Abby Livingston joins Peter to discuss the House G.O.P.’s rocky strategy and high wire act as Congress returns. Then they dig into Ron DeSantis’ Hillaryesque problem. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss the latest on Bob Iger’s challenging negotiation with Charter and whether this powder keg will destroy cable as we know it. Then the two chat about CAA’s monster new deal. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Dylan Byers joins Peter to investigate Disney’s battle with Charter, whether this is the true end to the cable bundle era, and whether Iger has the answers to Disney’s prayers. For more from Dylan - https://puck.news/igers-espn-game-of-chicken/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230908 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoice...
Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby to discuss the underpinnings for a wave of coups sweeping Africa this summer. And then Teddy Schleifer chats with Ben Landy about a tech utopia currently under construction in northern California. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Abby Livingston joins Peter to dig into the chatter around Mitch McConnell’s second freeze up, the Three Johns, and how long McConnell can and will hold on to his perch. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Ace legal reporter Eriq Gardner joins Ben Landy to discuss how a cadre of disgraced #MeToo men are plotting their comeback. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In a special holiday edition of Media Monday, Jon Kelly and Dylan Byers discuss Disney’s battle with Charter and what it truly presages about the linear decline. And then, naturally, they also dig further into the forthcoming Thompson Era at CNN. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Julia Alexander and Peter Hamby breakdown the summer of Suits on Netflix. And then Teddy Schleifer and Ben Landy assess the mid-term credibility of Vivekmania. For more from Julia - https://puck.news/suits-success-the-future-of-netflixonomics/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230901 For more from Teddy - https://puck.news/let-them-eat-vivek/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230901 To learn more about listener data and our privacy pr...
Dylan Byers joins Peter to talk all about his exclusive report on Mark Thompson’s appointment at CNN and all the attendant shakeout and ramifications. For more from Dylan - https://puck.news/mark-thompson-gets-the-cnn-treatment/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230831 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to walk through the trial strategies, delay tactics, and countermeasures surrounding the four Trump indictments. Then Bill Cohan and Ben contemplate the P&L of ESPN+ on Amazon. For more from Bill - https://puck.news/espn-amazon-a-wall-street-fantasy-an-a-i-hack/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230830 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad cho...
Abby Livingston and Peter Hamby scrutinize the latest intrigue confounding Congress—including Hakeem Jeffries’ Pelosi-esque path to the top of the greasy pole. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jon Kelly joins Peter to dig into the news that WBD C.E.O. David Zaslav is circling Mark Thompson, the Times’ turnaround expert, as the next boss of CNN. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Matt Belloni joins Peter to discuss Puck’s second proprietary data study of streamer sentiment—and the results will surprise you. Then Ben Landy and Teddy Schleifer dig into a bizarre startup scandal that traces its roots from Zuck to S.B.F. For more from Matt - https://puck.news/streamers-are-turning-off-their-customers/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230825 For more from Teddy - https://puck.news/tales-from-the-s-b-f-bankruptcy-black-hole/?utm_medium=organic&a...
Peter and Julia Ioffe discuss the stunning death of Putin’s greatest nemesis. For more from Julia - https://puck.news/prigozhins-treason-the-price-of-betrayal/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230824 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to break down the weird and sad legal dispute gripping the Oher family. And then Bill Cohan and Ben Landy discuss Shari Redstone’s BET auction. For more from Eriq (and Matt) - https://puck.news/will-a-i-eat-hollywood/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230823 For more from Bill - https://puck.news/paramount-existentialism-more-goldmanology/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe&utm_date=20230823 To learn more about list...
Abby Livingston joins Peter to dig into all the anxieties and chaos of the next Congressional season of discontent. Then they game plan out the first G.O.P. debate. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to discuss Bob Iger’s increasingly limited options at Disney, and CNN’s decision to bring a new generation into the fold. Then they discuss the defenestration of CBS News’ leader—a watershed moment that leaves all six news divisions in the hands of women. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Abby Livingston joins Peter to chat through the various evolving Iowa scenarios, then Ben Landy and Lauren dig into fashion’s biggest deal of the year. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss the latest P.R. headaches facing David Solomon, Goldman Sachs’ C.E.O., and whether the narrative has become hyperbolic. Then Julia Ioffe and Ben Landy chat about a new twist in the Biden-Putin dynamic. For more from Bill - https://puck.news/the-judgment-of-solomon/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe20230817 For more from Julia - https://puck.news/biden-putins-nuclear-blurred-lines/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe20230817 To learn...
Teddy Schleifer, who was in the courtroom when Sam Bankman-Fried was cuffed, shares his observations and reporting with Peter Hamby. Then Ben Landy and Julia Alexander discuss Bob Iger’s Disney+ dilemma. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Tara Palmeri joins Peter to work through the latest twist in the Hunter Biden legal saga and what it forebodes for 2024. Then Peter, on the ground in the corndog capital of the human imagination, reports on the stirrings on the G.O.P.’s latest fears and anxieties. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jon Kelly joins Peter for a spirited, insidery conversation about the latest twists in Iger’s strategy, Dave Portnoy’s shot at a third (!!) windfall, and what the Simon & Schuster sale suggests about Shari Redstone’s endgame. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby to discuss Saudi Arabia’s surprising emergence as a Russia-Ukraine mediator. Then Teddy Schleifer and Ben Landy document Larry Ellison's ability to manipulate a Tim Scott dead cat bounce. Fior more from Julia - https://puck.news/the-treaty-of-m-b-s/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe20230811 For more from Teddy - https://puck.news/larry-ellisons-eight-figure-anti-trump-dowry/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe20230811 To learn more abou...
Baratunde Thurston joins Peter to explain Elon Musk’s short-sighted fallacy of turning X—nee Twitter—into the new full-blown everything app of our time. For more from Baratunde - https://puck.news/silicon-valley-and-the-race-for-the-everything-app/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Eriq Gardner joins Peter for a talmudic reading of the most recent Trump indictment. Then Ben Landy and Abby Livingston dig into one of the Senate’s most controversial subplots. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Tara Palmeri joins Peter for an in-depth conversation on the state of 2024—the early state conundrum, DeSantisgate, and the Dems waiting on Biden’s next move. For more from Tara - https://puck.news/the-biden-edge-case/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jon Kelly and Peter explain why Threads’ descent to reality was pre-ordained and predictable. Then they tackle the Biden campaign’s futile messaging. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman’s volunteer attempt to free a U.S. journalist detained in Putin’s Russia. And then Ben Landy and Lauren Sherman discuss an activist investor’s attempt the rattle Kering’s cage. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Teddy Schleifer joins Peter for a conversation about Sam Bankman-Fried’s tightening legal noose. Then they chat about the latest action among the ‘24 megadonors. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bill Cohan joins Peter to chat about the biggest story in media—Matt Belloni’s scoopage that Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer are going to help their old boss, Bob Iger, figure out his streaming conundrum. Then Eriq Garder swings by with a Trump-Fox News legal entanglement. For more on Matt's story - https://puck.news/iger-brings-back-his-old-heir-apparents/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=thepowersthatbe20230802 For more from Eriq - https://puck.news/trump-has-subpoenaed-fox-news-for-tuckers-unaire...
