Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA n00b’s guide to the Microsoft / Activision deal the FTC wants to stop
The FTC wants to (candy) crush Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc., the makers of games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Ca…
3 years, 4 months ago
Why the media landscape is “dire” with WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel
Layoffs, Disney CEO take-backsies, and the Netflix of it all — this week, Recode’s Peter Kafka catches up on the not-that-upbeat media industry with …
3 years, 4 months ago
How Eventbrite survived the pandemic, and why it’s not fighting Ticketmaster
Selling tickets for live events can be… tricky, as Ticketmaster has proven yet again. But Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz runs a much smaller ticketing bu…
3 years, 4 months ago
It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book
HBO’s 50-year-old history tells you a lot about culture, business, and TV’s past and future. This perhaps explains why we’ve seen two HBO books in th…
3 years, 5 months ago
How to watch a complicated World Cup
Qatar is hosting the 2022 World Cup, casting a pall over one of the globe’s most-watched sporting events. Men With Blazers co-host Roger Bennett join…
3 years, 5 months ago
Life, the internet, and everything with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick
Ryan Broderick is very online so you don’t have to be. His internet culture Substack ‘Garbage Day’ is a mix of thought-provoking analysis, trend repo…
3 years, 5 months ago
What Elon’s past tells us about his present
This is not an emergency podcast, but, you know, maybe it will be? As questions swirl around what exactly Elon Musk is doing at Twitter (and why) we …
3 years, 5 months ago
Tech’s big bust, plus Marvel (and Wakanda) Forever?
Episode 420
Mass layoffs and cutbacks at companies like Meta and Twitter point to a slowdown (and chaos) in tech. Bloomberg tech reporter Sarah Frier helps us so…
3 years, 5 months ago
Election special with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman
Episode 419
Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman joins us from the U.S. Capitol building just in time for the 2022 midterm elections. Recode’s Peter Kafka hits…
3 years, 5 months ago
Jason Gay isn’t making Elon Musk jokes
Episode 418
We’re taking a short break from the Twitter shitshow to give you an interview with Jason Gay, sports and humor columnist at The Wall Street Journal. …
3 years, 5 months ago