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Hi everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher at the end of my cold. And I'm Scott Galloway. Yeah. How do I sound Scott? You sound better. Better. Although it was an exhausting weekend. I had Saul's birthday, so we had a million three year olds running around. So I had plenty of time to rest. That's a lot. That's a lot. I know. It was a lot. Where are you now?
Son, your story in Mexico and Cabasan Lucas said the Baja Summit. Yeah, where I'm meeting people will say things like, after selling my company and I started to take a year and really focus on my sleep. I'm not exaggerating. Wait, what is a Baja Summit? So that's a good question. It's a community, you know, God, everything's a community now. But these young, interesting people got together and bought the mountain somewhere and then started inviting people. The way I would describe it is
learning man. And that is during the day. It's a bunch of TED talks and at night, everybody does acts and listens to DJs. And you know, you meet people in vertical farming who are trying to explain why they're poly or not poly polycule. A lot of guys in their 50s who either my senses are mostly rich kids who have pretend jobs who are beads and are like, I don't know, one twist of psychotic fade away from being Jim Jones. It feels very culty, but it's also very interesting and
they get good speakers. And it's also it's a lot of fun. Everybody's really friendly. That's not it. They've done it. It's an interesting thing. It's quite unique. I don't know how. How did you get invited to this young person? Young person sent me. Yeah. Festival. So I don't know if you've heard, but I speak quite a bit. Yeah. Yeah. They invited me at some of it. It's C two years ago. And I did that. And I really,
know it's these people. I really enjoyed it. And they said, do you want to do the Cabo thing? And I've speaking gigs out on the West Coast. So and rather than giving me a speaking few, which they don't do, they let me bring a bunch of people. So I brought a bunch of my friends who like me are in their arrested adolescents midlife crisis. Yeah. Partying down here. It's a ton of fun. I'm really enjoying myself. So man children, in other words, you're not listening to any of these speeches already?
I don't I don't go to other people's content. Let's be clear. I'm not interested in what anyone else has to say. Is there anything you learn from it? I had a really illuminating conversation. I had a like a two hour lunch, Arnold Palmer, sojourn meet up with Jessica Yellen. And Fio's kind of helps me understand what's going on in the world and the media. And I find her very thoughtful and
very interesting. Oh, that's good. I listened to Peter Diamandis talk about, you know, that we're going to be growing ears in our refrigerators and all the other crazy shit that's not going to happen. Jesus. And what else? The woman who runs only fan spoke. That was sort of interesting. Creator economy, if you will. That has nothing to do with life extension. But okay. Sure. Ain't a lot of biohacking. It's I don't I'm pretty sure you would hate it. I would hate it.
Yeah, you would hate it. But it's um yeah, I think it's fun. And um, I'm open-minded these days. You kind of have to be don't you? We've got a lot to get today, including how Trump's cabinet picks are moving markets. Plus our friend of pivot is Christie Kale, or the founder and CEO of trashy. That's kind of your name, my name for you. And clothing recycling and rewards platform. We've got, you know, there's a lot going on. You saw
Joe and you over here in the real world. Joe and Mika shared on Morning Joe that they went down tomorrow. Logo speaking of trips and so sure. And I don't think unless they were hanging out with Elon, I'm not sure there were any psychedelics happening. But to meet Trump face to face for the first time in seven years to quote restart communications. Even though she I think he called her dumbest fox or something like that. And he would he was passing around information about Joe killing
one of his aides. But let me have Mika try to explain what they thought was important to meet with Trump. Let's listen. And for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back why wouldn't we? Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump's actions and words
in the coarsening of public debate. But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6th were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote. Joe and I realize it's time to do something different. And that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him. What do you think of this move? I mean a lot, you're getting a lot of clap back largely because
they were like really at some point, I'm like calm down, Joe and Mika about Donald Trump. But it's a pretty big shift for them given how loud they were. And so, you know, essentially calling them a fascist every morning on morning television. I think they're doing exactly what they should be doing. I don't, he's the president. They command the highest rated show on MSNBC for four hours each morning. They talk a lot about politics. So to engage with the freely elected president,
I'm surprised at the pushback. I think that's exactly what they should be doing. Maybe, what am I missing here? I think they were particularly vehement. It's interesting. A lot of people who are like he's such a fascist, he's a dictator are now going the opposite way. So who do you believe? Did they ever believe that? Or and he did say some pretty salty things about him beyond belief salty. Including I think she called her dumbest prick. I forget what he called her. Something about
her face lift with this and that. It was pretty ugly. And then they didn't say what happened at this meeting. If they're going to be real reporters, I get it. Otherwise, I'm not really clear. They didn't say what happened at the meeting. It was on background. But what's the, I don't know. It just seemed they were super vehement. And now they're shifting rather quickly. But I guess. Well, the far right when people who are the sick of fans in the media, they get criticism.
They, in my opinion, they were, I like Joe and Mecha because they, I think it's great TV. I think they just do a fantastic job to I think they they haven't pulled any punches. They call it as they see it. And I quite think I think it reflects what well both on the president and on them. He's the president. If they're going to have him four hours show every morning and talk about politics to have a direct dialogue with him, I think is important. They're putting there. He goes aside. He
sets minutes, all think things fine. He's the president. We'll go down there and talk to him. And also think it reflects well on him to a certain extent that he's engaging with people that in the media who've been critical of him. So I don't I see this as a feature, not a bug. I don't understand why people were seem so triggered by it. I just think it when someone's it's interesting because I know you talked to Charlene the God, but he was talking about this. He he called Donald
Trump fascist. And then he was sort of perplexed why Biden would be so friendly given he went on and on about it. I think it was it was about credibility and believability. If you really think this what are you doing? I think it's a good thing to discuss. They felt like a branch of the democratic party to me. That's what they felt like when they were going on and on. I don't think their journalists
at all. I think they're discussioners or commentators or something commentators, but I mean then then actually I mean she spent a lot of time with people who had been dying of abortions because of row. I don't know. It just they were I felt like they were a branch of the democratic party. So that's just me. I guess I heard them differently than you might have. Yeah, but you're I think if if the president's people called Keraswisher and said we'd like you to come down and talk to the
president. I think they called him, but go ahead. Or whatever it might be. I think you do a service to the country and to people to go down. Be Keraswisher or be Joe and Mika. Ask hard questions and try and engage in them. We need more. If I don't want to call it forgiveness or grace or generosity, but we need more reasons to interact with one another as opposed to just writing
each other off. Yeah, that's true. It's just these two. These, you know, they were super in Trump's tank and then they were super anti and now they're like I want to know what happened at the fucking meeting. That's all like I don't believe why they're keeping it from us. And so I don't know. It feels like a little bit like a calm cast wants to play nice because he's threatened to
take away the pull-up broadcast licenses of NBC and CBS, I believe. It feels a little, I don't, that's why I think people are doing that is he's made all kinds of, you know, I have to say I do think Trump in us, right? It's like let's hope he's not a fascist and if he is call it out. But what he said was fascist, the things he's been saying are. And so I don't know, I don't know, it's just weird. It's just, yeah. Anyway, they have a very liberal following and have been particularly
vehement. So the shift was rather dramatic. Fair enough. Okay. This is interesting. This is, I love this. I like humor in dealing with these people. The onions acquisition of Alex Jones's info wars has been paused while a federal bankruptcy judge reviews the auction process. The parody site was named as the winner of the bankruptcy auction last week. But Lewis or Jones complained how the
auction was handled. A group of Sandiuk family who filed the defamation lawsuit against Jones agreed to accept smaller payouts to increase the value of onions bid, a hearing to review the auction process will be held this week. The CEO of the onion parent company has said the sale is still underway as part of the standard process. I love this. I thought this was very perfect. It's a great way to use satire to buy up Alex Jones's stuff. I don't know. I kind of like this one. I mean,
this was the first time I thought if there is a God, he has a sense of humor. Yeah, exactly. I love this. I actually thought about, I wish I'd known or been more on top of this. I'm really curious what it went for because it gets a lot of traffic. I think to turn it into a non-profit talking about gun control or for a podcast that's on the left to take it and just absorb the traffic. Supposedly also with the purchase, you get a lot of supplements. I guess that's how they made
their money. Seriously, you get supplements. The onion was saying we don't know what to do with it. I don't know if the, it sounds to me like the auction is probably going to go through. The fact that it was filed by Jones's people just seems like I don't know, grievance or whatever to. Yeah, I just love it. This is how you, you know, this is how you show. I think the onion has gotten really good since Ben took over. I think it's really fun. I think he's having a lot of fun with it.
