Election special with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman
Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman joins us from the U.S. Capitol building just in time for the 2022 midterm elections. Recode’s Peter Kafka hits him up for some election spoilers. Then he gets in...
3 Nov 202240min
Jason Gay isn’t making Elon Musk jokes
We’re taking a short break from the Twitter shitshow to give you an interview with Jason Gay, sports and humor columnist at The Wall Street Journal. His new book is “I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me: M...
1 Nov 202225min
Bloomberg’s Matt Levine still loves crypto; Ankler’s Janice Min loves newsletters
When Bloomberg’s Matt Levine sent an enticing email about “a big thing coming out about crypto in Businessweek,” Recode’s Peter Kafka couldn’t resist. Turns out, the “big thing” is a 40,000(!) word pi...
27 Okt 20221h 15min
Ben Smith says Semafor will take 10 years to get right
One week after the launch of Semafor, Recode’s Peter Kafka flags down the news startup’s co-founder Ben Smith. Who is Semafor for, really? How can a news startup based in NYC and Washington solve pola...
24 Okt 202235min
Netflix is back (?) + Julia Boorstin on women who lead
Netflix added 2.4 million subscribers! Ads are coming! Wall Street’s excited again! But is Netflix back for real? Recode’s Peter Kafka talks to Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw to get a reality check on the str...
20 Okt 202250min
Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe
Since 2005, Randall Munroe has used his webcomic XKCD to comment on the world around him and express his love for pop culture, math, and science. Now, with the release of his new book “What If 2?: Mor...
13 Okt 202237min
Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Really. (Really?)
He’s back! Elon Musk, who agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion last spring and then tried to back out of the deal, says he wants to buy Twitter for $44 billion, after all. That doesn’t mean it will a...
5 Okt 202244min
Interview with Interview with a Vampire’s Eric Bogosian
Writer and actor Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Succession) has been in the business for a while. Long enough, that he tells Recode’s Peter Kafka, he’s learned to let other p...
29 Sep 202244min
