The Powers That Be: Daily
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The Powers That Be: Daily
Join Emmy Award-winning journalist Peter Hamby, along with the team of expert journalists at Puck, as they let you in on the real conversations insiders are having across the four corners of power in America: Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Puck's contributors will bring you s...
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Impolitic 2025: Ezra Klein’s Year in Review
In the second part of a special crossover episode, John Heilemann welcomes New York Times columnist, podcasting dynamo, and de facto Democratic strate...
Impolitic 2025: Jon Favreau & Jon Lovett
In a special crossover event, John Heilemann welcomes two of the Pod Save America dudes to the show for the first installment of a two-part, year-end...
Zelensky’s Mar-a-Lago Diplomacy
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss the peace negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S., and whether Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent tête-à-tête w...
Trump’s Midterm Shadow
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to chart the headwinds facing Republican members in next year’s midterm elections. As Leigh Ann notes, the G.O.P. has s...
Media Monday: TikTok Slippage, Times Drama & Netflix-Paramount Intrigue
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to project the biggest media storylines of 2026: who will win the Warner Bros. Discovery auction; who will ascend th...
Best of Puck: Emma Tucker’s WSJ Renaissance
As we wind down the year, revisit this special Grill Room episode with controversial Wall Street Journal top editor Emma Tucker, who joins Dylan Byers...
Best of Puck: A Sports Legend’s Second Act
In this special episode from The Varsity archive, Sally Jenkins, perhaps the best sports columnist in the business, joins John for a candid conversati...
Best of Puck: Goodbye, Mr. Armani, Hello Chloe Malle
From the Fashion People archives: Lauren is joined by Gene Pressman, grandson of the founder of Barneys New York and author of They All Came to Barney...
Best of Puck: Hollywood’s Sora 2 Panic
In this special episode from The Grill Room archive, Julia and Dylan dive into the launch of OpenAI’s new video-generation app, Sora 2, and Mark Zucke...
Media Monday: Bari’s Secret Vision & Semafor of Arabia
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby share some yuletide warmth and share their impressions of Bari Weiss’s evolving plans at CBS News, which are starting to bec...
Media’s Anxiety Index
Orchestra C.E.O. Jonathan Rosen and Jon Kelly join Dylan live from New York to walk through new survey data capturing the media industry’s state of mi...
Barstool’s Netflix Era & ’26 Media Predictions
Julia Alexander joins Peter to break down Barstool’s new multi-year deal with Netflix and the Oscars’ jump to YouTube—and what both moves reveal about...
Can YouTube Save the Oscars?
Matt Belloni joins Peter to break down why the Oscars are ditching ABC for YouTube, which will begin broadcasting the awards in 2029 after years of er...
Is Jasmine Crockett the New Beto O’Rourke?
Abby Livingston joins Peter to assess how the redistricting wars may fizzle into a draw, as Democrats float counter-moves, Indiana Republicans reject...
Zaz’s Ellison Paranoia
Bill Cohan joins Peter with fresh intel on why Warner Bros. Discovery remains skeptical of the Ellisons and Paramount Skydance’s offer, as questions l...
Media Monday: Netflix’s Secret Kryptonite
Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to discuss all the various reasons that Netflix actually needs Warner Bros. and HBO Max. Yes, the company may have definit...
Can Yahoo Survive in a Hyper-Niche World?
Yahoo C.E.O. Jim Lanzone joins Dylan and Julia for a tour of the company’s Apollo era, four years after the private equity behemoth bought the busines...
Trump’s Silicon Valley Salvation Act
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to dissect the growing friction between Trump and state regulators over A.I. governance, as Trump pushes for an industry-fr...
The Paramount War Room
Bill Cohan joins Peter to break down the latest WBD deal frenzy as Paramount goes hostile and Netflix plays patient opportunist. Bill forecasts how hi...
A Warner Bros. Time Bomb & Notre Dame Scandal
John Ourand joins Peter to reveal the sleeper issue in the WBD acquisition wars: the fate of the company’s high-value sports rights. What happens if P...
MAGA’s ‘26 Nightmare
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down what a sluggish, Republican-controlled Congress might look like next year, as G.O.P. lawmakers grow frust...
Media Monday: Netflix’s $83B Hollywood Heist
Jon Kelly and Peter chew over Netflix’s shock victory in the WBD bidding war—outmaneuvering Paramount and Comcast to nab WBD’s Studio and Streaming as...
Introducing How We Made Your Mother Season 2!
It’s been 20 years since How I Met Your Mother premiered, and just over 10 years since the finale. Josh Radnor, who played “Ted” for nine seasons team...
Marchand, Round 2!
Varsity favorite Andrew Marchand reunites with John to debate the week’s biggest sports-media plot lines: the NFL’s holiday-week stacked matchups and...
The Nuzzi-Lizza Show & CNN’s Prediction Play
Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss the latest twists in the never-ending Nuzzigate saga, as Olivia Nuzzi and her angry ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza keep tradi...
The G.O.P.’s Midterm Blues
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to discuss the heartburn inside the Republican Party heading into next year’s midterms: last month’s Democratic dominan...
Trump’s Antitrust Roulette
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to assess the White House’s laissez-faire posture toward regulatory and antitrust enforcement, as favored corporations seem t...
White House War & Peace
Julia Ioffe joins Peter for a sober reality check on the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations, as the Trump administration tries once again to broker an...
Media Monday: Cracks in the Substack
Jon Kelly and Peter discuss the latest Substack discourse and offer their hypotheses about the future of the platform, for better or worse, and what i...
Marty Supreme Merch and Gorpcore Mania
Lauren’s guest is ace podcaster Avery Trufelman, creator and host of Articles of Interest, the series that explores why we wear what we wear. (This se...
America’s Black Friday Danger Signs
Sarah Shapiro joins Peter to unwrap this holiday shopping season, and whether consumers are still decking the halls despite tariff jitters and gloomy...
Will the NFL Break Its Thanksgiving Record?
John Ourand and Peter break down why today’s NFL games might be the most watched regular season games in league history, as the NFL expands its reach...
MLS’s Bad Apple & Netflix’s Sports Media Endgame
Julia Alexander joins Peter to break down Apple’s early exit from its 10-year, multibillion-dollar MLS rights deal, why the partnership was probably d...
MAGA Meltdownology
Abby Livingston joins Peter to dig into the midterm storm brewing around the G.O.P. as they now trail on the generic ballots and Hill Republicans are...
Media Monday: Netflix’s WBD Ambitions & NBC’s Big Ten Trade
Jon Kelly and Peter discuss Netflix’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery and evaluate the pure play streamer’s interest in its theatrical business and obl...
Brett Guthrie’s Energy Doctrine
In this special episode, live from the latest Puck Power Breakfast, House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie sits down with Leigh Ann to chart Am...
Vanity Fair’s Man Issue & Missoni’s American Mystery
Lauren Sherman joins Peter to share her thoughts on the latest star-studded, all-male Vanity Fair ‘Hollywood’ Issue cover, and why Lauren is surprisin...
Hollywood’s Early Oscars Forecast
Matt Belloni joins Peter to pull back the velvet curtain on Oscars campaign season, where agents, publicists, and stars are already gearing up for the...
Big Tech’s $100M Democracy Detox Plan
Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to discuss the newest frontier in American campaign politics: the deep-pocketed, scorched-earth war against politicians who...
The Epstein Mutiny & G.O.P. Healthcare Headaches
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down today’s House vote to finally unleash the Epstein files—after Trump’s weekend about-face when he realized...