I think it's humor. The rights, spent a lot of time, did a lot of humor stuff. And it might as well be funny, right? And biting and cutting in a really clever and witty way. I think it's a really nice way to, to like, especially this son of a bitch, you know, he deserves all the embarrassment. Shit, but just being angry at him is not enough to mock him. I think is always the best way. I love mockery. I love mockery, Scott. Well, there's, you say, what can you do about it? This is a vile person
who has, who has brought more despair to people who are already grieving tremendously. I mean, this really is a vile human being. And the question is, you know what? I think you should die. But go ahead. Well, then, and this is something I've struggled with my entire life. The difference between being right and being effective. And I like to virtue signal in crying to TikTok or scream on Twitter about Alex Jones, you know, it's more effective making a shit ton of money and then
go buying his assets out of bankruptcy. Yeah, that's more effective. Exactly. If you really, yeah, if you really want to push back on this stuff, then don't go on Twitter, send some money to Planned Parenthood. Don't cry into TikTok. Identify some candidates who you think you could get behind and start bringing some presents to it. Yeah, like, it's, you know, to a certain extent, the Peter Teales and the Bill Gates of the world, they get the fucking assignment. They're not on social media
screaming. They're, oh, lately they are. Did you hear their all victims? They're the resistance. No, that the counter elite is the term happy. The counter elite. The counter elite. I'm worth 13 billion. $1.5 billion, but I'm the counter elite. And the counter elite. I am the resistance. They are the death star. The rebels. Such a rolling stone. Oh my God. They're so fucking, see, that's what they're
doing now. They're becoming like the way they annoyed liberals annoyed them, right? They're counter elites, they're the resistance. They're the fighters. Give me a fucking break you rich fox. Come here. I love, I love this. I love what the onions doing. It's time for us to start being mocking bros. That's what I say. I've been listening to a lot of bros because I've had to listen to Charlemagne's podcast with Andrew Schultz, who I do not think is funny. I think he's a horse's petoo.
Really? I think he's great. He had the, I think I don't know. No, loud enough. I would think you would like. I see that I see the appeal. Let me just say, I see the appeal. I do, but I think we can do better. Anyway, here's another thing, speaking of mockery. Unfortunately, Mark Zuckerberg is given his wife another gift. Let's, let's just listen and we will decide if we like it or not. Oh my, it was an acoustic cover of Get Low by Mark Zuckerberg in T-Pain,
which Zuckerberg recorded as an anniversary gift to his wife. Part of me loves it. The other part is can't you just get her like, I don't know. On Instagram, he said the song was playing when he first met his wife at a college party. I kind of like it and yet it hurts my ears. How do you feel? I love it. I think it should be private. I don't, I don't. He loves to perform it with that stat. Remember the statue of her in the backyard. But when you do that, it's not a gift for her.
It's a gift for you. Yeah. We want people to look at you giving someone a gift. And so I love this. I think it's hilarious and it's great. I think it's important to with relationships. The women, women love gifts more than men and women have a special relationship with cocaine, jewelry and gifts. And if you're a guy and you don't recognize those
things, you don't understand women. And maybe you don't get jewelry. But trust me on this, you need to buy a woman in your life that's important, your mother, your spouse, your girlfriend, jewelry. And that's part of the assignment is things you don't get. You don't need to get. You just need to get that they really like this. But you like the song. You just like, would like, he does perform everything. He has to be like, it's, it's fucking adorable.
And it's for, if it's for him and some of their friends and he does it at a party, but putting it out, I think it just cheapens a little bit. But let me, let me, on the whole, more powder to your brother, you got the money, you got someone, you're in a relationship, you love that person, you've done something creative and unique. I think we need more of that, not less of it. What would you make for me? I swear, I knew you were going to ask that.
I think I think I would do some sort of bad care. Okay, Rockle Obster or Dancers Mess around. Has anyone seen? Would you be naked? No, I wouldn't want to upset you. Yeah, I've been working on a lot lately though in the testosterone naked. I look 59 and 7, 8, some, it's all coming together. Since this grow to me, it's gone from sad, elephant to really healthy, anti-eater. I feel like there needs to be a performative performance by you at me to show your love.
I feel unloved. Oh no, this is due, as I say, not as I do. Whenever I do anything nice, rather people I want everyone else to know about it. Yeah, right. You know, whenever I give money, I want to make sure that like they put out a press release. Yeah, I definitely have the same promise in, but I can recognize it because I suffer from the same thing. Mar keep being awkward, keep being awkward. You'll be you, my man. You'll be you, my man.
That's all I got to say. You showed those people in high school. When they wrote in your your book, stay cool. You aren't, but you got really fucking rich. That's even better. You've leaning into uncool. You keep doing that. By the way, you can't sing. Okay, but that's okay. It's okay. It's the thought that counts. Anyway, let's get right to our first big story. The Post-Election Trump bump has come to an end with the markets closing lower last Friday in the
S&P 500 and as XC seeing their biggest one-day losses in two weeks. The downturn is being attributed in part to President-elect Donald Trump announcing RFK Jr. as his health and human services secretary shares of major vaccine and drug makers, including Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca, Tumbled in the wake of the news. What do you think shares of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk fell? He's against Hosempic, by the way, as processed food stocks, including PepsiCo, Coke, and General Mills.
The markets were also reacting to Jerome Powell saying the Fed is in no hurry to make further interest rate cuts. What's your take on this? And the pick in general, he says he wants to make America healthy again. They have to stop with this make America whatever again. America was never healthy. Let's start with that RFK Jr. Which I loved eating McDonald's on the private plane with Trump and Elon Musk. Someone like him to making the cop take the drugs just to make sure he's not caught.
