Barry Diller on Biden, AI and the Hollywood Shutdown

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Billionaire mogul and power broker Barry Diller doesn’t hold back (at all) as he takes us inside Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. The legendary executive breaks down why Biden isn’t his “fave,” how we can save the news business and “the republic” from AI, and how the “evil genius” of Netflix factors into the ongoing WGA and SAG strikes. That, and more, in what Kara and Nayeema dub “the Mediterranean ‘ratf*ck’ episode.” Questions or comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on social media. We’re on Instagram/Threads as @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Policy can get controversial and it turns out no topic is off limits when it
0:05.8	comes to the back and forth. It's funny because on the one hand you think about
0:09.2	like it's about kids and food so why should this be controversial? On the other
0:13.2	hand like it's about kids it's about food of course it's controversial. School
0:19.2	lunch debt. How we got it and how to fix it. That's this week on The Weeds.
0:35.8	Hi everyone from New York Magazine in the Box Media Podcast Network. This is
0:40.1	lifestyles of the Nottis Rich and Nottis Famous. Just kidding this is on with
0:44.7	Cara Swisher and I'm Cara Swisher and I'm Neymar as that we started our
0:48.2	summer with a ride over to Martha Stewart's estate. That ridiculously big estate
0:53.6	where we are still. Just kidding we're not there anymore. And on Friday we
0:57.6	continued our tour of the Yes So Rich and Famous with a trip to Barry Diller's
1:01.7	yacht. Yes it was on it. Sadly virtual. Yes it was virtual. It was virtual but
1:07.0	why don't you set the scene Cara? Well he dialed in from his from this I don't
1:11.1	know where he was floating around heading to Venice. He's very famous for
1:15.8	yachting over the summer. And so he was headed for a really cool event actually
1:20.0	that his wife Dionne von Persenberg is doing in DVF in in Venice. So he he
1:26.1	dialed in from the yacht which was fine whatever. It's sad we couldn't do it in
1:30.7	person. Yeah couldn't do it in person. He's invited me on that yacht but I
1:34.3	have declined every time. We should give listeners a quick rundown of what
1:38.2	Barry Diller has done to to get that yacht because it's astonishing in the
1:42.1	breath of his career really everything that he's built. Why don't you start off?
1:45.3	Yeah he's a classic media mogul. He started off in the mail room at William Morris
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