Kara and Scott discuss Elon's ultimatum to federal workers, his bizarre chainsaw-wielding appearance at CPAC, and the paternity lawsuit brought by a right-wing influencer. Then, Trump fires several high-ranking military leaders, and brings in podcaster and former Fox News personality Dan Bongino as Deputy FBI director. Plus, the markets try to rebound after a dramatic plunge, Amazon takes control of the James Bond franchise, and new polling shows nobody likes Mark Zuckerberg. 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 at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
And I'm Scott Galloway.
Scott, I'm exhausted. And not just by Elon Musk.
What's up? What's going on?
I moved my house. I was in an apartment. I'm sitting here in the empty apartment right now. And moving sucks, Scott Galloway.
So let me just give you a couple of pro tips on moving.
Let your wife do it.
The first is you leave town.
Yeah.
And the second is you give your partner, whoever's actually charged with moving, limitless funds and just say, please just accidentally let me know when it's all done. And then I will find reason why my business trips ends. But no, you should not be involved in moving areas.
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Chapter 2: Why is Elon Musk demanding federal workers' accomplishments?
Yeah, I know. It's true. It's true. Zip recruiter. Yeah. Yeah. I need to. Louie's graduating NYU. I'm going to need to stay there because I can't deal with the hotel.
Oh, is that right? Okay. I'll tell you. Send me the dates.
Yeah. We'll have a big party. Or just show up.
They let everyone up anyways.
They do. They're like, oh, yeah.
I'm not exaggerating. When I walk in there, the first thing I do is I go, hello? Because there's a good chance someone's going to go, oh, hey, Scott. Yeah, we got in last Thursday.
Best hotel in New York.
We brought our St. Bernard and my cousins. Is that okay?
Best hotel in New York. And you know what? The only good thing about moving is I was blessfully not paying attention to news this weekend, which was horrible. Let me just say there was so much bad news that it was lovely not to be paying attention to it in any way when you're moving boxes. So we've got a lot to get to today, including Elon's chainsaw moment. You had some very funny moments.
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Chapter 3: How is Trump's latest military shake-up affecting the government?
You're bringing into the world a child that has a tremendous disadvantage relative to other kids who are brought into loving households with either one or two women who decide to ensure that there are men involved in this kid's life. And it creates a host of issues as someone who has been asking themselves for a long time, why did my dad not decide to be involved in my life?
And what it ends up is that it is harder and more damaging for boys to deal with this than girls.
Yeah, that's true. Women just marry shitty men. So, the women I know. Anyway, don't be a shitty father, men. like Elon Musk, obviously. So obviously, yes. Okay, Scott, let's go on a quick break. When we come back, Trump's military purge in his latest hire. Support for Pivot comes from the NPR podcast, Tech Unheard.
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Chapter 4: Why is the stock market experiencing volatility?
And going on Bill Maher, his kind of real time or videos of his earnings calls, his full embrace, wrapping himself in the flag. I think he's managed his brand really well. He's been aggressive. He's taken risks and they paid off. And the result is the company trades at like 90 times revenues. It's insanely overvalued, although it's dropped about 20% in the last few trading days.
I just like, Mark, nobody likes you. They just don't. They've never have, not since the movie. And let me tell you, that tracks in real life, too, for people who don't know. Just like I could not get away fast enough from Mark Zuckerberg. All right. Although we like the chains, Mark. We do like the chains. All right, Scott, one more quick break. We'll be back for wins and fails.
All right.
Okay, Scott, let's hear some wins and fails. Would you like to go first or shall I?
You go first, Cara.
Well, the German election, I think, you know, even though Europe is going to have to pull its own, put its shoulder into it, the Conservative Party won, but the ADF did. This is a fail, I guess. What's happening in Germany is young people, they're voting for Europe. It's interesting because the left had a big surge.
I'm going to read something from a friend of mine who's German who gave me some insight, was showing me sort of the election results by age. Young people really leaned into the left party 25% and 20% for the right party, which was interesting. So they're really going...
The young people are going different directions, 18 to 24, versus the older people who stayed with the conservative party or the version of the Democrats. The Greens lost some ground. Obviously, the version of Democrats called the SPD lost ground. The CDU will now form a government, but they have to get together with others.
And this is what my friend wrote, as expected, young voters voting extreme, highly influenced by social media, unclear how long it will take to build a government. Schultz, the chancellor, did the Biden by not stepping down in time. Big questions about the transatlantic relationship. Metz is an old fashioned transatlanticist, but with supporting ADF, we'll see a baseline.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Amazon's acquisition of the James Bond franchise?
That's a good idea.
You know what? They're great guests. They're really smart. That was a really amazing insight into what's happening.
Higher propensity of depression also.
Yeah, I know.
I'm having the big handsome. Actually, I'm trying to get the big handsome guy on. He has a book out called Lucky Loser. What big handsome guy? Oh, he's like a big handsome guy. He also wears Tommy Bahama. He's dreamy.
Oh, okay. All right, get them all on.
Speaking of which, have you watched Reacher on Amazon?
I love Reacher, of course. I love the original Tom Cruise movies, and I watch it on Amazon, absolutely.
But I'm so fascinated by... What it says about America, it used to be that the heroes were especially skilled or amazing fighters or super smart. Now it's just, I'm just so fucking big I can solve every problem.
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