00:00:00
how many hours a night do you sleep four hours five hours sometimes I sleep a long time I might want to sleep after
00:00:05
this show hi everyone this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the VOX media podcast Network I'm Cara swisser and I'm Scott
00:00:17
Galloway and today we have a listener mailbag for you because we love our listeners we love our fans by the way
00:00:23
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
00:00:28
but now we're going to listen to them so let's listen to the first one hey Scott and Cara I'm always amazed when I'm
00:00:35
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
00:00:49
run how are you able to get your information so quickly are you on chat gbt looking these things up do you have
00:00:54
it prepared ahead of time or do you have a whole team of people who are looking these things up for you I would a better
00:01:00
idea of how the sausage is made and yes I've just handed you a dick joke too thank you so much bye well well well
00:01:07
well let me just tell you something we have a producers and we have great producers and writers and researchers
00:01:13
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
00:01:18
it's at our fingertips we also know a lot of stuff we also ourselves know a lot of stuff and have been covering
00:01:24
things or talking about them but Scott you can talk about what you use I know you use chat GPT and and and
00:01:30
other things much more than I do but um we have lots of amazing people for this show I'll call them out Lara non uh Zoe
00:01:37
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
00:01:49
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
00:02:01
and find interesting data and also my trick is when I find an interesting piece of data myself I text it to my
00:02:07
data team and I asked them to incorporate it in my presentations and then I will write it down on my Apple
00:02:12
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
00:02:17
wrote it down and it'll show up in my next deck when I do a speaking engagement and that piece of data was
00:02:23
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
00:02:36
you you can bet you're going to hear it again across all my different media channels so greatness is in the agency
00:02:41
of others but also when you find an interesting piece of data it's not like I'm some sangal that can just recall
00:02:47
[ __ ] I write it down and I use it over and over such that it becomes a static part of my wet matter yeah but we do we
00:02:53
do work from scripts but we're very loose with them and at the same time they're critical and necessary so we can give you the right facts CU and we have
00:02:59
fact checkers by the way also so that if we get anything wrong and that by that I mean Scott um we can we can uh we can
00:03:06
check them very quickly or change them so we spent a lot of there's time on that a lot of podcasts do not do that
00:03:11
but we do 98 of lesbians end up divorced okay all right 9 not getting divorce ever my wife is wonderful anyway uh Scott the next one comes from a Tik Tock
00:03:22
employee how exciting let's listen hi Karen Scott it's me your girl in Austin Texas um I am a current Tik Tock employee and I feel like we have been
00:03:34
left out of the conversations surrounding Tik Tok entirely um there's a thousand employees just in the city
00:03:41
that I live in um and there's many thousand more throughout the US and I'm just wondering what are current Tik Tock employees in the US supposed to do are
00:03:51
we sticking around do you think we should jump ship uh please let me know thank you so much bye H I think there's going to be a deal soon I if I'm going to make a prediction here Scott usually
00:04:02
makes his predictions but I think there's going to be it's being the process is being run by JD Vance and
00:04:08
Mike walz um and I think they're trying to figure out there's a way that the bigger us owners probably be Elon or Ellison L Ellison or something like that
00:04:19
I don't know what to say if you if Elon buys it do you want to work for Elon Musk if Elon gets the big shot which of
00:04:24
course he's he loves he's grifting around all over the government so maybe he'll get it do you want want to work
00:04:30
for him um I think you have skills that are transferable everywhere in terms of what you're doing at Tik Tok what a
00:04:36
great product away from all the michig around the ownership in the Chinese government um so I don't know I might
00:04:43
wait and see to see until the deal is done Scott humans will do almost anything to
00:04:48
avoid pain and a subset of pain is the unknown not knowing what's going to happen and so I get a lot of calls like
00:04:55
this when companies are in play being acquired not doing well should I leave um is it going to be shut down so this is that type of question and my general advice is the following is that change
00:05:07
