Inside Elon Musk’s Obsession With Building a ‘Legion’ of Super Babies | Pivot

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway dig into Trump’s attacks on The Fed and Harvard, Nvidia’s plans to manufacture supercomputers in the United States, and what we learned from Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony at the Meta antitrust trial. Plus, a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal details how Elon Musk is obsessed with building a “legion” of babies, and how he’s recruiting women to help achieve that objective. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 10:03 Trump Calls Out Fed Chair 17:44 Trump vs. Harvard 27:52 Elon’s “Legion” of Babies 39:01 NVIDIA’s ‘Made in the USA’ Plans 40:35 Zuck on the Stand 49:08 Google Loses Monopoly Case 51:37 Predictions #pivot #podcast #karaswisher #scottgalloway #donaldtrump #jeromepowell #harvard #elonmusk #pronatalism #nvidia #meta #markzuckerberg #google #antitrust #monopoly Producers: Lara Naaman Zoë Marcus Taylor Griffin Video Editor: Jim Mackil Vox Media's Executive Producer of Podcasts: Nishat Kurwa Subscribe to Pivot on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719 Subscribe to Pivot on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4MU3RFGELZxPT9XHVwTNPR Follow us on Instagram and Threads at: https://www.instagram.com/pivotpodcastofficial Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@PIVOTPODCAST Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or at https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot

Kara SwisherhostScott GallowayhostJerome PowellguestGuest commentatorguest

Apr 18, 20251h 4mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: April 18, 2025
Duration: 1h 4m
Channel: Pivot
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway dig into Trump’s attacks on The Fed and Harvard, Nvidia’s plans to manufacture supercomputers in the United States, and what we learned from Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony at the Meta antitrust trial. Plus, a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal details how Elon Musk is obsessed with building a “legion” of babies, and how he’s recruiting women to help achieve that objective. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 10:03 Trump Calls Out Fed Chair 17:44 Trump vs. Harvard 27:52 Elon’s “Legion” of Babies 39:01 NVIDIA’s ‘Made in the USA’ Plans 40:35 Zuck on the Stand 49:08 Google Loses Monopoly Case 51:37 Predictions #pivot #podcast #karaswisher #scottgalloway #donaldtrump #jeromepowell #harvard #elonmusk #pronatalism #nvidia #meta #markzuckerberg #google #antitrust #monopoly Producers: Lara Naaman Zoë Marcus Taylor Griffin Video Editor: Jim Mackil Vox Media's Executive Producer of Podcasts: Nishat Kurwa Subscribe to Pivot on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719 Subscribe to Pivot on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4MU3RFGELZxPT9XHVwTNPR Follow us on Instagram and Threads at: https://www.instagram.com/pivotpodcastofficial Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@PIVOTPODCAST Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or at https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot

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Kara Swisher
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Scott Galloway
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Jerome Powell
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Pivot, featuring Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, Inside Elon Musk’s Obsession With Building a ‘Legion’ of Super Babies | Pivot explores elon’s ‘super babies,’ Trump’s power grabs, and revolt of elites Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway tear through a packed week: the cultural backlash to the Katy Perry/Blue Origin ‘space ride,’ Trump’s escalating assaults on institutional independence from the Fed to Harvard, and Elon Musk’s ideologically driven quest to father a “legion” of genetically superior children. They tie the online mockery of billionaire vanity projects to deeper rage over inequality and the sense that the ultra-rich are rebranding narcissism as heroism or feminism. The hosts also unpack antitrust developments involving Meta and Google, immigration crackdowns, and international trade tensions as evidence of a broader authoritarian, anti-expert turn. Throughout, they argue that business leaders, universities, and public officials are reaching (or must reach) a breaking point and begin openly resisting Trump-era politicization and billionaire excess.

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