Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway argue through tech, media, and Trump-era politics twice weekly.
Pivot tracks the places where tech, politics, markets, and media power keep crashing into each other. The tone is blunt and fast, with sharp pivots from Iran war spin to OpenAI strategy, court losses, cabinet optics, and social media backlash.
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Pivot pairs journalist Kara Swisher, who also hosts the separate interview podcast On with Kara Swisher, with Scott Galloway, an NYU Stern marketing professor who runs the show's 'Resist and Unsubscribe' segment. The show publishes on a Tuesday/Friday schedule and alternates between panel-style news roundups and interview episodes with outside guests. Recurring subject matter includes competitive dynamics among AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft), corporate media consolidation (the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal and Netflix's exit from that bidding war), and U.S. political news covering Trump administration cabinet changes, approval polling, and legal challenges to executive actions. Interview episodes have featured Minnesota Governor Tim Walz discussing immigration enforcement and Democratic strategy, and actress-activist Jane Fonda discussing climate organizing and resistance tactics. The hosts editorialize openly, offering predictions and blunt verdicts on business deals and political events rather than delivering neutral reporting. Episodes carry sponsor reads from enterprise software, legal-AI, and data companies near the top. Some episodes draw on or cross-reference material from Swisher's other podcast work. The format is conversational and bantering between two co-hosts rather than scripted narration, with occasional guest interviews breaking up the twice-weekly news format. Listeners get a mix of tech-industry gossip, media-business analysis, and opinionated political commentary in each episode.
Made for: Listeners who follow tech and media industry news alongside U.S. political developments and prefer opinionated, insider-style commentary over neutral reporting.
What sets it apart: Unlike single-host tech news shows, Pivot runs on the friction between a journalist and a business-school professor, including Galloway's recurring corporate-roast segment 'Resist and Unsubscribe.'
With great power, comes great scrutiny. Every Tuesday and Friday, journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Pivot makes the power relationships among technology, business, and politics legible through pointed questions, financial reasoning, and energetic disagreement.
Pivot works by putting Kara Swisher's blunt questioning against Scott Galloway's market-minded argument, then letting disagreement sharpen the analysis.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway turn corporate talking points into a contact sport, with you ringside.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A sharp, fast read on Trump, cabinet optics, and when loyalty starts looking like tolerated incompetence.
Pivot treats Washington personnel drama as a question of optics, not just ideology. The hosts zero in on cabinet-shakeup talk and the way Donald Trump judges public failure: who looks competent, who looks foolish, and who becomes a bad visual.
A sharp Pivot conversation about political spin, social media tribalism, and the public backlash against tech power.
Pivot uses a messy political week as the frame, with Iran war spin, Trump's legal losses, and TMZ's interest in politicians sitting behind a larger argument about who gets to shape public reality.
A sharp live Pivot episode on resistance, corporate caution, and the cost of leaders choosing spin over spine.
Pivot turns a live Minneapolis stop into a blunt argument about power, trust, and the obligation to keep pushing back when political pressure does not fade on its own.
A sharp, skeptical Pivot episode on media consolidation, Nvidia's surge, and AI's collision with power.
Pivot works best when it treats the Paramount-Warner Bros. bid as a power story, not a romance about media empires. The dealmaking section has the most bite: Ted is cast as disciplined and effective, Zazz gets credit for a shareholder-friendly jump from $7 to $31 a share, and…
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WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Sharp political debate with policy detail and real disagreement.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor track the US-Iran war and Trump's foreign policy moves.
Pivot opens with sponsor reads from Retool, Harvey AI, and MongoDB before the transcript cuts to the start of the conversation.
SAS frames the episode with a 50-year history in data and AI and says it built around “transparency, governance, and trust” long before responsible AI was trendy.
Visuals drive the verdict.
America is 80 years out again.
This episode of Pivot discusses current events including Iran policy questions, SpaceX's potential IPO plans, and a White House app, featuring hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Calloway.
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A business and tech news podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
A podcast offering sharp, unfiltered insights and bold predictions on the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
This episode discusses billionaire campaign spending, Apple's budget gamble, and a debate between Hegseth and CNN, with sponsor ads for MongoDB, SAS, and BackMarket.
A tech and business news podcast where hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
Target gets roasted.
This episode discusses political developments including Kristi Noem's situation, ongoing tensions with Iran, and Talarico's victory, interspersed with sponsor messages from MongoDB, SAS, and BackMarket.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with sharp insights and bold predictions.
The deal talk gets blunt fast.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with sharp insights and bold predictions.
A tech and business news podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in technology, business, and politics.
Jane Fonda turns despair into action.
This episode discusses controversies involving Google Nest's surveillance practices, Bondi's connection to Epstein, and legal cases against Meta and YouTube.
A business and tech commentary podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
A business and tech commentary podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with sharp insights and bold predictions.
A podcast offering sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with bold predictions and banter.
A business and tech news podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
A podcast offering sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with bold predictions and banter.
The episode begins with sponsor ads for Grow Therapy, Thumbtack, and Odoo, typical of a business and tech news podcast.
A podcast where journalists Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with sharp insights and bold predictions.
A tech and business news podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with sharp insights and bold predictions.
A business and tech commentary podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
A business and tech news podcast where hosts discuss and analyze the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics.
Kara Swisher interviews Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about the company's use of AI and its push into autonomous vehicles.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss his book 'Notes on Being a Man' and explore themes of masculinity, personal stories, and advice in this holiday episode.
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A news and politics podcast offering sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics with bold predictions and banter.