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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: June 29, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Monday, June 29, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching: The Supreme Court protects abortion rights and strikes down a Louisiana hospital privileges law, the Chinese military approves a COVID-19 vaccine to be used on its troops, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany backtracks on why President Trump shared a white supremacist tweet, China forces hundreds of thousands of women to have abortions or be sterilized, and Bro...

Jun 29, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 29, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Monday, June 29, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: CNN star Van Jones disappoints us all with his secret White House gig, Mississippi finally votes to remove its white supremacist symbol from the state flag, the California governor orders for bars to re-close after COVID-19 cases increase, Russian bounties to the deaths of American soldiers in Afghanistan, coronavirus deaths have passed half-a-million worldwide, ...

Jun 29, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 26, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Friday, June 26, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump tries to squash Obamacare on a day that coronavirus infections reach a new record high, Joe Biden says that he would enforce executive power for people to wear masks if he was president, police investigate a possible hate crime against a biracial woman in Wisconsin, a racetrack owner sells "Bubba Rope" on Facebook Marketplace, and American Airl...

Jun 26, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 26, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Friday, June 26, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A judge tosses the Trump family's attempt to block Mary Trump’s juicy, tell-all book, Trump staffers are in semi-quarantine after Tulsa COVID-19 cases spike, Florida has another ridiculous day of coronavirus infections, a Proud Boys member is caught on video in a Seattle protest zone, Attorney General William Barr tried to undermind Michael Cohen's 2019 convictio...

Jun 26, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 25, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Thursday, June 25, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Jeffrey Epstein victims will finally some sort of compensation, three North Carolina cops are fired after caught on radio being very blatantly racist, $1.4 billion was sent to dead people, Attorney General William Barr has ordered U.S. marshals to stop demonstrators from trying to take down federal monuments, and NASA renames its headquarters after its first...

Jun 25, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition, June 25, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Thursday, June 25th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump's younger brother was in ICU just before filing the lawsuit over their niece's book, the Tuscon police chief resigns over a Hispanic man's death, dozens of secret service members are ordered to quarantine after Trump's Tulsa rally, a Starbucks barista gets financial vengeance over a salty customer, a white nationalist is convicted to two life se...

Jun 25, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 24, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, June 24, and these are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Several states have some STAGGERING COVID-19 new infection statistics, the U.S. Court of Appeals orders for the Michael Flynn case to be dropped, Charleston's John C. Calhoun statue is SWIFTYLY taken down overnight, multiple Guinness World Record-holder Angela Madsen dies on a solo rowing trip across the Pacific, and a facial-recognition algorithm makes a v...

Jun 24, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 24, 2020

Good morning, this is The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, June 24, and these are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump brings in a celebrity lawyer to try and stop his niece's book from being released, ONE officer has finally been fired in the killing of Breonna Taylor, Bubba Wallace is "pissed" that people think he faked a hate crime, a Florida hospital is at capacity of COVID-19 patients, a 24-year-old defeats Trump's Republican pick for North Carolina's ...

Jun 24, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 23, 2020

Good afternoon. This is The Daily Beast. It's Tuesday, June 23, and these are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Arizona megachurch that President Trump is set to visit on Tuesday says that its air-filter system can eliminate the coronavirus (multiple scientists have debunked this claim), the president has ordered for the federal government to arrest any protester who try to remove federal statues, a noose was found on the Sonoma Raceway in northern California, tenni...

Jun 23, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 23, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Tuesday, June 23rd and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump tweets some really horrible—and racist—videos, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro walks back his claims that the U.S.-China negotiations are over, an Oregon church keeps a county from reopening after coronavirus lockdowns, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin tells protesters that it's time to leave their autonomous zone after three men were shot, Ste...

Jun 23, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet Afternoon Edition: June 22, 2020

Good afternoon from the Daily Beast, we’re following Trump’s COVID testing response, Richard Branson’s space deal with NASA, the worst day yet in the pandemic, an American killed in a terrorist attack in England and what South Korea doesn’t like about John Bolton’s book Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 22, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet Morning Edition: June 22, 2020

Good morning from the Daily Beast, we’re following John Bolton’s decision not to vote for Donald Trump, Mary Trump’s new book about her famous uncle, New York’s Natural History Museum’s decision to remove a Teddy Roosevelt statue, a noose found in a Nascar driver Bubba Wallace’s stall, and a spate of car attacks by right-wing extremists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 22, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 19, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Friday, June 19th and here are the 5 top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Trump’s threats to protesters, an 18-year-old Black security guard is shot by LA Sheriffs, the president’s promise to try to rescind DACA again, Aretha Franklin’s never-before-heard song for Junteenth, and New York City’s new Racial and Reconciliation Commission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 19, 20204 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 19, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Friday, June 19th and here are the 6 top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Amy Klobuchar steps aside and urges Joe Biden to choose a woman of color as his veep, Florida is becoming the new COVID-19 epicenter, John Bolton files a suit to dismiss the DOJ suit against his book, Chicago's mayor blasts a Scooby Doo meme, Twitter gives President Trump another warning, and the Into the Wild Bus has been airlifted from an Alaskan trail over safet...

Jun 19, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 18, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Thursday, June 18th and here are the 5 top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Supreme Court Trump's decision to rescind DACA, police officers have lied a LOT about the recent protests, a former Missouri detective has been charged with hitting a Black man with his police SUV, Trump says that he did not watch all of the George Floyd footage because the clip was too long (not the fact that the man is seen dying on the video), and the pr...

