Recode’s Land of the Giants Podcast Launches “Delivery Wars”

 The pandemic has impacted our society and economy in a multitude of ways, from working remotely at home to having our food delivered to our homes. During lockdowns and times of runaway infection rates, having your favorite restaurant meal delivered to your home soothed the cruel sting of the pandemic's gale-force winds.

Recode’s award-winning narrative franchise, Land of the Giants, and Eater (a food and dining brand and network of websites) have teamed up to kick off a special mini-series, “Delivery Wars.” 

Hosted by food writer and host of See Something, Say Something, Ahmed Ali Akbar, the new series will explore how food delivery became a multi-billion dollar industry, and its effects on restaurants, workers, and consumers.

The four-part episodic series will delve into how food delivery apps are transforming the way we eat—within a couple of clicks—and how the third-party app ecosystem has dramatically changed consumer behavior, created new job markets, and disrupted small businesses.

During this mini-series, co-hosting duties are capably handled from special guests Jason Del Ray, Recode’s senior correspondent, and Amanda Kludt, Eater’s editor-in-chief. 

Land of the Giants is a narrative podcast about the five technology giants — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, or FAANG — and how they dominate our lives in ways we often do not fully comprehend.

In its first season of Land Of The Giants, Del Ray covered the rise of Amazon and shined his investigative light into the dark crevasses of the e-commerce giant's most closely held secrets.

The second season focused on streaming giant Netflix with Recode's senior correspondent Peter Kafka and senior data reporter Rani Molla peeking behind the science of Netflix's programming, its "dog eat dog" employee review process, and its upside-down, right-side up business model. 

 In season three, recently completed, the Google universe was explored in all its complexities and contradictions.

Listen to the trailer for Delivery Wars.

Vox Media Podcast Network has one of the most topically diverse collections of podcasts and infuses quality in its podcast topics, which range from daily news, tech, culture and sports to news and rich narrative storytelling.

Check out “Delivery Wars” if for no other reason than its pedigree. At a time when people from different political and cultural viewpoints blame Big Tech for everything from 5G induced pandemics to "you're muzzling me" grievance howls,  Land Of The Giants has discovered a barometric equilibrium where these tech giants are exposed for what they are and also understood for what they are not.