#115: David Cho

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 129 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we finally welcome former publisher of Grantland and The Awl, as well as our great friend, David Cho to the podcast! David talks being in the studio with Justin Timberlake, Pharrell and Timbaland, listening to Kanye complain about his dentist, playing Jenga with Jay Z, and going to dinner at Tyrese's personal backyard Benihana. David discusses growing up as a Korean child in Tennessee, meeting CollegeHumor founder Ricky Van Veen in college and moving to NYC, starting Gawker competitor The Awl with no financial backing, building the network, and right when it started to turn a profit, leaving for a dream job: building Bill Simmons' sports and pop culture site with ESPN, Grantland. All that plus getting confused with the artist David Choe, awkward handshakes, Pepsi's Kendall Jenner commercial, throwing yourself a birthday party, and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff.
0:01.0	Hey, Eric.
0:02.0	I'm pretty good.
0:03.0	How are you?
0:04.0	Doing well, thank you.
0:05.0	Hey, David.
0:06.0	Hey, guys. How are you? I just want to say I'm excited to be the first guest to ever record their own intro. How about that? Is breaking ground here. Do you guys have flex bombs? Can we drop some of those? Oh, my God. David, how was your week? My week was, you know, honestly, it was another great week for David Cho.
0:19.5	Did you do anything for Passover?
0:22.3	Yeah.
0:23.1	Shog Shamesh. My week was, you know, honestly, it was another great week for David Cho. Did you do anything for Passover?
0:22.2	Yeah.
0:23.1	Shog Shamesh.
0:26.0	We went down to Aunt Marge's, and Aunt Marge is seeing this dude who, uh...
0:32.6	Is Aunt Marge out here in these streets?
0:35.2	Well...
0:35.9	If we have any listeners of this podcast, who have seen her on Bumble or plenty of fish. This is why people have listened. This is why people are listening to the podcast to listen about your old Jewish aunt on social. Whoa. Oh, old. Come on, come on. She's not that old. I mean, we're old. I'm assuming she's older than us. She is. but she's seeing this dude who has these vocal tics. Yeah.
1:28.7	And. I mean, we're old. I'm assuming she's older than us. She is, but she's seeing this dude who has these vocal tics. Yeah. And so every time that he opens or closes a sentence, it's with... Like Uzi-Vert? Sort of. But he'll... Yeah. Honestly, not far off. Yeah. He goes, sure, sure. So he ruins God and Bougie? Yeah, yeah. But the best was that, like, we caught on, right? Dan, Jeff and myself caught on. And then Dan got stuck in a conversation with this guy. But Dan started doing it back to him. Right. And he didn't, he didn't like take it anyway or So Dan was doing, like, the sure, sure to him. Which is great.
1:29.4	So that made the love these Passover bits to start with.
1:35.1	No, this is, in case anyone's worrying, this is what the podcast is like.
1:38.4	It's not talking about really random shit.
1:40.8	Jeff, who do we have on the podcast today?
1:42.5	We have our good friend David Cho.
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