Channels with Peter Kafka
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Why is a talent agency buying pro wrestling? Plus a green media startup
Apr 6, 20231h 1m
Is Apple sure about Apple’s new Goggles? Plus Roger Bennett, Media Mogul
Mar 30, 202340 min
Podcast pioneer Jesse Thorn built his own business. Now his employees own it.
Mar 23, 202341 min
An SVB (phew!) update + Benedict Evans on the future of (almost) everything
Mar 16, 20231h 4m
Science fiction pioneer Neal Stephenson on the metaverse, the movies and why he still believes in blockchain
Mar 6, 202344 min
Meet the woman who got De La Soul streaming
Mar 3, 202337 min
Real-life “Succession”: Jim Stewart on Sumner Redstone’s sordid saga
Feb 23, 202337 min
We quiz BuzzFeed’s CEO about AI
Feb 14, 202326 min
Why is tech in trouble if the economy is ok?
Feb 9, 202344 min
Land of the Giants: The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes
Feb 2, 202339 min
Don't tell investor Li Jin that Web3 is dead
Jan 26, 202344 min
How The Last of Us went from hit game to hit zombie tv
Jan 18, 202338 min
"Resist trying to make things better" - a conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos
Jan 16, 202353 min
Was YouTube’s NFL deal a $2 billion mistake?
Jan 12, 202337 min
Apple’s new goggles; Hollywood’s new streaming pitch.
Jan 5, 202341 min
Reader Mail!
Dec 29, 202236 min
An Elon-free year in review
Dec 20, 202236 min
A n00b’s guide to the Microsoft / Activision deal the FTC wants to stop
Dec 13, 202244 min
Why the media landscape is “dire” with WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel
Dec 8, 202229 min
How Eventbrite survived the pandemic, and why it’s not fighting Ticketmaster
Dec 1, 202236 min
It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book
Nov 29, 202252 min
How to watch a complicated World Cup
Nov 21, 202237 min
Life, the internet, and everything with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick
Nov 17, 202249 min
What Elon’s past tells us about his present
Nov 15, 202241 min
Tech’s big bust, plus Marvel (and Wakanda) Forever?
Nov 10, 202233 min
Election special with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman
Nov 3, 202240 min
Jason Gay isn’t making Elon Musk jokes
Nov 1, 202225 min
Bloomberg’s Matt Levine still loves crypto; Ankler’s Janice Min loves newsletters
Oct 27, 20221h 15m
Ben Smith says Semafor will take 10 years to get right
Oct 24, 202235 min
Netflix is back (?) + Julia Boorstin on women who lead
Oct 20, 202250 min
Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe
Oct 13, 202237 min
Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Really. (Really?)
Oct 5, 202244 min
Interview with Interview with a Vampire’s Eric Bogosian
Sep 29, 202244 min
YouTube fights TikTok with cash
Sep 21, 202230 min
José Andrés has a full plate, but he's adding more
Sep 15, 202229 min
The inside story of YouTube
Sep 8, 202250 min
Why the Good Fight creators are glad they moved from CBS to streaming
Sep 1, 202236 min
Algorithms that give you anxiety and a Web3 project that doesn't suck.
Aug 25, 202235 min
Home Box Office of the Dragon
Aug 18, 202230 min
Why the Democrats finally got on TikTok
Aug 11, 202241 min
Land of the Giants: Why Instagram Broke Its Square
Aug 4, 202237 min
B.J. Novak on “Vengeance”, podcasts and the downside of the streaming boom
Jul 28, 202246 min
What is the metaverse, when is it going to show up and who’s going to run it?
Jul 19, 202232 min
Ken Auletta on the Harvey Weinstein story he wrote, the story he couldn’t write, and the one he’s publishing now.
Jul 11, 202232 min
Netflix has a huge hit with Peaky Blinders — and Caryn Mandabach owns it.
Jul 7, 202231 min
The future of: Crypto criticism; Substack and ABC News
Jun 30, 20221h 0m
Is this a Netflix problem or a streaming problem?
Jun 23, 202235 min
Bill Simmons on podcasts, celebrity interviews and life at Spotify
Jun 15, 20221h 0m
Why is this VC on your TikTok?
Jun 9, 202242 min
Engineer Molly White explains why Web3 isn’t going great
Jun 2, 202232 min