Lessons from Afghanistan, the California Recall, and this week’s Friend of Pivot is Nathan Allebach aka The Steak-umm Twitter Guy

Pivot

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News Commentary, News, Technology, Tech News

4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Guest host Katie Couric joins Kara to discuss the withdrawal from Afghanistan and lessons learned, possible outcomes of the California recall, and of course, Jeopardy! Plus, Friend of Pivot Nathan Allebach joins to talk about how he turned Steak-umm’s Twitter account into a truth bomb machine. Check out the latest from Katie Couric at katiecouric.com, or on social media at @katiecouric. You can also subscribe to her daily newsletter, Wake-Up Call, here. AND you can pre-order her book, Going There, here. Nathan Allebach covers internet culture, advertising, and media literacy discourse at nathanallebach.medium.com and on social at @nathanallebach. And of course, check out some of his best-known work on Twitter at @steak_umm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.2	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast
0:40.5	network. I'm Cara Swisher. Scott Gallowy is somewhere watching Anderson Cooper,
0:44.5	so I'm joined by journalist author of the Daily Newsletter, Wake Upcall, and
0:48.6	founder of Katie Kirk Media, Katie Kirk herself, who is also a badass. Hi,
0:54.0	Cara, how are you? Good. I'm most excited to have you. I have to say.
0:58.3	Oh, I'm a lot of dudes lately, and it's just this is really nice because you and I
1:03.0	have a lovely rapport and you have lots to say about lots of things. So, well, I
1:06.8	don't know if I really do, but I'm happy to be here, Cara. Big big fan, Cara.
1:11.3	Yeah, I'm also testing out, I'm testing out co-hosts, so you know, if I have to
1:17.4	kill Scott at some point, which is obviously inevitable. No, I won't, but you
1:21.8	understand he's going to cancel himself in one moment in his life. So they're
1:24.8	important. I think he already has a million times, but somehow he's able to live
1:28.6	to do another podcast, right? It's true. I don't understand it, but nonetheless, I have to be,
1:33.1	you know, be prepared. You know, I have to have a succession plan for you to, Cara.
1:39.1	Yes, exactly. I'm not going anywhere. I am speed dating essentially and co-hosting
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