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Channels with Peter Kafka

Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett wants to win an election and make money

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jon Lovett and his cofounders at Crooked Media are a good story - former Obama aides who started their own media company after the 2016 election, and are now generating 25 million podcast downloads a month. But for a few weeks this summer, after they became prominent voices in the push to replace Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, their story got even more interesting. I’ve wanted to talk to Lovett about that experience for months, so a week before the election seems like good timing, no? Also discussed here: How to navigate a media landscape dominated by Donald Trump; Elon Musk, and the upside of getting kicked off of Survivor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

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1:40.9

From the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is channels with Peter Kafka.

1:45.7

That is me and the chief correspondent at Business Insider, where I cover media and technology,

1:50.6

and that is what we're doing here too.

1:52.6

I'm recording this on Tuesday, October 29th.

1:55.1

It's a week before the election, as you know.

1:58.0

So there's only one thing to talk about, and I wanted to talk to John Lovett about it.

2:02.4

Lovett is a co-founder at Cricket Media, the Lefty podcast company behind Pots of America, among other shows.

2:08.5

He's also very funny.

2:09.7

He was also on Survivor this year.

2:11.7

I would have had Lovett on any time, but this is a particularly good week to do it, I think,

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