Pope Leo’s AI Warning, UFC at the White House, and CBS Shakeups
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You know, you could call me for free and I would probably do a better job.
You're not available. And by the way, define free.
Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher.
Where am I?
What are the Enhanced Games and how do they differ from traditional sports?
I'm Scott Galloway. Sorry, jet lag is what I am.
Scott, how is your tour going? I've gotten reports from the Castro about you. You were in my neighborhood.
Yes, I was in what is one of the most beautiful new theaters.
Isn't it? Oh, my gosh. Gorgeous. Yeah. It's not new. It's really old, and they just renovated it.
Renovated it. Excuse me. Yeah. Recently renovated. It's great. It was sold out. A couple of my role models were there. David Ocker, whose course I teach now, who's 88 and changed my life. Deeds Brand Strategy at Haas. The chancellor of Berkeley who was there, who let me in with a 2.27 GPA. My sister, my niece, my nephew. So it was a nice night, as I often do. And talking about the AIDS crisis in the 90s, I started crying. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, the Castro Theater, a straight white man with erectile dysfunction crying. Yeah, that sounds about right. Oh, and the marching band. The marching band was there.
My lawyer, Jesse Berg, sent me. He loves Pivot, and he said it was really fun, and it was really good. I'm sad. Louis could not go. My son lives a block, two blocks away, essentially. Yeah. And he was working. He's a chef, and so he had the evening dinner shift. There you go. He was sad, but he wished you well. So how's it going? Where are you going next? What's your next thing?
Well, I'm here. I'm back. I only went up for the show. I'm back in LA, and that's my favorite place to visit in the world. I describe LA as the world's most successful failed nation state. I think of it as peak capitalism here. There's more billionaires in LA than anywhere else but New York, but meanwhile, 75,000 homeless. Yeah. And it feels like, I would say it's a town built on delusion, but delusion and creativity can sometimes create a lot of shareholder value. Yeah, yeah. And I just, I absolutely love Los Angeles. I think it's, you know what it's turning into, Cara? What? What is it turning into? It's turning into San Francisco and that now everyone shitposts Los Angeles.
They do. That's the city. Because San Francisco looks good and it's thriving.
Yeah, San Francisco's on the rebound.
For sure.
And it doesn't hurt that about, what is it, about $150 billion is about to become liquid on $4 trillion in liquid currency. Right, yeah. By the way, in San Francisco, rents last month, one month, one-bedroom rents up 24%. Everyone's spending their money before they have it. Pending luxury home sales nationally are up 4%. In San Francisco, they're up 48%.
Oh, I know. Back in the first dot-com thing, I had people knocking on my door to buy my house, and I have people knocking on my door to buy my house again. And I'm like, no. But it's interesting because lesser-priced houses, which are not lesser-priced, they're in the $1 million, $2 million range, aren't selling as well. But the really above $3 million to $7 million, $8 million are really going crazy. It's a crazy market, but I'm glad Daniel's – I mean, it has been on the rebound for a while. But, yes, Los Angeles is in that same we-hate-ourselves spiral, hence Spencer Pratt. But Los Angeles is a wonderful city at the same time. You know, it's just – you know, it's sort of West Side white people that get all mad about whatever.
And some of them not even in Los Angeles.
I will say, and you always sound like a Karen, but – I used to say LA is a string of suburbs connected by freeways. Now I would say it's a string of bubbles. The quote unquote right parts of LA are euphoric, they're magical. You venture outside those bubbles and you see a little too much of the real world, which is good for people, but the homeless issue really is staggering here. It is. Relative to the amount of money they spend, I can, you really feel, it's really interesting here. It feels like the mayoral race here, if there were a movie, it'd be Sophie's Choice, personally, that's how I would describe it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:17
2
What are the Enhanced Games and how do they differ from traditional sports?
0:17–5:52
3
How does Pope Leo's encyclical address the risks of AI?
5:52–14:14
4
What are the implications of Trump potentially merging Tesla and SpaceX?
14:14–35:36
5
How does the UFC event at the White House reflect on current political culture?
35:36–1:04:59
6
What is the significance of the DOJ's investigation into E. Jean Carroll?
1:04:59–1:20:25
Speakers
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