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Pivot

Elon’s Timeline Takeover, Bing’s AI Freakout, and the Sordid Affairs of Sumner Redstone

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

A week of surprising resignations: the FTC’s lone Republican commissioner announced her departure in the Wall Street Journal, and Scotland’s First Minister will step down after drama around a transgender prisoner. Also, the US and China practice electric car diplomacy, and Elon Musk *really* wants you to read his tweets. Friends of Pivot James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams discuss their book, Unscripted, about the scandalous last years of Sumner Redstone. Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot. Check out Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy and follow James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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I'm Cara Swisher.

0:39.0

And I'm Scott Galloway.

0:40.0

Scott, where are you?

0:41.0

I'm in Delray Beach, staying with friends, five houses down from my old house,

0:47.0

and last night, under the influence of them, mushroom chocolates.

0:51.0

I actually considered going back to my old house that I've rented out for two years.

0:58.0

Finding a way in, I have all the codes, getting in bed, and when they show up,

1:02.0

just acting like it was all a dream and asking them what they were doing there.

1:06.0

And just pretending none of this London thing ever happened.

1:09.0

So I'm in Delray, then I'm going to eat them a rata with the boys for the weekend,

1:13.0

and then I go to Mexico to try and write a book in seven days,

1:17.0

which probably means write a chapter in nine days.

1:20.0

But anyways.

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