Recode Decode: The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mehdi Hasan, a columnist at the Intercept and host of its weekly podcast Deconstructed, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher. In this episode: How Hasan got into journalism; the timidity of the American press; cold comforts in the “horrible, horrible moment” of the Trump presidency; the Intercept and Hasan’s podcast, Deconstructed; his viral interview with Blackwater founder Erik Prince; Swisher’s interview with Sam Harris; liberals who only see racism on the right; the controversial speeches in Hasan's history; the impact of Twitter on politics — and Donald Trump on Twitter; the 2020 presidential race and impeachment; and Trump's legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hey, it's Kara.
0:23.4	I'm backstage between interviews at this year's Code Conference, which we'll be bringing
0:27.0	to you here on Reco Decode, starting Friday.
0:30.1	Before we get to this interview with Metty Hassan, I want to make sure you're also subscribed
0:33.8	to Recoed Media with Peter Kafka.
0:36.0	That's where we've just published Peter's onstage interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wajiski.
0:41.0	This has been an incredibly hectic and controversial week for YouTube and Peter did a fantastic job
0:45.2	asking Susan the really tough questions.
0:47.6	They talked about why Wajiski doesn't want to screen videos before they go up.
0:51.0	The ambiguity of YouTube's rules for video creators and its relationship with the LGBTQ
0:56.3	community.
0:57.3	You should go listen that conversation over on Recoed Media with Peter Kafka.
1:01.2	Subscribe to the show and your favorite podcast app to hear even more conversations from this
1:05.3	year's Code Conference.
1:56.3	I'd rather get compared to others.
2:00.6	Yeah, that asshole.
2:01.6	Anyway, let's talk a little bit about your background.
2:04.1	I'll get into the Sam Horsing later, but I actually didn't want to actually talk to you
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