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Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conve ...
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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 smart conversation around the inside stories happening in these worlds. Presented in partnership with Audacy, new episodes publish daily, Monday-Friday.
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The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. The word means courtyard in Russian, but to a Russian speaker, it is evocative of a whole universe. It was the space where Putin, like so many Soviet kids of his generation, grew up and learned an unforgiving, often brutal social code. Puck journalist Julia Ioffe introduces Westerners to that universe and explains why it’s critical to understanding the Russian ...
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Welcome to Showgirl Sunday Dinner!! A bi-weekly, sparkly burlesque podcast created, produced and hosted by Twirlisha Devine. Tune in to hear all about her amazing experiences living, loving, training and performing all over the world from an unapologetically Black perspective!!!
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Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss the media fallout from Biden’s debate debacle—the fast-moving information, the private conversation, and the real anxieties. Then they dig into the lastest turn in the Washington Post saga. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about yo…
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In a special post-debate episode, Peter is joined by John Heilemann and Dylan Byers to digest the political fallout from Biden’s halting performance on CNN, the hard conversations taking place among Democrats, the bad vibes inside the spin room, and the odds of an unprecedented pivot. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visi…
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John is joined by his colleagues Dylan Byers and Peter Hamby in the immediate aftermath of the first (and maybe only) 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The three Puck political-media superfriends asses Biden's botched performance and the freakout among Democratic officials, strategists, and donors in reaction to it; analy…
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John Ourand joins Peter Hamby to dig into the delicate contract dance between ESPN and star broadcast talent Stephen A. Smith. Then they scrutinize the launch of the forthcoming Venu streamer—the group project from WBD, Fox, and Disney. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn…
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Tara Palmeri joins Peter Hamby to reveal all the pre-debate chatter, and the stakes for each campaign, ahead of the Trump-Biden showdown on CNN this Thursday. Then they discuss the right-wing media moguls and personalities calling up Trump to sway his V.P. pick. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyin…
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John is joined by the legendary guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and all around rock-and-roll legend Steve Van Zandt, equally famous for his roles as Bruce Springsteen’s longtime sidekick and as Silvio Dante in The Sopranos. In their freewheeling conversation, Stevie reflects on how his remarkable, up-and-down, 60-year career as a…
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Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss the self-inflicted wreckage at The Washington Post and how a simple executive shuffle turned into a full blown powder keg. Then the duo debate whether Stephen A. Smith is worth $18 million a year to ESPN. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Lear…
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Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby to reveal the diminished state of the Russian disinformation apparatus, and why the bot armies of ’24 don’t hold a candle to ’16. Then they home in on the disinformation efforts we need to worry about this election—and those we can simply laugh at. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: http…
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John is joined by Jen O’Malley Dillon—the legendary Democratic field organizer for Al Gore, Jon Edwards, and Barack Obama, manager of Joe Biden’s general-election campaign in 2020, and deputy chief of staff in Biden's White House from 2021 to 2023—in her first extended, on-the-record interview since taking over as chair of his reelection effort. Th…
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Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to mull the major legal controversies poised to reverberate through the ’24 election: the Hunter Biden saga, Trump’s criminal trials, SCOTUS’s abortion rulings, R.F.K.’s ballot access challenges, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn…
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Bill Cohan joins Peter Hamby to reveal why the failed Paramount-Skydance dalliance was the wildest M&A saga he’s ever seen. Then they discuss whether Shari will reengage with the Apollo/Sony bid—or if everyone is going to take a summer vacation instead. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/pri…
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Tara Palmeri joins Peter Hamby to debate whether the latest V.P. murmurs emanating from Mar-a-Lago—that North Dakota’s tech gazillionaire governor, Doug Burgum, is a genuine frontrunner—is fact or fantasy. Then they discuss the odds that Trump actually ends up in prison. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www…
