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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Explaining the News With Peter Kafka

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by senior correspondent at Vox Media to discuss the platform’s method of covering the news (2:52), his reporting on the site formerly known as Twitter, and the podcast ‘Land of the Giants’ (6:05). Plus, the evolution of billionaires (18:55). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Peter Kafka Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

Welcome to another episode of McCarthy Sell's podcast.

0:17.5

Today we have another brilliant guest who's going to walk us through some dope things that are being talked about in the stratosphere on places like X and other things but none other than Peter Kafka. How are you doing today?

0:30.0

I'm good. How are you? Thank you for having me.

0:32.6

What are those pictures over your head?

0:34.8

You know what?

0:35.8

There was my wife that said she's from Philadelphia.

0:39.6

They're from some Philadelphia artist and I wish I could tell you more about them but they look

0:43.4

cool right? Yeah okay your wife's gonna your wife's not gonna like this part of the

0:47.4

interview so we'll just she's supposed to know who these people are I knew at one point. So look my show is kind of unique

0:55.3

and that we ask all of our guests the same first question which is we start our

1:00.3

episodes by having our guests to walk us through the arc of their careers.

1:03.4

So talk to me about each one of your career stops between your first journalist job out of

1:07.8

college to the work you're now doing in Box.

1:10.5

Okay.

1:11.5

I'm old, I'm old so we'll try to speed, we'll try to speed.

1:15.0

Yeah, I mean, I just do like the good, no.

1:18.0

I wanted to get a job of newspapers out of college and I could not get my foot in the door. in the Minnesota Real Estate Journal and it was just as exciting as it sounds.

1:35.0

I wrote about commercial I wrote about light industrial buildings and the Mall of America.

1:42.0

But I also had read Liars Poker by Michael Lewis,

1:47.0

and that had opened my eyes the idea that business writing could be interesting.

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