Scott Galloway · 42:10
I, you know, I don't... I I did not think what he did rose to the level of, I don't know how the media was portraying it.
Kara Swisher · 42:20
I know. I think he's grifty McGrift from the start... From the go. He wasn't living there. Everything came out of his mouth was a lie, this guy. It's just... And he's such a ridiculous peacock and surrounded himself with such... I I get New York mayor has to be, like, a little bit grifty, but this guy was like
Scott Galloway · 42:35
Grifty ish?
Kara Swisher · 42:36
Grifty ish. You know? They all are. I mean, come on. I mean... But, you know, like, he's just... He's an embarrassment for a great city. He won a little greatness out of a mayor of of... You know, even back in the day, Rudy was... You know, I... Not... Actually, you know what? I didn't support Rudy. He was the thug to a lot of people.
Scott Galloway · 42:51
This is... But this is... It's so damaging to the Democratic brand because the Democratic brand, unfortunately, has been tarred with a broad but fairly fair brush of every democratically run city on the West Coast is a fucking shit show. They ignored drugs. They ignored crime, and they're just... The quality of life is awful. I said two years ago of Fox. If I were Fox, I would just broadcast live from Downtown San Francisco every day. And so the the center of democratic branding for politics moved to New York, which is actually performing quite well and still offers is still the best place in the world to go in terms of a crush of opportunity, culture, nightlife. New York really still is the best city in the world and represents the best of America and thereby the best of the Democratic Party. And now we have this bullshit. So it's really damaging on a lot of levels. I think governor Hochul should move in and say, to do a press release and say, I'm removing him as mayor.
Kara Swisher · 43:46
Who would you put in place?
Scott Galloway · 43:47
No. You know who I would ask? That's a good question. I just thought of it. I would ask mayor Bloomberg to step back in for a
Kara Swisher · 43:52
few minutes from there. I love it.
Scott Galloway · 43:54
I love Six to eighteen months until there's a special election.
Kara Swisher · 43:57
Great idea. Love it. Alright. Kathy, get on it. Alright. Last thing. The Gulf Of Mexico is now the Gulf Of America, at least on Google and Apple Maps in The US. Apparently, are consequences for not using the new name. Associated press reporters have now been barred from multiple White House events after AP continues to use Gulf Of Mexico in its reporting. The AP is calling this a violation of the First Amendment, but press secretary Carolyn Leavitt, also known as Tracy Flick, says we reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office. Oh my god. It's so stupid. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. I'm gonna call it the Gulf Of Scott. I don't give a fuck what people do to me if I do that.
Scott Galloway · 44:30
You saw you saw my thread or whatever it is. I can't keep track. I just put out gulf of distraction. That's all this is. I don't... You know? But what... Who cares? I don't I don't... Fine. Call it that. I I just don't
Kara Swisher · 44:43
It's so stupid. It's so stupid. It's so manifestly stupid. And I'm sure... I don't even think, like, oh, yay. We're calling you the Gulf Of America. Whatever.
Scott Galloway · 44:52
Yeah. We'll show them.
Kara Swisher · 44:53
We'll show them. I I gotta tell you. I... I'm loving the the the new president of Mexico so much. She's such a badass. I'm gonna try to interview her. Yeah. Shine bomb.
Scott Galloway · 45:02
Shine bomb, Claudia.
Kara Swisher · 45:02
She's like, fuck you. So, you know, But at the same time, she deals. She's a dealer too. Anyway, it's a distraction. Googly, you look like wimps, but whatever. You... And nobody looks good. I'm gonna call it the Gulf Of Scott. That's the end of it. Alright? Everybody?
Scott Galloway · 45:15
Appreciate that. Gulf Of Dog. Golf Of Dog.
Kara Swisher · 45:18
Do... Doggy. No. Dog. Golf Of Dog. No. Like Golf Of Scott. No. Golf Of Galloway sounds good. Right. Golf Of Galloway. It feels like America Scottish again. It feels like Ponce de Leon would have named it that. Golf Of Galloway. Anyway, alright. It's time for this week's threads poll. This one's open ended. What do you wish democrats would do in response to the Trump administration's actions? What do you wish? We've had our opinions on that. Something besides standing in front of a building and yelling. That's for sure. Visit us on threads at pivot podcast official to answer. By the way, have you noticed AOC is not outside of the buildings? She's not. Have you noticed that?