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John is joined by the legendary restaurateur Danny Meyer—whose Union Square Hospitality Group has built a fine-dining empire in New York City (Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, Manhatta, Ci Siamo, and more) and spawned the multinational fast-casual juggernaut Shake Shack—to mourn the shocking, bewildering loss of a mutual friend, the …
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Jon Kelly joins Peter to chew over some of the latest machinations inside The Washington Post pressure cooker. The duo then turn their attention to Hollywood’s cold feet over an acclaimed Trump movie. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit h…
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Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby to reveal whether the Kremlin is pulling for Biden or Trump in November. Sure, the answer might seem obvious—but as Julia explains, the reality is far more complicated, and has become the subject of fiery debate in both Moscow and Foggy Bottom. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://…
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John is joined by Kara Swisher—celebrated chronicler of the titans of tech, host of the podcast On With Kara Swisher and cohost of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, and author of the best-selling memoir Burn Book—to discuss Apple's embrace of A.I., Elon Musk's broadsides against the company, and Silicon Valley's newfound enthusiasm for Donald …
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John Ourand joins Peter to break down all the excitement and controversy surrounding the league’s new economics and the Olympic team roster. Then they chew over the latest updates in the Zaz-NBA media rights drama. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad ch…
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Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss Shari Redstone’s shocking decision to nuke the Skydance/RedBird deal. Then the duo weigh in on the fate of Elon Musk’s $56 billion balloon. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/a…
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Abby Livingston joins Peter to discuss the latest spate of member-on-member violence on the House campaign trail. Then they chew over a new poll that finds young voters have either forgotten the chaos of the Trump years or simply don’t care. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy …
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John is joined by ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos—co-anchor of Good Morning America, host of This Week, and author of the recently published New York Times No. 1 best-seller, The Situation Room—to discuss their industry’s ongoing failure to cover Donald Trump, the GOP, and this political moment for what they are: radically abnormal. George also re…
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Jon Kelly and Peter are reunited just in time to discuss the tragicomic week at The Washington Post—the Will Lewis restructuring, the Buzbee departure, the Folkenflik battle, and so much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://p…
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John is joined by Maggie Haberman, the heralded Times reporter and Trump scholar, to discuss the bubbling retribution fantasies of the former president and the wider MAGA-sphere. Maggie also reflects on her seven weeks covering the hush money trial, and the two dig into the Trump campaign's strategy and the potential electoral fallout from his 34-c…
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Tina Nguyen joins Peter Hamby to offer her insider’s view of Donald Trump’s recent intimations about exacting revenge on his political enemies. MAGAworld claims the Dems are weaponizing the criminal court system, and Republicans are vowing to return the favor. But how seriously should we take this dark rhetoric? To learn more about listener data an…
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Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby to dissect Benjamin Netanyahu’s true motivations behind his D.C. tour and his coming address to a joint session of Congress. Then they scrutinize Biden’s optimistic spin on the war in Ukraine. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about yo…
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Bill Cohan joins Dylan Byers to analyze the possible Skydance-Paramount arranged marriage and its ripple effects: Shari’s exit options, the C-suite musical chairs, the Jeff Shell-Jeff Zucker fever dream, and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your a…
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In the debut episode of Impolitic, John sits down with Andrew Weissmann, the former Enron prosecutor and Mueller lieutenant, for a candid and wide-ranging conversation across a number of pertinent topics: gaming out Trump's sentencing, the efficacy of his appeal, Mueller report reminiscences, and Alito's bewildering political moment. To learn more …
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Eriq Gardner joins Dylan Byers to dig into the latest developments in the potential Skydance-Paramount deal, before unpacking a new $20 billion NFL Sunday ticket antitrust lawsuit. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoice…
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Welcome to Impolitic with John Heilemann, in which Puck’s chief political columnist, national affairs analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, best-selling author of Game Change and Double Down, and host/creator of Showtime’s The Circus roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes an…
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On this special episode, Jon Kelly joins guest host Dylan Byers wade into the latest WSJ kerfuffle and predict the NBA rights endgame. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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