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Cheat Sheet Podcast from The Daily Beast

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The top 5 things you need to know to start your day. Check out The Daily Beast’s other podcasts: The New Abnormal, Fever Dreams, The Last Laugh and Life Behind Bars. Just search 'The Daily Beast' on your favorite podcast app. 


The New Abnormal: Editor-at-large Molly Jong-Fast has fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics, and science that help make what’s happening in the country and world clearer. 


Fever Dreams: Our top reporters take you inside the right’s push to retake power, from the conspiracy-slingers to the MAGA acolytes to the straight-up grifters.


The Last Laugh: Matt Wilstein interviews top-tier comedy stars peeling back the curtain on their inspirations, frustrations, challenges, and triumphs. 


Life Behind Bars: Two of the world’s foremost drink experts, Noah Rothbaum and David Wondrich, talk about cocktails and spirits. 

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Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 21, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: More than half of voters say America is racist, former attorney Michael Cohen alleges in his new book that President Trump is bit of a bigot, coronavirus numbers are actually 10 times HIGHER than they've been reported, Chinese hackers have been accused of stealing trade secrets—even those relating to coronavirus vaccines, and investors warn that climate change—not only is real but will hu...

Jul 21, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Jully 21, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump pats himself on the back for finally wearing a face mask, the St. Louis couple who wielded guns at Black Lives Matter protesters face charges, Michael Cohen sues Attorney General Bill Barr for being sent back to prison, Jacksonville sheriff is worried about the city hosting the Republican National Convention during the coronavirus pandemic, a Detroit cop faces assault charge...

Jul 21, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet: Afternoon Edition, July 20, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: An early trial at Oxford University is showing some positive results for a possible COVID-19 vaccination, Delta Air Lines wants passengers to prove if they can't wear face masks due to medical reasons, Florida keeps adding new coronavirus cases to the state's tally, the Bahamas bans Americans from visiting, and rapper Nicki Minaj announces that she's preggers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Jul 20, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 20, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's July 20 and these are the top 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump administration is reportedly considering enacting new federal policies without legal authority, Florida keeps packing on new coronavirus cases, the Georgia governor tries to reinforce his power over Atlanta's mayor, attacks against NYC transit workers increase amid the health pandemic, Prince Andrew escorts daughter Princess Beatrice down the aisle, Israel's Netan...

Jul 20, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 17, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Friday, July 17, and these are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The U.S. shatters—yet—ANOTHER daily coronavirus record, Travis and Gregory McMichael plead NOT GUILTY to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, civil rights icon Rev. C.T. Vivian passes away at the age of 95, Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes chemotherapy for cancer recurrance, and the Pentagon finally bans Confederate flags from being flown at U.S. military bases. Hosted on A...

Jul 17, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 17, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Friday, July 17, and these are the top 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump team really has to go out of their way to make the president happy—including telling him personalized fairy tales, the Trump campaign adviser appears on Russian-state TV, House and Senate Democrats are urged to skip the August convention over fears of the coronavirus, Chicago's mayor and the White House press secretary are beefing with each other, a San D...

Jul 17, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 16, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Thursday, July 16, and these are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The coronavirus numbers are about to get a lot scarier; Russia has launched a cyber attack on the U.S., Canada, and U.K to steal COVID-19 vaccine research, team Trump is really operating like a cult inside the White House, Mary Trump says that her father's family was consistently racist and anti-Semitic while she was growing up, and Kanye West is back in the 20...

Jul 16, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition, July 16, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Thursday, July 16, and these are the top 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump campaign chief got the boot, the Secret Service spends $25,000 on jet skis, a Twitter hack has notable accounts promoting a suspected cryptocurrancy scam, a MAGA radio host in New Hampshire is fired after she yells at landscapers to stop speaking Spanish and speak English instead—oh, and she had the audacity to record it on her Facebook Live, and Nick C...

