people who if Trump loses, you guys are going to have to deal. So not that we care very much how you feel when you're going to have to deal if he loses. Anyway, we're not going to skip our business and text stories today, though. Up first, Nvidia is replacing, this is interesting, rival chipmabor intel on the Dow Jones industrial average.
This week, the change is being made to quote, ensure more representative exposures to the semiconductor industry. Nvidia stock was up nearly 3% and after I was trading after the change was announced, which makes sense. Last week, went Lintel was down nearly 2% one of those fallen angels that Scott calls them. Intel also just posted a $16 billion loss for the third quarter, the biggest quarterly loss in the company's 56 year history per lot of charges and that one.
But what do you think this move to put Nvidia in the Dow? And does it matter? Or now used to matter a lot more, I guess. I don't know what do you think? I think it doesn't matter because it's, it's since a signal about one company doing poorly and one doing really well. And also, I believe there are certain funds, kind of clinical passive funds that buy the index and they only buy companies in the index.
So it puts some selling pressure on companies that are kicked out and puts some selling buying pressure, moving the stock up on. It's just an indication of how well and how poorly each of these terms are doing respectively. And it's happened so viciously.
I think there are a few companies that have been more poorly managed than Intel because typically when you talk about a company, many leaders, many leaders, well, okay, look at time Warner, for example, that company has fallen really far in that is it made a terrible acquisition or merger. It was convinced by Steve K. Sue recognized he was sitting on a company that was going to go down 90% of value. And Steve did his shareholders a solid and said it is time to get out of Dodge.
And we're not going to merge in the internet company. We're going to merge with the company with real old world assets, which are less likely to implode like he correctly foresaw these internet assets, especially a dial up asset was going to implode. And then since then, essentially Warner Brothers or Time Warner has, you know, time Warner Brothers is going public or doing this merger with discovery is lost 70% of its value. Yeah, I thought Jeff Buches did very well to sell it.
Oh, I thought that was kind of a good theory on his part in that and getting it over to ATT. Well, Jeff pulled off, Jeff, there's one kind of person like Jeff in that shareholders. He sold the magazines right before the magazine industry imploded. He sold the cable business when cable was peaking. And this is what's so unusual about this is CEOs have a habit of acquiring and not disposing of assets because traditionally their compensation is linked to how big the company is.
And then he got the hell out of Dodge when AT&T saw Verizon by Yahoo, AOL and he sold it for $115 or $120 billion. And now it has an enterprise value of barely half that. Now the reason I bring it up is that Zazlov can legitimately say that CEO of Warner Brothers is going to be able to legitimately say, I have faced enormous headwinds. Now granted, there's no excuse for why he's paid himself a third of a billion dollars while the stocks gone down to 70%.
But he can legitimately say the market is bigger than any specific company and the market dynamics here around cable have been in broadcast and outspoken media have been terrible. What's unusual about Intel is it is this shadow of itself and what is arguably one of the best business sectors in history. So this was a company everyone wanted to work for. Dominant. Remember Intel inside? Intel? Andy Grove was the CEO of the century. Andy Grove. Andy Grove and. And they had a mark.
They had a whole bunch of people. They did keep shifting after he died. He was sort of, he ran it up the table for years and years and years. Like he really was the, he was such a character too. But one of the things that you have to, there's a lot there. I think there's a lot of brand there. But you can see how quickly this thing can, you know, topple. But it's, do you, would you buy the Intel? Would you now that it's off now? It's off now. I like the second one.
I said if Intel goes below 20 bucks a share and this is why I've lost a lot of upside. I always think stuff's not cheap enough. I think that at a hundred billion dollar market cap, if this company shows they have incredible IP, a lot of patents, they do have a lot of fantastic managers there. They have incredible supplier relationships, capital. If this thing shows any sign of life, it doubles or triples. Whereas Nvidia has to be a ten trillion dollar company to triple.
Yeah. Let me keep saying that. I think Intel is absolutely, if someone said, I don't know, I do not own either Intel or Nvidia, but I'm actually looking at Intel because I think it, any pulse here, any pulse here, the thing, the thing doubles. You might get a new CEO. We'll see. Anyway, interestingly, Chinese EV company, BYD, just scored a major victory in its battle for dominance, topping Tesla in revenue for the first time. BYD's Q3 revenue is 28 billion, 24 percent from a year ago.
Tesla recently reported a $25 billion for the same period. Tesla still has a leadover BYD in terms of net profit. BYD is set to face some headwinds with the EU. Recently announced tariff increases on Chinese EVs taking duties as high as 45 percent. Same thing, if they come to the US, by the way, especially Trump takes it, he's going to put tariffs on everybody, including Mexico apparently today. He was talking about fluoride and tariffs from Mexico. Crazy stuff.
We'll talk about that in a minute. BYD has also some very innovative stuff that Tesla does a lot of hand waving. It's not introduced to smaller cars, the cheaper cars. Talk about, he's going to continue to increase tariffs on Chinese EVs if Trump wins. Trump did soften his anti-EV stance back in August saying, I'm for electric cars. I have to be because Elon endorsed me very strongly. But I don't know. I don't know. Look at this guy. The last three days, we'll talk about it.
It seems adult is going to be. Where do you imagine this going? There's just not going around. The BYD, as far as Angadot, is kicking Tesla's ass. In terms of the global EV market, in 2021 BYD had 7%, Tesla had 21. By May of 2024, BYD is now at 16%, and Tesla's 17 may probably meaning, as we sit here now, given this momentum, the BYD likely has a greater share of the EV market than Tesla. My sense is they have figured out a way to deliver what...
The biggest complaint about EVs is a lack of charging infrastructure. And number three is range, but number two is cost. And BYD has cracked the code on this. They make what is supposed to be an outstanding EV for, I think, sub... It's adorable, too. Yeah, for something like sub-15,000 dollars. All $15,000. Really cute. I would love to see this thing. Every time you see a Tesla, I'm so bored with them now. I mean, even if he wasn't such a showed, I'm like, oh, look at that.
