Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss Peacock’s cable news streaming innovation, and whether it might work. Then Ben Landy and Julia Ioffe weigh in on the foreign policy secret around town: just how long the Biden administration will support Ukraine. 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...
Mar 29, 2023•28 min
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss, among other things, an Elon Musk legal trap of his own design. Then Bill Cohan discusses Credit Suisse’s tragic deal point with Ben Landy. 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...
Mar 28, 2023•25 min
Jon Kelly joins Peter to decipher just how screwed TikTok may be in the current political environment. Then they dish on the inside story behind a D.C. media acquisition. 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...
Mar 27, 2023•26 min
Teddy Schleiffer joins Peter to discuss Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman’s controversial interest in taking out Trump in the primary. Then Ben Landy and Tina Nguyen evaluate the helium that Trump’s potential indictment has offered his candidacy. Check Out Teddy's Article https://puck.news/s-b-f-informants-a-strange-desantis-bedfellow/ Check out Tina's Article https://puck.news/is-the-republican-primary-already-over/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www....
Mar 24, 2023•28 min
Dylan Byers joins Peter for a conversation about the cable news battle for the 2024 RNC debates—the reprisal of the Trump Show. Fox News has the lead, but everyone else (minus MSNBC) is competing for the action. Is this 2016 all over again? Check Out Dylan's Piece https://puck.news/psakis-promise-trump-debate-politics-a-cnn-low/ 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://podcastchoice...
Mar 23, 2023•23 min
Tara Palmeri and Peter Hamby dig into some of the stunning, and bonkers, second order effects of Trump’s potential indictment. 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
Mar 22, 2023•21 min
Julia Ioffe joins Ben Landy to discuss Putin’s latest Xi brown-nosing and dastardly Mariupol goose-stepping. Then Eriq Gardner swings by to discuss whether Trump is truly screwed. 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...
Mar 21, 2023•26 min
Jon Kelly joins Peter to explain how a media crisis fatally exacerbated SVB’s fatal liquidity crisis. Then the duo discuss the next Ben Smith. 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
Mar 20, 2023•22 min
Matt Belloni joins Peter to discuss all the issues stemming from the Oscars: the Tom Cruise snubs, the post-Will Smith ruckus, the big TikTok deal, and why young A-listers hate the red carpet. 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...
Mar 17, 2023•23 min
Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss A.O.C.’s new role in Congress and address all the speculation about her future plans. Then Teddy Schleifer and Ben Landy dig into how Ron Conway helped save SVB. 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...
Mar 16, 2023•29 min
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to hypothesize the endgame of the Fox-Dominion lawsuit. And Julia Ioffe and Ben decipher Ron DeSantis’s Putin fantasy. 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
Mar 15, 2023•30 min
Bill Cohan, perhaps the culture’s foremost expert of financial crises, shares his views on what really went down at SVB with Peter. 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
Mar 14, 2023•24 min
Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby to discuss Puck’s big night in Washington before turning their attention to a new media start-up from Jimmy Finkelstein and Richard “Mad Dawg” Beckman. 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...
Mar 13, 2023•21 min
Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby to discuss how Putin’s nemesis turned into Oscar bait. Then Tina Nguyen and Ben Landy dig into the unraveling of CPAC. 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
Mar 10, 2023•27 min
Tara Palmeri joins Peter Hamby to dissect the Democrat-on-Democrat Senate battle shaping up in Michigan, where the well-connected actor Hill Harper is emerging as a legitimate contender to congresswoman Elissa Slotkin. Then Ben Landy and Teddy Schleifer discuss the latest twists in S.B.F.’s fraud case and whether he would ever accept a plea bargain. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Mar 09, 2023•25 min
Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to explain Semafor’s new CCP-inflected scandal. Then Ben Landy and Julia Alexander get into ESPN’s strategic reset. 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
Mar 08, 2023•29 min
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss an unusual lawsuit and what it means for the league. And then Ben Landy and Bill Cohan jump into the Goldman Sachs looming questions coming out of the firm’s investor day. 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...
Mar 07, 2023•27 min
Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss the fallout from Fox’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, and what to expect next. Then the two discuss how ChatGPT will (or wont) come for journalistic jobs. 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...
Mar 06, 2023•24 min
Matt Belloni joins Peter to discuss some of the most pressing issues in Hollywood at the moment: will Disney buy Hulu out from Comcast, or vice versa?; is Marvel being overstretched; what are the best awards season parties?; and many more. 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...
Mar 03, 2023•20 min
Tara joins Peter to discuss the various Harris challenges on the Biden ‘24 ticket and whether they can be solved. Then Ben Landy and Teddy Schleifer dig into the latest FTX whodunnit chaos… Get more in depth with Teddy on SBF - https://puck.news/inside-s-b-f-s-woke-shit-influence-scheme/ 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...
Mar 02, 2023•28 min
Baratunde Thurston joins Peter Hamby to discuss the tech industry’s race to match ChatGPT, and how we’re all just learning the massive change we’re truly in for. 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
Mar 01, 2023•27 min
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss how Putin's war is playing out in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Meanwhile, Ben Landy and Bill Cohan discuss an investment banking tragedy 150 years in the making. 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...
Feb 28, 2023•24 min
Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby to discuss the surprises and delights of Warner Bros. Discovery's latest earnings report: Zaz's debt journey, revised guidance, and the other bright spots. And then they dig into some of the fictions and gripes of modern journalism. 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...
Feb 27, 2023•21 min
Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss all the angles of the Don Lemon controversy, and how it has become a microcosm of the storm at CNN—low morale, bad chemistry, the challenge of simultaneously managing up and down, all while viewers increasingly tune out. 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...
Feb 24, 2023•21 min
Tara Palmeri and Peter work their way through the G.O.P.’s 2024 contender list, assessing the candidates talents and momentum—and whether they can neuter Trump. Then Ben Landy and Teddy Schleifer discuss S.B.F.’s latest agony. 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...
Feb 23, 2023•24 min
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss Rupert Murdoch’s possible escape from Dominion’s $1.6 billion lawsuit. And then Julia Alexander and Ben Landy hypothesize about some possible streamer M&A action. 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...
Feb 22, 2023•25 min
Bill Cohan joins Peter to offer the readout on the frustrations percolating inside Goldman Sachs. Is David Solomon actually in hot water or is Goldman just enduring another splash of haterade? And then they breakdown a surprise in the FTX bankruptcy. 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...
Feb 21, 2023•24 min
Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss the topics roiling the media industry this week: Don Lemon’s boneheaded comments, the Spotify correction, and Chris Christie’s 2024 multi-level political-media fantasy. 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...
Feb 20, 2023•26 min
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss Washington's balloon obsession, whether Biden overreacted, whether the entire town overreacted, and what this panic demonstrates about this town. Then Ben Landy and Tina Nguyen discuss DeSantis's new variety of MAGA dog-whistling. 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...
Feb 17, 2023•24 min
In a special election-season-beckoning episode, Tara Palmeri joins Peter to delve into the Sinema wars, some Trump philosophizing, and a discussion about whether this is the cycle for a third party candidate. 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...
Feb 16, 2023•19 min