Jul 16, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 15, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, July 15, and these are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Mary Trump is fairly certain that Donald Trump cheated on the SAT and had someone take the test for him, the president is apparently getting involved with the gun-wielding couple who aimed at Black Lives Matter protesters in St. Louis, ViacomCBS cuts Nick Cannon after the actor went on an anti-Semitic rant, Jeff Sessions is still Trump's tool even after he los...

Jul 15, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 15, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, July 15, and these are the top 6 six the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump continues his push of white grievance politics, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' political career may be over, Mary Trump tells her uncle to RESIGN from the presidency, a headless body is discovered in a New York City luxury apartment, a nursing home resident dies while waiting in line for a COVID-19 test in Utah, and a Kansas lawmaker is charg...

Jul 15, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 14, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Tuesday, July 14, and these are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A federal judge rejects a Harvey Weinstein class-action settlement, Quest Diagnostics says that it can take at least a WEEK before patients can get coronavirus test results back, a White House coronavirus task force member doubles down that no one in the group lies after being attacked by President Trump for doing so, women can get abortion pills during the pand...

Jul 14, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 14, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! It's Tuesday, July 14, and these are the type 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Mary Trump is free to dish all the dirt on her uncle as she wants, a top Trump ally is really trying to question the validity of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Ghislaine Maxwell wrapped her phone in tin foil in an attempt to keep from being detected by the feds, Naya Rivera helped her son back on the boat after the two allegedly went swimming in Lake Piru, a study reveals th...

Jul 14, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 13, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Monday, July 13, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump marks a trailblazing milestone in the number of "alternative facts" he's told since being in the White House, the president has been pushing conspiracy theories as to why doctors are supposedly lying about the coronavirus (Hint: It focuses on their plan to sabotage his re-election chances), actress Kelly Preston passes away at the age of 57, a ...

Jul 13, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 13, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Monday, July 13, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump White House is even more paranoid than the Nixon administration by setting traps to catch leakers, finally the Washington Redskins are going to change the franchise's offensive name, the White House has been super petty and has been keeping a list of all of the times that Dr. Anthony Fauci has been wrong about the coronavirus, a Portland protester has s...

Jul 13, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 10, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Friday, July 10, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Dr. Anthony Fauci admits that he hasn't briefed President Trump on the coronavirus in about two months or appeared on television—maybe because he has the tendency to speak "the truth at all times," President Trump's top legislative aid quits his job just HOURS after a media story alleged that he was collecting political intel for his lobbyist homies, a bear—ye...

Jul 10, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 10. 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Friday, July 10, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Trump aides are not sweating the Supreme Court's desision to review the president's taxes— or the president's Twitter tantrum in response, a GOP lawmaker in Alabama says that he would like to see more people with COVID-19—yep, the U.S. breaks its record for the top number of new coronaviruses cases in a 24-hour period for the THIRD day in a row, Senator Tammy Duc...

Jul 10, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 9, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Thursday, July 9, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Finally President Trump has been ordered by SCOTUS to release his tax returns (finally!), U.S. doctors and nurses are running out of personal protective equipment—AGAIN, the officer investigating the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville says that the way the officers who raided her home was a "passive" approach, a Kentucky man has been sentenced to 10 years ...

Jul 09, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 9, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Thursday, July 9th ,and these are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The CIA has a one-way-street love relationship with giving intel to Russia, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's exclusive country club got millions in funding in the Paycheck Protection Program, former "Glee" actress Naya Rivera is feared to have drowned in a boating trip with her 4-year-old son, new transcripts show that George Floyd told Minneapolis police th...

Jul 09, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 8, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, July 8, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Kanye West makes a bid for the White House—sadly, we're not joking, Arizona is crazy with their amount of coronavirus cases and inefficient testing, a ridiculous video shows a Black teen being fatally restrainted at a Michigan foster home, the Supreme Court rules that teachers are not protected from discrimination laws at religious schools, and President Tru...

