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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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- Nvidia’s Hard Reset · 19 min.Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to discuss the stunning resignation of Jensen Huang after the Nvidia C.E.O. confessed to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Ian digs into the…
- Schumer’s Leadership Test · 21 min.Leigh Ann Caldwell and Marianna Sotomayor join Peter to make sense of a groundbreaking week in Washington, as newly minted Democrats descend on Capitol Hill for orientation, a…
- How Ross Douthat Cracked Trump · 20 min.Dylan Byers joins Peter to discuss Ross Douthat’s 60 Minutes interview with Trump, and why it landed as both a ratings win for Bari Weiss and a genuinely revealing conversation…
- Nvidia’s State of Affairs · 19 min.Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss the scandal engulfing Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang, whose affair with a Singapore-based executive has taken a darker turn amid reports she may…
- Media Monday: Hollywood’s Midterm Hangover & Times M&A Fantasies · 23 min.Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss whether newly empowered House Democrats will subpoena Andy Jassy and other Trump-friendly media execs. Then they size up the New York Times’…
- Which Network Won Election Night? · 49 min.Julia and Dylan reunite to discuss which networks rose to the occasion on election night, which stumbled, and who ultimately won the night. They also discuss The New York Times’s…
- Post-Election Civil War · 20 min.Leigh Ann Caldwell and Marianna Sotomayor join Peter to reflect on a whirlwind election week: They dig into what the blue tsunami really means, what Democrats can actually do to…
- The NFL’s Rust Belt Renaissance · 20 min.John Ourand joins Peter for a midseason check-in on the NFL: the highs, the lows, and why a crop of winning Midwest teams is fueling a ratings boom. They also dig into the WNBA’s…
- Midterms-palooza 2026: An Election Night Special Report! · 31 min.Puck’s campaign dream team reconvenes to digest the midterm results and dish out instant reactions, with Peter Hamby analyzing the final polls from California and Leigh Ann and…
- An Election Night Cheat Sheet · 28 min.Peter convenes Leigh Ann Caldwell and Marianna Sotomayor for an Election Night bonanza and a viewer’s guide to the evening ahead. They flag the early East Coast House races that…
- Will Republican Turnout Collapse This Tuesday? with Nate Silver · 40 min.Polling guru Nate Silver joins Peter to offer his final set of midterm election predictions, from the Deep South to the Midwest and explain why his model shows Democrats with a…
- Media Monday: CNN Successionology & The G.O.P. Midterm Blitz · 26 min.Jon Kelly and Peter reunite on the eve of the midterms to dig into a high-stakes test for pollsters, and why nearly $12 billion in political ad spending has become a windfall for…
- Tales From the Trail with Tim Miller · 58 min.Tim Miller, co-founder of The Bulwark, a leader of the anti-Trump resistance, and a veteran of countless Republican campaigns from the pre-Trump era, joins Peter for a…
- The Great Washington Retreat · 20 min.Julia Ioffe joins Peter with reporting on why European leaders are steering clear of formal Washington visits with Trump—where they risk public humiliation or a public berating…
- Nathan Fielder Mania & ‘Odyssey’ Oscar Buzz · 21 min.Matt Belloni joins Peter to break down how A24 turned ‘You Can See Everything’ into a genuine national phenomenon, even as some filmmakers bristle at the Nathan Fielder film…
- Art Basel’s Confidence Boost & Frieze’s Mood Swing · 16 min.Marion Maneker joins Peter fresh off a European tour that saw his Art Basel visit overshadowed by the riots in France. And yet, Marion explains, the art market hasn’t missed a…
- Musk’s Moonshot Merger & Anthropic’s $80B Question · 21 min.Bill Cohan joins Peter to consider whether Elon Musk can engineer the largest merger in history by combining Tesla and SpaceX—and why it’s hard to bet against Elon on this one…
- Media Monday: Netflix’s YouTube Problem & ESPN’s Aikman Math · 24 min.Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss Peter Rice’s takeover at Netflix and whether he can win back attention from YouTube. Then they turn to ESPN letting Troy Aikman walk, and why it…
- The Trump Bro Exodus, with John Della Volpe · 43 min.Veteran pollster John Della Volpe joins Peter to discuss why young men who took a chance on Donald Trump now regret their vote—the surging price of gas, unaffordable groceries…
- The Lame Duck From Hell · 19 min.Marianna Sotomayor joins Peter to look past Election Day at the chaos that could follow: If Democrats reclaim the House, the lame-duck session may turn combustible with spending…
- Will Ellison Cut a Deal With Elon? · 24 min.Dylan Byers joins Peter with a grab bag of Paramount intrigue: whether Ellison will cut a content deal with Elon Musk and Starlink, what Jon Stewart’s Daily Show extension…
