Matt’s Academy Awards Crystal Ball
Matt Belloni joins Peter, fresh off the Golden Globes last weekend, to game out the Oscar race ahead of next week’s Academy Award nominations. Matt identifies a handful of locks, flags a few surprises...
16 Jan 20min
Why Trump’s Feds Came for Bezos’s Newsroom
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to break down the F.B.I.’s stunning raid on the home of a Washington Post journalist, a move tied to an alleged government leaker and one that’s almost without precedent. Eriq...
15 Jan 19min
Meta’s A.I. Slop Economy & The Siri-Gemini Marriage
Julia Alexander joins Peter to explain why Facebook’s most viral content is now dominated by A.I.-generated slop—and what that means for advertisers weighing brand safety against reach. Then they dig ...
14 Jan 22min
The Donroe Doctrine in Iran
Julia Ioffe joins Peter for a close examination of mass demonstrations and state killings in Iran—and whether Donald Trump, newly emboldened on the world stage after the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, migh...
13 Jan 21min
Media Monday: WBD’s Stub Sweepstakes & Semafor’s Number Games
Jon Kelly returns to debate Peter about the value of WBD’s stub of linear networks, and then the two evaluate the math behind Semafor’s recent fundraise. To learn more about listener data and our pr...
12 Jan 21min
Hollywood’s Future ’26 War Stories
Matt Belloni joins Dylan and Julia to chart the latest updates surrounding the Warner Bros. Discovery bidding war between Netflix and Paramount—and what each side stands to gain or lose. Then they div...
10 Jan 54min
The Great Saks Collapse & GQ’s New Era
Lauren Sherman joins Peter to explain why Saks Global is now staring down bankruptcy—and what, if anything, could save its historic department store business. Then they turn to Will Welch’s sudden exi...
9 Jan 28min
Washington’s New Year Whiplash
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to make sense of a frenetic week in Washington, from the ICE shooting in Minneapolis to classified national security briefings on Venezuela. They also dig into growing a...
8 Jan 20min