in disruption um you need to ask yourself what could go right and that is um one you don't know what's going to happen but also if a lot of people get say it gets closed down and a lot of
00:05:19
people get laid off but the US operation becomes U the headquarters for North America SS the US and a lot of people leave that creates a lot of opportunity for promotion
00:05:30
so my my general advice in situations where there's a lot of change and disruption is to ignore the
00:05:35
psychological damage to the extent you can or the insecurity of the unknown because disruption brings a lot of
00:05:41
opportunity and you might find yourself in six months and 12 months after a big event or non-event in a much better place than you'd anticipated it so especially with a company like Tik Tok
00:05:52
that's got so much Consumer Power stick around and play it out see what NE see what the next card when they turn over turn it over see what it is okay all right a good one okay um let's go on a
00:06:05
quick break we come back more listener questions Scott we're back with more listener mail let's listen to another
00:06:12
one hi sah and Scott love the Pod my name is Whitney and I'm from Dallas Texas I feel like nobody's talking about the fact that every corporation is
00:06:23
completely gutting their organization restructuring rearching renaming seite Executives and cutting tons and tons and tons of
00:06:35
workers what's going on and what is going to happen in the future for all of these workers looking for jobs but also the fact that the companies are kind of
00:06:47
wiping middle management and there's not going to be anyone to Mentor this younger Talent we love your thoughts
00:06:53
thank you wow uh you know we talk a lot about the the department of government efficiency companies have been doing
00:06:59
this really recently they've seen that they can really cut people and don't need them um as much as they did and so
00:07:04
they're taking the opportunity to do so uh every company's got to be looking at the costs I Scott and I were with
00:07:11
someone recently who said he's going from 6,000 software Engineers it's it's not just affecting middle management to
00:07:17
2,000 next year I mean I think everyone's looking for what they can make do with and not to just ruin it
00:07:23
they don't need as many people with AI they don't need as many people for what they're doing and they're trying to if
00:07:29
put put efficiency in and you're going to see this happen everywhere and if you're a company that's is your job is
00:07:34
to of course they'll pay themselves more that's what meta just did it just gave top Executives more money and meanwhile
00:07:41
they're doing layoffs so even the very successful companies are are doing this not just the ones in distress Scott yeah
00:07:49
I I I think I have a little bit of a different take and I think the underlying assumption is there's a lot of um unemployment and the reality is
00:07:57
unemployment is still a pretty much historical lows hovering around 4 4.1% jobless claims are up a bit there's
00:08:04
a lot of headline news I think the media loves the media is like a tyranosaurus re it likes movement and violence and
00:08:10
any indication of things bad in the jobless Market or unemployment gets a lot of noise but the reality is
00:08:16
employment in the US is still very very strong and distinct of that there's a lot of change tumult insecurity catastrophizing around AI uh
00:08:28
and then a lot of people argue that unemployment number is a bit elcer because you're considered a discouraged
00:08:33
worker or if you're no longer seeking employment after 2 years who you count that's who you count and they don't
00:08:38
count that's right but but having say that in general it would be really difficult to make the argument that unemployment is bad right now it just isn't and I would argue that it's not
00:08:50
about unemployment it's about wages and it's about the percentage of workers wages relative to GDP relative to the
00:08:57
stock markets percentage and corpor profits essentially labor as a percentage or wages as a percentage of
00:09:04
GDP are at a near all-time low or near 40 or low whereas profits and shareholder value as a percentage of GDP is staggering so in some it's easy to get a job it's just not easy to get a
00:09:16
job where you can make a good living and I think that's the focus but unemployment just isn't right but I do
00:09:22
think companies are finding ways successful not just really efficiency efficiency their and they should that's their job and and and the people who figure out how to be part of that efficiency are going to make more money
00:09:33
so that's just capitalism but unemployment is actually at historic lows right now so uh I think there's a
00:09:41
lot of insecurity I think there's more job changes let me move to what is actionable a lot of people call me and
00:09:46
say I hate my job what do I do and I'm like I think every three to five years you should quit your job even if you
