DC is old news. “The universe revolves around Silicon Valley”

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Kara brings on co-host, legendary NYTimes journalist, Maureen Dowd. They talk about how Silicon Valley has eclipsed Washington, DC as the country's true seat of power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:29.4	I'm Cara Swisher, Scott's out this week in some country I don't know where he is, but
0:33.6	my friend and journalist, Maureen Dowd from the New York Times is stepping into the mic
0:37.8	today.
0:38.8	She's from Washington, we're broadcasting from Washington, Maureen.
0:41.2	Welcome to Pivot.
0:42.2	Thank you, Cara.
0:43.2	Thank you for doing this.
0:44.2	You got a general sense of what you're supposed to be Scott, but please be like a thousand
0:48.4	times less obnoxious.
0:49.4	Well, my only role in life is do whatever Cara tells me.
0:53.4	Okay, that's a great role.
0:54.9	I think everyone should do that role.
0:56.9	Anyway, we're going to talk about a bunch of new stuff and things like that.
0:59.8	Just people, people do know who you are, but explain who Maureen Dowd is.
1:03.5	She is a famous columnist.
1:05.6	I have a column at the Times and I also have a feature in the style section where I interview
1:14.2	people sometimes from Silicon Valley.
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