I'm going to get picked up. I'm like, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to, like, a different car, like a different looking car. It feels like, like, you know what, like, I don't know, like, like, 1980 wants to back, like, kind of thing. It's a great car, just hasn't. It is, but it needs a freshening. It needs a freshening. It needs a freshening. And I have to say, some of the other cars I've seen, I'd love to get in one of these Chinese EVs. I'd love to see them.
I haven't seen them, because they're not in this country. I don't think they're here at all, actually. Anyway, we'll see. I think, you know, they're going to dominate. This is the country wants it to work. They're going to flood the market eventually. But you know, I think probably hair is so pretty tough in that regard, too, would be my guess. Interesting story. I was curious what you thought of this.
Comcast is exploring the creation of a separate company for its cable networks, which include MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, and USA. Comcast president Mike Kavanaugh, who I think is very smart, if since some time with him, announced the spin-off possibility on the company's earnings call last week, he said the new company would be owned by Comcast shareholders and be well capitalized. I don't think they're going to shove a bunch of debt over there. Who knows? Do they have a bunch of debt?
The NBC broadcast network and streaming service peacock would remain with the core company. It's sort of more of a cable thing, I guess. Comcast shares gained more than 3% on Thursday after that earnings call. What do you think of this spin-off? You know, a lot of people were talking about this, and I thought it was... It's typically the sign of a company in decline that doesn't think they're getting the credit they deserve.
That is, when you're doing really well and you have cheap stock, you go make acquisitions. Then at some point, oftentimes, the synergy doesn't manifest. All of a sudden, your stock is getting hurt and the company has good assets.
Typically, when a company and a conglomerate model as Comcast is with a mix of businesses and different businesses, the way investors evaluate company and structural decline is they say, let's look at the shittiest part of the business and assign that multiple to the whole thing. At the New York Times, we owned about.com, which on its own was worth probably a billion dollars. We owned the tallest, seven tallest building in America that was worth close to... I think... I forget what it was worth.
It was worth a lot. At some point, it was worth more than the paper. Something like, are we a reader? We are a newspaper company. We own 17% of the Boston Red Sox, which made no fucking sense. When you pull these assets out, especially when a stock's price has been under pressure, the disposition of assets are accretive because essentially, there was no multiple on... There was no EBITDA from the Boston Red Sox, so we got no credit for it.
For owning a baseball team, meanwhile, some midlife crisis guy was going to show up and pay $100 or $150 million. Or you could spend... I wanted to spend about.com because I'm like, we could get a billion dollars to this thing right now. And then... So, this is a smart move. And so what they do is... And only that... It creates a cleaner story. Investors like a clean story because this is what CEOs do. They claim their synergy, but there's not usually.
Usually what they're trying to do is they're trying to say, I hate being responsible for one type of business that is volatile. And I like to smooth out my earnings, so I'll buy assets, which will increase the size of my business, which likely gives me bigger compensation because my compensation is based on the size of my business. And that it makes my life a lot nicer.
But here's the thing, investors in their way, in their own way via a stock price will say to the CEO, I don't need you to diversify for me. Unless there's real synergy here. Yeah, I do myself. Let me ask you, why isn't NBC in this? I don't quite know. Is NBC in this now? Yeah, the spin-off would not include streaming service, PCOP or broadcast network NBC. I guess they see... Why? MSNBC picks up stuff from NBC, and so does CNBC or... I don't know. It seems that's the confusing part.
The only thing I can figure out is one of the Roberts is very affectionate around NBC and doesn't want to... I don't know that they see it as too core or too central to the whole brand position. It doesn't make any sense to me. But why? You just pretend you're him. He's a lovely guy, by the way. I'm a billionaire that's going to be dead in 20 years and I get to do things I enjoy and I enjoy having NBC as part of this. I don't know. It doesn't make any economic sense to me.
You would put it in there, I would think. Yeah. I can see why the streaming service stays because it's part of a cable offering, but then it's in a half-relationship with them. Basically what they're doing here is kind of good-bang bad-bank. And that is the bad-bank is these companies' instructional decline that have really good cash flows. All right, people not evaluate that. The good-bank is a streaming service that has some momentum and these things traded a much higher multiple.
Those things lose money, but the market will afford some capital or at least more capital. I guess because if you're keeping P-cock, you have to keep NBC for the entertainment assets. This is what Warner Brothers Discovery is going to do after Comcast, which is considered a better managed company does. Warner Brothers Discovery will do the same thing. They'll go good-bank bad-bank. The bad-bank will be all other cable assets, all the discovery stuff, CNN, Turner Network, all that stuff.
They'll take HBO and they'll take Warner, the movie company, which has a lot of IP and can feed stuff directly into HBO. They'll say, this is the good bank, which will trade at a higher multiple because it's a growth company and has more definitive or defense-belass assets. This is the bad-bank. And by the way, the bad-bank might be a good investment because these companies still create a lot of cash flow.
But when you mix companies of different ages, if you will, are different investor complexions, unless you can really justify the synergies there, the market goes, I don't like it. I can't figure it out. I'll go by Netflix, which is a pure play. Pure play, right? Or I'll go by Gnett, which is a shitty company still spending cash flow in New York Times, right? Yeah. All right. Well, good explanation, Scott. Okay. Let's go on a quick break. We come back. It's finally election day.
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It's a day we've been anxiously waiting, roughly half of the 2020 electricians who's already taken advantage of early voting, including Republicans are voting early now, because Donald Trump has decided it's not evil. But today is the last day to cast your vote. Have you voted already? Two of us voted. Oh, yeah. I voted. I had a weird experience. This is how old I'm getting. I'm in Florida, and I thought, oh, this would be nice.
And I went to the place behind the tennis courts in Delray Beach, and I walked in to do my voting thing, and I walked up, and they said, they said, it says you've already voted. And they looked at me like I was trying to vote twice. And I said, I said, are you sure? And they're like, yeah, we received a mail-in ballot nine days ago. I'm like, I'll fuck up already voted. I totally forgot it already voted. So I tried to vote twice. The Republicans are right. It's a conspiracy.
