Hogan’s Gawker Legacy & A Disney I.P. War
Eriq Gardner joins Julia Alexander to revisit the lasting fallout from Hulk Hogan’s landmark lawsuit against Gawker—backed by Peter Thiel—and how it reshaped the media industry’s legal risk calculus. ...
29 Jul 202521min
Media Monday: Shari’s Skydance Shuffle & NFL Redzone Realignment
Jon Kelly reunites with Peter to chew over the Trump administration’s official blessing of the Skydance–Paramount merger—and the controversial ‘South Park’ broadside that almost blew it all up. Then t...
28 Jul 202529min
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