00:09:52
don't quit and what I mean by that well you're different you actually could what I mean by that is I have been at NYU for
00:09:58
23 years but I quit quit every 3 to 5 years what do I mean by that I go get an offer from a Columbia or a Wharton or somewhere else and then I walk up to the Dean's office and I say this is the offer I have and I'm totally transparent
00:10:10
I don't want to leave I want to stay but I need you to match the offer because this is market and they hum and they ha
00:10:15
and they make a bunch of excuses and then they match it so the way no one's going to manage your career for you what
00:10:22
you need to do is constantly quit as a matter of fact the surveys show the people who make the most money are job
00:10:28
switchers not not every year but every 3 to 5 years but here's what you here's what you do if you don't want to leave your job you quit without quitting you
00:10:35
do a market check you don't be an [ __ ] you go into your boss and you say I got approached this is what
00:10:41
they're offering me I'd like to stay be transparent the truth has a nice ring to it and get a higher salary but
00:10:48
unemployment no unemployment isn't isn't bad right now also you have to know what your leverage and value is you should
00:10:54
always even the negative parts of it and the way you do that is with a market Che you do and you might find out that you're being overpaid that's correct and
00:11:00
you should shut the [ __ ] up shut the [ __ ] up that's correct um sh Scott say nothing all right um next up this one
00:11:08
comes from Steve let's listen hello my name is Steve I have two questions that I would love to hear your thoughts on
00:11:15
number one is uh um your thoughts on term limits for Supreme Court Justices and number two is what are your thoughts about um Trump's end of his
00:11:28
four-year term when he probably will find a way not to not to leave you know he won't
00:11:35
respect the two-term limit for US president so curious what you think that will look like four years from now thank you very much I love your show bye Steve
00:11:46
thank you that's very sweet we're I'm for term limits on Supreme Court Justice there's a number I think it's 16 years
00:11:51
something like that that I think works or certain age I think probably age gating would be what I would do on the top end um I guess 75 I suppose would be
00:11:59
I think Fair um maybe even 72 maybe 70 I don't know somewhere in there um number
00:12:06
two I think he will try but I think he's going to be old I think he's already even though he seems vigorous he's been
00:12:12
nodding off I don't think he really wants to govern he just likes to make pronouncements so in four years I don't
00:12:17
know if he'll be capable I think that doesn't mean they won't try to prop him up like weekend at Bernie kind of do
00:12:22
pull a Joe Biden essentially um and I think he likes to talk about it to bother us quite a bit and to show he has
00:12:29
power over the PE picking the successor um he may pick try to pick one of his kids that that's something I could see happening easily um not Eric obviously
00:12:40
not Tiffany but ianka or or or Junior um so I don't know I think that's what he'll try to do more than anything Scott uh 100% I'm an aist and so is
00:12:52
biology we ageg gate the Senate you have to be 30 we ageg gate Congress at 25 we
00:12:58
Agate MO CEOs of LL or or companies in the UK they say at 65 in India you have to be I I think you have to retire at um 65 in the UK uh in the UK the mandatory
00:13:13
retirement age for UK UK Supreme Court J justices is 75 your prefrontal cortex when you're a male does not catch up to a woman's until the age of 25 and guess what from the age of 40 on your
00:13:25
prefrontal cortex begins to shrink and senator Einstein did not know where the [ __ ] she was the last year she was in the Senate and you lose the ability in the judgment and people around you want
00:13:36
to give you some dignity and it ends up really hurting America we absolutely what's the AG Pi the age pick
00:13:43
your age I you know what I I I like personally I would go I'd go younger than most people I'd probably go 70 and
00:13:50
here's the thing not 65 not 6 we'd have to re no people have gotten people are in much better shape now and but I also
00:13:58
in a weird way I think it's the right thing to do for people because it takes that anxiety away it's
00:14:04
like all right it's time for you to go enjoy your life yeah 70 you're probably in pretty good shape if you take care of
00:14:09
yourself yeah go go have a nice go have a nice life go you don't need to leave this place feed first and also the thing
00:14:16
I don't like and this is one of the things I don't like about Academia is that nobody [ __ ] leaves and so there
00:14:22
isn't room for young stars to advance at the rate they should because we have some dude who was the bomb in gap one
00:14:29
