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The Powers That Be: Daily
Join Emmy Award-winning journalist Peter Hamby, along with the team of expert journalists at Puck, as they let you in on the real conversations insiders are having across the four corners of power in America: Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Puck's contributors will bring you s...
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Shutdown Game Theory
Abby Livingston joins Peter with the latest intel from Capitol Hill on the now two-week-old government shutdown. As Abby explains, unlike shutdowns of...
Media Monday with Meredith!
In a very special episode, Jon Kelly has a candid conversation with New York Times Company C.E.O. Meredith Kopit Levien about Gray Lady’s extraordinar...
Ellison’s Playbook & NFL’s $100B Bonanza
Veteran media analyst Michael Nathanson returns to the pod for a romp through the sports media circus: David Ellison and Paramount’s sports rights bin...
Ozempic Hips Take the Runway
Lauren Sherman joins Peter to debrief after Fashion Month in Paris and Milan, where the major houses were under serious pressure to deliver. Lauren br...
The War Within
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to reveal what military officers are telling her about Donald Trump’s plans to deploy troops to American cities. As Julia expl...
Sam Altman’s Hollywood Lawsuit Machine
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss the legal nightmare that is Sora 2, the A.I. video generating social app that’s set the internet ablaze. As OpenAI...
The G.O.P.’s Healthcare Hustle
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to discuss the state of play surrounding the week-old government shutdown, as Democrats seem to be winning the messagin...
Media Monday: CBS News’s Bari Era & Hollywood’s A.I. Slop Machine
Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to scrutinize Bari Weiss’s imminent coronation as editor-in-chief of CBS News—and what her arrival might mean for the old...
Hollywood’s Sora 2 Panic & Zuck’s Vibes Play
Julia and Dylan dive into the launch of OpenAI’s new video-generation app, Sora 2, and Mark Zuckerberg’s A.I. social media platform, Vibes. They expla...
CBS News's Bari Era & Larry’s TikTok Machinations
Kim Masters joins Peter to scrutinize the expanding Ellison empire at Paramount Skydance as David Ellison prepares to install Bari Weiss as CBS News’s...
Gagosian’s Art Doctrine
Marion Maneker joins Peter to reflect on his recent sit-down with legendary art dealer Larry Gagosian—shedding light on his succession plans, his read...
YouTube TV’s Carriage Wars & Disney’s Churn Crisis
Julia Alexander joins Peter for a deep dive into Disney+’s subscriber exodus in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, and what the backlash really co...
Trump’s Puzzling Putin Pivot
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to unpack Donald Trump’s theatrical visit to the United Nations, where he mocked the organization's very existence and took an...
Media Monday: The Kimmel Denouement & The NFL’s Premature Renegotiations
Jon Kelly and Peter trade observations about the Jimmy Kimmel resolution, at least for now, and assess the true winners and losers. Then they turn the...
Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright
Simpsons fans —THE VAULT IS OPEN!
I’m Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I’m finally taking you inside Sprin...
Nice Guy Nordstrom
Pete Nordstrom, co-C.E.O. of the Seattle-based department store group, joins Lauren to reflect on how he got into the family business, and how the com...
Billionaire Genuflection & Intel’s Trump Bump
Bill Cohan joins Peter to puzzle over why billionaire C.E.O.s keep genuflecting to Donald Trump, even though he’s in his final term with abysmally low...
The Kimmel Suspension Hangover
Matt Belloni joins Peter to share a behind-the-scenes look at Jimmy Kimmel’s return to ABC this week following his suspension from the airwaves. While...
Who’s Afraid of Brendan Carr?
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to give a reality check on the F.C.C.’s actual muscle, as Democrats fret that chairman Brendan Carr is trying to throttle pol...
The G.O.P.’s Kirk Effect
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to discuss the political impact of Charlie Kirk’s massive memorial service. Did it herald the resurgence of Christian z...
Media Monday: Kimmel Scenario Planning & Zaz Sale Optionality
Jon Kelly and Peter share their notes on the roiling Jimmy Kimmel crisis and its impact on the Disney succession sweepstakes. Then they chew over the...
Tom Emmer’s Crypto Gospel
In a special live taping of Puck’s Power Breakfast in D.C., Leigh Ann sits down with Republican whip Tom Emmer for a no-holds-barred conversation on a...
A Foggy Bottom Witch Hunt
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to break down her latest reporting on the Trump administration’s effort to ostensibly root out anti-Christian bias at the Stat...
The NBA’s TikTok Paradox & The G.O.P.’s Social Media Scapegoat
Julia Alexander joins Peter to discuss the TikTokification of the NBA, and how commissioner Adam Silver is tiptoeing the line of dominating the algori...
David Ellison’s Content Complex
Dylan Byers joins Peter to game out what a potential WBD–Paramount Skydance mash-up might look like, as an emboldened David Ellison reportedly readies...
The Two Tragedies of Charlie Kirk
John Heilemann joins Peter to discuss the grotesque state of American politics in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, as a divisive president...
Media Monday: Murdochology & Ellison’s Mic Drop
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to discuss the seismic events from a very busy week in the media industry: the fallout from the Murdoch trust settle...
The Clippers Bombshell & Belichickghazi
Pablo Torre, former ESPN mainstay turned podcast sleuth, joins John to unravel his latest investigations—into Bill Belichick, the NFLPA, and most rece...
NFL Media Polyamory
Julia Alexander joins Peter for a check-in on the NFL’s broadcasts so far this season, and whether streamers like Peacock and YouTube are actually sho...
Zaz’s A.I. War & Anthropic’s $1.5B Settlement
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to break down a handful of blockbuster A.I. lawsuits: WBD, Disney, and NBCUniversal are unloading their legal artillery on Mi...
The Murdoch Inheritance
Dylan Byers joins Peter to chronicle the closing act of the Murdoch succession drama, as Rupert’s massive media empire lands squarely in the hands of...
Paul Ryan’s Debt Sermon & Wall Street’s Mamdani Panic
Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss Paul Ryan’s fresh alarms about the national debt—and what else the former House Speaker told his private audience at...
Ellison’s Weiss Gamble & ESPN App Questions
Jon Kelly joins Peter to debate whether Bari Weiss’s The Free Press is really worth the rumored $100 million price tag that David Ellison is ready to...
One Big, Beautiful Farm Bill
Agriculture Committee chairman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson joins Abby Livingston for a candid conversation about the state of what he’s dubbed the “One Big,...
The Sotheby’s Side Hustle
Marion Maneker joins Peter to sort through the reputational storm engulfing Sotheby’s and its reclusive billionaire owner, Patrick Drahi, stemming fro...
The Wolf of Washington
Bill Cohan joins Peter to dissect Trump’s hands-on meddling in the private sector from his White House perch—picking corporate winners and losers, car...
Washington’s September Scaries
Abby Livingston joins guest host Leigh Ann Caldwell to preview a frenetic month ahead in Washington, as Congress barrels toward a government funding d...
Media Tuesday: The Fox-Google Beef & Gavin’s Play
Jon Kelly and Peter reunite for a second consecutive day to chew over a pair of relevant media industry topics as we head into the fall: the brutal ca...
Media Monday: Belichickonomics & Gen Alpa’s Analog Fetish
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite for a spirited chat about some proprietary data regarding Gen Alpha’s movie theater fixation before offering their v...
Presenting: The C-Word
With every episode, Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett take you on a historical deep dive into the life of a woman society dismissed by calling her mad, s...