McConnell’s Thiel Wars
Teddy Schleifer joins Peter to discuss the financial game of chicken ensuing between Mitch McConnell and mega-donor Peter Thiel. Then Jon Kelly and Alex Bigler break the fourth wall and assess Puck at...
16 Sep 202228min
The G.O.P. Blame Game
Tara Palmeri checks in with Peter about the school yard G.O.P. blame game—does Rick Scott deserve punishment if the G.O.P. loses the Senate? Or does McConnell? And then Ben Landy talks with Tina about...
15 Sep 202221min
Washington Media Moves & an Emmys Postmortem
Dylan Byers joins Peter to articulate the various views on the soon-to-be-launched Semafor, The Smiths' new mediaco. And then Matt Belloni and marketing heiress Alex Bigler chat about what went right ...
14 Sep 202224min
Trump & Goldman Sachsistan
Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss whether Trump might go back to the well and retrieve his old Goldman pals—Gary Cohn, Dina Powell, Steve Mnuchin, etc—for a ‘24 run. Then Julia Ioffe and Ben Landy dis...
13 Sep 202223min
Media Monday: TikTok-alypse Now
Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss Kara Swisher’s final Code, what Queen Elizabeth’s death teaches us about cable news, and the future of the most obviously insidious social platform laying in plain sig...
12 Sep 202223min
Whispers Inside CNN
Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to discuss the latest anxieties, and second-guessing, taking place inside Hudson Yards. And then Julia Ioffe has a personal chat with Puck’s renowned marketing genius, Al...
9 Sep 202223min
Trump’s Media Bomb
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss the diplomatic crisis that Washington never saw coming. Then Tina Nguyen and Ben Landy discuss the harebrained implosion of Trump’s DWAC media play. To learn more ...
8 Sep 202219min
Who Will Buy Peloton?
Bill Cohan joins Peter to answer a lingering question hanging over Wall Street—who will buy Peloton, the pandemic darling, and at what price? And then Julia Alexander and Ben Landy sort out the stream...
7 Sep 202223min
