Media Gossip Hour: Spotify's Joe Rogan Problem, Facebook's TikTok Crisis, and Crypto's Anonymity Conundrum
Kevin Roose of The New York Times returns to our pod, which is owned by Spotify, to talk about Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is exclusively licensed by Spotify. (That's transparency, folks.) Then we talk...
8 Feb 202252min
This Guy Predicted the 2021 Economy. I Asked Him What's Next.
Jason Furman is a Harvard professor who served as a top economist for the Obama administration. More than just about anybody Derek spoke to last year, he nailed the rise in inflation. What did he see ...
4 Feb 202248min
One Big Question For: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, and Meta
They’re the six largest tech companies in the world. What’s the most interesting thing about each of them? Shira Ovide, author of the On Tech newsletter from The New York Times, joins Derek to talk ab...
1 Feb 202242min
Should We Cancel Student Debt?
Americans owe $1.7 trillion in student loans, and some Democrats think the time has come to cancel this burden. Derek shares 10 big student-loan facts that shape the debate. Then Jordan Weissmann of S...
28 Jan 202237min
Crypto Crashing, Pandemic Stocks Plunging: The Story Behind January’s Crazy Stock Market
Morgan Housel, the bestselling author of ‘The Psychology of Money’ and a partner at Collaborative Fund, is back to talk Bitcoin, Peloton, tech stocks, financial media myths, the psychology of stock ma...
25 Jan 202244min
2022 Is Off to a Terrible Start for Democrats
Legendary journalist James Fallows joins to discuss the filibuster wars, Democrats’ Voting Rights Act, the political outlook for Joe Biden and the Democrats, and the media’s negativity bias (as exempl...
21 Jan 202241min
The Biggest Losers of the Streaming Wars: ESPN, Movie Theaters, Peacock, and More
Do movie theaters have a future? What should Disney do with ESPN? And is anybody watching Peacock? Derek’s favorite entertainment-media analyst Rich Greenfield joins the pod to talk about the future o...
18 Jan 202249min
Everybody Was Wrong About Inflation
Okay, almost everybody. The Biden administration was wrong. Many critics of the Biden administration were also wrong. The Federal Reserve was wrong. Investors were wrong. Banks were wrong. And Bitcoin...
14 Jan 202243min
