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Hi, everyone. This is pivot from New York Magazine in the Vox Media podcast network. I'm Kara Swisher and I'm Scott Galway.

And it's the end of the year. And so we're opening up our listener mail bag because just what you want for Christmas is advice from us.

We're going to we've gotten a lot of great questions. This our last mail episode and today we're going to dig in and answer everyone we can, even if they're not even if they're nice.

Just a quick note. Some of these have been edited for clarity, brevity and sanity.

You've got you've got to keep the leaves. I'm going to be a mail man. You've got mail.

Okay, Scott, let's kick off with a question. We've heard a lot. I'll read it. Hi, Karen Scott. Big fan of you both. One question. Why do you and others in mainstream media?

I'm not a Twitter user. Like both of you. So I may be minimizing it, but it seems to me looking from the outside that journalists and thought leaders are letting their personal habits and information consumption drive the conversation rather than the impact on people, the economy and the world generally from Chad. Chad, you're 100% right. You absolutely are correct. Most people don't give a fuck. What's on Twitter? I think Elon is a compelling business figure. It is an interesting business.

Story. I think that's why we cover it. But you're right. Media and politicians are just obsessed with Twitter celebrities less so overtime. Scott, your thoughts. I'm not going to be a big fan of you.

Yeah, he's right. There's an obsession with Twitter because like the term used the chattering class loves Twitter. It's totally irrelevant. Anyone under the age of 30, even maybe 25. But.

And also Elon Musk is just a fascinating character is the iconic figure of our time. What I would also add though is whenever anyone on Twitter accuses me of being obsessed with musk. What they're really saying is I don't like the critical of them. And they always have. They always have Tesla in their profile. In other words, this is a thoughtful honest commentary. We should be spending our precious attention and platform on other more.

Important things. But I find unlike this a lot of times I get criticized and people Sam obsessed with the on what they're really saying is I don't like that you're critical of them because I'm obsessed and totally fascinated by.

I agree with that. Yeah, I think you're right. One of the things Chad, by the way, Chas from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I do think most people don't listen to it. I was talking to some people from the Biden White House and they were like, I don't know why people are obsessed with Elon. We are Twitter. Twitter really and not Elon because they're.

Purposely rude to Elon by the way the Biden administration, but one of the things they were like we didn't really pay attention at Twitter because he doesn't want to use it and we're not we're not they're obviously not tick tock because of the issues around security in China.

But they were like we didn't think Twitter is not the real world and you know there was a Congress person, which he said is I knew I was going to win even though it was a close toss up race. It was one of these toss up races.

She was I thought I was going to win because I was talking to actual people in my district. Every time I want the only time I didn't think I was going to win was when I went on Twitter, which was funny because it was the chattering class without any information and she was talking to people on the ground.

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