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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, Nov. 4, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Joe Biden makes history, President Trump gets another slap on the wrist from Twitter, the DA who oversaw Ahmaud Arbery’s case in Georgia gets booted from her seat, six Native Americans won seats in the House of Representatives, COVID-19 cases are increasing in the U.S., there’s another Sharpie-gate—but this one does not include a map of the country and a hurricane, and Oregon relaxes laws o...

Nov 04, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. Election Day has finally come and gone and these are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Election results are still in the air—leaving Americans in limbo, Joe Biden feels optimistic as all ballots are being counted, Fox News opinion stars question the networks actual news reporting, Democrats likely to maintain the House of Representatives for at least the next two years, and Cardi B channels all of us with her Election Day stress on Ins...

Nov 04, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Nov. 3,2020

Good afternoon and happy Election Day from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Even if President Trump is not re-elected, he has already left his mark on the country; contrary to what the president says, kids are not immune to the coronavirus; a U.S. district judge makes an urgent move to make sure all mail-in ballots are counted; and Rudy Giuliani hangs out with Russian media on Election Day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Nov 03, 20204 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition, Nov. 3, 2020

Trump warns of ‘violence in the streets’ over ‘dangerous’ Supreme Court decision on PA absentee ballots, N.J. cops weigh charges in ‘irresponsible’ Trump caravan traffic jam, Don Jr.’s closing argument for dad’s re-election: ‘Make Liberals Cry Again, ’ Birx begs Trump admin for ‘more aggressive action’ ahead of pandemic’s ‘most deadly phase,’ man sentenced to 25 years in prison for setting fire to three Black Louisiana churches and Deutsche Bank searching for way to dump toxic Trump after electi...

Nov 03, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Nov. 2,2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Mail-in ballots are being rushed by the USPS, President Trump is getting a wall—and it won’t be built by Mexico, the British high court rules that actor Johnny Depp is a “wife beater,” actor Wesley Snipes has somewhat of a power trip about his authority on the film “Blade: Trinity,” one of the alleged plotters to kidnap Michigan’s governor is released on a much cheaper bond than initially s...

Nov 02, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Nov. 2, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump prepares to doctor election results, the president tells a Florida crowd to not “tell anybody” about his plans to reconsider Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role within the coronavirus task force, deer heads are seemingly used as some sort of intimidation in Oregon ahead of the election, Prince William kept his COVID-19 diagnosis hidden from the public, and a man butchered his grandfather...

Nov 02, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Oct. 30, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump will spend his Election Night at the White House instead of throwing a party at this D.C. hotel, Philly cops lied about that photo of the Black kid that they posted, the presidential battle in Texas looks like it may be a close race, Stephen Miller—somehow—can manage to be even more sinister than he already is, and vigilante Trump supporters go out of their way to try to kee...

Oct 30, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Oct.30, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. tops the most ever recorded during the entire pandemic, but the Trump camp keeps claiming all is well; Attorney General William Barr may be President Trump and Rudy Giuliani’s new target; a Louisville officer involved in Breonna Taylor’s death whines about emotional distress; Walmart removes firearms and ammunition from shelves ahead of Election Day...

Oct 30, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Oct. 29,2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: A public service announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services turns very political; Facebook may have a blue tax on political ads; Hillary Clinton assumes a role of power over Donald Trump; and murder hornets are still a thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 29, 20204 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump administration is, essentially, pushing for herd immunity even though they won’t openly say it; Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler says that she hasn’t taken issue with anything that President Trump has ever said or done; Hurricane Zeta is on its way to New Orleans; U.S. hospital computers have been hit with cyberattacks; Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, apparently, was not the only ta...

Oct 29, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The family of the Black man who was killed by cops in Philadelphia said they called 911 asking for an ambulance, not the police; Louisiana is on track for its third hurricane in two months; President Trump holds rallies in Wisconsin and Nebraska; a scientist was fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for attempting to make new Trump-appointees agree to agency guideli...

Oct 28, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Scientists fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic are pretty upset that the White House is saying President Trump has ended it, lenders forgave millions of dollars in debt during the 2008 financial crisis—and that happened to work in Trump’s favor, an L.A. Dodgers player has to leave their winning World Series game after testing positive for the coronavirus, hackers take over a Trump campaign...

Oct 28, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Trump White House revises their COVID-19 plan, coronavirus antibodies may not actually be a saving grace, a cigarette butt causes a massive brush fire, more twisted details are revealed about the Breonna Taylor case, and President Trump whines about Fox News. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 27, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now. Fox News scrambles to figure out what it’s going to do for Election Night coverage after talent’s exposure to COVID-19; Justice Clarence Thomas swears in Amy Coney Barrett; the Trump campaign has distanced itself from the Hunter Biden email story even though the president keeps railing on Joe Biden’s son; Bismarck, North Dakota, is lacking in its mask use; a Black man has been shot and killed...

Oct 27, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Oct. 26, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: In the final days before the election, things get really heated; Vladimir Putin leaves President Trump high-and-dry; separate political demonstrations clash in Times Square of New York City; the FBI has been blocking the truth from the public on white supremacist terrorist groups; Trump goes on yet another verbal rampage against Democratic governors; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may have ...

Oct 26, 20209 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Oct. 26, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump does not seem to care about the White House staff turnaround rate, talent at Fox News has to quarantine after COVID-19 exposure, VP Mike Pence keeps campaigning even after staffers test positive for the coronavirus, 2020 early voting registration has already passed early ballots cast in 2016, El Paso COVID rates are through the roof—quite literally, and a house of horrors is f...

