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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: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Officer Brett Hankison is charged in the case of Breonna Taylor as Louisville prepares for more unrest; Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s former clerks pay their last respects as pallbearers; the CIA hardly even bothers sending information on Russia to President Trump anymore; the concert being sponsored by a South Dakota health-care firm is no longer on the books; once again, people like Dr. Anthony F...

Sep 23, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump has a totally unprepared response for the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S.; the Trump campaign really values their fireworks; Halloween is not going to be as fun this year—as probably expected; trolls have been circulating a suicide video on TikTok; the body of the missing pregnant woman has been found; and Trump praises physical attacks on journalists. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Sep 23, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: It seems as if a decision may soon be made over the unjust death of Breonna Taylor; Bill Crews—the Fauci-aide and also managing editor of RedState—says he will retire from his position from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Mike Bloomberg actually does something productive with his money; things are just not getting any easier for Vanessa Bryant; three coaches—and t...

Sep 22, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Democrats battle over which option they should take to fight President Trump from nominating someone for the Supreme Court; after investigating Trump’s business deals for two years, a district attorney is confident that he has grounds to launch an inquiry on tax fraud; a Trump crowd in Ohio really wasn’t a fan of face masks; Dr. Adeline Fagan was only 28 years old when she contracted and ...

Sep 22, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Sept. 21, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: the late Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg will be laid to rest on Friday; President Trump dismisses Ginsburg’s last dying wish; audio tapes reveal the president bragged to Bob Woodward about breaking “every record” on judicial appointments; apparently, New York City, Seattle, and Portland are so lawless that the Trump administration feels as if they should not receive any federal funding; the...

Sep 21, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Sept. 21, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top seven stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Deutsche Bank’s current CEO was in charge of the company’s audit division in 2015 when auditors saw nothing wrong with the bank’s Moscow trading desk, the Emmys were—surprisingly—refreshing this year, a Canadian woman allegedly sent a poisonous letter to President Trump, the coronavirus rages in Utah after underground college parties are organized, the white bar owner who killed a Black...

Sep 21, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition, September 18

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Tik Tok will be banned from U.S. App stores starting this weekend, Jared Kushner dismissed New York's COVID crisis moment, Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden's teleprompter—while using a teleprompter, Oregon counties ravaged by fires now told to brace for flooding, a gun-rights group raises $50,000 to help the Kenosha shooting suspect, and Eric Trump says he'll testify in a New York probe int...

Sep 18, 20204 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Sept. 18, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump goes after his own FBI director; Washington state may have an apple-maggot problem; the Trump administration previously put out guidelines that advised people not showing COVID-19 symptoms to not get tested—against the recommendation of CDC doctors; an Idaho politician is big mad because people may not be able to watch high school football; a 75-year-old Alabama businessma...

Sep 18, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: An investigation has been opened into the Georgia detention facility performing mass hysterectomies; President Trump finds another way to try and shame mail-in voting—surprise, surprise; a leaked memo from FEMA reportedly shows about a 17 percent increase in coronavirus-related deaths last week; New York City public schools have postponed their start date—for the second time; we have so...

Sep 17, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Russia is obsessed with American politics; Lauren Witzke, who won the Delaware Senate Republican primary, is just an all-out conspiracy theorist; a girls’ Christian boarding school is undergoing a criminal investigation for abuse allegations; another White House staffer tests positive for COVID-19; a 12-foot alligator has been seen on residential streets after Hurricane Sally makes landfa...

Sep 17, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Sept. 16, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A Black voter calls President Trump out for dog whistling tactics; COVID-19 cases shoot up to the highest count in a month; Mitt Romney no longer cares to play the GOP’s political game, President Trump bullies Big Ten football to continue the season—despite ever-present coronavirus; Trump uses an N.W.A. video to attack Joe Biden, but also without realizing the racist undertones of his m...

Sep 16, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is linked to stories of lab-produced coronavirus; the case of an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein will have to wait until the resolution of Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 trial; Hurricane Sally regains strength and returns to its status of a Category 2 hurricane overnight Tuesday; President Trump confuses the concept of “herd immunity;” Sarah Mc...

Sep 16, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: There’s some progress in the case of Breonna Taylor; Haitians and Salvadorans in the U.S. who are listed as “temporary protected status” are at risk of being deported; Hurricane Sally is threatening to ride the Gulf Coast; President Trump’s memory is trash; the Trump campaign confuses Russian troops for American troops; and even the president’s friends can only deal with him in doses. H...

Sep 15, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Bob Woodward releases new recordings of President Trump telling him back in April how “easily transmissible” COVID-19 was; Sean Hannity finally has to answer to peddling a grievous conspiracy theory; a nurse alleges that a Georgia doctor performed mass hysterectomies on unknowing Spanish-speaking immigrant women; Hurricane Sally is expected to touch down in Louisiana, but also expected to...

Sep 15, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Sept. 14, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The U.S. leads the world in COVID-19 deaths as new numbers are recorded; environmentalist leaders say that voting for the Green Party during the presidential election is a waste of time; L.A. county sheriff expects deputies to survive after a point-blank shooting; Kanye West is really trying to screw over the election; President Trump whines about football because he apparently doesn’t ...

