Dude, Where’s My NASCAR?
NASCAR commissioner Steve Phelps joins John Ourand for a candid conversation about the sport’s evolving media ecosystem, including new deals with Fox, NBC, and Amazon Prime. Phelps also outlines NASCA...
26 Jul 202548min
Paramount's ‘Late Show’ Exit Strategy
Kim Masters joins Peter to discuss how Hollywood insiders are reacting to CBS's abrupt cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—and whether it’s less about cost-cutting and more about appeas...
25 Jul 202522min
The Epstein Pressure Cooker
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to examine the political bind facing the G.O.P., as Speaker Mike Johnson chooses to recess the House rather than confront growing demands from his own party to release n...
24 Jul 202525min
Trump’s $10B War Against the Journal
Eriq Gardner joins guest host Julia Ioffe to unpack Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a lewd birthday card he allegedly doodled for Jeffrey Epstein, and which...
23 Jul 202522min
Trump’s Anti-Woke A.I. Agenda
Ian Krietzberg joins guest host Julia Ioffe to unpack the class-action lawsuit against the A.I. company Anthropic, and how publishers are drawing a line in the sand when it comes to A.I. models traini...
22 Jul 202522min
Media Monday: Substack’s Wild Valuation & Bari Weiss’s Big Decision
Jon Kelly reunites with Peter to unpack Substack’s billion-dollar valuation and its pivot from newsletter darling to multimedia hype darling. Then they dig into the culture-war-infused intrigue surrou...
21 Jul 202521min
What’s Eating Angie Craig?
In this special episode of The Powers That Be, Leigh Ann Caldwell is joined by Rep. Angie Craig for a Puck Power Breakfast at Ned’s Club in D.C. Craig digs into the crypto-related conflicts dogging th...
19 Jul 202523min
Paging Marco Rubio!
Julia Ioffe joins guest host Leigh Ann Caldwell to unpack the implications of the sweeping layoffs at the State Department, which have left 1300 staffers out in the cold. Then they examine Marco Rubio...
18 Jul 202522min