Scott Galloway · 45:56
She's very calculating.
Kara Swisher · 45:57
She does great online stuff. I'll tell you that. She heard Pete are killing him. She's killing him.
Scott Galloway · 46:02
She's not gonna be on the go to the alumni cheerleading day, where they have all these very cute 95 year olds dressed up in pom poms. She's an actual cheerleader. She's a gangster.
Kara Swisher · 46:11
She and Pete Buttigieg, I have to say, are very appealing.
Scott Galloway · 46:14
They're in the background managing their brand really strongly with an eye on twenty eight. And they're not gonna, like, go down in some sort of, like, angry near zombie apocalypse movie. Yeah. They're they're they're too smart. They're
Kara Swisher · 46:31
Yep. Mobile. Well, we would love our listeners to write in what do you think they should do. And no violence, please, if you don't mind. Alright, Scott. One more quick break. We'll be back for predictions.
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Kara Swisher · 48:59
Okay, Scott. Let's hear a prediction.
Scott Galloway · 49:01
So, you know, a broken clock can be right. I had... I I was a prediction machine last night, and I wrote a bunch down.
Kara Swisher · 49:08
You did? What what happened? What were you taking?
Scott Galloway · 49:11
No. I was actually I was actually sober, which is kind of frightening. Interesting. When I was talking about... When you said that that fuck, Mary, kill thing, I was talking about making sweet, sweet love to Mark Zuckerberg, and I thought I'd
Kara Swisher · 49:22
You're still thinking about it, aren't you?
Scott Galloway · 49:24
Oh my god. Can't get off it. Grabbing that chain, riding him like a dog, and singing, who's self harming now, you wanton bitch? Oh my god. My nipples are getting hard. And at that moment at that moment, I thought, maybe I don't need drugs. Maybe I don't need drugs. Anyways, this is all gonna come crashing down, Kara. Anyways, last time
Kara Swisher · 49:46
getting notes from Lara saying no. No. No. But I say yes. Yes. Yes.
Speaker · 49:49
And therefore
Scott Galloway · 49:50
If that's wrong, we don't wanna be right.
Kara Swisher · 49:52
Oh, you don't. Alright. Go ahead. Prediction.
Scott Galloway · 49:54
I think Tesla's about to experience its real first major existential crisis. Sales off. Oh gosh. They're off.
Kara Swisher · 50:01
Here you go again.
Scott Galloway · 50:02
They're off. Here I go again. I can't help it. I can't... I'm an addict. They're off 20 to 60% across European countries. They're off 15% in China. EV demand has... Appears to be plateauing. They are getting this shit kicked out of them by BYD. They haven't really released a new mass adoption product in about seven years.
Kara Swisher · 50:26
Have I been saying that? I have been saying that.
Scott Galloway · 50:29
And they have what is right now the worst brand ambassador in the world. Then my
Kara Swisher · 50:35
more that wanna buy those cars.
Scott Galloway · 50:37
Yeah. And then my more boring one is I really think Google is gonna... You're about to hear a lot of stories about Google search share falling below 90% at the hands of Perplexity, ChatGPT, and also Reddit. And I was even thinking just as YouTube has become the ultimate distribution platform in 2025, I think in '26, it's gonna be Reddit. There's just a bunch of... Like, there's so many moons lining up right now. I... I'm really, anyways, I think that Tesla is about to have, I can't help it. I'm just gonna say it now. Tesla stock is gonna be 200 in the next six months.
Kara Swisher · 51:19
Going there. You're fine. You're going there again. I love you. Once more into the breach, Scott Galloway.
Scott Galloway · 51:24
At some point, I'll be right.
Kara Swisher · 51:26
Well, the numbers are the... The math is math. Right? Look. They're do... They're... Before they were on the upswing in terms of, like, the quality of cars, what they were releasing, Instead, they're forced to sell things to Marco Rubio, who has to do whatever everybody says because he's such a such a beta. Just so you know, on that thing about, search, Atlantic Politico Vox, Jim Bankoff sent me this, another major publisher suing AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, escalating the news battles... Legal battle over the technology. That's from the Wall Street Journal. It's a Canadian company. It's valued at $5,000,000,000, and they're using thousands of copyrighted works to train its large language model. Anyway, pursuing. Tim Bangkoff on the attack. Atlantic Politico, they must have coordinated it altogether. Alright. So you you... Those are your two that that searches. Those are good. Those are big ones. Those are big ideas.
