Grassroots vs. Gigawatts
Bill Cohan joins Peter to break down the swift, bipartisan grassroots revolt against data centers and the A.I. companies racing to build them—from Josh Shapiro’s about-face in Pennsylvania to Kathy Ho...
25 Elo 20min
Media Monday: Pablo’s Paper Trail & MS NOW’s Streaming Bet
The besties Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to examine the New York Times’s uneasy relationship with creator-journalists like Pablo Torre, whose bombshell Clippers investigation—now contradicted by ESPN’s...
24 Elo 22min
How Iger Got the Lakers
ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, who broke last week’s big news about the LA Lakers, joins John to walk through how the $12.5 billion deal came together practically overnight. The two dig into the NBA’s explo...
22 Elo 43min
Prep Rally
Malique Morris joins Peter to unpack J.Crew’s preppy renaissance—buoyed by buzzy campaigns with Bad Bunny and Jasmine Tookes—and why all that reclaimed cool may not be showing up on the balance sheet....
21 Elo 22min
The Iran–Gaza Election
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss how Trump’s cascading misadventures in the Middle East are hanging over the midterms—driving up gas prices, scrambling party politics on Iran and Gaza, and fueling m...
20 Elo 17min
Flock and Awe
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to unpack the backlash against Flock, the fast-growing surveillance-camera startup whose automated license plate readers are popping up (and being torn down) across the coun...
19 Elo 23min
DeSantis’s Silent Treatment
Marianna Sotomayor joins Peter from her home state of Florida to unpack today’s primaries, beginning with Ron DeSantis—still polling above Trump, yet oddly absent from the race to replace him. Then th...
18 Elo 16min
Media Monday: Ellison’s Exit Strategy & The Lakers Flip
Jon Kelly and Peter reunite for a California edition of Media Monday, starting with the standoff between AG Rob Bonta and David Ellison, who’s threatening to pull Paramount out of the state unless Bon...
17 Elo 27min