Sep 14, 20209 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Sept. 14, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top seven stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump doesn’t listen to the risks of indoor political rallies, South Dakota’s attorney general is said to be in full cooperation with authorities after being involved in a fatal car crash, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s wife has a really tedious personal task for government employees, Iran has not forgotten about the death of Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike—and the c...

Sep 14, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Sept. 11, 2020

Good afternoon from the Daily Beast! These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Oregon’s wildfires are blazing out of control, the cops involved in the death of George Floyd are starting to turn on one another, President Trump was so adamant about people not wearing masks that he even tried to keep Veterans Affairs facilities from mandating the safety measure, doctors find inflammation of the heart muscle in collegiate athletes, and the Republican Party is freakin...

Sep 11, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Sept. 11, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. It’s Friday, September 11th and here are the six top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump compares himself to Winston Churchill; wildfires—unfortunately—happen on the West Coast...and not due to anti-fascists or Proud Boys having started them; Florida really does not seem to be able to put two-and-two together when it comes to the coronavirus; some football fans really have no empathy when it comes to racism; the Education Departm...

Sep 11, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump’s rationale is simply...off; 2020 is really on one—even in terms of the climate conditions; Trump says that Fox News is a big, mean bully; you’re going to have to find your discounted Chanel bags some other place after Century 21 shuts down, and Jane Fraser shatters barriers, becoming the first woman to head a major U.S. bank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...

Sep 10, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: White House officials—for weeks—were trying to figure out how to do damage control on what would appear in Bob Woodward’s new book on the president, President Trump—whose entire time in office has been built off of fear-mongering—says he didn’t want to scare people about the coronavirus, a new target of the FBI has been said to commit acts of violence against women around the world, teach...

Sep 10, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The number of American troops in Iraq is set to decrease for the first time since the battle against terrorist organization ISIS began, nearly an entire population of residents has been instructed to flee amid a ravenous wildfire in an Oregon town, the same guy who compared Muslim women’s headwraps to the hoods of the Ku Klux Klan nominates President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, Mark...

Sep 09, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump holds a chaotic campaign rally in North Carolina, holding the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally really was not a responsible move, a U.K. patient experiences a bad reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine, the year 2020 doesn’t stop with the craziness and brings an earthquake to New Jersey, the First Lady’s Rose Garden is in disarray, the Oscars actually tries to systemically be more inclusi...

Sep 09, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A University of Houston class receives an alleged ISIS threat during a Zoom lecture, America has displaced millions of refugees amid the War on Terror—while also turning its back on people trying to immigrate to the States, a California marijuana operation turns deadly, online classes in a Texas school district are struggling—and not for reasons you’d think, and a Trump-signed Bible is u...

Sep 08, 20204 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump campaign is down on cash, Proud Boys attack a counter-protesters after a Trump rally in Oregon, Tuscaloosa’s mayor clearly does not understand how to mitigate COVID-19 infection rates, an entire town in Washington state goes up in flames, Joe Biden vows to take a scientifically-approved coronavirus virus vaccination—even if it costs him the presidency, and the woman who created ...

Sep 08, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Sept. 4, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump not only allegedly called deceased military members “losers” but he also said those who are missing in action got what they deserved, the military paper “Stars and Stripes” is slated to shut down publication by the end of the month, the White House chief adviser does not agree with the president about the rollout timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine, former President Jimmy Ca...

Sep 04, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Sept. 4, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Portland man suspected of shooting a supporter of a right-wing group has been killed, President Trump backtracks and says he never called the late John McCain a “dummy” for being a prisoner of war, the widow of Mr. Rogers does not hold back on her distaste of Trump, a person dies after being rescued from a missing ship in the East China Sea, Apple takes a massive dive, and the #FreeBr...

Sep 04, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Vitamin D deficiency may have a correlation with COVID-19 infection rates, Attorney General Bill Barr—apparently—doesn’t understand the definition of racism, you know it’s bad when Michigan’s former governor—who was criticized for his mishandling of the Flint water crisis—says President Trump has no moral compass, Facebook prepares for Election Night misinformation, and New York Govern...

Sep 03, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Details of a Black man’s death at the hands of Rochester police surfaces six months after his suffocation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expresses his views on racism against Black Americans, President Trump contradicts his initial concerns on voter fraud, Trump announces plan to cut federal funding off from cities of “lawless zones,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes the salon where she...

Sep 03, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top five stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The National Health Institute contradicts President Trump and the FDA on how to treat COVID-19 patients, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets caught at an indoor hair appointment without a mask, a Kenosha shop owner refuses a photo op with Trump—and the president finds a replacement, Melania Trump’s former best friend dishes on how the selfish first lady betrayed her, and Sarah Sanders’ new...

Sep 02, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top six stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Outrage pours in over the death of a Black man by the hands of police in L.A., a Kennedy loses an election in Massachusetts, President Trump’s new coronavirus adviser is a bit unorthodox—even for Fox News, the president is continuing his battle against the “China-centric” World Health Organization, a pregnant woman in Washington state is still missing after a week and her case is being vi...

Sep 02, 20206 min
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