Jul 08, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet: Morning Edition, July 8, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, July 8, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Mary Trump claims in her book how her uncle will dismantle American democracy if he is elected for a second term in office, the U.S. hits yet ANOTHER daily high of new coronavirus cases, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos compares the risk of kids going to school in the fall amid COVID like astronauts blasting off into space, a MAGA couple is charged with a hat...

Jul 08, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 7, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Tuesday, July 7, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Texas sheriffs really aren't helping the fact that coronavirus cases continue to soar, the Brazilian president has tested positive for COVID-19, Deutsche Bank gets slapped with a hefty fine for being complicit in warning signs of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, a Florida teen got sick and died of the coronavirus two weeks after attending a youth church event—where y...

Jul 07, 20204 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 7, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Tuesday, July 7, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Now there's a tell-all book about First Lady Melania Trump coming out, President Trump's small business protection fund looks like it helped a lot of elite people and groups in the D.C. political circuit, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is really in denial about the coronavirus—like, REALLY in denial, Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth makes the ultimate clapback to ...

Jul 07, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition, July 6, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Monday, July 6, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet teams is watching right now: Donald Trump is falsely tweeting to Bubba Wallace, Italian film score composer Ennio Morricone has died at 91, Trump-tied lobbyists cashed in on Covid, a Fredrick Douglass statue was vandalized, Black and Latino Americans get Covid more often according to a secret CDC report, and Italian researchers are baffled by pink snow in the Alps. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Jul 06, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 6, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Monday, July 6, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet teams is watching right now: The Atlanta Mayor is trying to clear the Wendy's parking lot where Rayshard Brooks was killed, Joe Biden is one step closer to choosing his running mate, scientists want the World Health Organization to admit the coronavirus is airborne, a number of Fourth of July celebrations violated COVID-19 regulations, Prince Andrew spoke to a D.C. lobbyist tied to Trump for...

Jul 06, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 2, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Thursday, July 2, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet teams is watching right now: The FBI has finally captured Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell, the U.S. reaches its most new coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period since the pandemic began, a Miami police officer is suspended after punching a Black woman in the face, a Trump ambassador nominee has a pretty racist past, and a 100-person New York house party violates social distan...

Jul 02, 20206 min

Daily Beast, Morning Edition: July 2, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Thursday, July 2, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump gives Russia a pass for bounties on American soldiers so that he can focus on attacking U.S. media instead, the Republican National Convention is allegedly paying a former "Apprentice" staffmember to keep quiet on Trump dirt, Mary Trump's tell-all book is back to being released on July 28th after a judge lifts the restraining order against it, a ...

Jul 02, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: July 1, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, July 1, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Joe Biden finds support in ex-George W. Bush staffers, federal law enforcement confirms that it's investigating the death of Elijah McClain while in police custody in Colorado, the Trump administration's rule to block Central Americans at the southern U.S. border is overturned, a Fox News anchor gets the pink slip for alleged sexual misconduct in the workpla...

Jul 01, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: July 1, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, July 1, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump accuses the Joe Biden campaign of pre-screening questions at a press conference, publisher Simon & Schuster says that it did not know about Mary Trump's NDA, the White House hoards nearly the entire stock of remdesivir for Americans, Mississippi's governor is all for the removal of its racist state flag, the white lawyer in St. Louis who wen...

Jul 01, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 30, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Tuesday, June 30, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: There's a new virus that could trigger ANOTHER global pandemic, California breaks another coronavirus record, one Fox & Friends co-host really cares about President Trump's health, China passes a law that strengthens its power over Hong Kong, and Hollywood legend Carl Reiner passes away at the age of 98. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

Jun 30, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 30, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Tuesday, June 30, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: U.S. officials were fearful of President Trump making "delusional" phone calls with other world leaders, the White House was warned of Russian bounties on American soldiers back in March 2019, YouTube finally pulls some right-wing channels off the site, some cops were photographed re-enacting a now-banned chokehold at an Elijah McClain memorial, the Golden State...

Jun 30, 20206 min
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