I'm literally the person there. But it's my age. It's my early onset Alzheimer's. There's no conspiracy there. And just so you know, they knew right away. They turned around and they're like, yeah, you had a mail-in ballot, and we received it eight days ago at 11, 1131 AM. And here's your signature. And I'm like, oh, never mind. Thank you for your service. I hope you voted for the right person, Scott. I am going to go to the, I love going on Election Day, and I'm more taking Clara.
I used to take my boys every year to vote. I think it's really important to take kids to vote to make them understand the prevalence that we have. So we, Amanda and I are going to take Clara. Both sons voted also, by the way, early. Congratulations, Alex, on your first election. Congratulations, your first presidential election. Very pleased that you voted. And it's an important state. But Vice President Harris will watch election returns at our alma mater Howard University here in the DC area.
Former President Trump has a watch party. Where do we guess it? West Palm Beach. What are you going to do the night with hours left in the race? I think I'm going to go out because I'm going to try and not watch. I say this and I won't be able to do it. But the plan is I'm going to go out and I'm going to get up really early on. I mean, we're, now we were four hours ahead, now we're five hours ahead because you guys I guess you guys fell back yesterday.
But I don't want to look at it until Wednesday. I find that I remember in 2016 when I was following it. And essentially I can do math and they showed all these Florida counties. And I go, oh, I'm a media like I tell Florida is going to Trump. And then I did the broader math on my Trumps want. And it was fairly early in the evening. And the thing I don't like about it is they try and create tension as if no matter, you know, you know, yeah.
And then, oh, and then they get some reporter in a, you know, on a basketball court in a high school gym saying, yeah, we just found someone, someone who's not that smart to talk to us about what they think about the election. Exactly. I'm going to watch Meninda as documentaries. It reminds me of the IPO of Metta. This was like, I don't know, six, eight years ago, I was on a Stephanie Rohlman, she was still a Bloomberg and Alex Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit.
And we were supposed to go, it was supposed to go public at the open. And there was a technical glitch and it didn't go public till noon. So we sat on air for two and a half hours trying to talk about Metta. And then producer kept coming out and the brain going, I'm sorry, maybe talk about what's that and me and Alex were sitting there like, we're out. We thought we were going to be here for six minutes and we're supposed to talk about the shit. Anyways, it was Stockholm syndrome.
I'm convinced that's why Stephanie Rohlman, I like each other so much. We have literally been, because you were stuck. We have been through that. Let's get back to the election. Sorry, go ahead. Sorry. With hours left, the neck and neck apparently in swing states according to final New York times, Santa Paul. More specifically, he shows Harris, Marjorie, head in Nevada, North Carolina. It was constant. The poll has triumphed slightly ahead in Arizona. Michigan is more Harris actually.
Georgia, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Pennsylvania are extremely close. One surprise, a separate outlier Iowa poll showing Harris three points ahead of Trump. In a state he's won twice. This is not a state that was considered being played, but the pollster is one of the most respected. The one who is not an irritating showed J. Anne Salzer. She is considered the best pollster in politics. And then there's of course, Scott's favorite poll, which I do not agree with.
Trump media stock price up 54 a week ago down to the low third. He's ahead of down as we head into election day. You may use that. I'm not going to use that or the predictions market. So that's right. Top line thoughts. Well, first off, that's misinformation. My favorite poll is a short one that has a non-switch and I stick it up my ass. That's good. That's good. All right. Anyways, maybe I should try that. I'm so stressed out. Anyways, Zadix and Aspelay. There you go. That's a peanut butter.
You asked me what I was going to do tomorrow night. I didn't wish I had that. That's my Tuesday night and it's not just election week either. Yeah. Yeah. What? I remember the question. I got so excited about it. Stop laughing at your jokes. Elon Musk, let's go. Okay. What are you over-a-loss thoughts? Because I'm going to move on. Oh, my over-a-loss thoughts. I got to be honest. Jess Tarlov had the exact right term to describe my mood. I'm nauseously optimistic. Okay, nauseously optimistic.
Sarah, I was bereft about seven, eight days ago. The momentum is squarely in Harris. On Harris right now, or four Harris. And this poll, the Selser individual, is probably the best pollster in the nation, hands down in terms of her ability to predict stuff over the last eight or 10 elections. And she has Harris up three to four points in Iowa. Yeah. In addition. I think it's all over the place. That's whether it's happening in other states in your bot. That's the other.
I thought that's pretty interesting. And I think his media coverage lately has just been horrible. I think he looks old. Horrible. And. He's saying crazy shit. The crowds, there's a lot of videos of the crowd this morning in North Carolina's half full. All his venues are half full. And that's not just Kamala Harris trolling in which he is. But they're actually half full in several places. Name one good thing that's happened for him in the last five days.
Nothing fluoride with Robert Kennedy, Junior. What the fuck is that guy? I keep showing up saying don't drink gatorade, mayonnaise or fluoride. Like what the fuck? Like have you seen that? All of these self-inflicted wounds. Tony Hinchcliff. Hinchcliff. And then the Mike Pillow guy. Al Capone and the Mike Pillow guy with Trump. I was like, what do you do on Grammy? Go back in the morning. These are unforced errors. You could have said about RFK. We're going to have them on the environment.
I want to soften them and said they said we're going to put this guy in charge of vaccines. And also women's bottle. I mean, all of these self-inflicted injuries that they don't. And also I've heard I have friends canvassing in Pennsylvania. And they run another canvassers from both sides. They said the number of canvassers in Pennsylvania right now is running people getting kind of souls to the poles feet on the street is 10 to 1 Harris canvassers. Yeah. So they pay people.
They pay them unlike the Elon Musk crowd. He's outsource everything to Elon Musk, which is he's running there. Looks like he's running Twitter and not Tesla or SpaceX. It's the Twitter Elon running this, not the SpaceX. SpaceX, Elon, who is very competent. It does not mean the madness is going to slow down though. The election is everything from the FCC to Cardi B, who gave Elon a real slap in the head, which he so, you know, turns out she was like an AP history.
She never talks about her academic career. But all her teachers were like, she was the smartest kid we had grew up from very humbled background. And she whacked Elon Musk hard in the head over on Twitter. But NBC gave Donald Trump free air time during Sunday's NASCAR race in order to stay compliant with the FCC's equal time rule.
