Chuck Klosterman relives the 1990s & Sarah Palin loses her NYT libel suit
Make sure no one’s on your home phone while you use your dial-up modem to listen to this week’s show on your 1998 Bondi Blue iMac. Recode Media’s Peter Kafka talks to bestselling Sex, Drugs and Cocoa ...
17 Feb 20221h 6min
What's next for CNN? + The Afterparty's Ben Schwartz writes jokes for C-3PO
This is (an update about what’s going on at) CNN. Dylan Byers of Puck News joins Recode’s Peter Kafka: They talk about the fallout from former CNN president Jeff Zucker’s resignation and the WarnerMed...
10 Feb 20221h 5min
Is Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem over? Plus how to launch a new media startup.
First: Neil Young quit Spotify over Joe Rogan, but just a handful of musicians have followed him. Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw assesses whether Spotify’s podcast problems are over, or just beginning. Then,...
3 Feb 20221h 6min
Game on: Behind the sports betting boom
Just in time for the NFL playoffs, sports betting is legal in New York. $600 million in bets were placed in the first week alone. Now that it’s legal in more than 30 states, Recode’s Peter Kafka dives...
27 Jan 202252min
Gaming out Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal
It’s the biggest acquisition in Microsoft’s history: $68.7 billion to buy the video game company, Activision Blizzard. First, Axios’ Chief Technology Correspondent, Ina Fried, tells us how Xbox fits ...
20 Jan 202253min
So … what the hell is Web3? With the Chernin Group’s Jarrod Dicker
What the hell is Web3, why did everyone start talking about it all at once, and are we going to still be talking about it in a few months? Jarrod Dicker, an investor at the Chernin Group, may know the...
13 Jan 20221h 5min
How the right covers 1/6 + tales from the Theranos trial, with Oliver Darcy and Erin Griffith
CNN’s Oliver Darcy joins Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss the way conservative media covers - and, importantly, doesn’t cover - the 1/6 riot and its aftermath. Then, NYT’s Erin Griffith reports back fr...
6 Jan 202249min
The Verge’s Ashley Carman on podcasting’s big year
2021 was the year everyone who wasn’t already in podcasting jumped in the pool - and everyone who was already there spent more time and money trying to move the industry from promising to profitable. ...
27 Des 202136min