Yeah, that was making the new guy do drugs to make sure he's not caught. Yeah, he looked such in pain. What a fucking asshole. He talks about McDonald's being poisoned and then he's sitting there with one. What a dumbass that guy is. Anyway, what do you think of this? It's like when you're in Vegas and a pro asked you to show your generals to make sure you're not a cop. I just heard about this. I wouldn't know first hand. But I've heard that happens.
Big head in the twister. Anyone wants to see big head in the twins? That's fine. I'm waiting for that rock lobster video here with that. I want that for my birthday. It's December's my birthday. Look, the market has been remarkably right. And I see that as a negative forelooking indicator because Moderna on word that Kennedy would be head of HHS was down 21%. Fies are down seven. Eli Lilly. I mean, this is a tens of billions if not even maybe over 100
billion in market value drawdown because this guy has a reputation. No, he can't fool anybody. He is crazy anti-vax with the with the key. The operative term there being crazy. It's very disappointing because what I would argue is that whenever you have the far left on the far right come together on something, it's a really bad fucking idea. Whether it's reckless spending, anti-semitism. Yeah, you're right. He's left. He's so far left. He's right. That's what happens.
They meet it. They meet it around the band. They come together at crazy. And actually, the anti-vax movement originated on the far left. Don't let corporations put crazy shit into your body. And then the far right picked it up because for some reason, science and experts became associated with the left. And I would argue, and I think this is there's real evidence here that everyone is so fucking fascinated by innovation and metal chopsticks grabbing a rocket and photo
sharing apps and GPS and rightfully so creates a lot of economic value. But if you were going to talk about how we come together as a species and use communication and education and cooperation to accomplish something really incredible, the most positive innovation of the last couple hundred years I would put forward is vaccines. And there is nothing that has come out of our great
academic institutions. It's been privatized. It has capitalist that has capitalist fuel that also government weighs in and says we can distribute these things in low income areas that have saved more lives in vaccines. Is it maybe it's a food distribution? I don't know what it would be or pesticides maybe. In my view, vaccines kind of arguably some of the best things ever. I am so pro-vax. If anyone's holding edibles or vaccines meet me in the bathroom and I'm going to show you
the only thing better than feeling high is not feeling unwell. He tries to be cute about it and says I have questions and I don't think that's the case. I think he's done more damage. I call him best friend of measles and polio. I think Zika Manuel who's the brother of Aryan and Ram appointing RFK junior to the HHS as a big mistake. Well, admit he has a few important ideas on chronic disease and processed food. I mean, yeah, everybody we all think processed food sucks. These are over
for shadowed by his problematic views on vaccines that threaten to walk back major progress. We've made above all point people like RFK junior who will bend to trumps every whim is guaranteed to be truly dangerous. I think he's right. I think that's 100% right. We can agree with some of the things but this guy is anti-vax. I'm sorry all you people. He's not questioning it. He's truly anti-vax and try to stop pretending it's otherwise. What do you think of the GLP drugs? The impact on
US economies and global economies. I mentioned drug maker Novo Nordesk and Eli Lilly Saw Shears Drop. Are people going to listen to him here enough to do lasting damage to the industry? Kennedy has been critical of things like ozempic in the past calling it a drug that will quote gladden the wallets a big farm execs and think everyone should rely on eating better produce. I guess that's his
thing which I think everyone should eat more produce. Robert, but seriously, seriously. The really upsetting thing about RFK junior is that in my view, he is so good on a number of issues. He talks about the unholy alliance between the food industrial complex, PepsiCo, general foods, McDonald's. They want to get you addicted. Let's go met on this. When our species left the savanna, there was an absence. There was a dearth of sugary saltier fatty foods. It was really hard
to come across these things and so when you found them, you gorged. There was an absence of safe free play because there was always threats everywhere around. There was an absence of mating opportunities. 80% of women on this planet have reproduced only 40% of men. So when you get industrial production of all of these things, people develop addictions to food addictions to gambling addictions to porn. And what GLP1 has done as far as I can tell is it's like scaffolding on our instincts.
And it says, look, even though you can find more calories, then you can consume based on industrial production. Almost anyone can eat as much as they want. They can gorge. We're going to turn off that signal. And people on these drugs report that they're drinking less alcohol. They're biting their nails less. What's even even more amazing about these things is not only are they eating less shitty food, the people on these drugs are eating more fruits and vegetables and grains. It's as if
this thing is is actually calibrating what's good for you and what is bad for you. And when you look at the one thing American share other than a Netflix subscription and Amazon Prime, it's that we are 70% of us are either obese or overweight. And obesity is the COVID or the it is the epidemic that kills more people every year than COVID ever did. But because there's so much money involved from large corporations and hospital clinics and knee replacement and kidney dialysis
and statins and pharmaceutical and McDonald's, we pretend that you're finding your truth. No, you're not you're finding fucking diabetes and he is very good on this issue. And then all of a sudden it's like, huh? What you want to this bullshit that he said repeatedly that the best thing you can do when you see a woman with a newborn is go up to her and say, don't get her vaccinated. Jesus Christ, really? You know her his cousin, Karen Kennedy, who's US ambassador to Australia. I
didn't know that. It doesn't tend to speak up. Said a lot of negative things about him. There's a whole story on it. He goes others are just getting to know him. But she said everything he says, I don't think most Americans share them. He's you know, he's denied he's against vaccination just so you know, styling himself as a vaccine safety activist who questions corporate influence on science. His critics say he's promoted conspiratorial ideas about public health intervention.
Wily viewed as one of the most important advances. He's embraced a debunk theory on vaccines can cause autism is question. COVID-19 vaccinations. He's also been leaked to a measles outbreak in Samoa and you know, Kennedy, Carolyn Kennedy, the daughter of JFK and Jackie O'Nassus of these setter family was united in terms of our support for public health sector and infrastructure, the greatest admiration for the medical profession. And Bobby Kennedy has a different set of views.