The move came after Trump appointed FCC commissioner, Brandon Carr, who said, I'm sorry, he's just such a, he's so thirsty, claim that Kamala Harris is Saturday night live parents this past weekend, Violet, the real fine brand in. You were so thirsty. I love the problem. I love the problem. He was all over the airways. He could just upset it and not like, it's thirsty. And yeah, we can talk about the relevance of equal time, the broadcast in just a second, but it's interesting.
Comparison see how each candidate used their time. First up, Kamala Harris on SNL. Maya Rudolph was doing her regular Kamala Harris impression, which is fantastic. And the vice president popped up to play her mirror image. Together, they poke fun at Donald Trump's recent stop in Wisconsin. Let's listen. Nice to see you, Kamala. It is nice to see you, Kamala. And I'm just here to remind you. You got this, because you can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors.
I see what you did. They're like to a garbage truck, right? Next up, Trump campaign commercial at aired after NASCAR race. We've never seen anything like it, at least for the last 40 years. We have to straighten out our country. We have to close our borders. We have to lower our taxes. We have to get rid of inflation. And we're going to do it. Just remember, Kamala and her friends broken. I'll fix it. Most important election in the history of our country. Go and vote. Wow. Equal time for both.
And that we give them here at Pivot. I thought that was terrible. But whatever it's saying, they're both strong. They're both strong. I don't know. Trump hit the notes at his base once, and his people want to hear. That was strong. I guess, in any case, she was funnier. The equal time rule requires broadcast stations in Canada's comparable opportunities to appear on the air. This close to the election. I think that's one of the things seven days.
It doesn't mean they have to be on the same show or that they have to give advanced notice. But in any case, they did that. And I did think Kamala was charming. I don't know about you. It's a tough struggle to be on. You got to think, OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that the majority of the SNL writing staff leans progressive.
A bunch of Harvard educated people who live in New York writing for us an L. I'm just going to go out on a limb and assume that they're probably progressives. They got the assignment. They sat down and said, we need to make her look likeable, funny, intelligent, deep-positioned him. And the writers there, wow, they showed up. That is not an easy thing to do. That was really well done. Can I say? I thought she did. Because when Hillary's been on, it's been a little stiff.
When other people have been on, it's been a little stiff. I thought she handled it beautiful. I was surprised by how adept she was. I usually can be a little awkward. But she was quite good. I think she likes my Rudolph. I think there was a real rapport between them. I thought that worked really well. It was interesting. And I also think that she also looked good. I hate to say that. But she looks younger than he does. She looks significantly more attractive.
Yes. And I know that's dumb, but it's a thing. It's a thing. Dumb. I'll work for you. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. Believe me, dumb. It matters. It's hugely important. It looks really old. It looks really old. It looks really saddled and old. But interestingly, speaking of his top-servant Elon Musk, as I noted, Cardi B in here, fighting Musk called the rapper a puppet following her endorsement of Harris and was constant last week. Her response, I'm not a puppet.
Elon, I'm a daughter of two immigrants, parents who had to work their ass off to provide for me. PS, fix my algorithm. And she didn't say please. On the latest episode of On With Karrus, we try assembled a panel of experts. Look at Elon's role in the election. That was a perfect thing for my show because he's been so active. I got the reporters who have broken a lot of these stories, whether it's on Putin or all manner of things, the million dollar giveaway, whatever.
Reporters Zoe Schiffer talked about how Elon's ex-management provides some hints about his potential future in government if Trump wins. Let's listen. From Elon's perspective, he's like, look, I got rid of all these people. I save all these costs. And the platform is still relatively functional. But it's one thing to have a relatively functional Twitter or X. It's another to have a semi-functional government.
And I think him deploying these same techniques in the US government is a much scarier prospect. Anyway, we talked about a range of things. You know, Elon's really, as I said, I think it's the Elon election. You talked about it being the podcast selection. Probably it's both. His on-the-ground, Canvasy experts, as you noted, seemed completely disorganized.
There's lots of stories of putting people in trucks without windows, without seats, and stuff like that, not paying them and stranding them in Michigan. Do you think, if he loses, I suspect they're going to point a lot of fingers at him and Trump, of course, but him in particular, I don't know what do you think is this. Yeah, at must, do you think? Or what do you think? We all concluded that he'll be fine in either administration.
He'll be more irritating in the Trump administration and dangerous. He's done rather well in the Biden administration, by the way. What are your thoughts of where he goes in each scenario? Well, we talked about it in this last episode. That's the problem with autocratic tendencies is that it pays to support the autocrat. Because you're right. There'll be no downside for him as far as I can tell if Harris wins.
So I think if Harris loses, people are going to correct me in my view, blame Biden's narcissism and the Democratic Party's consensual hallucination that this guy had any business running for reelection. And to a huge tactical error, not rising to the level why she didn't do better than she did in retrospect, it was a huge tactical error for Biden not to kiss Elon's ass. And I know that sounds. I know we want to say, I know we want to say good for them.
They don't they don't count out to Elon to have an EV summit and not invite him. Keep in mind, must did vote for Obama. And I is much, you know, neither of us are fans of Elon Musk. He's an outstanding surrogate for Trump because there are few people in this nation or globally who more young men look up to. And he's he's robust. He's in it. He's afraid he's out there for him. It's just it's just too bad.
And another talking about unforced errors, it's an unforced error that Biden didn't kiss his ass and do what everyone does for Trump. And that is kisses ass to get him on a side. But if he loses, I don't I don't I'm my sense right now, Musk is okay, Twitter, he's got the value by 75%. But SpaceX is on a roll. SpaceX is on a roll that that one of the most seminal images.
I mean, quite frankly, I think two, two of the most, the, the images of the year, I think it's a toss up between Trump with pumping his fists in the air after the failed assassination attempt or that rocket being captured by those metal chopsticks. And that's Trump and Musk. So, although I give you a third, the picture of Kamala Harris's niece looking up at her. I thought that was a beautiful photo. Do you know the one with her hair with the new girl? I know what you're talking. Yeah, beautiful.
