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Channels with Peter Kafka

What's next for CNN? + The Afterparty's Ben Schwartz writes jokes for C-3PO

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This is (an update about what’s going on at) CNN. Dylan Byers of Puck News joins Recode’s Peter Kafka: They talk about the fallout from former CNN president Jeff Zucker’s resignation and the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger federal regulators approved yesterday. And then for something completely different, it’s the delightful Ben Schwartz! The affable Parks and Rec actor and improviser joins his new pal “PK” for a fun conversation. We talk about his new Apple TV+ show The Afterparty, working for Netflix, and how he became the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog. But wait, there’s more: Schwartz also talks breaking into show business via the internet, watching someone steal his content and go viral, and doing punch-up for Star Wars director J.J. Abrams. Featuring: Dylan Byers (@DylanByers), Founding Partner and Senior Correspondent at Puck Ben Schwartz (@rejectedjokes), Actor, Writer, and Comedian 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

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1:05.1

Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

1:07.6

That is me.

1:08.9

Today I have a fun, funny, entertaining, interesting interview

1:12.6

with actor Ben Schwartz, who is working a lot these days, which is good because he's good and funny

1:18.8

and entertaining and a good podcast guest as well. He's one of the stars of After Party. That's a new Apple TV show,

1:24.5

plus he's in a Netflix show, plus he's the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, so he's going to be in

1:28.3

movie theaters all across the country this spring. It's very smart, very insightful about how Hollywood

1:33.1

works in the age of streaming, about how to break into Hollywood, how he used digital and

1:38.2

specifically YouTube to do that in its early days to launch his own career. I was very entertained by

1:43.6

this conversation. I think you

1:44.9

will be as well. But first, last week I told you to come back to the Jeff Zucker, CNN Warner

1:49.8

Media Story. And we're going to do that right now. I brought in Pucks, Dylan Byers, who loves

1:54.3

writing and reporting about the machinations inside big TV networks and who used to work at CNN himself.

2:00.1

We talked about what really happened last week

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