How to make laughs on TikTok and action on Netflix

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Comedian Nimesh Patel was grinding it out in the stand-up mines for years with middling success. And then the stage changed. Patel tells us how TikTok changed everything and what it’s like to live at the whim of the algorithm. Then, host Peter Kafka catches up with former stunt coordinator and current filmmaker Sam Hargrave about the secret sauce of making action films for Netflix. It’s a lot of punching, a little Chris Hemsworth and a dash of stabbing the crap of people. His new movie, Extraction 2, is out on the streamer now. Featuring: Nimesh Patel (@findingnimesh), stand-up comedian Sam Hargrave, director of Extraction 2 on Netfilx Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	In today's fast-changing digital world, proving your company is trustworthy isn't just important for growth, it's essential.
0:08.8	That's why Vanta is here. Vanta helps companies of all sizes get compliant fast and stay that way, with industry-leading AI, automation and continuous monitoring.
0:20.3	So whether you're a startup tackling your first
0:22.8	SOC 2 or ISO-27-001 or an enterprise managing vendor risk, Vanta's trust management platform makes it
0:31.8	quicker, easier and more scalable. The results? According to a recent IDC study, Vanta customers slash over
0:40.4	$500,000 a year in costs and are three times more productive. Establishing trust isn't optional.
0:48.7	Vanta makes it automatic. Visit vanta.com slash Voxpod to sign up for a free demo today that's v a mta.com
0:59.2	slash voxpod welcome to recode media of peter kofka that is me it's. I'm still here. I have not been replaced with an AI yet.
1:14.8	And today we've got two interviews with people whose media careers have been massively impacted in a good way by tech.
1:20.8	They're also really good interviews. You will like them. First up is Nemesh Patel who spent years grinding out a career in comedy until he figured out TikTok.
1:27.7	Really, TikTok sort of happened to him. And then things really took off and now he's doing really
1:33.9	well and making a lot of money. We've talked about how he's taken advantage of TikTok, how he
1:37.8	programs for it, how he doesn't program for it, what it's like to live at the mercy of the algorithm.
1:43.3	This is one I've wanted to do for a couple of years since I discovered Neemish Patel on
1:47.2	TikTok, obviously.
1:48.2	I'm really happy we got to do it.
1:49.6	I think you will like it.
1:51.4	And then I talked to someone who has been on this show before, Sam Hargrave.
1:55.5	He used to be a stuntman in Marvel movies.
1:57.3	Now he directs big budget, brutal action movies for Netflix. His new one is called
2:02.7	Extraction 2. It's like Extraction 1. If you like to see Chris Hemsworth kicking, punching,
2:08.1	shooting, stabbing the crap out of people, this movie is for you. It was for me. The last time
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.