Pivot Predictions: Scott’s Big Tech Stock Pick, The Next Bailout, and President JD Vance?

Pivot

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Tech News, News, News Commentary, Technology

4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Kara and Scott check their predictions track record for 2025, and make new ones for 2026. What’s Scott’s big tech stock pick? Who’s getting the next big bailout? Will President Trump make it through another year? And will lesbians be running shit? (Yes.) Watch this episode on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pivot YouTube channel⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on Instagram and Threads at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@pivotpodcastofficial⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on Bluesky at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@pivotpod.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on TikTok at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@pivotpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠. Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or email ⁠⁠Pivot@voxmedia.com⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.6	I was right. I was fucking dead right.
0:58.7	We predicted this. Scott, you and I predicted in March that we would see a deal like this.
1:03.2	We predicted he would exit.
1:04.9	As I predicted last week. As I predicted. I knew this day was coming and how it would go down.
1:09.1	You did. You predicted it.
1:10.6	I did. A new biography from Kara Swisher. down. You did. You predicted it. I did.
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1:13.0	And dot, dot, dot, dot, I was right.
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