Accounting in 1978 who won't [ __ ] leave and because he has tenure we can't fire the guy and then he not only
00:14:36
becomes unproductive but as a means of trying to maintain some sort of relevance he becomes obstructionist and
00:14:42
general pain in the ass of Faculty there are obsess exceptions like for example I love Robert Reich right now I love this
00:14:48
whole Robert Reich his videos he's Lively he's informative he's 78 years old certain people just shine sure take
00:14:55
to YouTube he doesn't need to be a Supreme Court Justice saying it's it depends on the person but you just have
00:15:01
a basic age I think 75 is probably pretty fair but I can I can make an argument for 70 too bring in bring in
00:15:07
neurologists who say look this is where this is the thing about age decline is it's not linear it really drops fast and
00:15:14
at what age are are people most likely to start really seeing a serious cognitive decline and have an age Gap
00:15:20
but it is insane that we would have lower age limits but we don't have upper age limits by the way a a couple of the
00:15:28
fortune old girls my son had over for a Halloween party would have done a better job and had a better command and grasp
00:15:36
of the issues facing uh the Senate than Senator Feinstein I mean there there are
00:15:42
these stories all over the place so absolutely for the for them for us for our constitution yeah we need we need age limits 100% Trump and with
00:15:53
Trump I just can't even go there Cara I'm so [ __ ] triggered like I'm I'm so between surrendering to Putin and
00:16:00
measles I can't even think about what might happen then you take this one um I like I said I think he's going to try to get one of his kids in I think he's I think he's also old I think he I literally you can see you know he again
00:16:12
he's a vigorous declining person I don't see any evidence of that I haven't seen any evidence he's declining M he just
00:16:19
says things off the cup I I think he's declining I think he's I think it'll come fast too he's kind of like Reagan
00:16:26
you didn't see it and then you saw it kind of thing um he seems vigorous certainly but largely because he he's
00:16:32
that's the way he's going down but he's to me he's turning into he'll be an old man in four years no matter how he
00:16:38
slices it this he just will he just will all right uh let's listen to um another
00:16:45
hi Scott and Cara this is Amy from Newport Rhode Island um we've been listening to your show and we love it um Scott I wanted to ask you about how
00:16:59
you're always talking about you know men should rise up to be the best you men they can and you know take
00:17:05
responsibility um especially coming from America and we were wondering why don't you run for President we need someone
00:17:12
like you and I think it'd be great oh Amy please don't encourage him Scott take this one well you know Cara I hate to talk about me but [Laughter]
00:17:23
um um uh oh God can you imagine how much ass I would get if I was president post
00:17:29
president I couldn't do it as president but post president um look uh I'll be very transparent I've been approached twice in the last two years by people who said and actually a firm and a
00:17:41
person who said if you put in 10 million we'll put in 10 million uh not for president but run for um senate or
00:17:47
governor and uh let's be honest I have all the attributes to do this I'm a narcissist and I have outdoor plumbing and I'm white which are the three primary considerations for running for office and I also so I have money clever
00:18:00
clever and interesting go ahead I appreciate that I appreciate saying that here's the bottom line uh I'm not
00:18:05
qualified I don't have the domain expertise I'm not especially good with people I think you have to be really
00:18:10
good with people and also uh also and carara knows this this isn't an act but this is a side of me that is not in many ways the real me and that is I'm an introvert and when I'm not on a podcast
00:18:23
or on television I don't enjoy people I don't get energy from them I want to be around a small group of people and kind
00:18:29
of on my own and that does not make for a good politician in addition and I've learned a lot about this from Cara uh
00:18:37
and Cara has been very generous and and and help me kind of um develop the platform and the skills to actually make a change I think Cara and I can actually have more impact from outside of the tent and I think right now if we are
00:18:51
thoughtful and fearless and appreciate our blessings As Americans and decide to to to pipe up and be strong and thoughtful and side experts and be disciplined and tal and show talent I
00:19:04
think we can affect more change in many ways in almost any Congress person and most Senators right now agreed and we
00:19:10
reach more people we reach more people right and we wouldn't be very good we'd be just s bad we do imagine staff like I
00:19:17
hate staff that's the thing like and you and you would you're shy people don't realize Scott is really shy
