Podcast Episodes

Taylor Lorenz on Joe Rogan, Joe Biden and goodbye to big media.

One take you may have heard after the election: Democrats need their own Joe Rogan.

Taylor Lorenz disagrees. And Lorenz is worth listening to. For yea…

1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk funds Trump — and owns Twitter. What does that mean?

You want up-to-the minute election analysis? Sorry, not on this episode.

But: If you want smart thoughts about politics and media and tech all merged …

1 year, 5 months ago

Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett wants to win an election and make money

Jon Lovett and his cofounders at Crooked Media are a good story - former Obama aides who started their own media company after the 2016 election, and…

1 year, 6 months ago

Emma Tucker brought fresh eyes to the Wall Street Journal

Emma Tucker became the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief in 2023, and she’s been moving fast ever since.

For starters, there are punchier, more prov…

1 year, 6 months ago

Tubi CEO Anjali Sud says you can’t beat free

What if you could watch shows and movies on a screen, for free, in exchange for watching some ads?

In olden times, we called that “TV”. Now the indust…

1 year, 6 months ago

Behind the scenes of the Trump movie you almost never saw

What do Donald Trump and the video game industry have to do with each other?

Nothing! Yet we’re combining them into a single podcast, anyway.

First up:…

1 year, 6 months ago

Matt Yglesias on the election, Substack success and the great unbundling

The last time I talked to Matt Yglesias, we were co-workers at Vox.com, and Joe Biden had just been elected president. Now Yglesias runs Slow Boring,…

1 year, 6 months ago

I tried Orion, Mark Zuckerberg's $10k face computer

Mark Zuckerberg, along with most of the men running big tech companies, has spent many years and tons of money trying to put a computer on your face.…

1 year, 7 months ago

YouTube ceo Neal Mohan wants to share the wealth

YouTube turns 20 next year, which makes it positively ancient by internet standards. Yet the world’s biggest video site is still incredibly relevant …

1 year, 7 months ago

How David Remnick remade the New Yorker

When David Remnick got to the New Yorker in 1998, it was very much a capital M Magazine — it existed on ink and paper, and that was about it. Now it’…

1 year, 7 months ago