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Pivot

Trouble at Basecamp, Bezos fights for the moon, and a listener question about dating apps

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott talk about controversies at Basecamp, as the company rolled out a new ban on internal political talk. They also discuss Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin petitioning to have NASA revisit the contract it awarded SpaceX to land on the Moon by 2024. In listener mail, we get a question on the Bumble IPO and the future of dating apps. Scott predicts that Elon Musk's SNL appearance may land him in legal troubles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher.

0:08.7

In Daddy's hungover. I see that. I knew you went out less than you went out with Joanna

0:12.0

Coles in you. You had a party. We went in. She assembled some like super interesting

0:17.8

friends. I brought a candle because I like Joanna and I just think you need to bring

0:23.4

a candle. You're semity or whatever, right? I pinged my assistant and said, I just have

0:28.0

no idea what to get this person. She's impressive and smart. I don't want it to be. She's

0:33.4

like a candle. I'm like, that's genius. A candle is perfect for all of this.

0:37.2

Did you get her to go in and throw vagina candle? No, those are just for me.

0:42.0

Okay. No, I got her the dip cheek. Oh, yeah, that's the one. That's the fancy one. That's

0:47.9

the one when you don't know what to buy rich people. That's what you buy them.

0:51.2

100, hello, hello. So daddy, daddy hung out with Joanna Coles and Jack is in Jack

0:58.4

Daniels and I'm paying the price now. Yeah. I knew. I knew. I wouldn't even want to

1:02.0

think about a party between you. I heard she has a hip apartment and everything else

1:05.2

because she's a hip-laid. She is super hip. She is super. She is super hip.

1:08.9

Oh, but you know what? I invited my Twitter boyfriend, George Hahn. The first time I got to

1:13.0

meet him. And he's lovely. He's smart, funny and handsome. I think a really nice, I don't

1:20.0

know. Real authentic and real soul. Was the meeting awkward? The initial meeting since you

1:23.9

were Twitter pals? No, we like each other. It kind of was nice. It was sort of when I was

1:28.8

thinking about one of the one of the nice things or I don't know from from tragedy comes inspiration.

1:36.4

He's a guy I met or I just started corresponding with on Twitter and we've become friends and

1:40.8

it was just very rewarding to finally get a chance to meet in person. Well, that's nice. He could

1:44.8

have been a stalker like a crazy person. I could use a couple stalkers. That is fair.

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