00:19:23
interestingly enough I had coffee with Andrew Yang the other day who's who talked about you Scott in a very kind
00:19:28
way ways um and who ran for president I was asking if he was going to do it again he might um and I thought that was
00:19:34
interesting that he did and it certainly helped him get name recognition and everything else and bringing some good points that he had uh a lot of people
00:19:41
like them and don't like them but he definitely got his points out which were interesting um and then I talked to Mark
00:19:46
Cuban about it because a lot of people are asking him he polls incredibly well um I think Mark should I think Mark I
00:19:52
agree I've been trying to get him to run for president he seems on the record off the records the same answer I don't want
00:19:57
to do it I can have more impact doing what I'm doing actually Mark I think you can have more impact rather for president I do in this in your case I
00:20:05
agree you could do you could get those prescription you could do cours plus or you could be president and do it so we
00:20:11
want you to run and he pulls really well he pulls he's sort of the anti Elon he's he's like a he's just a he's the good
00:20:18
he's the good billionaire he's the billionaire we need right now yeah yeah but also M just just selfishly look at
00:20:25
our lives I I can of I can't imagine having a nicer life can you imagine running for
00:20:32
office and all the [ __ ] you have to go through talk to you no oh my God I'm shy
00:20:38
in a very different way I don't want to hear from people a lot of the time although I love but here's but here's
00:20:43
what I'm going to do is I'm going to take what is for me a decent amount of money which for almost anyone is a lot
00:20:48
of money and I'm going to support moderate candidates and causes and and I'm moving back to the US in 18 months
00:20:55
because I want to be in the fight I think that this is an existential crisis especially I think rich people need to
00:21:00
get aggressive I think it's easy for us to just sort of fold our arms and sit back because the reality is we're going
00:21:06
to benefit from the Trump Administration and I think we need to go a little bit more be go beyond it you have to go say
00:21:12
look I have enough and now I'm going to stop this nonsense let me just say I think you should pick a spicy one
00:21:17
Jasmine Crockett she's so great she just really communicates in a way that I think is tough and smart and um also
00:21:24
just double sassy just something like that just I don't know what's going on with her but I I turn my head whenever
00:21:30
she she says something CU and she handles it really well and goes just far enough so I think you should give her some money that's my feeling all right
00:21:37
Scott one more quick break we come back more listener questions Scott we're back with one more question this one comes
00:21:43
from Brendan let's listen hey Karen Scott this is Brandon Colin from Vienna with a bicontinental question mostly for
00:21:49
you Scott which is how on Earth do you manage the jet lag um I'm in Vienna I grew up on the east coast and I go back three times a year um and it seems like
00:22:01
the longer I live in Europe the worse I get at adjusting back and then I flip on pivot and it seems like this [ __ ]
00:22:07
twice my age is going from London to the West Coast to the Middle East now to colia and you always seem fresh so like what what is the secret Scott how are you doing it um love the Insight thanks
00:22:22
actually Cara you travel as much as I do do you have any thoughts I don't sleep as much as other people I don't know I
00:22:28
don't I don't I don't I don't have much a sleeping thing um I don't have any how many hours a night do you sleep four
00:22:34
hours five hours sometimes I sleep a long time I might want to sleep after show you really only sleep four or five hours a night I'm Mar like Martha
00:22:41
Stewart's the same way she's telling me um I don't know I uh I don't I don't have any tricks for jetl I just get on
00:22:47
the schedule I don't I that's the only thing I do is wherever I like when I'm landing in Australia soon uh I'm going
00:22:53
to get on their schedule no matter how tired I am and so I get on the schedule and that's what I that's what I do I
00:22:59
don't is there food you eat I don't I don't do any of that can't think of anything you you
00:23:05
would know better than I yeah I so first off it is a real issue I have been as I
00:23:12
joke molesting the Earth for 30 years I travel a lot and there is no I found there's no Silver Bullet there's a few tricks the first is quite frankly is just a message of privilege and that is
00:23:24
I no longer do red eyes or I try not to I will take when I come back from New York to London I'll fly in the morning
00:23:31
and I'll do a little bit of work and a little bit of nap you know take a nap but and I also don't fly into places