Oct 26, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Oct. 23, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump claims the coronavirus is going away, but the country saw one of its worst days in terms of cases on Thursday; a new report details the abuse women experienced at the Irwin County Medical Detention Center in Georgia; Trump says he’s the least racist person in the room—to a Black moderator; Uber and Lyft drivers will finally become employees of the companies; a man is charged...

Oct 23, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Oct. 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 different tone in the final presidential debate, the Wall Street Journal produces dueling articles, landlords intimidate tenants ahead of the election, Idaho lawmakers backtrack on CDC guidelines as COVID-19 cases increase, a woman was robbed after collapsing during a jog, Sacha Baron Cohen makes an official response over the the film’s uproar involving Rudy Giuliani. Ho...

Oct 23, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Senate Republicans and Democrats go to war over the looming confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, a charge is dropped on the main officer involved in George Floyd’s death, Cameroonian immigrants were allegedly tortured by ICE officers, President Trump has gone full-blown Pinnochio, and going to an unknown cabin in the woods is never a good idea. Spoiler alert: Cannibals. H...

Oct 22, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Former President Obama says Fox would have called him "Beijing Barry" if he had a secret Chinese bank account, another Black teen fatally shot by police, Mike Pompeo was not told about a Trump envoy's anti-Maduro mission, a Fort Bragg Twitter account gets very horny, the CDC expands its definition of close contact with a COVID-infected person, and the missing Utah hiker's disappearance story ...

Oct 22, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: An evangelical leader is going to take thousands of worshippers to a possible Covid-superspreader event on the National Mall, the only cop charged in the Breonna Taylor case feels bad that the death of the 26-year-old will forever be a part of his life, Purdue Pharma takes some ownership in the nation’s opioid crisis, Amy Coney Barrett has ties to a school that was anti-LGBTQ, and the White...

Oct 21, 20208 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Donald Trump keeps a bank account in China, Delaware DOJ punts Rudy Giuliani's latest Hunter Biden claims to FBI, Florida and Alaska investigating spoof "vote for Trump or else" emails, immigration lawyers can't find the parents of 545 kids separated at the southern border, University of Michigan students told to shelter in place over COVID surge, and NASA's spacecraft Osiris-Rex extracts sam...

Oct 21, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Human coronavirus trials are set to begin, the Biden campaign plans ahead in case it has to go to court after the election, U.S. intel officers say the Hunter Biden-laptop story has Russia written all over it, Google is slapped with a lawsuit, and court documents prove that antifa is just an ideology—not a political organization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Oct 20, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: The Commission on presidential debates is going to mute the mics for opening statements in the next debate, a new Joe Biden campaign ad slams Trump for mocking science amid the pandemic, Exxon Mobil says Trump’s hypothetical call with CEO never happened, mysterious brain attacks on U.S. officials in Cuba and China also happened in Russia, a woman who fatally shot her alleged rapist pleads gui...

Oct 20, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Monday, Oct. 19, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump slams Dr. Anthony Fauci and other “idiot” public-health officials, Canada continues their denial of Americans, Scott Atlas makes his way to the top of the Trump coronavirus task force, two Trump cases head to the Supreme Court, and, if you like porn, you may have some concerns about Amy Coney Barrett being confirmed to the high court. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Oct 19, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Monday, Oct. 19, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: Dr. Fauci says he is not surprised that President Trump got COVID, Trump thinks it is an insult to say Joe Biden will listen to the scientists, a New York Post reporter refused to put name on contentious Hunter Biden article, Sen. John Cornyn compares his relationship with Trump to wives who think they can change their spouse, the CalWood fire has not torched 7,000 acres in Colorado and a mis...

Oct 19, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Friday, Oct. 16, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast. These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump probably should take a long look in the mirror when suggesting Joe Biden may be on performance-enhancing drugs; despite what the president says, there will not be a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day; yodeling may be one of the worst hobbies during the coronavirus pandemic; Disney finds a way to correct it’s racist past; and Trump has a hard time distinguishingdeterming...

Oct 16, 20207 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Friday, Oct. 16, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump says his $421 million debt is small, the FBI is probing Hunter Biden emails as a foreign intelligence operation, an ex-police chief who was on disability worked as a pin-up model, Twitter walks back its ban on a New York Post story about Hunter Biden's emails, Rudy Giuliani's daughter accuses her dad of feeding the mob mentality around Trump, and Chris Christie now wishes he h...

Oct 16, 20206 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Afternoon Edition: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020

Good afternoon from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: More Americans are in poverty now than they were before the pandemic; many patients afraid of contracting the coronavirus have delayed their cancer screenings—resulting in more serious conditions; Sen. Kamala Harris’ travel plans were canceled after an aide tested positive for COVID; a neo-Nazi group attempted to recruit U.S. military members; and President Trump won’t give Michigan Gov. Gr...

Oct 15, 20205 min

Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Morning Edition: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020

Good morning from The Daily Beast! These are the top stories the Cheat Sheet team is watching right now: President Trump was in on the Hunter-Joe Biden attack; in what could be hardly seen as friendly competition, the president purposefully to have a town hall at the same time as Biden to compete for ratings; donors knew of the impact the global health pandemic would have on the economy; the University of Alabama’s football team will have the offensive coordinator take over while the head coach ...

Oct 15, 20207 min
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