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Episode 408
Kyle Chayka writes about tech and internet culture for the New Yorker; he’s also the co-founder of Dirt, a newsletter — powered in part by crypto — a…
3 years, 8 months ago
Home Box Office of the Dragon
Episode 407
In 2011, HBO changed the prestige television landscape with its expensive, ultra-violent, sex-filled fantasy epic Game of Thrones. Three years after …
3 years, 8 months ago
Why the Democrats finally got on TikTok
Episode 406
Democrats have a complicated relationship with social media - sometimes they think it’s a huge help; other times, not so much. Which is why it’s inte…
3 years, 8 months ago
Land of the Giants: Why Instagram Broke Its Square
Episode 405
This week, we bring you an episode of Recode and The Verge’s latest season of Land of the Giants: The Facebook / Meta Disruption. To check out the fi…
3 years, 8 months ago
B.J. Novak on “Vengeance”, podcasts and the downside of the streaming boom
Episode 404
B.J. Novak has starred on TV, written a best-selling kids’ book, and tried his hand at app-making. Now he’s written, directed, and starred in his own…
3 years, 9 months ago
What is the metaverse, when is it going to show up and who’s going to run it?
Episode 403
People have been talking about the metaverse for years. But they’re talking about it much more these days, spurred by Mark Zuckerberg’s full-fledged …
3 years, 9 months ago
Ken Auletta on the Harvey Weinstein story he wrote, the story he couldn’t write, and the one he’s publishing now.
Episode 402
20 years ago the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta wrote a seminal profile of famed and feared producer Harvey Weinstein - with one glaring omission. Now Aule…
3 years, 9 months ago
Netflix has a huge hit with Peaky Blinders — and Caryn Mandabach owns it.
Episode 401
Caryn Mandabach produced some of the biggest hits in TV history — like The Cosby Show, Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and That ’70s Show. Now she’s…
3 years, 9 months ago
The future of: Crypto criticism; Substack and ABC News
Episode 400
Three interviews! One pod: First entrepreneur and investor Zach Weinberg tells Recode’s Peter Kafka why he’s accidentally become Twitter Famous as a …
3 years, 10 months ago
Is this a Netflix problem or a streaming problem?
Episode 399
Today, CNBC’s Alex Sherman joins Recode’s Peter Kafka to ponder several media mysteries:
Why did Netflix lose 2 million subscribers?
Why was Disney exe…
3 years, 10 months ago