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Audie Cornish

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“There's a ton of them. I think when I was in the piloting process, I've always done stuff. I was always like, hey, CNN, there should be a show that does X. Hey, there should be. And I'm never trying to be in the lane with comedians. You know, I'm not going to do a bigger, bad, or tech podcast than you and Scott. You know what I mean? So it was also like really looking yourself in the mirror and be like, well, what do I bring to the table? And I knew that I loved analyzing things and taking the politics and the economics with me. Like I never put that down. So when I look at Summer House, I have like a bunch of other questions going on in my brain than a pop culture commentator who has lots of great funny quips about summer house or who is an amazing bravo archaeologist. Right. It's like, I think our training to create stuff for the rest of us, air quotes that like everybody.”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because, you know, it feels like it's going to undermine your career. You've been raised that you don't want to be infotainment. That's like the worst thing you could be, you know, to the NPR host that sort of raised me. And when infotainment became the news, it was like, well, wait a second. I know how to do this, but I'm sort of busy being over here occupying this lane that is like narrowing and narrowing and narrowing. And there are ways Have smart, interesting ideas in a conversation about culture.”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, Kara, you and I, as I've, you know, sort of wormed my way into your mentorship. You've always asked me what I want to be doing. And whenever I'm complaining, whenever I'm like, I don't. Like, I don't like this. I don't like that. You're the first person to just cut through the BS and be like, okay, but what do you want to do? And I think I couldn't answer that. And I was afraid of the thing I wanted to do, which is something like this, which is to like take the superpower or skill or lens I have on the news and apply it to this cultural stuff that people are obsessed with. Why were you afraid, Maya?”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So how did you get the impetus to do this though? Because you could talk about a lot of people talk about we should open a restaurant. Finally, we should get that boat, we said we'd get.”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why couldn't you there? I knew she was going to ask this question. Ari, this is just going to be me watching Kara. Kara, you?”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're always doing things. Yeah. But then in the process of leaving NPR, I should say, all of the hosts talk to each other a lot. We were in group texts. We were enlisters. We were like during the pandemic kind of really staying in touch. And that's probably when Ari and I really like Came together on issues that maybe coworkers typically wouldn't talk about, like when it comes to salary and contracts and all that sort of stuff. So fast forward to him leaving, we were like kind of in a good position to have a frank conversation about like, hey, do you want to collaborate? Hey, do you want to work together? But I remember.”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a world of people Frank Langford and David Green and David Fulkenflick. Like, it was a moment where NPR had a little bit of cash and they were hiring a lot of people. And we were like, I think the only really radio people in our classes. Everyone was a newspaper person.”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because it's not like we were friends, it was almost just like being in a school class. It's like we were hired in a same kind of batch of reporters, I think. Were you hired the year before the year after as a reporter?”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's funny hearing your story knit into a narrative, right? Which is what we do to other people all the time. And now we're finally old enough for it to happen too well.”
2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2026-06-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro on Friendship, Feeds and Their New Podcast · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT