Sunday Pick: Kara Swisher | Design Matters

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Tech journalist, opinion leader, and disruptor—Kara Swisher has hosted hundreds of newsmaking interviews tracking tech and media's changing power dynamics, often going head-to-head with the most prominent figures in the technology industry. She joins a live studio audience to talk about her inimitable career covering the ever-evolving world of technology.

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0:00.0	Hey, Ted Talks Daily listeners. I'm Elise Hugh. Today we have another Sunday pick episode where we share another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you.
0:16.9	Tech journalist, opinion leader, and podcast host Kara Swisher has hosted hundreds and hundreds of newsmaking interviews tracking tech and media's changing power,
0:26.3	often going head to head with the most prominent figures in the tech industry.
0:30.8	In this episode of Design Matters hosted by Debbie Millman and with a special appearance from writer Roxanne Gay,
0:37.5	Kara sits down in front of a live audience
0:39.6	to talk about her wide-ranging career
0:41.6	covering the fast-evolving world
0:43.4	of technology and politics.
0:46.2	You can find episodes of design matters
0:48.6	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:50.4	Learn more about the TED Audio Collective
0:52.8	at audiocollective.
0:53.8	com.
1:01.3	I actually still have sperm left.
1:04.6	I got pregnant on the first pregnancy
1:06.6	and my ex-wife got pregnant,
1:08.0	so I have a lot of sperm left.
1:09.4	It's excellent sperm.
1:13.7	From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
1:20.9	For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,
1:26.1	how they got to be who they are,
1:29.4	and what they're thinking about and working on.
	...

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