Elon Debt Bombs & Ackman’s Varsity Blues
Bill Cohan and Peter discuss the leadership crisis at Harvard, the billionaire backlash to DEI, and hedge fund macher Bill Ackman’s crusade to defenestrate Claudine Gay. Then they turn to Bill’s 2024 ...
27 Dec 202328min
Washington’s Biggest Losers of 2023
Abby Livingston joins Peter for a special Boxing Day breakdown of the town’s greatest disappointments, degenerates, phonies and villains. Plus a dutiful accounting of a few winners, too. To learn mo...
26 Dec 202321min
Media Monday: Shari’s Holiday Fantasy & Zaslav Exit Theories
It’s an extra merry Media Monday as Dylan Byers joins Jon Kelly to kibitz about who will buy Paramount, WBD vs Comcast, and whether streaming as we know it is doomed. Then they turn to new Washington ...
25 Dec 202327min
Media Friday: Zazmount!
Puck's ace media reporter joins Peter for a talmudic reading on David Zaslav's interest in pursuing a WBD-Paramount combination, the Shari of it all, the debt challenges, the CBS-CNN implications and ...
22 Dec 202318min
The End of Bibi?
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss the increasing complexities in Ukraine and Israel. In particular, they dig into the Biden administration's vexation with Bibi, and ponder how long the Israeli prime ...
21 Dec 202316min
Down & Out in Iowa
Teddy Schleifer joins Peter to dig into all the final fundraising, polling, and constituency machinations in Iowa as '24 finally--finally--begins in earnest. To learn more about listener data and o...
20 Dec 202321min
Biden Impeachment Theater & Polling Fallacies
Abby Livingston joins Peter to discuss the House’s impeachment fantasies and whether the Republicans actually have the votes. Then they dig into Biden’s polling, and a new theory that explains a sign ...
19 Dec 202320min
Media Monday: Into the Times Scandal We Go…
Jon Kelly and Peter delve into one of the more high-minded and dishy Times scandals in recent memory—James Bennet’s recently published, agonizing, rage-filled manifesto about his departure from the Gr...
18 Dec 202327min