That was a beautiful picture. It kind of depends. We win, right? What will be seen as the image of the year. But oh, I think the Trump one was quite a picture. I mean, I'm talking just pictures. Yeah. I think those two, to me, Harris with the niece and Trump, I thought those were the most important political pictures of the year. Yeah. I think it's sweet. I think once more sweet than historic. I think that anyways, but there's no getting around it.
Musk is an outstanding surrogate for Trump and it was a self-inflicted wound that we shouldn't have made to alienate him the way the Democratic Party did. And I'll put some insight in here. When that happened, I, two things. I heard from Musk a lot about it. He was like, why are they doing this? Why are this shitty? He could not stop talking about it in a very manic way. I would call it. We were speaking then. And I was sort of perplexed. I was perplexed too.
I was like, huh, you kind of do even though you're an egomaniac. You kind of deserve that one. And I was like, well, it's the union thing I assume, but he wasn't taking any of that. He's like, I was like, it's the union thing. Don't get your nose out of joint. And which made sense to me. But then, and when I, I actually called people in the Biden administration, I'm like, this was a big fucking error. This guy is pissed. They're like, oh, come on. He's not that pissed. He gets it.
I'm like, no, no. He's pissed. I see this is not a normal person. And he's not, he does normal emotions. He thinks he's the father of all electric cars at this moment. Well, he kind of was. He, well, no, but technically no, but yes, yes. He was the one that pushed him. I'm sorry. We're going to have a evie summit invite the person in charge of the Pontiac leaf, but not Tesla. I know that. I get that. I get it. This is what I said to the Biden people.
And I thought it was an error the whole time, although I thought they traded a very short-term thing, which is the unions being angry at him and one being musk and I always felt musk was more dangerous than unions to them. But you're right. That really was a moment for him. And he over did it at the same time. He could have gotten over, but he wasn't going to have they understood him as a character. And he really does have a Jesus complex. So in any case, we will see what happens.
Let's bring in our friend of pivot. Dan Harris is the host of the 10% happier podcast. Welcome, Dan. Thanks for having me. So weird. I'm sure you're here at the cell at the time. So weird to be on a show that I've listened to for so many years. Oh, well, welcome. We're so thrilled you're here. And I am 15% happier right now for you to be here. Anyway, because we're here on Election Day. This is publishing on Election Day. We want to share some numbers.
69% of American adults say that 2024 election is a source of stress. That's mostly Scott Galloway in that survey. But it's a survey of the American Psychology Association. 72% are worried that the election results could lead to violence. I am too, actually, shockingly. I usually am not that way. So let's start off sort of high level. What's your advice for people specifically, Scott Galloway, in terms of managing stress and anxiety on Election Day and the days that follow on both sides, please?
I mean, Scott, who's career I follow quite closely is actually doing the thing that I would recommend as a first step. There's a great expression. I did not come up with this. But the expression is action absorbs anxiety. So I follow Scott on social media. He's out there talking about what he believes and he's taking action. And we all have the capacity to exert our agency, even though, of course, none of us can single handedly affect the outcome or control the outcome for sure.
But you can take action by joining a campaign or doing what Scott does, speaking out publicly, to the extent that you have that capacity. It doesn't even have to be related to politics, however. You can just volunteer at a soup kitchen or an animal shelter. You can just be more useful to the people in your environment. There's a little inner inquiry I ask people to do, which is what does it feel like when you hold the door open for somebody?
It feels good if you're paying attention and that feeling is infinitely scalable. Go away, I like that idea. You know, it's interesting. A lot of my friends who are driving me crazy, actually, because they're very stressful people. They've all gone out canvassing and they're so much happier. Even if they see people who don't agree with them, every one of them is now not irritating in the way they were, which was interesting. So you recommend making wearing a team sport. Can you explain that?
I mean, we're doing that right now. This is based in an enormous amount of evidence, so just for some context. There is this study that you guys may have heard of, the Harvard study for adult development. It's been going on for nearly 90 years and they've been following several generations of families in the Boston area to try to figure out what contributes to a long, happy and healthy life. And the number one variable is not sleep or exercise or whether you're achieving ketosis.
All of those things, I guess, are helpful, but the number one variable is the quality of your relationships. That is what matters most. Why? This is generally what kills us in the most effective way to regulate stress for a social species such as homo sapiens. The most effective way is through quality relationships, hence the expression, also not mine, never worry alone. Make your anxiety a team sport. Call your mom, call your friends, talk about it with people who you respect.
That is, I think, probably the best way to get through this. So, Dan, essentially, you are a less neurotic, friendlier, better-haired person than Scott, but you're the same person. So here you are at Scott. Ask your question. You're his doppelganger in a weird way. Yeah, let me just advise the friend. I love Dan in his content. And I steal your saying. I say I'm 10% more Jewish now. Yeah, I heard you say that, actually. But your content for me is a little too optimistic.
I don't like that part of it, but what has really moved me with your content is you come across, is just so shit together, and like the guy you would want in a crisis. Like, you remind me, if you're ever in a movie, you're going to be that medic and D-Day, just running from injured person into person. You come across this so quite frankly, just shit together and can handle everything. And you've been very transparent about your struggles and anxiety.
Even so much, I've seen videos of you de-planning because you couldn't handle it because you're having a panic attack. And I think it's really important that people see who they perceive to be very strong men having that sort of vulnerability. So for those of us who do struggle with anxiety, what, talk a little bit about your struggles with it, where it's happened recently, and what kind of cognitive therapy or behavioral therapy you've incorporated that has helped you. Well, thank you for that.
One of the little jokes I make is that some people teach from the mountain top, and I teach from the fetal position. And I'm not some sort of perfected being occasionally people will say to me, you're pretty anxious for a meditation guy or a happiness quasi expert. And my answer is you have the causality wrong. I am into meditation and well-being because I'm so anxious. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I think this is, first of all, we're at a time where we have unprecedented anxiety in our culture. And so, but the good news is there are ways to treat it. I'll talk about two that have been very helpful for me. Not only am I anxious, I also have panic disorder, so that can show up in public speaking or in claustrophobia, so on a plane or in an elevator. Two things that are helpful for me are one is called exposure therapy. And this is just everyday bravery.
