Carr Trouble at the F.C.C.
Eriq Gardner joins Peter for a deep dive on F.C.C. chairman Brendan Carr, the pugnacious regulator who seems to be slow rolling the $8 billion Skydance-Paramount merger while lobbing rhetorical grenad...
25 Huhti 202519min
Putin’s Art of No Deal
Julia Ioffe swings by the pod to discuss the state of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia—if there are any negotiations to be made at all. As Putin plays coy and Zelensky holds the line, Jul...
24 Huhti 202519min
NFL Draft Rights Showdown & ABC’s NBA Finals Nightmare
John Ourand joins Peter to discuss the surging popularity of the NFL Draft, and which of the streaming giants might bid on the rights to broadcast the yearly football spectacle—and why, to no surprise...
23 Huhti 202519min
A Texas G.O.P. Knife Fight & Dems’ K Street Blues
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter Hamby to dig into the messy Senate G.O.P. primary showdown brewing in Texas between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton—a race which riled up the White House after Paxton hired p...
22 Huhti 202520min
Media Monday: Netflix War Games & WHCD Chatter
Jon Kelly rejoins Peter to dig into Netflix’s precedent-setting Q1 earnings—its first without subscriber numbers, and the clearest sign yet that Netflix has outgrown the streaming wars, setting its si...
21 Huhti 202522min
Fed Up & Newsmaxed Out
Bill Cohan and Peter dig into Donald Trump’s latest spat—this time with Fed Chair Jerome Powell. As Trump pushes for rate cuts amid shaky, self-inflicted economic headwinds, Powell is vowing independe...
18 Huhti 202525min
Trump’s Millionaire Tax Fantasy
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to discuss the prospect of Republicans doing the unthinkable: raising taxes on the rich, just as key provisions of Trump’s 2017 tax bill are set to expire. Indeed, a tax...
17 Huhti 202518min
Trump’s Hollywood Shadow & A WBD Defenestration Postponed
Kim Masters joins Peter to discuss the anxieties in Hollywood regarding Trump’s influence over the Town’s executives and entertainment businesses, before turning to the latest chatter surrounding the ...
16 Huhti 202519min
