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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. His brand is firing. His brand is getting rid of incompetence and now he keeps them and you're like, oh my God, you're keeping the incompetence. Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher.

Scott is off, so I brought in a brilliant co-host again, as are everyone who's not Scott, uh, Kristen Soltis Anderson, pollster and co-founder of Echelon. insights and contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and someone I really like a lot and who's super smart. Nice to see you. Well thanks for having me Kara. Yeah so um welcome what's going on?

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