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 years, she has been a really sharp observer of social...
13 Nov 202450min
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 together? We got you here, courtesy of The Atlanti...
6 Nov 20241h 9min
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 are now generating 25 million podcast downloads a ...
30 Okt 202439min
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 provocative stories and headlines. Just as important: ...
23 Okt 202429min
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 industry term is “advertising-based video on demand,” an...
16 Okt 202437min
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: A chat with Gabriel Sherman, the longtime Vanity...
9 Okt 20241h 4min
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, a tremendously successful Substack, and I wanted t...
2 Okt 202444min
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. Now it looks like he’s getting very close to makin...
25 Sep 202432min