It's very unusual for her to speak out his whole family says he's crazy as can be. But I just hope he comes clean and I'm being serious here about steroid use. I've seen him without a shirt on. He's 70. That guy's on HGH or some sort of or Deca. He's on some sort. And by the way, I'm not sure I'd love to hear him defend it and talk about it. But he doesn't want a needle around a vaccine to stave off polio or rubella or measles. Little inject human growth hormone to
look jacked at 70. So I would and by the way, he might have I take creatine and it's brain protective and heart protective. I'm not hormone replacement therapy. I think is they're finding it's a very positive thing for both men and women. A lot of people say that the biggest instance of malpractice was discouraging women from hormone replacement therapy. So I'd love to know his views on it. But just be clear as someone who works out a lot and is being to look like Monte burns despite
every fucking thing I'm trying to do. That guy is on is on some form of steroids. And I would just say allegedly. I would say allegedly. That guy. I mean, I would argue I would speculate that he he might be in fact taking some sort of human growth. And I would just like to him to speak openly about it and get his views on it because they seem to me to me somewhat contrary to this notion. But don't put I do think that picture did a lot of damage. Honestly, he cares so much
why with him with the McDonald's box, the big Mac. How the fuck could he do that after he called it poison? Like what a dumb ass. He's just such a dumb ass. Anyway, should investors be worried about these Trump cabinet picks impacting markets, the stocks of major defense contractors also drop last week following Pete Hegseth announcement. God, the Washington Post wrote a story about him. And he looks he he looks very dangerous as a person. Why do you say that? I'm curious why I'm
I'm asking for an answer not not as a comment. Why do you think he seems dangerous? I was reading the story. He looks like look, this guy, whatever happened in that encounter with this woman, I think he attacked her. This is my this is my feeling Pete. This is what it looks like. He was already downstairs bothering women when this woman came and got him, right? That's that he doesn't even question. He sounds like a he reminds me of a sexual arousal. He reminds me of
I've had that happen to me in college. He looks like the guy in college. He has the tone and the ability of every woman looks at him and goes, cover your drink when you're around this fella. That's you know what I mean, that kind of thing. And between him and Matt Gates, I mean,
they feel like weird sexual aggressors. But you know, whatever, whatever Pete Hegseth, the fact that he paid off a woman, you know, it's just like Bill O'Reilly, you know, oh, you know, I just paid her off because he did that and then there were tapes where he did say the things she said he said, right? So they're just all such weird. This this whole gang of this GOP are all fucking
each other down there at Mar-a-Lago. It's weird. It's a weird group of people. I'm sorry. Like, you know, there's the rumors of Corleun, Dausk and Chris Dino, there's the rumors of like they all seem like Caligula down there. I don't know. It just like yikes. I find, you know, they talk about liberals being loose. I feel like they're like creepy and I don't know if they're just good. And then the guy who actually grabs someone's some man's nuts, you know, it's always something.
Yeah, the the only thing is I would push back a little bit. I think it's unfair to conflate Peter Huggseth as that is named with Bill O'Reilly where Fox paid some woman 20 or 30 million dollars after supposedly he was forcing her to watch Gay Porn and then describe it to him. You don't pay someone 20 or 30 million dollars just to make a nuisance loss. You go, why? Matt Gaetz supposedly has a witness, a credible witness that says she witnessed him having sex
with a minor. That's pretty serious shit. And in the case of Pete, first off, he served very honorably. He 20 years, I think two bronze stars. I mean, he really is a decorated service person. Got it. Hold on. Let me finish. Absolutely. Unqualified. Let me finish. I think he does not have kind of the executive management experience or the gravitas around that would qualify him to oversee three million people. I agree with you there. He is, he did pay somebody off to drop a suit.
I don't see, I got to think that's going to go away because it doesn't accomplish what it's supposed to. You can see a scenario where someone accuses you of something and to make a go away. You just pay them. Let me be clear. I don't think he's qualified for the position, but I do think it's unfair to compare him to what Matt Gaetz is undergoing. Yeah. Okay. I mean the whole gang of them, it's just something's happening down there or something in the water. I don't know.
But what do you, I'm curious. I don't understand. Well, I think I understand incentives. What is the MacAvellian weird five-deer zero-dee chess that's going on with putting Gaetz forward is AG? I don't, do they think if they create havoc? If they go, if they go, this guy's, if they offer a blood offering in Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski convinced some people and supposedly there's 20 or 30 Republicans who said, no fucking way, then does it make some of their
less crazy, but still great A crazy, picks more likely to get through? What's the strategy here? I think so. Unless there isn't one, he just feels like it. He was on the plane at the last minute and did. He had another person for AG and then suddenly it was Matt Gaetz. I think sometimes it's just like his whim at the moment. He just wants to do what he wants to do. Here's another one. Trump has yet to name his Treasury Secretary, though he's reporting meeting several contenders at Mar-Lago.
This is a critical job, right? A critical friggin job. He said he wants someone big for the role. Apollo's Mark Rowan is in the mix now. I have a lot with you and I have regard for him as his former Fed governor, Kevin Warsh, another very qualified person. Elon Musk threw his support behind Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnik over hedge fund manager Scott Passant to many, many people on
Wall Street. I have been checking. I think is highly qualified in an ex-post over the weekend. I'm not just because Elon, Lutnik has a terrible reputation compared to Scott Passant and is obviously a look at me kind of fella, right? This is lunacy the way they're deciding this important job, the same thing with the AG. That one, I think he was on the plane with Matt Gaetz and just decided, let's fuck with the Liberals. I honestly don't know. Loyalty, I don't know.
But I would argue that the nominees for Treasury Secretary are incredibly impressive and competent and normal compared to the nominees across all the other sub. I know people have some issues with, but generally speaking, these are talented smart, accomplished people who you can imagine in the role. I'm a big fan of Mark Rowan. I've spoken at Apollo conferences where he's spoken. This guy is a blue flame thinker. He is. That's why I'm like, okay, great. Yeah, sure.
And also the reality is, no, granted, Kennedy could do a lot of damage at HHS, but you're going to have pretty serious checks and balances. The reason why this position is so important is regardless of policy, if the economy doesn't grow, everything just gets harder to do. And the adult in the room needs to be the person around economic policies. In my view, this is everyone says Taylor Swift was person of the year last year? No, it wasn't. It was Jerome Powell.
These people have more impact day to day on people. I think America is a platform for two things, primarily. And this is where I think Democrats have fucked up because they've lost this. One, defending our shores and our citizens and two, creating the atmospherics of prosperity so you can develop economic security for you and your family. If you want more rights given to people,
help them get more money. That's the easiest way for them to gain rights. So I like this. And the thing I also really like about Mark Rowan, although I have no influence over these picks, is I thought in contrast to some other famous billionaire. So he handled the anti-Semitism on campus really well. He was forcefully dignified. He had a problem with the president of Penn. He got his big game trophy on the head. And then he went quiet. He didn't start talking about reforming
education. He wasn't Bill Ackman. Yeah. He wasn't look at me. Look at me. He's like, this is my objective. I'm upset. They fixed it or they took action. And now he's gone back to his day job. So this guy strikes me as having a decent amount of humility, forcefully dignified. And I'm telling you, we want some, we want a high IQ person in this role. Yeah. He really is. If anyone's spending any time with him, he's really a sharp cookie. He really is. He's well regarded. I mean, that
would be a good serious pick. Like I wouldn't, I wouldn't like him in a democratic or a Republican administration, someone like that. Latinx seems like a horse is a petoo. I'm sorry. He just does. He's always on, he loves being on camera. And he strikes me as an unserious person in that regard. I get his reputation. But I think checked, I've called like a dozen people. Nobody likes him.