Being afraid of something and doing it anyway, saddling up anyway, and approaching the things that scare you as counterintuitive as this is, if you can carefully and slowly and systematically approach the things that scare you, that is the way through anxiety. For many people, myself included. And especially with panic, so elevators have been tough for me historically. And so I'll ride an elevator at the Westchester Mall with my shrink for an hour.
And it's uncomfortable, but that's how you get over it. The second thing for me is learning how, and to me, this is just so radically powerful and such good news that you can rewire the way you talk to yourself. And so for me, just learning to talk back against my inner critic or my inner anxiety dragon in, to channel my capacity to mentor other people and direct it toward myself has been really helpful. So social media, of course, can be a source of stress.
And people will likely be doom scrolling as they do all the time now. Is it helpful to take a break or not? Because I think people can't, or news, more than just social media, but news consumption, like every little moment. Yes, this is a short answer. This slightly longer answer is we all have to make the call individually. But it's about, for me, it's about drawing the line between being an engaged citizen and an informed citizen, which is important and being a crazy person.
And we have to figure out how much is enough, how much can our nervous system handle? To me, one of the most powerful tools in terms of gauging this, in terms of walking this line is mindfulness, which is, of course, the fruit of mindfulness meditation, which helps you have more self-awareness so that you might notice, oh yeah, I'm on hour eight on x slash Twitter and I'm typing in all caps. Maybe it's time to put this thing down and take a nap. Or my stomach is rumbling. I haven't eaten.
Whatever it is to have the self-awareness of what's happening in your body and mind so that you're not owned by it, mindfulness is very helpful in that way, especially as it comes to the titration of your news consumption. Scott? So Dan, your career was, I mean, you essentially rose to be, I think either the anchor or the co-anchor of nightline, is that right? Yeah, one of the co-anchors of nightline. That's a pretty big seat.
And the majority of the anchors I know from broadcast television, whenever I speak to them, they're complaining about just how shitty their career and compensation and prospects have become because that business is melting. When you manage to transition to, I think you actually have a bigger footprint right now than you used to, maybe. You're one of the few that kind of got out and made it out. What advice do you, well, let me go back.
What were the pivotal moments and how did you manage to do that successfully when so, quite frankly, just a lot of people had a really difficult time transitioning out of old media into new media. I mean, it's brutal in old media. I'm not telling either of you anything you don't know. And I started to really think about this many years ago. I remember as early as 2008, 2009, thinking, I better build a personal brand. And I didn't know what that was going to be.
First I had a little show on YouTube about Indy Rock. I'm a big Indy Rock fan. That show did horribly and most of the comments were really, really negative. So I ended up euthanizing that. And then around the same time, I was starting to get interested in meditation and mindfulness. And I had this entrepreneurial sense that, yeah, there's a lot of science that shows that this stuff is really good for you. And most of the books I'm reading about this are really annoying.
And so I thought, well, let me write a book that tells really embarrassing stories and uses the word fuck a lot. And see if I can get people who otherwise would reject this material interested in it. And yeah, so that became a book called 10% happier. And that ended up sort of swallowing my life. And I spent a lot of time trying to do two things at once, maintaining my career at ABC while becoming this traveling evangelist for meditation. And most of that was kind of based in fear.
But eventually a couple of years ago, I was able to make the leap and retire and just do this full time. When did you start the pod? Yeah, how did you start? What advice would you give to people still there when they, I bet they call you, correct? Yeah, I mean, I hear about this all the time. I think I did it incorrectly in that. I waited too long to leap. But I think you can start developing your personal brand while you are within the belly of the beast.
And there's a way in which being associated with a major organization, for me, it was incredibly helpful. I was employed by Disney, which owns ABC News. And that allowed me an enormous, that gave me just a huge platform from which to build. So I think it's possible to do this straddle. I mean, the good news, and I mean, I'd be curious to hear from the two of you.
But my reading of the media landscape is that while there's a largely a blight scape, the one bright area is what the three of us are doing is, which is building a brand around a distinctive voice and figuring out what you can add and then building around that. Now there's never been a time better than right now for that. Would you agree? Yeah, absolutely. We love it. We never done better, I think, right Scott? Don't you think? In a lot of ways? Or happier? Or at least, yeah.
We're going to need a bigger boat. The bottom line is you can have a third of the audience that you used to have. But it requires a tenth of not a 20th of the resources making it a much more profitable economic venture. And I mean, I can't imagine the infrastructure you had to have around you to produce an eyeline. Yeah. And you can, you can garner maybe 50% of the audience or a quarter of the audience. You have a top 200 podcast on a fraction of the resources making it a better economic model.
Having said that, the unfortunate thing about podcasting, which is taking over everything that's been digitized, is there's tremendous inequality. And that is, you're talking to three people who are in the top 200 podcasts of a world that produces 600,000 a week. So if you're in the point, 0.001%, this is a brutal industry as well. But if you get there, it's where media is headed. It's just a better economic model. Yeah, but podcasts are. We're also happy. Podcasts and happier.
I totally agree with you, Cara. Podcasts are really brutal. However, I do think social is a place that's become more democratic in that as we've moved from the social graph to the interest graph and other, you know, doesn't I can create a video with very few followers that reaches millions of people because the algorithms have changed recently. So I think there are places where you can build an audience that are, that would be easier and more hospitable than the podcast space. Yeah, absolutely.
All right. A couple more questions about the election. I have just two more for parents out there. How can we avoid passing our anxiety on to our kids? We have a lot of kids. I don't know if you have kids, but I assume you do. And what will you be doing on election night to stay calm as your, and maybe you're not watching results? Scott is not watching. He's going out. I am not going out at all. And I'm going to read. Wait, you're avoiding it, Scott.