00:23:36
just for the night any longer I'll go somewhere and I'll I'll stay one or two days to adjust but I have some gent
00:23:43
go-tos that they say are you're supposed to do the first is I try not to drink alcohol especially on the plane I try to
00:23:48
drink a ton of water and hydrate as soon as I get to the place where I'm going uh I try to work out even if it's just
00:23:55
doing I try and do 100 burpees and less than 12 12 or 14 minutes when I get into my hotel room if the Gym's not open but
00:24:01
I try and immediately exercise I find sweating really helps and then if at all possible even if it's just taking a walk just going outside and putting my face in the Sun for 10 to 12 monthes and some
00:24:12
exercise SL sweating hydration and getting um getting your face getting in the sun if there's Sun wherever you are
00:24:20
but it's something I struggle with and also and it just helps to have money finally I used to literally fly to Paris
00:24:27
for a night fly back if I had a meeting at lvmh or whatever now I don't do that I will spend a couple days I enjoy
00:24:34
myself I sleep in also I use sleep aids I either take if it's a nation that allows CBD or marijuana I take half five milligrams edible before I go to sleep to help me sleep if it's not I'll
00:24:47
sometimes take a half of a Lunesta but I find you got to get some sleep even if it means using a sleep aid so one of the
00:24:54
things people re if you want to go for other things there's certain things people recommend there's something called fly kit that has kind of things
00:25:01
like that a lot of people say you should eat high protein um when you get there low car meals um there's all kinds of
00:25:09
Tricks there's a lot of great stuff online um other people talk about um um fasting some people said eating lights they think you should wear the some of the glasses sometime there's there's all
00:25:21
kinds of things um but they're also just some some hacks of of doing them and I think um I do overnight things because I
00:25:30
want to get home to the family and I know it's going to uh uh it's going to affect me but mostly two two things I I
00:25:36
get on the schedule you just can't to help you regulate if you stay awake when the Sun is up and you go to sleep if
00:25:43
it's down and you drink a lot of water that's another thing that's always the answer to everything drinking water
00:25:48
let's move on before we go some messages we've gotten from Canadians recently and let me just tell you we love Canada we
00:25:55
don't want you to be the 51st state you're a great country no matter what that should be the 11in just that jackass Elon said that's
00:26:02
we should be the 11 we should we would like to join Canada as the United States but so let's listen to our Canadian
00:26:07
friends hi this is Alex from Vancouver Canada longtime listener firsttime caller huge fans of of both of you and I
00:26:15
can't tell you how wonderful it was today to be hiking with my dog in the BC mountains um at the same time wondering
00:26:23
how we came to this shitty place that we seem to be in geopolitically and then to hear Scott's impassion Trea us on the US
00:26:31
Canada hockey game uh and you're right it was it was definitely more than a game to us um and then have him
00:26:37
enumerate all the ways in which Canada and the US have had such an extraordinary partnership um yeah it was great I mean
00:26:45
we know there are are as many of you on the side of Reason ins sanity um and as there are those who support all the nonsense from your idiot and chief but it's still really great to hear you say
00:26:57
all the things um we we hoped that you're thinking so thank you we appreciate you too keep
00:27:03
doing all the things you're doing and you're welcome up here anytime I am coming to Toronto soon just for the
00:27:09
donuts we love Canadians one more along the same lines hi Karen Scott uh this isn't a a question it's more of a comment um my name is Adam and I'm from Kitchener waterl Canada where the
00:27:21
Blackberry was invented and where I saw car speak a number of years ago I'm a huge fan of your podcast
00:27:28
Scott as a Canadian I just wanted to let you know and I'm going to try not to get
00:27:33
too emotional here um how much it meant for you to list all the ways that Canada has supported the Americans over the
00:27:41
course of our long friendship Canada needed that hockey win and it's my sincere wish that Canada and the US both
00:27:49
the men's and women's teams meet in the gold medal finals on much friendlier terms in Milan Italy next year and we
00:27:55
play for nothing more than the Love of the Game this shall pass and for all the Americans listening please know how much
00:28:01
it means to Canadians right now to have your support so I would encourage you to vocalize that to us to remind us that
00:28:07
their our relationship will get through this challenging period thank you for listening to this and keep up the great
00:28:14