They like Scott. And I think the issue around Scott percent is that he worked for sorrows, which I think you either work for sorrows or a bunch of different people as a great investor. Like that, that's what you're holding against him. So he's a little independent. I think that's their issue. I think that's why Elon wants someone like Howard Lutnik. He can push around. I mean, I know a lot of people are for George Soros. When it comes to money, George Soros just out
suffer fools. The Soros, the Soros funds are very serious, very competent. And you know, they, they aggregate outstanding professionals. That's a, having worked for George Soros. And it's not a political position. He was there to just make George richer. I mean, that's what that's what he's there for. I know, but I'm telling you that's what's going down over there. But I do think one of
the, it looks critically important. This is a serious reason. I think they, they're trying to get someone like Mark Rowan or Scott percent to me are very serious selections to say yes on tariffs. They may not be able to quite as easily. I think this has to be a person who makes the calls in a way that's not, it has to be political, but not, you know what I mean in the interest of the economy, according to them and their theories. How do I make long-term, adult, non-political decisions
that are going to help? I mean, here's the issue. Prosperity is here similar to the future. It's just not, it's just not distributed equally. How does this person make really good decisions that ensure we can argue over a bigger pie? We're always going to argue that the pie grows. And this person has to absorb a massive amount of data and also make hard decisions. Chairman Powell raising, raising interest rates 500 points, angered almost everybody. You know, Elizabeth Warren was pissed off
about it. People on the far right would pay, and he's like, no, this is what we got to do, folks. And as a result, inflation came down faster in the United States, and I think any G7 country, and there's already back to its target level. And that, that kind of leadership, intellect, and quite frankly, folks, even though America seems to be against it, expertise and people who have
PhDs who actually studied this shit. Anyways, this is the, this is like the only, it feels like this is the only substantive conversation around his nominee is other than, wait, let me get this, someone saw him having sex with a minor. Let me get this. He's against vaccines. And I mean, it's all dancing with the stars. And then we go to PBS for a few minutes. I'm like, what are you doing frittering away your chance here? I mean, it's just, he's just, you know what, he's trolling and
pranking and he's got to cut it out. He's got to cut it out on this serious topic. So he really wants to be historically, you know, he's still, he's just a terrible person to him, Trump. But he could help a lot of people. Anyway, let's go on a quick break. When we come back, big tech leads the charge to derail the kids online safety act. And we'll speak with a friend of pivot,
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bill has been stalled in the house for months. A new report from the Wall Street Journal details big text willingness to dump cash into lobbying efforts and lean into cultural war issues with liberal lawmakers lobbying efforts focused on concerns the bill could censor LGBTQ youth, although I think they fixed that part of it. And with conservative lawmakers, the focus is on potential for censorship of anti-abortion positions. Meta and alphabet have spent nearly $90 million
in the last three years lobbying about a range of issues, including Kosa. Kosa would assign platforms the duty of care, which would hold them accountable for addressing issues like mental health disorders, bullying and sexual exploitation. You know, also at the same time, Brandon Carr has been over at the FCC. He wrote part of Project 2025. He's also very anti-tech. So interesting times. It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Trump administration because it has a very strong
anti-tech and especially JD Vance. So do you think they'll hold firm? Are they going to be more empowered once Trump takes office? I'm not so sure. I think they may be wishing for the Biden administration again. So what do you think? $90 million they're spending? Yeah, I just look. This is, I thought we were going to get this one. Now I'm not as sure. There's been 40 congressional hearings on child safety and social media and there's been zero laws. And this is not perfect,
but perfect. It's not on the menu. And I thought we were going to get this. And now it looks as if the delay in obfuscation and the weaponization of our government and the fact that there are the bite dance has one lobbyist for every 11 members of Congress. Meta has one for every eight. Amazon has more full-time paid lobbyists living in DC than they are sitting US senators. And money is always played a role here, but essentially big tech has really mastered the art.
I think there's a lot of backroom deals involved our security apparatus, but 5% of kids under the age of 18 qualify as being addicted to drugs or alcohol. 5%. And that's a lot. If you know 10 households with two kids, that means somewhere there's a kid who's an addict to drugs or alcohol. With social media, 27% qualify as addicted. There's never been, I don't think there's ever been an entity, a private company that has ever been this guilty of addicting our children.
Then big tech. And yet there's absolutely no laws. And so I got excited that this seemed like it was going to go through. And now it feels like big tech is winning again. And every day they have their lobbyists out there giving money, playing golf, coming up with thoughtful reasons around why you should be express your concerns. And now it feels like it's at risk. I find this all very discouraging, but I don't feel like I have the insight to handicap. What do you think is going to
be here? I think they just don't want any regulation whatsoever. I think they want no laws with so ever. And so they're nitpicking every single one of these laws. There's been lots of problems with co-set. There's no question about that. But they've managed to do different things to it. There's not going to be any rule that's going to be good. And that's the point. They don't want any law. They don't want anything at all. They don't want a privacy law. They don't want antitrust
renewed. They will hold this stuff up as much as they can. And it's going to take like serious bipartisan work together away from all the censorship versus hurting LGBTQ youth, both of which concern with both of them. By the way, more of the young gay people, but they don't want anything past. They don't want a duty of care. They don't want a duty of care. And every other industry has a duty of care in some way, whether it's an airplane or a pharmacy, big pharma.
Maybe they manipulate things, but can we get one on the friggin books and then figure it out from there? They just don't want any slight bit of edge to get them to stop. And they will do anything it takes. This has been a historical thing for these people. And they'll do it as long as I'd even be like, go, Brendan Carr, even though I think some of his things are loony. I'd go, go, lean a con, go, just to just to muck up their works for five seconds. But you know, you saw Amy
clopichar get mowed down. You saw Ken Buck get mowed down. Like it doesn't really matter. They mow everybody. And Congress hasn't passed a major bill to protect children online since 1998. Amazing. Because it does put in place protections for kids online, like regulating addictive features and harmful content. I mean, this is tech lobbyists continue to maliciously stirred down on Capitol Hill using one unfounded narrative with Democrats and other with Republicans. I mean,
with Republicans, they've been stating that Kosa censors speech. What the fuck? We're worried about a 12 year old speech. Yeah, Johnson has said it's a, I love the principle with the details that are very problematic. And let me tell you what's behind all of this. The six most popular social media platforms earn roughly get this $11 billion in just one year advertising from advertising that targets wait for it. Children, children, social media companies have existed with very little
regulation for 30 years and want to keep it that way. I mean, okay, so what's going on here? $11 billion dollars as it say. Kosa would not censor limit or remove any content from the internet. And it does not give the FTC or state's attorneys general the power to bring lawsuits over content or speech. No matter who it is from, the bill passes first amendment scrutiny because it is content neutral. We're talking about kids here. Yeah, they don't want to do anything. They just,
they play them, they play these sides perfectly. And this is light touch good regulation. It's important to note that there's no new rulemaking power for the FTC in Kosa, nor any ability to create rules about content. So this whole free speech bullshit doesn't hold water. They're 11, it's $11 billion dollars they're making. And we have seen evidence everywhere that social the more time kids spend on social, the more likely they are to be depressed, anxious and engage in self harm.
You know, we need to do Scott. What's that? Can I just tell you? You and I need to go down to Mar-a-Lago and discuss this with the president. What do you think? I would do it. I just like to see the two of you in the same room. Oh, share of McDonald's. I like me. Can I just say I love fucking McDonald's. I do. I do. I do. I eat it not in frequently. I don't eat it very much. I know it's bad for me, but I got to tell you I love it. I take the kids. The man is always horrified. You go
to Mar-a-Lago. I want to go to Tulum with Don Jr. I'd like to roll with him. Me and Don Jr. You can go hang out. We should go together and we have to make sure Elon's not there. The guest who wouldn't leave because he'll come at us. But we need to go and talk about this with him. Because that's the kind of people we are. We're looking for common ground. Honestly, I would go down there if we could talk to him about something like this, right? For this, it's worth it. For me.
