So glad to see that the ChatBot suicide you covered 9 months ago is finally getting the widespread coverage it should have back then. As a grandmother of a 17 year boy it was and is terrifying !

Like the old Kara

I’ve been listening to this podcast for the past 5 years, I won’t anymore. In the past three weeks, neither this podcast nor Pivot has covered or even mentioned the suffering of Palestinians. Americans need to pay attention to the devastation caused by U.S. weapons—funded and manufactured here—that fuel this crisis. I check every new episode hoping Kara will address it, and every time, nothing. I don’t appreciate this attempt to hide the truth. That’s not what a journalist does. I’m done with you.

Every episode, informative, delightful, witty, very intelligent, trustworthy, and enjoyable. She also Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway.

Kara Swisher is clearly super smart and talented, but she keeps interrupting her guests.

Kara is kinda hot too

Thank you for this important episode- I’ve been crazy since this started and the victims are nearly never discussed.

Excellent conversation, thank you once again Kara, for your integrity.

Yes WhatsApp secured the transport of the message but if backups are done iCloud or Google it is in clear text by default. Secure data transport but not data at rest. Surprised Meta is a sponsor but I’ll listen for the other fine merits

One neologism that is particularly apt to this conversation and that Aleksic and Swisher fail to mention: Sheeple Also, anyone who thinks there’s anything new here should check out the song from the 1959 musical, ‘Gypsy’: ‘Ya gotta have a gimmick (if you’re gonna get ahead)’

Continuing to call trump a "master communicator " and ignoring how his communication is filled with lies and vile reprehensible hate speech is immoral! Why aren't you calling that out? Would you teach your children that this is acceptable to behave this way? I doubt it, I certainly hope not. But this is what you continue to accept and chat up on these shows. Why?

The constant, “mmh, hmm” is a non-negotiable for me. I am completely distracted from the actual content, and only focused on this constant unnecessary vocal input from the author/interviewer.

Loved your interview with Molly. She is one of the good ones. Thank you for spotlighting her ❤️

Kara Swisher has a HUGE ego & talks like she’s a stalwart reporter but she is actually quite corrupt - she constantly references personal feelings and beefs with subjects - and if it’s someone she likes she brags about being close to them.

30/06/2024 Love the comedian interviews. Digging all the insightful guests you have on. I listen weekly, but these conversations are among my favorite. Ilana Glazer Isabel Wilkerson Ava DuVernay Beene Brown Caster Semenya Tracy Chapman’s Timeless Ear Worms Steve Inskeep Nicholas Kristof Suzan-Lori Parks Jonathan Haidt Judy Woodruff Heather Cox Richardson Christiane Amanpour Julia Louis-Dreyfus Anne Lamott Martina Navratilova

I listened to this episode and I want to thank your guests for giving me a little bit of hope. If the grampas and grammas in Congress would just step aside. They so obviously are NOT up to this fight and if they won’t move aside the loss of our Democracy is on them. I am 75 years old and I want these young Democrats to take charge and fire up the country.

Love her interviews. Wish I had jumped on Kara band wagon years ago. Hope she buys The Wash Post

Something I have not heard since start of Russian invasion is how Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons on promises of sovereignty and protection, would like to hear your take on that aspect

Also, you don’t have to continually try and show us how bright you are by interrupting and also saying “I know” while the guests are talking. Give it a rest. Are you that insecure that you can’t let your guests speak and really listen? Maybe a trip to a psychotherapist would help.

I gotta agree with others. Kara is obviously intelligent, but is so acerbic that it makes it hard to listen to. Big name dropper, big story teller (“I texted Sam Altman, told him I knew he was lying because his lips were moving.” … okayyyyy). Repeats what people say when she isn’t as knowledgeable about what they’re saying, but cuts off people when she does. I keep trying to listen and keep being disappointed.

Kara, why weren’t you harder on Barry Diller?! I get that you love him… and he’s an older person… but his middle of the road, “wait and see” approach to Trump is only possible because of his immense wealth safety and advanced age. Was sadly let down by his takes and your softball questions.

Kara has an intelligent mind wrapped in personal insecurities and arrogance. Her competitive name dropping is tiresome and masks her insecurities. When she doesn’t step all over herself, she sometimes has an informative podcast.

Folks are finding the interviews polarizing? What isn’t these days? If anything, we need to hear more, YOU need to hear more about just how dumb 45/47 is. The quick, sly cadence is most appreciated!

…once you get past the regular man bashing. Guests are always interesting and Kara’s questions are always insightful.

And she knows it. Like Terry Gross on Fresh Air, she makes the interview all about herself. The guests are great, but the interviewer is insufferable. And she really showed what a Luddite she is during the Lisa Su interview. Like so many, she bashes AI but really hasn’t bothered to learn how to use it. Pretty silly that a so-called tech journalist is so clueless about the most important technology to emerge since the printing press and the camera.

