{"podcast":{"title":"Channels with Peter Kafka","slug":"channels-with-peter-kafka-487706","podcast_index_feed_id":487706,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/recodemedia","website_url":"http://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/channels-with-peter-kafka","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/e4384094-e69c-11e8-8066-d3e055e78c28/image/c9e40c7e1baaea55eee29ba9541579b7.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Vox Media Podcast Network","episode_count":598,"summary":"Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers - and gets them to spell it out in plain, BS-free English. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-02T20:20:06.224097+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706"},"episode":{"title":"Encore: Inside Joe Weisenthal's brain","slug":"encore-inside-joe-weisenthal-s-brain","published_at":"2026-07-01T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706/encore-inside-joe-weisenthal-s-brain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP6595882855.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP6595882855.mp3","summary":"We originally published this interview with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal on Feb. 11, 2026, and it's one of my favorite chats of the year. We'll be back with a new conversation on July 8. If Joe Weisenthal didn’t exist, the internet would have to invent him. Because Joe Weisenthal is built for the internet — more specifically, an internet personality: Knows a lot, curious about even more, often right, happy to be wrong, always has something to say about anything. That persona/personality did wonders for Joe in the early days of Business Insider — which, not coincidentally, were also the early days of Twitter, where Joe really took off. Then he took his talents to Bloomberg, and since then has turned himself into a successful business/finance podcaster: Along with co-host Tracy Alloway, they’ve turned “Odd Lots” into a project no one at their employer knew or cared about into a genuine hit. Discussed here: Why Joe is still at Bloomberg, instead of doing the indie media route that could make him a gazillion dollars; what makes a perfect podcast guest; and Joe’s semi-secret country music ambitions. Plus something smart you can say about tariffs, if you’re in a place where people are talking about tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"We originally published this interview with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal on Feb. 11, 2026, and it's one of my favorite chats of the year. We'll be back with…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3496,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706/episodes/encore-inside-joe-weisenthal-s-brain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706/encore-inside-joe-weisenthal-s-brain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}