And I would eat the McDonald's president. Trump, I would eat it. Anyway, all right. Let's get to our friend of Pivot. Christie Kailer is the founder of NCEO of Trash, a clothing recycling and rewards platform. They also just recently started doing tech, the stuff, getting rid of all your tech crap that you have. I'm really intrigued by this company. Although I find it, I'm sort of confused about how it could possibly work out because everyone has their sad recycling stories. Christie,
you know what I mean? You find out, you recycle and it doesn't work. Explain what it is and how it works exactly because there's a lot of clothing that ends up in a landfill, right? Yeah, 85% of our clothing ends up in landfill. It's actually 17 tons, million tons per year. It says about 112 pounds per person in the US every year. I think the universal truth that just everyone has too much stuff. And typically recycling is actually kind of either inconvenient. We don't know where the clothes go.
Even only goodwill sells about 27% of what they collect and we're like, what happens next? So with Trash, we created a product called the Take Back Bag, which is really fun and exciting. And people do it from the convenience of their own home. They fill it up with anything from any brand and any condition. So it's, you know, quite convenient on that sense too. And they mail it back to us. So this is soft clothing shoes, shirts, things like that. Yeah. So your shirts, you choose your
bags, your accessories, it can be towels and sheets. You send it back to us and then we have a big recycling center where we meticulously sort and grade all of the product actually goes into one of 253 grades. So it's a very detailed process. And then we find the next best use for it. So that can be reuse, that can be recycling, that can be downcycling, fiber recycling, but we control the whole process. So we have complete visibility into it. We know where it goes. And so where most programs
are opaque, we provide a lot of transparency. Fashion fashion people don't know. It's coming huge industry, particularly in last few years with the rise of companies like she and and T-Moo, Scott's a big proponent. I'm going to get him a pull him in or a second, but just so you know, Amazon, interestingly, just launched your competitor in that field last week with a storefront called Hall. You know, because they got in trouble because they were just throwing everything out.
Like if people return stuff, they just threw it back out when you didn't ever return it. I just curious, what's your take on these companies? And I'll note a couple of stats. The average consumer buys 60% more pieces of clothing they did 17 years ago, not care swisher, but others.
The number of times a garment is worn to climb is around 36% in the last 15 years or so. So talk a little bit about the people are moving into this, but you wonder if you have the disappoint you've had in the recycling business, which is shown that most things you recycle don't get recycled. Yeah, I think there's a lack of transparency in the recycling process. It's a very kind of antique network of people on recycling clothes. So you don't get a lot of transparency and visibility
into what's happening, but to your point, we're consuming more. I mean, do you guys know how many products she and puts out per day? Seven thousand. Yes, between two thousand and ten thousand per day. So on the macro scale, we've moved, I mean, it makes our look like luxury. I should get a free treat tomorrow, I thought that was outstanding. That was outstanding. Look how impressed Christy is. Seriously. Let's go ahead. Sorry.
No, so we've moved from fast fashion to instant fashion, which I think is why everybody is taking note. Like, we have to do something about this. We can't keep putting that much product out into the world. It's estimated that we lose about $600 billion in value every single year. It's remarkable. Obviously, the she and effect, the ten-mo effect, you talk to kind of the increased consumption numbers. I think it's time that we all kind of took notes that we need to do something
about it. It's estimated that we lose about $600 billion in to landfill every year in value from fashion, textiles, technology, toys. But most business models really are not that effective. So either people don't do it because it's not fun or it's not convenient or it's not rewarding. There's not like a what's in it for me kind of component to it. And so, those are the pieces we really play with. All embedded with how do we build a really good
business model that works? We need to get the flow of economics working. We can't just say we need to do it because it's the right thing. Nice to meet you, Christy. One of the things I like about what you're doing, I find it sort of ineffective, unrealistic to believe that you're going to talk young people into consuming less. I also, and I'm an investor in the space, I think young people need more access to products for a lower price. But at the same time, trying to figure out a way
to deal with one of the externalities here, I think it's really important. What, I mean, the fear I have is that people worry that recycling was nothing but an attempt by people to make them feel that they were actually addressing the problem. And a lot, there's been a lot of information that recycling quite frankly is just more emotional benefit than actual benefit. What happens to these products if organizations like yours don't get a
hold of them and repurpose or recycle them effectively? Yes, I mean, I think the term recycling is often applied in a very broad way. And so sometimes people take products in, they kind of skim the cream off the top, try and resell them for profit. And the rest unfortunately ends up in landfill. That's not discussed. I think that's pretty, pretty typical, even with the modern resale platforms. I think, unfortunately, that's often done at lowest cost. So they're bundled up,
they're shipped offshore. We have a whole concept called waste colonialism that we talk a lot about. But it's really the infrastructure to properly process materials hasn't been modernized in order to handle the volume and handle it with precision so that we can actually keep 95% of what we collect out of landfill, which is what our process is is able to do. It doesn't mean that it's perfect. Some things are down-cycled, some things are reused. You have to have kind of a broad approach
to where these products can go. But taking them in in the first place is really critical. We have a gap in the collection cycle. And we have a gap in sorting and really the transparency around sorting and where things are being recycled after that. Explain the business model then to us. What is the business model? Because that's where the, you know, you have these colorful bags, you put, I've done it a couple of times and then you get stuff, right? You get rewards. Yeah, you unlock deals.
So basically business model works that we've created this, as I said, kind of recycling service. It comes in the form of this package that's fun and bright and convenient. Customers are willing to pay for that. So that really creates the relationship. And then after recycling, you unlock deals and rewards at places you like to shop. And that can be anything from like Uber and Dordash to Nike and Adidas. So the broad range of rewards, which we found really important because I think
you don't always want to recycle your jeans and buy new jeans. You might want to recycle your jeans and buy dinner. It's just a much broader universal kind of incentive platform that gets kind of the consumer into their next step of kind of their journey in a way where they're also extracting value. So you're not like chastising them saying, you know, oh, you shouldn't buy things. It's that you want to, you don't want them to go to better places presumably. We want to collect them all.
I think I totally agree. It's unrealistic to think that consumption is going to slow down. There's nothing we can do to do that, frankly. You know, that trains kind of left the station. If we can engage on the post consumer moment, if we can say, hey, we know you've got that pile. We know you've got cords and chargers hiding in a drawer. Let us help you. Most of the time,
people are like, how did you know? We do this. So from what I understand, a team who and she and I are going to be responsible for 20% of all holiday purchases, which is just. And now Hall, which Amazon is trying to copy them, but go ahead. That's right. What, I mean, other than other than just the consumption culture more for less, what do you think is going on here? Because we had typical fashion, then we had fast fashion. I would describe this
as on demand fashion. Can you talk about why this this category has just become? I mean, it really is. The explosion here is staggering. Any thoughts as to why these companies have become so dominant, so fast? I mean, I think you have a few different forces that play at the same time, which is the, the she ends in Temmahs of the world have kind of had cost of goods and speed to market. So they can really drive that frequency of launch in a way that nobody's been able to ever before.
So that 10,000 styles a day. I mean, they often pride themselves on 98% sell through. They're not making these decisions nine months in advance. They're making them two weeks in advance. And so they've, they've really figured the market out. So like that kind of demand cycle is, is really fast for them. I think obviously social media and our access to kind of trend information product is really important in driving this forward, particularly with the Gen Z kind of community.
