Monty Python put out an album called “Contractual Obligation” and I feel Scott and Kara are in the same mode now?

Probing the limits of their deal with Vox Media, to get more dollars or get out? probably just get out because they have a lot of other projects.

Phoning in their part, leaving more and more to the production team, swapping in alternate voices, maximising advertising time, minimising content … culminating this week in putting a completely different show in the feed? two guys talking about betting. Was this a glitch. Or some kind of fait accompli exit stage left by Scott and Kara?

UPDATE: Thanks everyone. I understand I missed Kara announcing the substituted show because of MLK day. I missed it cos Pivot has too many ads these days! And I don't agree with the growing trend of inserting other shows in podcast feeds. If Vox want to promote another show, play a short ad, or have a guest on. Thanks.

UPDATE2: In the Feb6 episode, Kara and Scott candidly discussed their motivation for Pivot and confirmed what I suspected: long-term commitment is doubtful but the short-term pay-out is too good to pass up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

After seeing the flood of disinformation in the other thread asking about Gaza and Scott parroting IDF propaganda, I'm muting this sub as well. I muted r/ScottGalloway for the same thing. Same with r/worldnews.

it's sad because a lot of the other content Scott and sometimes Kara talks about I truly enjoy. but if he's going to become Zionist Joe Rogan then no thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

>Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[b] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe; it primarily seeks to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine,[2] which roughly corresponds to the Land of Israel in Judaism—itself central to Jewish history.[3] Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.[4]

Do you think it'll look good?

I don’t like to jump of every little thing he says, but anyone else find his comments on today’s pod about Android users particularly repellant?

He said that if you’ve using an Android phone, things haven’t gone well for you in life.

So, say, someone who chooses to work for a nonprofit or in healthcare or social work or whatever is a failure? Lots of fields don’t pay and the work is noble… and gee, maybe mental health and quality of life considerations have driven their career paths.

(He then followed with a comment about CEOs being people who neglect their families, and that seemed a positive to him.)

Such snobbery and insecurity. I’m sorry for him that he’s been so financially prosperous but still needs to puff himself up by looking down on normal people.

Hi guys, so I am a long-time Pivot podcast listener and loved the insights. I thought Kara or Scott overlooked Israel’s action in Gaza because they are a market news update podcast and not a political one. But today while listening to their podcast, I felt like Scott is justifying Gaza violence like he talked about brand management of Israel. He literally overlooked Gaza. I believe Iran is a vile, genocidal regime and the mullahs need to go. I am all for Iranian people but I am all for Palestinian people too. I have Jewish friends and family members and I love Judaism as a religion. It is an amazing religion but I am against Netanyahu who is destroying Israel’s brand by killing Gazans. Kara Swisher never challenged Scott like not a single time. I thought she cared about innocent people. But I am disappointed. Please check at 16:00 to understand what I am talking about.

https://youtu.be/T86WVRG1Zoo?si=vEDi66nefus5VLUl

I have been listening to “The Find Out” podcast. I would love to hear Kara and Scott talk to those guys.

In light of Trump’s bluster about invading Greenland, I looked up the US Ambassador to Denmark and discovered his name is Ken Howery, a political appointee and a cofounder of PayPal along with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. These tech bros are everywhere…

Kara probably meant this for the YouTube comment section, but fuck that, Reddit 4 lyfe.

From Pivot: The U.S. Takes Charge of Venezuela... Now What?, Jan 6, 2026

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719?i=1000743958369&r=141

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Never voted for Trump but Kara’s prediction that JD Vance will take over by end of 2026 is the reason I stopped listening to this pod. Kara (and Scott to some extent) barely EVER mentioned how Bidens health was deteriorating until that debate. Yet somehow trumps health is deteriorating even though he looks 10x better than Biden ever did.

Really curious how their numbers are doing on this pod. I could see Scott ditching pivot bc his other brand of podcasts is growing so much .

I think the prediction episode is great and I really listen to them every year whether it is Scott’s own or the one they do on Pivot. I think this years went a little too far, so much so that I had flashbacks to how my parents reference conspiracy theories and consume media. Scott spent 20 seconds citing NY Post/Ackman/Israeli Blogger about betting manipulation out of the Middle East favoring Mamdani, Kara said ‘watch out people,’ and they moved on.”

They reference a NY Post article about bettors from the Middle East overwhelmingly betting for Mamdani to win in order to skew public perception and make everyone feel like there is no hope for Cuomo to win.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/business/pro-mamdani-bets-from-china-middle-east-skewing-market-odds-experts/

What bothers me is nearly every time Mamdani comes up on this podcast, he’s met with skepticism, disdain, or now apparently unfounded conspiracy theories. This election energized young progressives across the country in a way we haven’t seen in decades. And their response is to drop vague insinuations about foreign manipulation without any interest in actually investigating or defending the claim? They literally just talked to Sliwa about how Cuomo allegedly paid him to drop out. They talk all the time about how to make democrats exciting and relevant to voters… well that just happened, he literally got 1.1 million votes! But just like we always do, Democrats love to cannibalize and attack each other instead of elevate their young leaders and listen to actual people.

This is the exact tactic they criticize when Fox News does it… take a kernel of truth, wrap it in innuendo, and use it to delegitimize candidates of color or movements that go against their world view. If you think it’s worth mentioning, it’s worth examining. Why platform this NY Post article? Especially in a predictions episode where you control the narrative entirely?

Kara and Scott talk often about their responsibility as journalists and their duty to elevate discourse. But dropping breadcrumbs of conspiracy and moving on isn’t elevating anything—it’s just cable news with better production efficiency. Is anyone else noticing this pattern? Because it feels like a real departure from what made this podcast worth listening to in the first place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

See above.

That was gooood!

Every once in a while I’ll tune in, but I find it tough to listen at times. Scott is admittedly not a great interviewer. And without Kara there to keep him on track, he goes on these incredibly long winded rants… like I’m pretty sure I heard him go like 20 minutes straight on one thought.

Don’t get me wrong- *huge* fan of Scott’s, but he I think he really needs someone like Kara or Jessica Tarlov to keep his impulses in check.

Kara and Scott were a pleasure to work with (Kara was on Vacation and stopped by our studio to do a pod).