Trump's Third Term Tease | Pivot

How many hours a night do you sleep?

Four hours, five hours. Sometimes, I sleep a long time. I might want to sleep after this show. (instrumental music) Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher.

And I'm Scott Galloway.

And today, we have a listener mailbag for you, because we love our listeners, we love our fans. By the way, everyone's come up to me in the past couple of weeks, thank you, I appreciate it. And they all say hello to Scott. Um, but now we're going to listen to them. So let's listen to the first one.

Hey, Scott and Kara. I'm always amazed when I'm listening to you all on 2x speed how quickly you're able to pull up facts and stats to back up your points and give more texture to them. As somebody who's less, uh, up to speed on how podcasts are run, how are you able to get your information so quickly? Are you on ChatGPT looking these things up? Do you have it prepared ahead of time? Or do you have a whole team of people who are looking these things up for you? I would love a better idea of how the sausage is made. And yes, I just handed you a dick joke too. Thank you so much. Bye.

Well, well, well, well, let me just tell you something. We have producers, and we have great producers and writers and researchers. Scott has a bunch. And they give us a whole script of information and, some of which we use, some of which we don't, but it's at our fingertips. We also know a lot of stuff. We also ourselves know a lot of stuff and have been covering things or talking about them. But sc- Scott, you can talk about what you use. I know you use, uh, ChatGPT and, and other things much more than I do. But, um, we have lots of amazing people. For this show, I'll call them out, Lara Naiman, uh, Zoe Marcus, and Taylor Griffin, for example. And Scott?

Yeah, so, uh, first is, and I'm not a humble person, I have an aptitude for numbers and I like data, but more than anything, uh, greatness is in the agency of others. And I have... People think that it's us producing this content. We obviously have our producers here. My small media company has 18 people, and I have three people who do nothing but try and find interesting data. And also, my trick is, when I find an interesting piece of data myself, I text it to my data team and I ask them to incorporate it in my presentations, and then I will write it down on my Apple Notes to try and cement it in my memory. So for example, yesterday, I saw a piece of data that just blew me away and I wrote it down, and it'll show up on my next deck when I do a speaking engagement, and that piece of data was the following. Uh, over 50% of 18 to 24-year-old males have never asked a woman out in person. And I thought that was so illuminating and horrifying, um, that I wrote it down, and you can, you can bet you're going to hear it again across all my different media channels. So, greatness is in the agency of others, but also when you find an interesting piece of data, it's not like I'm some Svengali that can just recall shit. I write it down and I use it over and over such that it becomes a static part of my wet matter.