That's where everything exists. And so it's, it's a rush. It's, you know, it's pretty human nature to, to kind of have that consumption cycle. And I think there's a really interesting conflict in values because it's often the same, you know, people who are like, we need to save the planet. Which is an interesting tension that we're facing. Right. Which Patagonia has done, right? If you think about it, a bunch of other region Patagonia makes a big deal. Or you return them and
they fix them. I did that for Louis. He happens to like this one Patagonia jacket. And they fixed it. And he preferred that, which was instead of a new one, which was interesting. But you're now moving into tech recycling. What is now, I know Apple does that to an extent. What is tech recycling? Because that's because I've got chords from, you know, the 60s essentially, you know, or whatever. What where do those go? Why are you doing this? And where do those go? Obviously, you want to do
as much stuff that you can actually make money from. Presumably you can from this stuff. Yeah, I think it's getting the consumer engaged with one piece. And so what we found is like we've had helped, we've helped, we've distributed over 600,000 take back bags, just for textiles in the last 12 months. And when we speak to consumers, they're just like, please do more, like, help me
more. So we know the demand is there on the consumer side to your point, like Apple and other platforms have kind of their buyback programs, but they're not handling old chargers chords, the actual drawer stuff that you don't know what to do. And so in a similar format, you know, we see there's just such a huge opportunity and we built the supply chain to support that so we can take those products back and recycle them into materials into componentry. Alternatively,
that typically ends up in landfill. So it's pretty similar stats to textiles, but you can make money from presumably, that's a lot of money. It's like, it's copper off. I wouldn't call it a lot of money, but there's a revenue stream to it, which helps the business model work. So that, you know, that value that I mentioned that goes into landfill typically, we're extracting some of those tracks so we can, we can, right, rather than garbage pickers, rather than garbage, you're getting the
the metals, the plastics, the componentry where possible. And then all of that's, you know, when we take back electronics, it's incredibly important to the data sanitation. So the supply chain piece of what we do, the integrity of that is a really essential to making this work well and delivering it out from us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It would be bad if that started killing people by
doing that. So people have zeroed in. I would argue unfairly on fast fashion. Do you think that Apple and Nike, because of their incredibly positive brands, get a bit of an undeserved hall pass or as fast fashion really that much worse than some of the other kind of more aspirational brands that have supply chains in China? It's a great question. I mean, I think on a unit by unit basis, fast fashion is a key player in those statistics that we just quoted and the growth of that
consumption cycle. I don't think that gives these brands a pass that are kind of the incumbents with large supply chains and large businesses, Patagonian. I mean, I think they've done amazing work, but their business is a billion dollars a year. I think it's, it's not for it's a pimple on
the elephant. Yeah. I get it. I get it. But it's I mean, they're still producing product. So I think that, you know, overall, you're if you're making product and you're selling it to consumer, 85% of the time it's ending up in landfill, everybody should be engaged in this conversation. Let me ask you. That's just a quick follow up. Who in your mind is the worst in the best of a
large iconic brand or retailer or everyone from Walmart to Amazon? If you were to pick the people doing their level best and the people doing the worst, which which brands would be at the top in the bottom of your list? Oh gosh, that's a really tough question to copy plot. I mean, I think I think actually Nike has done good work, particularly on upstream supply chain historically and materials innovation and they continue to do that. I do another best. I do think Patagonia
has led the way not as large and kind of changing consumer mindset. Worst, I would say right now, knowing the she and team's kind of working on things a little bit. I don't know if the 10 mood team's working on things in the same way. I would say that's bad. I would say Amazon's, you know, pretty responsible as well. You would say Amazon is responsible. Yeah. And not like they're not being responsible. They're responsible for the problem as well. Oh, yeah.
Oh, I see. Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, they throw everything in the trash when you return it in FYI. If you send something back, it never goes anywhere. It's like crazy. I almost don't want to return things to them. Anyway, perfect. This is great. Christy Kailer is really interesting business as a CEO and founder of Trashy. Thank you very much. Thanks, Trashy. Thank you guys. All right, Scott. We are so solutions based, aren't we? Oh, yeah. That's right. We're solutions. Let's mail a box
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Okay Scott, let's hear some wins and fails. Go first. My win is going to shock you. I met a guy down here, just told his company and he reached out to a friend of mine who knows First Lady, First Lady, Alania, and said, I'd really like to get my, and this is a serious story, a true story, my resume in front of Doja, or Department of Government Efficiency because I'm I'm interested in going to work for a group in the government that is very focused on solutions.
And they have said, they have said Vivek and Elon to their credit in my view that if you're looking to bring a private sector innovation, work your ass off, vibe to this group, we want to hear from you. And I do think there's value in trying to restore some of the aspirational more merit versus
tenure-based culture to government work. I think that it's lost a lot of prestige. People have still have a lot of prestige for our folks that serve at the highest levels or serve in uniform, but I worry that some of our best and brightest young people, unlike Israel, even unlike the UK, don't think I'm really good at what I do, which logically means one of my options should be to go to work in a government role. And so I do like that they're trying to create
this aspirational feel around it. I think that's a positive and I wanted to call that as when my fail is I just want to just again, the fact that we're normalizing the notion that somehow vaccines are bad, just some just some stats here. US childhood immunization from 1994 to 2013 prevented 732,000 deaths and 21 million hospitalizations from vaccine preventable disease diseases. COVID-19 in the US prevented 139,000 deaths in just the first five months, reducing projected
fatalities by 20%. And then overall, vaccines saved millions annually by preventing infectious diseases and their complications, highlighting the need for robust immunization programs, worldwide, worldwide. I mean, these things really are, if you were to hold up something that is like, okay, our species kind of gets it and there's real hope here. The measles vaccination prevented millions of deaths. But in 2023 saw a 20% rise in global cases, preventable cases due
to poor coverage, leading to get this 10.3 million cases and 107,000 deaths. So the World Health Organization says over 22 million children missed their first first vaccine dose, contributing to outbreaks in 57 countries. So anything that normalizes a notion that these things are 99.9, there are just so few things that create so much positive that prevents so much death disease into the disability across communities, quite frankly, that really needed these things are inexpensive.
They're easily distributed. So I really hope that we check back on what is a, you know, get the easy stuff right, you know, and this is the easy stuff. These things work. They're a gift. Yeah. And also, by the way, let me just say Operation Warp Speed, which was one of the best things of his administration. He's, he really is moving away from it. I'm like, you fucking idiot. That was something really amazing that you did. Like, take fucking credit for that thing. That was
impressive. And I know people do like trash Trump all the time, trashy Trump. But that was something that was great. That was something that was intuitively good, right? Like so it's possible. I don't believe he's walking away from it. That tries me nuts. Okay. I agree with you on the, on the government thing. The only thing I would say about that is they also trash government workers like incessantly in a way that's cruel. By the way, there's so many amazing government workers.
So stop insulting them that way. Like, oh, they all have to be cut, especially, it's just irritating. But if I call my swamis, it's just to just always has to trash, always has to trash people. And never, no one's ever good. Everyone's stuck at the same part of where the counter elites, they're not. You're a bunch of elites. Stop insulting really good government workers. Some things work, some things don't. We can make it better. That's my feeling on that one.
