The Powers That Be: Daily7 Jan 2022

Ben Smith Intrigue & Yellowstone Mania

Join Puck writers Peter Hamby, Matt Belloni, Dylan Byers, and Tina Nguyen for an expert discussion about these topics and more: The eye-popping numbers for Yellowstone's season finale, and how Viacom screwed up the streaming rights Matt Belloni's predictions for Hollywood in 2022, including "the great theater contraction" Will Democrats draft celebrities like Dwayne Johnson and Oprah to run for office in 2024? What we know about the new media startup from ex-NYT writer Ben Smith and ex-Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith What the Smiths have said about the new company publicly, and who they're really talking to Whether or not the NewCo winds up being an "innovation hothouse," there's plenty of room to improve on modern journalism The one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, and how Republicans are talking about it What's missing in the media coverage, and was the insurrection just a "pit stop" on the road to much worse stuff? Donald Trump is getting booed and canceling press events — will the insurrection wing of the GOP carry on without him? Puck's team writes about the inside conversation happening in Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. https://puck.news/subscribe/ (Become a Puck member) starting at $12.99/month or $100/year for daily articles and breaking news from Peter, Matt, Dylan, Tina, and more.

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Would President Pritzker Shut Down A.I.?

JB Pritzker, the Illinois governor and rumored ’28 aspirant, sits down with Peter to discuss why he suspended tax breaks for data centers, how A.I. could make 10 percent unemployment the new baseline,...

17 Okt 34min

The Wild Saga of Shohei Ohtani’s 50-50 Ball

Eriq Gardner joins Peter to break down the bizarre legal fight behind a Shohei Ohtani home run ball that sold for over $4 million after three men scrambled to claim it in the stands. Eriq also digs in...

16 Okt 15min

Is Trump Abandoning Ukraine?

Julia Ioffe joins Peter to examine how Donald Trump brokered an oil export deal with Russia to ease energy costs, despite the uncomfortable reality that it could help fund Vladimir Putin’s war machine...

15 Okt 21min

Anthropic’s Rogue Trip & Superintelligence Fever!

Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to break down how rogue Anthropic agents accessed a State Department website and filed a fake homicide tip with the Philadelphia P.D.—and how the incident has the Trump admi...

14 Okt 19min

Hakeem Jeffries’s D.S.A. Tsuris

Marianna Sotomayor joins Peter to answer an overlooked question about the midterms: if Democrats take back the House, the Senate, or both, what do they actually plan to do with that power? Marianna la...

13 Okt 19min

Media Monday: Zaz’s Parachute & Skydance Looming Questions

Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to make sense of the Paramount-WBD aftermath, beginning with David Zaslav’s $606 million payday and the looming Netflix layoffs rattling the industry. Then they weigh what’...

12 Okt 24min

Can MAHA Keep Iowa Red?

Iowa G.O.P. chairman Jeff Kaufmann joins Peter for a candid conversation about what it takes to win Iowa, where Trump still has a chokehold on Republican voters even as his approval ratings plummet. K...

10 Okt 37min

Has Speaker Johnson Given Up On The House?

Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter with a fresh midterm update as Democratic optimism swells toward a possible Election Day tsunami—and even Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson sounds fatalistic about l...

9 Okt 21min