Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York magazine and the box media podcast network. I'm

Cara Swisher and I'm Stephanie Rool in for Scott Galloway. Hopefully here to do my part today.

Oh my goodness. You have so much more hair. That's really what I'm excited about.

That's not saying much. I know that's true. You know, Scott was very upset that he's not here with

you. He said, you can't talk to Stephanie Rool when I'm not there, but here we are.

Alas. So obviously the intelligence level is going to go up rather significantly here.

So we have so many things to talk about. Joe Biden is expected to pick his running

mate this week, Stephanie. We talked about that unemployment insurance, which is an area that you

talk about a lot from the original coronavirus stimulus packages ended. Where does that leave

workers? Which one of those do you want to talk about? Because I think unemployment insurance is

your big thing. It is, but why don't we start with Joe Biden? Because Joe Biden has said he's

most likely going to confirm his VP pick this week. Yeah. And there is an enormous amount of

pressure on it. Everybody is talking about it. And I know there's a ton of noise out there.

You know, certain possible picks are getting too much criticism. And then there's a

issue. We give this kind of criticism if it was a man. To that end, I don't know the answer.

But at this point, sort of everybody who's in that lineup could be a great possible running

mate for Joe Biden. And while nobody wants to talk about it. And I really, I know that it's

offensive. We do have two people running for president who by any stretch are old.

And if we don't consider their health, we have to write that the running mate, the VP isn't just,

oh, that's that Dan quail that's going to sit there quietly and do some stuff. This is

consequential, especially if you factor in that Joe Biden is a more traditional candidate. And

if the Democrats want to win, they have got to energize a whole lot of young voters that before

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