All right. My win is I'm going to be seeing Gladiator soon, which is very exciting. Gladiator to you. It looks gladiator to it. It looks really good. I love that Paul Muscaw. I love, I hear Denzel Washington's amazing. I know I've talked a lot about Wicked. I'll get to that in a second. But but I'm so excited to see that movie. I'm going to go by myself. I'm going to go by myself to see. That's how much I love the movie. It's first we good. My, my, my, my, yeah, yes. But there's
another movie. And I, this, that I've heard is fantastic. Arby Plaza, who I think is wonderful, is a movie called My Old Ass. And it's about this young girl takes, I forget who's the other lead is, but she takes mushrooms and meets her older self and they have this relationship. And I've heard it's wonderful. I'd love to meet my younger self. It would be just interesting. I don't know. I don't think it would be that interesting. Anyway, let's go ahead. By the way, I saw
Arby Plaza when I went to that WNBA game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As you know, I'm totally down to WNBA. You're a famous lesbian scout. Call new unofficial spokesperson for the lesbian community. Yeah. I knew you would like it. I'm so glad that worked out. My fail is I think, like I said, with like them insulting everybody and doing everything, I think they're overstepping really quickly and becoming sore winners. It's not that the numbers are really moving. And so now it's 49.3
versus 48. Here we go again. No, let me just say they're now doing things like act like calm the fuck down. This was not as close you think that besides that. But NFL players are doing the Trump dance. Did you see this? Like they're doing that stupid weird, you know, jack off dance he does where he looks like he's jacking off two horses. Do you know the dance he does? They're doing that. This isn't going to endear you to anybody being sore winners. Just stop it. Like whatever,
do your stupid dance. But so did this guy, this UFC fight. They're all doing the dance. Let me just tell you, you think liberals are irritating. You're fucking irritating too. And I agree, some liberals are irritating. But you know, there's no, this is not, we need to, we do need to get along. And you're just being douche nozzles about it. So whatever, it's not going to make me think you're better. It was close. God, I don't care what you say. We need to pivot to the center.
We got, we need to pivot. Absolutely got destroyed. We need to rethink America's platform for two things, defending its citizens and its shores and creating atmospheres to get more money. In any case, don't be a sore winner. Don't be a sore loser. Don't be a sore winner. I'm just sore. Anyway, you're just sore. Yeah. Anyway, we want to hear from you. Send us your questions about business tech or whatever's on your mind. Go to nymag.com slash pivot
to submit a question for the show or call 85551 pivot. We'll be doing another call and show soon. Submit your voice mails with questions you like to ask us live on the air and let us know where to reach you. Also, Scott, I'm sure you remember Barbonheimer last year, but you're familiar with Glickid. Glickid. Get it. Wicked and gladier too are coming out this Friday and people are planning to send both movies back to back. I have seen Wicked. I'm going to take Clara to see it
tomorrow night here in DC. We can talk about how movies are making a comeback. Yeah, I'm sorry. Go ahead. This you need to see in the theater. Wicked, you absolutely unique. I'm gladier too. You love that. You love Wicked. I love Wicked. It's really good. You'll see. They're trying to recreate that Barbonheimer magic, which I thought was kind of cool. I love that. That did bring a lot of people back to the theater. They did great. Are you going to go
to either? No, you won't. I might go to I'll definitely go to gladier. I'm not sure. In the theater, you want to see it though, right? Yeah, I think so. I'll probably go see it. Yeah. I like when these movies do well in the theater. I don't you don't have to discount that experience. But speaking of Wicked, I just spoke with the director of that movie, John Chu, for the latest episode of On with Cara Swisher. He explained to me how we use your favorite device, Scott, the Apple Vision
Pro to edit the movie. It turns out he's a closet geek. He's a deep job. He's his God. He grew up in Silicon Valley, by the way. Let's listen. Once I got the Vision Pro, I found it, it changed the game for me because I put it on and I wasn't on a computer with my editor over it somewhere else, which feels very limiting. I don't get interactive with it. My blood's not pumping. But with the Vision Pro, I could make the screen as big as the room. And I could walk around and
pace the way I do in the edit room. I could lay on the couch the way I do in the edit room. And then I could bring it closer. We were doing visual effects on it. And so I could give notes and use my finger to like mark things. And this is people in the Bay Area. This is people in London. This is people in Canada and 40 people are on this. And I'm on my couch and I can look at it what it looks like 20 feet wide and what it would look like on an iPad. Anyway, it's a really interesting interview.
He's super geeky and in a really interesting way and also very creative. And his movie comes out, obviously the first part of it comes out. He's also working on all kinds of cool. He's the director for Wicked. Wicked. He did crazy rotations. You know, especially, I mean, they're so excited about. They've already, they've already given a green light for a sequel, but it's about Mitch McConnell's sex life. It's called something wicked this way comes. That's good. So really bad.
I brought politics, sex, wicked, I am literally the Dave Chappelle of the cultural zeitgeist. Mitch McConnell, he shall be in our rearview mirror and that's good enough for me. Okay. Scott, that's the show. Where are you going next? I told you I'm going to Vegas for speaking gig. Then I go to LA. I'll be barely also telegain trying to find famous people to stare out and then I go to Vegas for F1 and then I go to Brazil. Oh my God, your life. I'm going
to be in New York this week. All right. I'm sure I'll hear about it. I'm sure I say, say, say out of my dormant. Yeah. No, I'm not staying at your house. They putting me up. I'm doing a secret thing. A secret thing. A secret thing. Yeah. I'm doing a secret. I'm doing a pilot, but doing a pilot for a show. Nice. Good. Yeah. All right. I'm not supposed to talk about it, but I'm like, she will. Yes, that's correct. I understand secretiveness. I don't understand secretiveness.
It's not right. I'm transparent. That's what we are. We broke. As we said, we broke the fourth wall. I got a call from Stephanie Rue, by the way, who is complaining about us insulting cable while we go on it. We can do both. I was like, you're going to bitch me out. You're going to bitch me out in the morning. She called this morning. I was like, no, we said it's a terrible economics and it is. Your numbers are declining overall. We love your show. It is. Our issue was it could be good.
There's ways to make it good. There's ways to make everything good. We do it because we like it. Correct. It helps our podcast. She's like you, although she'll call me. She want to say hi. Stephanie, she'll be like, you really disappoint me. Oh my god. No. I'm like, oh no. I get scared. I also got to be honest. They'll turn down. They'll turn down. I don't know what's coming next. Now she's going to call me. Now she's going to call me. I kind of like it. Stephanie, we love you.
Call and yell at us. Call and yell at us. Anyway, I'm excited for this song you're going to make for my birthday. You have a month. You have a month less than a month. So get on it. Okay, Scott. Okay. That's a show. 75 is a big one. Today's show is for me. I'm reading us out. Okay. Today's show is produced by Larry Neiman, Zoe Marcus and Taylor Griffin. Ernie, Natan, engineering this up to seven. Thanks, all so to do. Burrows, miss a very long Dan Schulon.
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