I like Kara’s hard hitting and informative interviews and panels. I skip all the ones with singers, actors, directors etc. I find them excruciatingly dull. I’ve decided to unsubscribe after being a longtime follower because most of her content has become boring.

Thanks!

Her main question is always saying something and then saying talk about that" That's not a question

People who want to tax billionaires away aren’t “vilifying” the mega rich. They’re stating a fact that these people have too much power, which can be quantified. It doesn’t matter if they use their money “for good” that money should be housing, healthcare, infrastructure democratically decided upon. Melinda Gates has a book: I don’t care!

All she does now is hate on EVERYONE in such a nasty way unless it’s one of her friends. I get that the world is far from perfect but is this the way for us to heal??

Waste of time.

Trash show by a snow flake

She’s a bad person. Only thinks about people in terms of their political beliefs. No heart

An amazing reporter who knows how to get the most interesting and substantive facts and stories out of her guests and topics.

Not interested

This podcast has been a refreshingly substantive light through the quagmire that is our recent time. I’m constantly impressed by the level of sophistication that Kara’s guess and her interview interviews bring to the subjects discussed. Worth listening every week.

I get that we fight at the local level but she didn’t talk about the “grand plan” of the Democratic Party. The party seems ineffective, rudderless, and leaderless. Basically no plan mam.

When a writer vs talking head does a podcast you get a great podcast packed full of info. Thank you.

She’s very good on technology news and has a deep history with a lot of the top tech titans. My biggest issue with her is her deep detailed analysis of elon musk’s antics but glosses over racial preferences and disparate admission’s standards by race (deeply unconstitutional yet she spends no time on this)

If he won’t sell it to you, can you use your influence and connections to build an alternative? This is starting to smack of your ego against mad king egos???

I would absolutely renew my wapo subscription if Kara was the publisher!!!!

Kara, I love you and the guests you bring on are so interesting and informative, but my goodness you have got to stop interrupting them when they are answering your questions. Not everyone thinks as quickly as you do and you have to let your listeners hear and process through what these amazing people are saying. Please.

Kara Swisher’s On with Kara Swisher is the podcast equivalent of a dial-up modem screeching through a thrift-store boombox—outdated, shrill, and stuck in a time warp where 90s tech journalism still thinks it’s edgy. The self-proclaimed “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist” spends her twice-weekly airtime proving she’s neither, just a fossil with a mic who’s more obsessed with name-dropping her ancient Rolodex than saying anything worth hearing today. The premise? “No-holds-barred interviews with power players.” The reality? A bitter hag hurling petty jabs at tech bros she’s clearly jealous of, while pretending her 90s scoops on AOL still matter in 2025. Every episode’s the same: Kara interrupts her guests with smug asides, dripping with contempt like a leaky faucet, only to pivot to her favorite sport—Elon Musk bashing—like it’s still 2018 and anyone cares. Newsflash, Kara: the world’s moved on, but you’re still stuck buffering in Netscape Navigator. Her style’s a relic—think clunky Tamagotchi vibes, but instead of feeding a digital pet, she’s starving us of insight. She brags about “making powerful people squirm,” but the only one squirming is the listener, trapped in her sanctimonious echo chamber. The ads take up half the runtime—ironic for a tech critic who can’t edit a show to save her life. It’s less a podcast, more a time capsule of a has-been who thinks “smart people like difficult questions” means “everyone loves my snark.” Spoiler: they don’t. Horrid? Check. Hag? Double check. Stuck in the 90s? She’s practically dialing into CompuServe to upload this drivel. Save your ears and skip it—Kara’s On, but the world’s long since logged off.

She is so one sided and skews the truth. Not a fan with her alone, do listen to Pivot w/SG

Kara needs to do more listening. She’s sometimes too eager to voice her own opinion And she needs to get away from her musk obsession.

I really appreciate the insight into the Democratic Party. I’d love to see Dem leaders loudly embracing civil rights more. Education is about so much more than math and reading. We should be doubling down on diversity!

Kara always has interesting guests and facilitates great discussions

I genuinely enjoy On and Pivot and think Kara is an excellent journalist. I was disappointed to see that Baghdad Bob (Oren Cass) was invited as a guest on a recent show. We don’t need more gaslighting in our media during this time. I’m a progressive libertarian and regularly vote for R officials in local elections but only support D at the national level. I am open to conservative ideas and think the democrats are on the wrong side of several issues. That said, I will not support facists nor listen to their apologists.

Would have loved to hear from these 3 diverse economists beyond the birds eye view. We experienced an election where white rage, unemployment and the crippling of rural towns/communities turned US from supporting candidates who safeguard democracy, to empowering walking grenades. Continuing to ignore the wealth gap and disinvestment will undermine our national security. Making the boogeyman be China, it does nothing to solve the fundamental problems. Mazzucato is the only one going in the right direction because it’s structural.

Love, love Kara, and have listened to all of her podcasts religiously, but, apologies, I cannot stand the banter with her new cohost, and her voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me. UPDATED 2/25: LOVE THE NEW FORMAT!!!