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Pope Leo’s AI Warning, UFC at the White House, and CBS Shakeups

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What's up y'all, I'm Skylar Diggins, seven time WNBA All-Star, Olympic Gold Medalist, and Mom. And I'm Cassidy Hubbard, host and reporter for nearly 20 years, covering the biggest names and stories in sports. And Mom. And this is And Mom, a community for athletes, game changers, and moms of all kinds. Dropping May 14th. Tap in with us. 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 Kara Swisher. And I'm, where am I? I'm Scott Galloway. Sorry, chat lines is what I have. Scott, how is your tour going? I've gotten reports from the Castro about you. You were in my neighborhood. Yes, I was. And 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, excuse me, yeah. Recently renovated. It's great. It was sold out.

One of my, a couple of my role models were there. David Acker, who is, whose course I teach now, who's 88 and changed my life. Teats brand strategy at Haas. The chancellor of Berkeley who was there, who let me in with a 2.27 GPA. Nice. 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. You know, the Castro Theater, the 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 that 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 night, the evening dinner shift. There you go. So he said 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 L.A. and it's my favorite place to visit in the world. I describe L.A. as the world's most successful failed nation state. It's kind of, I think of it as P capitalism here. There's more billionaires in L.A. 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. Mm-hmm. 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. Yeah, yeah.

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