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The Mishal Husain Show

The Mishal Husain Show

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Make sense of the world with one essential conversation, every week. Mishal Husain, one of Britain's best interviewers, brings her signature blend of curiosity and tenacity to weekly conversations with world leaders, business titans, and cultural icons, revealing who they really are and how they see the world changing around them.

Subscribe today at Bloomberg.com/audio or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. For annotated transcripts of Mishal's conversations head to Bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

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Episodes
  • Kara Swisher Is Thinking About Life After Trump
    Jan 2 2026

    Kara Swisher has followed the story of Silicon Valley for three decades, having started work as a tech journalist at a time when few people were interested in the beat.

    But through relationships she built with the likes of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and many others, she became a formidable voice, and eventually more of a commentator and critic.

    Swisher now hosts the podcasts Pivot and On with Kara Swisher. Following a year in which Silicon Valley titans lined up behind Donald Trump, she tells Mishal Husain what she thinks 2026 will bring. Swisher unpacks fears of an artificial intelligence bubble, why she’s paying attention to robotics and what life after Trump may be like.

    02:16 - You would be “stupid” to ignore the AI bubble
    05:40 - The promise of AI
    07:16 - Swisher’s first download
    09:30 - “Serious wealth creates real problems”
    14:20 - Steve Jobs was an “adult”
    17:15 - “What Tesla did was astonishing”
    20:30 - The influence of Peter Thiel
    22:20 - Generational shift in tech
    23:30 - “You couldn’t have started an Uber now”
    26:15 - Swisher’s paying attention to robotics in 2026
    29:30 - What Swisher learned from Silicon Valley
    31:50 - Swisher’s move into podcasting
    35:40 - Life after Trump and why she’s watching KPop Demon Hunters

    Watch this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0Ns_wjGlmjlPz0cded0nTYS

    Find Mishal’s conversations with the godmother of AI Fei-Fei Li and CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman here:
    https://link.podtrac.com/1wqpj1f8

    You can find the written version of this interview with Mishal’s notes on Bloomberg Weekend: https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

    Contact The Mishal Husain Show mishalshow@bloomberg.net

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    37 mins
  • Elon Musk Wants Credit for Cutting Waste, Not Cutting Aid
    Dec 26 2025

    As the year draws to a close, we are bringing you one of Mishal Husain’s biggest conversations of the year, in full. In May 2025, Elon Musk joined Bloomberg's Qatar Economic Forum, in a rare media appearance.

    He remains as consequential a global figure today, as he was then, even if he is no longer working with Donald Trump.

    Within 10 days of this conversation, he had left DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, and soon after that he was publicly trading insults with the president.

    Musk talked about Tesla, his ambitions for SpaceX and Starlink and his political spending.

    Note: This episode was recorded with a remote guest in front of a live audience, and as a result, the audio quality may vary.

    02:31 - Mishal Husain introduces Elon Musk
    03:21 - A week in the life of Elon Musk
    04:25 - The future of Tesla
    9:19 - Attacks on Tesla showrooms
    11:35 - The future of warfare
    14:30 - “I’m in no rush to go public”
    17:30 - OpenAI
    20:45 - Regulating AI
    24:00 - “I’m simply an advisor”
    26:30 - Starlink
    29:44 - “Your question’s absurd”
    31:26 - DOGE
    33:15 - US Agency for International Development
    37:20 - Political spending

    Watch this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0Ns_wjGlmjlPz0cded0nTYS

    You can find the written version of this interview with Mishal’s notes on Bloomberg Weekend: https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

    Contact The Mishal Husain Show mishalshow@bloomberg.net

    Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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    44 mins
  • Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War
    Dec 19 2025

    Lynsey Addario’s life work means taking great risks to tell other people’s stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who has been abducted twice while documenting conflicts from Afghanistan to Ukraine and Sudan.

    There aren’t many women in her field. In a new National Geographic documentary called “Love+War,” currently streaming on Disney+, she lets us into that world, one she’s made her profession for three decades. Addario shows how she adjusts from a work environment of grave danger and high-adrenaline to being a mother making the school run and spending time with her sons.

    In this conversation, she tells Mishal Husain, why she believes her job is to “bear witness” and how she came to it. She remembers the first time she used a camera and shares how her childhood prepared her to walk into any situation and connect with anyone, from soldiers to refugees and civilians living through extreme times.

    This interview contains descriptions of abduction, violence and sexual assault which some listeners/viewers may find distressing.

    02:27 - Love+War
    03:34 - The turning point
    06:00 - Learning about the risks
    07:00 “I don’t want to do this for a living”
    09:19 - Being held in Fallujah
    11:20 - On embed in Afghanistan
    14:31 - Operation Rock Avalanche
    15:43 - Dealing with the emotion
    16:50 - The daughter of hairdressers in Connecticut
    17:44 - Getting her first camera
    19:30 - Planning a “shoot-list”
    21:51 - Russian strike on Ukraine
    17:30 - Being held hostage in Libya
    31:02 - Survivor’s guilt
    33:30 Life at home
    36:30 - Social media and fake images
    40:18 - Switching off

    Watch this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0Ns_wjGlmjlPz0cded0nTYS

    You can find the written version of this interview with Mishal’s notes on Bloomberg Weekend: https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

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    44 mins
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