Can ‘The Mandalorian’ Save Star Wars?
Matt Belloni joins Peter to discuss the stakes for next weekend’s debut of The Mandalorian and Grogu—Disney’s first Star Wars movie in seven years—which is tracking at a middling $80M for the four-day...
15 Maj 22min
Vinted’s $10M American Invasion
Malique Morris joins Peter to dig into Vinted, the $9 billion Lithuanian resale platform now spending more than $10 million to crack the U.S. market—and rattling eBay enough to trigger a $1.2 billion ...
14 Maj 18min
Democrats’ Redistricting Panic
Marianna Sotomayor—Puck’s new Capitol Hill correspondent—joins Peter to dig into the sudden Democratic panic about losing the House in November, after the Supreme Court’s blow to the Voting Rights Act...
13 Maj 24min
Netflix Wins Blackout Wednesday
John Ourand joins Peter from Upfronts Week in New York, where NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been telling everyone in earshot that the league is the only programming that still moves ad budgets. J...
12 Maj 23min
Media Monday: Murdoch’s Vox Thesis & An NFL Surprise
Amid their own pivot to video, the besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to chew over James Murdoch’s shocking but unsurprising bid for Vox Media’s most valuable assets. Then the duo weigh in on a...
11 Maj 27min
The Devil’s Gala
Lauren’s guest is The Ringer’s Amanda Dobbins. They discuss the best and worst of the Met Gala red carpet, the Bezos discourse, the tech bro discourse, why the theme of the gala and the exhibit have t...
9 Maj 3min
Is the Art Market Recession Proof?
Marion Maneker joins Peter to discuss the art market’s resurgence after years in the doldrums, driven by a wave of significant collections hitting the auction block. Marion explains why the ultra-weal...
8 Maj 19min
Trump’s Iran Whiplash
Julia Ioffe joins Peter with the latest from the Iran front, where Trump this week declared the war is actually over—and in the very next breath threatened to start bombing again if the regime refuses...
7 Maj 17min