Jun 18, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 18, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It's Thursday, June 18, and these are the top 6 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Atlanta police are walking off the job, Trump wanted to give Kim Jong Un a signed copy of Elton John's Rocket Man, a Wichita, Kansas, diversity committee member is in trouble, an Arizona sheriff who scorned the lockdown now has COVID-19, a speechwriter for James Mattis confirms claims in John Bolton's new book and 34 new coronavirus cases are linked to bars in Bo...

Jun 18, 20205 min

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

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It's Wednesday, June 17, and these are the top 5 stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Beijing goes under a SECOND lockdown due to the coronavirus, House Leader Nancy Pelosi demands that other members of Congress always wear a face mask...otherwise they will not be allowed entry, a Florida Trump golf club files for rent relief, the meat shortage—apparently—was a hoax, and Quaker Oats finally ditches the racist Aunt Jemima image and name. Hosted ...

Jun 17, 20205 min

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

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Wednesday, June 17th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump is getting pretty nervous about his niece's upcoming books, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells The Daily Beast that the country is still in the first wave of handling the coronvirus—despite what the White House says, the FDA rescinds its emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, another Black man is found hanged in Hou...

Jun 17, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition, June 16, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Tuesday, June 16th and here are the five top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: 50,000 people in longterm care facilities have died from the coronavirus, COVID-19 research shows that a major breakthrough could be on the way, a protest to take down the statue of an authoritative conquistador turns violent due to a local vigilante group, it turns out that NYPD officers were NOT purposefully poisoned by Shake Shack employees, and Ford plans...

Jun 16, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 16, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Tuesday, June 16th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump boasted about the economy at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak as his chief of staff dumped stocks, a 911 dispatcher was so worried about what she saw during the George Floyd arrest that she consulted her superisor as it was happening, NYPD are investigating an alleged intentional poisoning at a Manhattan Shake Shack, North Korea blows up its jo...

Jun 16, 20206 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 15, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Monday, June 15th and here are the five top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: a historic vote sweeps the Supreme Court, there's some speculations that America's social unrest is about to get worse, a Tulsa daily newspaper says that President Trump's upcoming rally is NOT welcome, Planned Parenthood endorses Joe Biden for president, and local GOP leaders are more confident about Trump's re-election that he is. Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Jun 15, 20205 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 15, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Monday, June 15th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Some White House drama involving President Trump's niece is about to go down, the autopsy of the Black man in Atlanta who died over the weekend was ruled to be caused by two gunshots to the back, the Tulsa County Health Department director thinks it would be a wise decision if Trump did NOT hold his rally there this weekend, the mayor of Richmond, Virginia, is or...

Jun 15, 20206 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 12, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Friday, June 12th and here are the five top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Former Officer Derek Chauvin is going to get a hefty pension even if he IS convicted of murdering George Floyd, President Trump is worried about people being incorrectly labeled as racists (we're sure he's probably asking for a friend...or two...or himself), Tulsa closes its Whirlpool factory due to the coronavirus, a man in California got a kick out of poison...

Jun 12, 20205 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 12, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Friday, June 12th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump administration blames the spike in coronavirus cases on Mexico—because OF COURSE they would, the Republican National Convention will coincidentally be held in Jacksonville on a terrible day in history for Black Americans, Floriday has way too many cases of COVID-19, Senator Kelly Loeffler reimagines her campaign for office as an investment opportunity f...

Jun 12, 20207 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 11, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Thursday, June 11th and here are the five top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: America's top military officer admits that it was a mistake for him to go to St. John's Episcopal Church with Trump for the president's photo-op, unemployment claims decline but coronavirus cases increase, Biden is convinced that the military would have to remove Trump from the White House if he refuses to leave after losing November's election, advertisers ...

Jun 11, 20205 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 11, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Thursday, June 11th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: a QAnon believer came in first in a Georgia Republican primary on Tuesday and could be elected to Congress, confirmed cases of the coronavirus topped 2 million on Thursday, an Ohio lawmaker makes some truly stupid remarks at a hearing this week, a Conde Nast exec resigns after racism allegations, Zoom mistakently shuts down a video meeting, and the NBA season w...

Jun 11, 20207 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 10, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Wednesday, June 10th and here are the five top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: George Floyd and former Officer Derek Chauvin apparently had a fairly volatile previous history with one another, the case of Manuel Ellis—ANOTHER Black man recently killed at the hands of police— resurfaces, a Tulsa police officer explains that more Black people should be shot while also claiming that racism doesn't exist in U.S. police forces, ex-Bon Appé...

Jun 10, 20207 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 10

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Wednesday, June 10th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Trump's task force warns governors of a spike in COVID-19 cases, Doomsday stepdad is jailed after human remains are found at his property, a Seattle council member leads a group of protesters INTO city hall, Donald Trump Jr. spent a LOT of taxpayers' money on his trip to Mongolia—more than we were initially told, there are some major voting issues in Georgia, ...

Jun 10, 20206 min

The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: June 9, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. It’s Tuesday, June 9th and here are the five top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: the World Health Organization tries to walk by some of their previous claims, 14 states report their highest-ever COVID-19 cases, Minneapolis bans police officers from using chokeholds, a Black man in California was arrested for dancing in the street, and an 1890 land deed prevents a Robert E. Lee statue from being removed in Richmond, Virginia. Hosted on Acas...

Jun 09, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: June 9

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Tuesday, June 9th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Trump campaign ads being run in D.C. to ease the president's anxieties, a federal charge in connection to the Minneapolis police precinct fire, Attorney General Barr contradicts Trump's claim on the reason why he actually went to his White House bunker, the Bon Appétit editor-in-chief resigns, New Orleans police admit that they fired rubber bullets at marchers, a...

Jun 09, 20205 min
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