work oh I'm crying Scott the Canadians are so nice if if can Canada did that to America we would be like we're going to C there and cut off your heads instead they're like thank you so much for being nice to us like that's why they need to
00:28:26
run our country that's really you know what means when you're only attracted to Canadians what means you're
00:28:34
asexual look I have I that was great Scott many people mentioned that that was a really great thing that was
00:28:40
sucking up to the Canada Canada first welcomed my mom and dad independently um when they immigrated from Glasgow and London and I had a terrible time when I visited Canada said no one ever I would
00:28:53
suggest anybody if you want to go to a beautiful place with friendly people and great food Montreal is the most European European city in North America Toronto
00:29:04
is toron is essentially like a clean friendly New York Vancouver is arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world um and also where's Whistler
00:29:16
where's way up in the mountains up there what's that British Columbia is so beautiful so beautiful but yeah it's
00:29:23
just it's uh I I every year um I went to Formula 1 in Montreal I always I always
00:29:29
take the excuse whenever I get invited to speak in Toronto I just absolutely distinctive the alliance it's just a
00:29:35
great place to visit a great place to vacation and also you know whether it's Michael J fox or Allan thick or Brian
00:29:43
Adams there's just so many we've just benefited from so many talented Canadians but I have um uh Kar and I
00:29:50
really appreciate that I we clearly struck a nerve I've had several people come up to me on the street and say and
00:29:56
say that they were that they that they were very appreciative of those comments so uh and also just on behalf of almost
00:30:03
every sane American distinct to what you're hearing the majority of Americans deep down really do feel very positive
00:30:11
about Canada and don't want to as state and also B that's where I went B beautiful Calgary so pretty so amazing
00:30:18
it's in Alberta Scott what country are you going to suck up to next what do you think uh Brazil because I'm about to go
00:30:25
back yeah Brazil Brazil and Canada that's maybe I'll end up if if banon finally convinces the Trump Administration to come after me I'm either moving to I'm either moving to
00:30:36
floriopolis or Montreal I don't know I okay right okay well I'll visit you there when you're Brazil or Canada okay all right anyway we really appreciate all the questions especially from the
00:30:48
Canadians thank you so much send us more go to nymag.com Pivot to a question oh by the way Scott I was I was my first marriage was in Canada cuz they they wouldn't marry gays here I love Canada
00:30:59
it's the best place married in Niagara Falls you got married in Canada I did because you know what wa you got married in my parents got married in Niagara
00:31:05
Falls let me just say what happened was they were so hostile to gay marriage here in this country and so mean and we
00:31:11
had already had Louie I had already been pregnant I had Louie we go up to Canada get married and like we go to the like
00:31:17
the the clerk and we're we're just po poised for anger at us right and instead they're like oh this is great we're so happy you're going to get married they were so nice and it was such a big
00:31:28
[ __ ] deal to me that they were so decent and it was like 30 miles from the [ __ ] United States who was such an
00:31:35
[ __ ] to us as a family right and it was just the whole experience was lovely and then we went to see went to on made
00:31:42
of the Mist and every single person was amazing there was a doughnut store next door to where we had married the donuts
00:31:48
were delicious I I that was a big moment for me because the kindness was needed especially starting a family anyway thank you Ken I think that's a wonderful story I also have a story about Niagara
00:32:00
I actually crossed the Niagara Falls on a tight RPP and it reminded me of getting a [ __ ] from a 90-year-old and
00:32:05
that if you did not want to look down Cara you did not want to look down God why did you ruin a beautiful marriage
00:32:11
story with terrible [ __ ] story once again once again Niagra the ED drug for women you you were wonderful to me at a time hold on I got a worse one Niagra the eating drug for women keeps them wet
00:32:24
for three days oh my God stop that's bad stop stop these were great questions from the VOX media podcast Network those were great questions send us more go to
00:32:34
NY mag I love these listener mail things go to nymag.com pivotm a question for the show or call 85551 pivot okay Scott
00:32:42
that's the show we love our listeners we love our fans please continue to come up to Scott and tell him to stop telling
00:32:47
dick jokes but I think that's never happening he we'll be back on Friday with more thank you so much for watching pivot