Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Media with Peter Kafka, powered by digital media.

Before we launch Recode Media as its own podcast, you may have heard Peter over at my podcast, Recode Decode.

Here's one of the fantastic interviews he did for Decode. Let's listen.

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Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Decode,

a podcast about Silicon Valley's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.

Over the next couple of months, we'll have an extra episode each week hosted by the

fabulous Peter Kafka, senior editor and producer of Recode's Code Media Conference.

Listen in as Peter interviews his favorite movers and shakers in the media world.

Welcome, Peter, and this week you're talking to who?

I'm talking to Ricky Van Veen, one of the co-founders of college humor now does all sorts of TV and interesting internet stuff for Barry Diller over at IAC. So why did you pick him? What's your first enableness? Ricky is a really interesting guy. He was, when he started this business, he was in college, and now he's kind of a wise old man of the internet, and I really understands how the internet works and how media works broadly. And like lots of people we know who've figured out the internet, he's now spending a lot of time in TV, which is pretty interesting as well. Because videos where it's at, correct? Videos where it's at, but TV is even really where it's at, according to a lot of people who are in the internet. All right, then. Let's hear what he has to say.

Let's see what Ricky had to say to me.

There are not a lot of people who work for Barry Dillard for close to a decade. I'm talking to one of them. His name is Ricky Van Veed. He's a co-founder of College Humor, Vimeo, a bunch of other cool and interesting Internet sites. He's now, well, still working at, for Barry Dillard, I.C., working on television. Am I summarizing your life story correctly, Ricky? And before we get started, I have to really give it up for your production team. I don't know if you were aware of this, but I got an email maybe two weeks ago from you saying, hey, you know, I would love you do this podcast. And then someone followed up and said, here's the release form.

And if you have any requests for food and beverage, let us know.

And I replied all and said, yeah, you know, I'll get the form right back to you.

And as a joke, I said, and I would love a crystal Pepsi, you know, the failed Pepsi beverage that

hasn't been made since like 97 or something. I get an email yesterday saying, Ricky, we've been

trying to source this crystal Pepsi all over town. We just can't. And I guess it's a young person

who is not, who is not old enough to witness. And you sent him all over town. We just can't. And I guess it was a young person who was not, who was not old enough to witness. He's a, and you sent him all over town looking for Crystal Pepsi. And, and I felt horrible. And I wrote back and I was like, I was, I was joking. That stuff hasn't been made since the 90s. I'm so sorry to send you on this wild guess Jason for a dumb joke. Could you please go get me an Okay, Cola as well. Yes. Or a new Coke. I'm very sorry for making you look for Crystal Pepsi.

All right, now we can be there. Hi, Ricky. Thanks for coming. Thanks for having me. You're my favorite kind of guest because you make my job really easy. You're just going to talk for half an hour. Oh, yeah. And on top of that, you basically wrote a script out for me this week.

You wrote a piece for Jason Hirshhorn's media redefined newsletter. He's doing original content.

And you wrote something really smart form. It's about tech and media, that's stuff that I'll have to talk about.

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