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Apple vs. the Trump Administration, CEO compensation broke records during COVID, and Friend of Pivot Caleb Scharf on space exploration 8:18

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott discuss how Apple unknowingly handed over phone data of two Democratic congressmen to the Trump Administration. Then, they discuss how the pay gap between workers and CEOs grew even wider during the pandemic. In Friend of Pivot, Caleb Scharf, the Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University and author of The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm, tells us why we should care about UFO sightings, the future of space travel, and whether it's really worth it to visit Mars — regardless of what Elon Musk says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:06.4

I'm Cara Swisher.

0:07.4

And I'm Scott Galway.

0:09.0

So Scott, how's it going?

0:10.2

How do you have a good weekend?

0:11.6

Yeah, a nice weekend.

0:12.6

I was with the boys at a water park which provides perspective because it makes you appreciate

0:17.2

that 99% of the world is not a water park.

0:19.6

Yeah.

0:20.6

So you walk away very grateful, somber and grateful and caring.

0:23.8

I hate water parks.

0:24.8

Oh my gosh, they're rough.

0:26.6

That is rough.

0:27.6

They're rough, Cara.

0:31.4

Kids love them though.

0:32.4

Kids love them.

0:33.4

I know.

0:34.4

I love them.

0:35.4

I had to stay at a hotel once and had a whole like lazy river.

0:37.4

Oh, geez.

0:38.4

Just that.

0:39.4

I was like bringing to the four seasons immediately and deliver my body up to this was

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