Twitter Competitors, Lab Leak Theory, and Guest Mehdi Hasan

Pivot

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Kara and Scott discuss Tesla’s “Master Plan 3,” and TikTok's new time limits. Also, the world of Twitter competitors is growing with Jack Dorsey’s new app Bluesky joining the ranks. Plus, the COVID-19 lab leak theory got a heated boost this week. Friend of Pivot Mehdi Hasan joins to help us definitively decide whether or not Kara’s Chevy Bolt is sexy. You can find Mehdi on Twitter at @mehdirhasan, and you can find his book “Win Every Argument The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking” here. Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.6	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm
1:25.0	Cara Swisher from Los Angeles, how you doing Scott? Wow, from LA. That's, what are you doing in
1:31.0	LA? I mean, by the way, I'm in London, but what are you doing in LA? I'm here in LA for the
1:35.5	upfront summit hosted by upfront ventures, and I'll be interviewing among other people, Jamie Lee
1:40.2	Curtis, and also the head of universal pictures, Donna Langley, together about her about her
1:48.8	Oscar thing, them about the Oscars essentially. And then I'm interviewing Mark Benioff, which I
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1:58.2	So we're going to go back and forth here. And then I'm appearing on the Love It show, the John Love It
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