🔥 “LIVE with Kara Swisher from DC” — Silicon Valley is Kindergarten for Billionaires (Uncensored)
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The most famous tech journalist, Kara Swisher, joined us on-stage at our LIVE show in Arlington as part of the IPO Tour (our “In-Person Offering”). And Kara brings fire…
In this LIVE interview, Kara (aka the Sultaness of Scoops) riffs on…
- How she was going to join the CIA, but instead ended up at the Washington Post
- Why Silicon Valley is Kindergarten for Billionaires
- The time she ripped on Zuck for his jogging routine in China
- The biz of being a solo journalist
- What every 26-year-old should be doing now to AI slop-proof their careers
- How her “Burn Book” of Tech Elites is becoming a TV show
- How Congress should regulate the tech industry (for the 1st time ever)
- And she throws bunch of shade at the current administration, Big Tech CEOs, other podcasters, and more
- And her ticker symbol? Spoiler: $WTF
Plus, she turns the interview around to grill us (classic Kara).
Quick FYI: This episode was recorded live, and Kara drops a bunch of politics and profanity, something we don’t do on our show — So if you’ve got kids in the car right now, save this one for after drop-off.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeties, Nick and Jack here coming at you from the T-Boy Studio. We just landed back from Washington, D.C. Yesterday, you got to hear the three pop-biz stories from our live show in Arlington, Virginia. And today, you get our interview with our guest, Kara Swisher. Now, before the interview, Jack and I just wanted to sprinkle on a little bit of context because this is, it's not like our typical T-boy interview is. We must bring on a lot of contacts. |
| 0:21.7 | Because she drops a bunch of politics and a bunch of curses which is something we don't usually do on our show it's something we don't do on our show jack it's just not our style we never curse on our show but she does in this interview so if you've got kids in the car right now save this episode for after the school drop off. But besties, the reason we |
| 0:38.6 | invited Kara on the show is she is the ultimate tech journalist, whether you like her style or her |
| 0:42.3 | politics or you don't. And man, she's outspoken, Jack. She says whatever she wants to say. |
| 0:48.3 | She's at that point in her career. And she's interviewed every tech billionaire out there with |
| 0:52.3 | insights on the media industry and stories about Silicon Valley that are wild. So our goal is to focus the interview on that. That's the stuff we're trying to find out. But Nick, this was a live interview. We did our thing. She did her thing. So besties, here is the uncensored, very uncensored interview with Karen Swisher from our live show. |
| 1:11.4 | We're excited for you to hear this, though. It's got a lot of insights, crazy stories, |
| 1:15.8 | but thank you to the Yetis who came out to Arlington to see us live. This live audience was |
| 1:20.8 | epic. The wildest audience we've ever had to it, they were so good. All right, let's get to the |
| 1:25.1 | interview. Let's hit the interview segment. Let's hit the interview. |
| 1:28.6 | Yeties, turn on your voice memo app because this interview, it's on the record. |
| 1:34.2 | We're sitting down with the most powerful journalist since the invention of the pen. |
| 1:38.3 | Jack, if there's a Mount Rushmore of media, then Karras Swisher's face is on it. |
| 1:42.6 | And if it's not, it's because of that one tough question she asked Peter Thiel that one time. |
| 1:48.1 | Her education, right here in D.C. |
| 1:50.8 | This Georgetown Hoyas spars with feces. |
| 1:53.3 | Her first job also, D.C. The Washington Post. It's on her CV. |
| 1:57.8 | But Kara, she doesn't just cover founders. She is one. In 2014, she launched |
| 2:03.2 | Recode, which she sold to Vox Media a year later. Okay, Kara's entire columns that she writes, |
| 2:09.3 | they make CEOs sweep. Kara's podcast, they make founders confess. She hosts the podcast, |
| 2:17.2 | on with Kara Swisher and Pivot, |
| 2:19.1 | which almost beat us for Best Business Podcast a couple years ago. |
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