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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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The Epstein Mutiny & G.O.P. Healthcare Headaches
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down today’s House vote to finally unleash the Epstein files—after Trump’s weekend about-face when he realized...
A Telegraph Putsch & The Disney-YouTube TV Denouement
Jon Kelly returns to the booth for a candid chat with Peter about what really went down regarding RedBird’s decision to pull the plug on its Telegraph...
Steve Bornstein’s NFL Gospel
Steve Bornstein, the architect behind both ESPN’s golden age and the launch of NFL Network, joins John to remember the late, great Paul Tagliabue—the...
MSNBC’s Identity Crisis & Condé Gets Nasty
Dylan Byers joins Peter with intel from two embattled media empires facing existential reinvention: MSNBC, which officially rebrands tomorrow as MS NO...
Ellison’s Earnings Call Head Fake
Bill Cohan joins Peter to break down Paramount’s first earnings call since merging with Skydance—which, ironically, was barely about earnings at all....
The Altman Lawsuit-palooza & OpenAI Bailout Fears
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to discuss the legal inferno engulfing OpenAI, as multiple families sue the company for allegedly driving users toward suic...
The Dems’ Great Shutdown Surrender
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter with the inside scoop on why the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is likely to come to an end this week—than...
Media Monday: Vox Spin Foreplay & Netflix’s Post-Saturation Scheme
The longtime pals Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to discuss reports of a Vox Media spin-off sitch—itself a potential micro-micro-microcosm of the W...
Introducing Free Range with Von Miller
Step inside the mind of NFL legend Von Miller as he goes free range — from the gridiron to the culture at large. Each week, Von breaks down the bigges...
Rubin’s Fanatics Formula
Live from Puck’s In The Arena sports media conference, Fanatics founder Michael Rubin sits down with Bill Cohan and Michael Nathanson to discuss how h...
The WBD-Ellison Enigma
Kim Masters joins Peter with the latest on the Warner Bros. Discovery bidding bonanza, explaining why Hollywood insiders are still betting on the Elli...
The Dems’ Election Night Hangover
Abby Livingston joins Peter to break down the political fallout from Tuesday’s elections and what it all means for 2026. While Democrats racked up big...
Sam Altman’s A.I. Power Loop
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to chart OpenAI’s journey from an idealistic nonprofit into a profit-hungry juggernaut, with Sam Altman now steering the co...
America’s Midterm Dress Rehearsal
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter with a primer on today’s pivotal elections in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, California, and beyond—and why you should...
Media Monday: Bari-Anderson Cooper Fantasies & A Dem Autopsy
Superfriends Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby are reunited for a spirited conversation about Bari Weiss' anchor envy at CBS News and which talent she might b...
Luxury’s Q3 and Vogue World Takes Hollywood
Lauren’s guest this week is king of the luxury analysts, Bernstein’s Luca Solca, to discuss how LVMH, Kering, Zegna, Brunello Cucinelli, and Prada Gro...
Why Taylor Sheridan Switched Saddles
Matt Belloni joins Peter to break down his blockbuster scoop that Hollywood’s hit showrunner Taylor Sheridan is leaving Paramount to sign with rival N...
Trump’s Department of Injustice
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss what’s really going on with the D.O.J.’s prosecution of three of the president’s political enemies: James Comey, T...
Shutdown Endgame Scenarios & The G.O.P. Power Vacuum
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to discuss two upcoming off-ramps for the government shutdown, and the pressure points that could bring an end to this...
Tesla’s Trillion-Dollar Question
Bill Cohan joins Peter to game out Tesla’s existential question: can the company survive without Elon Musk at the wheel, especially if shareholders ba...
Media Monday: Adam Silver’s Nightmare & Zaz-Ellison Voodoo
Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby to weigh in on the two most significant media crises du jour: the NBA’s nightmarish betting scandal and the ongoing and to...
The $5M TBPN Playbook
John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of The Technology Business Programming Network, join Dylan to discuss how they scaled their podcast from a one-ho...
WBD Deal Heat & Wall Street Recession Chatter
Bill Cohan joins Peter to break down how David Zaslav is navigating the deal heat surrounding Warner Bros. Discovery, as suitors line up and Paramount...
NFL Envy & Baseball's Ohtani Problem
John Ourand joins Peter in the commentary box to discuss why the NFL is suddenly jealous of the NBA, and whether Roger Goodell will renegotiate the le...
Julia Ioffe on Russia’s Secret History
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss her acclaimed new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, which is a f...
Zohran ’26 Game Theory
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter for a rollicking conversation touching on Chuck Schumer’s calculus for not endorsing Zohran Mamdani, perhaps the most e...
Media Monday: The Spotify-Netflix Marriage & The NBA’s A.I. Play
Jon Kelly and Peter are reunited for a conversation around NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s evolving vision for integrating artificial intelligence in h...
Jake Sullivan’s Toughest National Security Decisions, from On Point
Sharing an episode of On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti. On Point is a rare public space where you hear nuanced explorations of complex topics live and...
OpenAI’s Dirty Little Secret
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to discuss OpenAI’s eternal tug-of-war between profit and principle. As Ian explains, Sam insists he’s serving both—though...
The Athlete-Media Gold Rush & OpenAI’s Copyright Cage Match
Julia Alexander joins Peter to break down the booming business of athlete-owned media—how valuable these ventures really are, and why only select athl...
M.T.G. ’28 Chatter & Stephen Miller's Shadow
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter Hamby to discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s whiplash-inducing pivot from QAnon-adjacent wingnut to Obamacare-curious econ...
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...