Pivot · 2026-01-30 · 61 min · 11,909 words

Economic Protests, Social Media on Trial, and Big Tech Earnings

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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. I'm gonna stuff your corpse and have it next to me. I'm I'm doing taxidermy. I'm the taxidermy. Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Kara Swisher. And I'm Scott Galloway. Before we do anything, I'd like to point out that as of this episode drops, it's been 42 days since the deadline passed for the DOJ to release all the Epstein files. Though we do have an update, DOJ officials said in a court filing this week that they expect to release the files, quote, in the near term, but they did not provide a specific date.

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