Scott Galloway · 52:15
We'll see. Right? Yeah. We'll see.
Kara Swisher · 52:18
Someday you're gonna be right. Anyway, you are right. You were right before in terms of the numbers. It just didn't matter. In this case, we'll see. We'll see what happens.
Scott Galloway · 52:26
Do you have any thoughts? Any predictions?
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Kara Swisher · 52:28
I... Predictions? I I predict I will buy yet another EV this year. I will. The Kia is getting a little long in the tooth. And I... I'm trying to debate whether to get the hybrid, which I think is really... Hybrids are growing like crazy.
Scott Galloway · 52:40
Oh, you know what we should do?
Kara Swisher · 52:42
What? What?
Scott Galloway · 52:42
And I'm serious about this. Alice, who I really respect, I would even call her a friend, a China analyst, Alice Han. She said, Scott, you should really... I haven't been to China since 2019. And I was saying, I was so excited about China, I went there probably two, three times a year, and I haven't been back since 2019. And she said, I'll take it. It'll be a ton of fun, and you'll meet with some interesting people. You and I should go to China, you should pick up your BYD and see if you can get it back to The US.
Kara Swisher · 53:06
Oh, interesting. And pay
Scott Galloway · 53:07
the import. Pay the tariff and bring it back.
Kara Swisher · 53:09
Let's go to China. Bet we're popular in Hong Kong. You know, we did we did my... One of my conferences here when I had a stroke there, as you know. Last time I was there, I had a stroke. That's fine.
Scott Galloway · 53:18
Yeah. The international tourism board is not... That's not gonna be on any billboards. Want a stroke? Come to Shenzhen.
Kara Swisher · 53:24
No. Let's go to China. Let's do it. That would be really interesting. China. We wanna come visit you, and we're gonna bring... But we're gonna drive it BYD. We're gonna drive it across the ocean.
Scott Galloway · 53:34
Reach out to us.
Kara Swisher · 53:35
Reach out to us. We're coming to China. We'll do an event. Whatever
Scott Galloway · 53:37
you want. And I've heard that the CCP is actually a good organization because I can't find anyone who would say anything else. Bring us to China.
Kara Swisher · 53:44
Bring us to China. They're so good. Alright. Let's do it. Let's do it in 2020
Scott Galloway · 53:48
see Wicked.
Kara Swisher · 53:48
After we see... We're going to see Wicked, my friend.
Scott Galloway · 53:51
We could see Wicked in Beijing. That'd be interesting.
Kara Swisher · 53:53
Oh, are they let people? It's all about a surveillance economy? I wonder how big it is.
Scott Galloway · 53:57
I have no idea.
Kara Swisher · 53:58
Do you know what... What are you doing this weekend? Anything interesting?
Scott Galloway · 54:01
What am I... Oh, yeah. I'm going to... It's funny. I paused there because I feel like I rub my wealth in people's face. I'm going to Zermatt. I'm going to Zermatt on Saturday.
Kara Swisher · 54:10
Alright. That's
Scott Galloway · 54:11
not really far from where you want. Supposedly, we have this ridiculously hot ski instructor. So Yeah. Okay.
Kara Swisher · 54:16
You know where I'm going? I'm going to SNL's fiftieth concert.
Scott Galloway · 54:20
Really? Mhmm. Is it a concert or a showing?
Kara Swisher · 54:22
There's a... No. There's gonna be a show on Saturday. I'm just going to the concert the night before. It's at Radio City Musical.
Scott Galloway · 54:26
That sounds really cool.
Kara Swisher · 54:28
Anyway, we wanna hear from you. Send us your questions about business tech or whatever's on your mind. Go to nymag.com/pivot. Submit a question for the show or call 85551 Okay, Scott. That's the show. We'll be back next week with more pivot. Please read us out.
Scott Galloway · 54:41
Today's show is produced by Lara Nayman, Soe Marcus, and Taylor Griffin. Bernie and Todd engineered this episode. Thanks also to Drew Breus, Mia Savaria, and Dan Shulan. And, Vox Media's executive producer of audio, make sure you subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening to Pivot from New York Magazine and Vox Media. You can subscribe to the magazine at nymag.com/pod. We'll be back next week for another breakdown of all things tech and business care. Have a great weekend.
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