Yeah. Well, I live in London and generally speaking, I'm, this really does. I don't, I don't know if I'm older and so I, I have a better perspective on how important this election is. I'm just older and more stressed. But because I wouldn't know, I'm not going to know anything on Wednesday morning. And I'm just going to, I'm going out with some buddies and I'm just going to enjoy myself. And I'm going to wake up Wednesday morning and, and freak out then. But yeah, I'm not going to engage.
Oh, I'm going on Brian Williams on Amazon for a few minutes, but other than that, I'm not going to engage. Karen, you're going to, you're going to read. I'm going to read to, I'm interviewing some historians right after the election. So I'm reading history books. That's what I think you're totally posing. I don't believe you. I will watch, I will watch TV's on now. Just one. Just one and I'll flip among. I think I'll watch read poetry. I'm going to read poetry.
No, I'm not going to go to the class. I'm not going, I'm not going to a party. That's for sure. I'm not going out because I just can't, I just can't do it. There's lots of parties, but I'm not going to anyone. What are you doing, Dan? So just to respond to all of that, first of all, I think it's great to do whatever is in your best interest to keep yourself sane. And as a parent myself, I have a nine year old that is what osmatically is likely to land for your children.
Better than any lecture you could give them is taking care of yourself in a way that they observe and will, I think, absorb. In terms of history, there's some evidence that reading history actually is a bomb in the face of our current tumult because you can start to see that we've been through horrible stuff before. Would you rather be where we are right now or on the lip of World War II or the Civil War personally, I'll take today.
So I think I hear a lot of wisdom in both of your election eating plans. And also Scott, I'll be on with Brian Williams as well. Oh, I'm going, I'm on it like 4 a.m. They know they have you up first. That is as tight as a tick and a dough that he'll have all million of those, right? He'll be like, that's like watching a moose drive convertible and everyone, I don't know what that means, but it sounds good. You know, you guys are going to the nicest place, Mr. Williams is very calming.
I think that's a good choice. They have to have you on if you have a prime membership. So 87% of Americans are bad at the moment. I'm just, I'm going to just watch Rachel Maddo. That's all I'm going to do because she makes me feel bad. And that's going to help your stress. It is. She does. The lesbians make me calm. That's like two Subaru's colliding into each other. No, it's not. It's the militia. Oh my God. So inappropriate.
A Subaru Forester and a Subaru Impressor had a head on collision on election night. If Trump wins, we have to, we have to initiate the militia at the rich. And so we've got to move on. So anyway, I think I think I'm going to stay home and just become about it. Anyway, Amanda, of course, is like lost, is already losing her mind already. So we'll see where it goes. She already warned me. She was, I will not be good if she wins. I was like, okay, great. It's fantastic.
Anyway, Dan, are you writing 15% happier next? What is your next thing? I am working on a book that I've been writing for six years that I have not been able to get right, which really it moves from mindfulness, which was the subject of my first book to, and I don't know the right word for this, but I'm going to use the word love or warmth or friendliness or this capacity we all have for a compassion that we can direct not only toward other people, but also ourselves.
That seems like the missing skill in an anxiety epidemic and in the middle of a really divisive time. So that's what I'm thinking about. So you mentioned, you have a nine year old, just one or just one. So I really relate to some of the stuff you talk about around anxiety and panic attacks. I also get them rarely, but consistently when I'm speaking. And one of the things I found really helps when I'm feeling stressed is time with my
boys. In general, my boys just raise my stress level, but when I'm really stressed, I find they bring it down because they can be so awful. It demands that I go out of my own head. Any thoughts around time with kids? I mean, to me, this goes back to action absorbs anxiety. If you can be useful to anybody else, it will pull you out of your stuff. And so parenting for all of its vexations can do that.
And you can up the effectiveness of that by just tuning in to what does it feel like if I'm taking care of another being. It feels pretty good. So let's turn the volume up on that and turn the volume down on our own self centered rumination. I mean, another of my little dumb quips is that the view is so much better when you pull your head out of your ass. I think that's where we will end it. That's really the view is so much better.
It is you will be 26% happier if you pull your head out of your ass. That's my feeling. Dan, you're fantastic. We love your podcast with the Bullier work. And thank you so much. I already feel better and you can listen to Dan on 10% happier. Thanks, Dan. Bye. Wasn't that lovely? I think Dan loved it. So you didn't come through. I purposely tried to get in between me and Emily Rodikowski, but I want to be friends with Dan Harris. So I need you to set us up for a mandate.
Now I want Emily, but I need Dan. So I realize you're a little jelly of me and Emily's budding relationship, but you can make up for it by setting me up with I want a mandate with Dan. I need that guy in my life. That guy just makes me feel calm. I will. He's a total baller. He's a spectacular. He's very handsome. He's very successful. That's why I want to roll with it. And I'll have lunch. Does he live in DC? Seems like kind of guy would live in DC. I don't care where he lives.
But I go to dinner with him and people like, oh, they're Scott with Dan Harris. I always knew Scott was more interesting than he seems. And people will love me. Okay. I will make. I need a play date. So next time you're in the park. Set up a play date. That's your job. I will set up a play date for Scott Galloway. I will do that. That will be your birth person. I appreciate it. By the way, everybody wished Scott that happy birthday. That will never end. The last week and it will never.
I know I forgot. But it was his birthday just recently. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you very much, Karen. All right. We'll be back for, we're going to change wins and fails to predictions. And then we'll do wins and fails on Thursday. So we're obviously going to predict about the election. And we will do that in a minute. Support for the show comes from HubSpot. After this, you're out of party and someone asks you what you do as a marker. How do you even begin to describe it?
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That's Anthropic.com slash Cloud. Okay, Scott Galloway, prediction from you, obviously about the election, unless you want to talk about something else. Well, I'll do two because we're supposed to be tech and business, so I'll try and I'll do something about tech and business and then obviously people either come here for a prediction or either will love or hate this prediction. But I think there's a really decent chance.
I think Intel is probably the largest, it's not large cap now, it's mid cap, it's the ripest candidate I've seen in a while for a take private. That is, it's got outstanding assets, decent cash flow. I think actually a pretty talented CEO, depressed stock price, and it needs to be out of the public view or public markets for a good 12 to 36 months.
