Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media and Slate are teaming up on podcasts, starting with W. Kamau Bell

First Look Media, the politically progressive media company funded by billionaire and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, has been dipping its toes in a bunch of different media projects.

This week, First Look is releasing the first episode of its newest project: A political comedy podcast co-hosted by W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu called “Politically Re-Active.” Both are lefty stand-up comics, and you might recognize Bell’s name from his FXX show “Totally Biased,” which ended its run in 2013.

Their podcast’s first episode debuts on Wednesday, June 29; here’s a quick promo that will give you an idea of what it’s like.

The podcast, First Look’s first, is a joint effort from First Look and Slate.com’s podcast network Panoply, which makes the shows of high-profile people like Malcolm Gladwell and Vox.com Editor in Chief Ezra Klein*.

It has been a busy few months for First Look. The company recently relaunched the comics vertical The Nib (which used to be run on and by Medium), and the Intercept — its national security and politics site co-founded by Glenn Greenwald — took home a National Magazine Award for its columns from imprisoned journalist Barrett Brown.

Though virtually every major digital media company — Recode proprietor Vox Media included — is adding podcasting bits to their business, the real game is video.

First Look produced last year’s Oscar-winner “Spotlight,” and they’re funding other video projects like docu-series with Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. The most recent movie from Laura Poitras, filmmaker and Intercept co-founder, premiered at Cannes last month. It’s gotten good reviews so far.

* Vox.com and Recode are both owned by Vox Media.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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