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Channels with Peter Kafka

Why Desus & Mero are pandemic-proof

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Comedians, podcasters, and now authors, Desus Nice & The Kid Mero, have had an interesting path to becoming one of the hottest duos in late night television. The Bronx natives sit down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss how they got hosting Showtime’s first talk show, what you can expect in their upcoming book God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx (which is available for pre-order right now!), and what their plans are for the post-pandemic future. Their Virtual Book Tour kicked off last week. Tickets are available at Bodegahive.com Featuring: Desus Nice (@desusnice) & The Kid Mero (@THEKIDMERO) Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode With a special appearance from our producer, Jelani Carter (@_JelaniCarter) 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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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me live on digital tape from New Jersey this week.

2:00.9

Two very, very, very, very, very special guests we've been trying to get. We've just figured out for literally two years. They're here. They are comedians. They're podcasters. They're internet celebrities. They're TV stars. They're not published authors. Welcome, Deezus and Mero. You're the vibes. PX and ability. You know, you know, you know, you don't know what I'm saying? Don't get to face slash. Uh-uh.

2:18.7

So in that long list of superlatives I just read off, what are you most proud of right now? TV show, book. The book. Book. Book. Yeah, book is having a book. Now you can turn your nose up on other people. Like, other people have TV shows. Other people have podcasts. other people, you know, but you're having a book, now you're in like the creme de la crem.

2:17.7

Now you're in like the Frazier Crane of hip hop and stuff. So now you look at other people like you unwashed masses, you know no culture. Talk to us. Like our homies now used to be like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel. Now our homies are Richard Wright, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, you know what I'm saying? We out here, literary gang.

2:37.0

Shout to the library.

2:37.6

Ah, I, I. Now our homies are Richard Wright, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, you know what I'm saying?

2:35.3

We out here, literary gang. Shout out to the library. I, I, I shout to Paints and Fortitude.

2:39.7

You know the vibes.

2:40.5

None of those authors, by the way, have written in all caps, like Mero does.

2:43.3

No, none of them have. And, yeah, no, it's definitely, the book is the most exciting thing

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