Similar to what Dell did, the investments they need to make, the layoffs they need to make, quite frankly, the efficiencies they need would best be done as a private company not a public.
And it's got so many outstanding assets in terms of its management, its suppliers, its supply chain, its vendor relationship, its customer relationships, its brand, its global brand, it's arguably one of the probably the 10 most recognized tech brands in the world, it to me, Cara, just screams, I am not personally now, it just screams take private to me.
This would be, I got to think that this would be one of the better, it's just so fucking ripets about to fall off the tree for a big private equity firm to come in and put together a great investor group and take a private in my view.
My other prediction is simple, I think this poll out of Iowa shows us real surprising momentum, it just feels everything is coming our way and then the just the feet on the street operation organized by the Harris campaign because of the money and the organization here. I don't even think this is, I'm predicting Cara that it's not just a win for Harris, it's a decisive win. Sorry Scott, I had to change to my iPhone because we had a power surge, I'm blaming Tucker Carlson.
I said that Kamala was going to win and was going to be decisive. Well Scott, I think I couldn't agree with you more. I think it's, at something I've been saying for a long time, I think women are the quiet majority of people who are going to be active in this election, doesn't mean that Trump hasn't done very well given all his, all the hair on this guy and, and there's a lot of it. But you know, he's a, he was a president and so there is that popularity element of it.
I just think the people he's aimed at are people who are low propensity voters and they don't leave the basement because they're stoned. Like that's the people he's trying to get to vote. I think the last week, all the mistakes have been massive and really significant, much more so than people realize. I think reporters have spent far too much time on Twitter and so they think that, that the world is more dire than it is because Elon's managed to create a terrible environment there.
And so media reporters just cannot possibly imagine being pro Harris at this point. So that's why they're doing that and they spend too much time focused on polls and easily gained predictions markets. My biggest thing, two things have been and then you can react is one, the amount of money she's raised from small donors is says a lot to me. It's about motivated people.
I do think women do vote and they don't and they they're tired of in cells, they're tired of rapists, they're tired of being told what to do with their bodies and they're much more motivated than the men who are just like, I like a tough guy like that kind of thing. I don't think they like him that much. Lastly, today in the last week and a half at least his rallies have been sparsely attended.
And if the right now there's pictures of him in North Carolina on the final day of the election, half empty halls in North Carolina. It says a lot to me. These people are tired of the show and as a long time watcher of the apprentice, let me just say I got tired of the show in the last season and got stopped watching it and that's what it feels like. And you can decline me for watching it, but it was a good show.
So that's where I feel I think she's going to perform better, but I have to tell you, I think he's going to do everything possible to stay out of jail, including declaring victory very early in the evening. So it could be a very long few days and very and I'm worried a little bit more than probably you about violence. So I agree with the net net. I do get a little bit defensive.
I think there's some Miss Andrea in their care when you refer to young men as saying women are tired of rapists and in cells and are getting stoned in their basements. I don't think the Democratic Party has done itself any favors by ignoring the struggles of young men face. And I think the Democratic Party has lost a lot of potential voters. Young men are actually is in favor of gender equality as young women.
They just they just don't feel that the Democratic Party, they feel the Democratic Party by purposely advocating or stating that they try and advantage 76% of the population is not advancing 70 that 74% but it's discriminating against the 26% that are young men. And I think sometimes we have a tendency to stereotype them and not recognize the nuance and just just the very real struggles that young men face. I don't think the Democratic Party's draped in self and glory there.
I 100% agree and I think it's one thing here. It should spend a lot of time doing bringing in people like you and Richard Reeves and stuff like that because I think it is a crisis. I'm just talking political strategy. I don't think this is a dependable group of voters. I think you're right. If I think you're right. That's what I mean. And I think we have to. I have three sons. I matter is a great deal to me how young men feel about their lives.
And we want to bring them in and make them feel better and not I don't love that a lot of say men of color right now are like, oh, he doesn't like us. That's why I'm not voting for him because he's saying we're garbage. I don't like that either. It's like they should feel good about this country and they should feel good about their role in it. But I do think women have had it really had it with and I don't not say in cells.
You made this argument yourself, which was in you know, like women are tired of being like told what to do with our body really and truly. And I think that's the quiet thing that men are now saying out loud about being unhappy. I think women are very unhappy underneath in a way that will motivate them to vote. And we should we should begin to bring ourselves together as a group of people. And I would recommend you watching the will I am the video of the song. We used to get along.
Not as well as we could have, but better than we do now and this all this garbage has to stop the guard. Everything with garbage has to stop. We're not garbage. We're the American people. It has to stop. And hopefully that will mean kicking Trump to the curve finally because he is a part of our personality that exists but shouldn't anymore. Word. Word my sister. Word. Sister brother. Well, we'll see. We'll see on Thursday. We could be totally depressed. But we're here for it.
We're here for it and we'll do whatever we can. We're still going to build a great country regardless of what happens. But we want Commodore because she's super cool. But I think that's an important important point. Something that's unproductive is the catastrophizing on both sides. To claim America is over if he or she wins. America has endured worse than he or she.
And while I do think certain groups, in my view, young people who would incur deficits or what are effectively tax increases that will be unprecedented, obviously women in terms of a continued loss of domain over their own bodily autonomy. But to believe that America is not going to be around in four years if he or she wins, just doesn't recognize history or how enduring and outstanding America is. I agree with you, Scott. And I think it is.
And I do like her message, which is much more about unity on the way out. His is about the fluoride, whether you should have fluoride in the water and alcapone. We're done with that. And I'm glad that she's doing a unity message at the end, hopefully. She can stick with that. And I hope she does. If she becomes present, and it would be a great moment in our history to have the first woman president of the United States just exciting.
And I'd be just as excited if it was Republican, honestly, as long as it was a good one. But I'm very excited about that. Anyway, Scott, read us out. Today's show was produced by Lera Naim and Zoe Marcus Taylor Griffin and Christine Driscoll, earning her Todd Andrew Nierthus episode. Thanks all so to Drew Bros. and to Severio and Dan Shulon. Nishat Kuroa is Vox Media's executive producer of audio. Make sure you subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts.
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