- Aikman–Buck Breakup Watch & Netflix Sports After Bela · 16 min.John Ourand joins Peter to discuss the possible end of one of sports broadcasting’s most enduring pairings: Troy Aikman and Joe Buck, who’ve been calling NFL games together for…
- The G.O.P.’s Defeatist Turn · 15 min.Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to discuss how House Republicans are suddenly talking like a party resigned to the minority next year—and the members already jockeying to lead the…
- Media Monday: ABC’s Trump Exposé Fiasco & ESPN Super Bowl Sprawl · 21 min.Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss all the drama surrounding ABC’s posted, deleted, and then re-reported story on Don Jr. and Eric Trump profiting off Pentagon contracts. Then they…
- The Case for Shutting Down A.I., with JB Pritzker · 35 min.JB Pritzker, the Illinois governor and rumored ’28 aspirant, sits down with Peter to discuss why he suspended tax breaks for data centers, how A.I. could make 10 percent…
- The Wild Saga of Shohei Ohtani’s 50-50 Ball · 15 min.Eriq Gardner joins Peter to break down the bizarre legal fight behind a Shohei Ohtani home run ball that sold for over $4 million after three men scrambled to claim it in the…
- Is Trump Abandoning Ukraine? · 22 min.Julia Ioffe joins Peter to examine how Donald Trump brokered an oil export deal with Russia to ease energy costs, despite the uncomfortable reality that it could help fund…
- Anthropic’s Rogue Trip & Superintelligence Fever! · 19 min.Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to break down how rogue Anthropic agents accessed a State Department website and filed a fake homicide tip with the Philadelphia P.D.—and how the…
- Hakeem Jeffries’s D.S.A. Tsuris · 20 min.Marianna Sotomayor joins Peter to answer an overlooked question about the midterms: if Democrats take back the House, the Senate, or both, what do they actually plan to do with…
- Media Monday: Zaz’s Parachute & Skydance Looming Questions · 24 min.Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to make sense of the Paramount-WBD aftermath, beginning with David Zaslav’s $606 million payday and the looming Netflix layoffs rattling the industry…
- Can MAHA Keep Iowa Red? with Jeff Kaufmann · 38 min.Iowa G.O.P. chairman Jeff Kaufmann joins Peter for a candid conversation about what it takes to win Iowa, where Trump still has a chokehold on Republican voters even as his…
- Has Speaker Johnson Given Up On The House? · 21 min.Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter with a fresh midterm update as Democratic optimism swells toward a possible Election Day tsunami—and even Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson…
- Gucci and Louis Vuitton’s Haute Mess · 15 min.Lauren Sherman joins Peter fresh off four consecutive fashion weeks to deliver a runway postmortem on which brands and designers impressed on the runway. Lauren also gets into…
- What’s Next for Tony Romo and CBS? · 18 min.John Ourand joins Peter to chew over Tony Romo’s departure from the CBS NFL booth in the wake of his D.U.I. earlier this summer, and what comes next for a broadcaster with his…
- Skydance’s Brain Trust & Condé After Roger · 16 min.Jon Kelly rejoins Peter to size up Skydance’s new leadership team, including co-C.E.O. Ynon Kreiz, who arrives from Mattel with a mandate that likely includes cuts across the…
- Media Monday: Skydance’s Sizzle Reel & Thompson’s Upper Hand · 17 min.The besties Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby convene to size up the newly minted Skydance, and the splashy trailer that introduced it. They also dig into what the reported exits of Pam…
- How to Win New Mexico in ’28, with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham · 44 min.With New Mexico joining the early Democratic presidential primary calendar, Peter sits down with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for a dissertation on everything candidates need to…
- Sen. Alsobrooks on Crypto and Clarity · 30 min.In this special episode, Leigh Ann Caldwell sits down with Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks to discuss why the Clarity Act couldn’t get across the finish line, whether a deal can…
- The New A.I. Helpers & Disney’s Big Bet · 22 min.Julia Alexander joins Peter to dig into a new wave of A.I. agents, from Meta’s Muse to OpenAI’s Dots, and whether these tools can actually reach mass adoption or are simply…
- The Condé-WarnerMount C.E.O. Shuffle · 15 min.Dylan Byers joins Peter to untangle the game of executive musical chairs at Condé Nast and Paramount–WBD as David Ellison taps outgoing Mattel chief Ynon Kreiz as his co-C.E.O…
- Blue Wave Watch · 24 min.Marianna Sotomayor joins Peter for a midterm vibe check as Democratic optimism runs high and some in the party are lobbying for eleventh-hour investments in Senate races like…
- Can the Art World Win Over the Next Generation? · 16 min.Marion Maneker joins Peter to debrief on Puck’s second annual Art of Influence conference, where he gathered the art world’s esteemed players for a wide-ranging set of…
- Media Monday: Bonta’s Backtrack & The New Sports Doc Playbook · 23 min.Jon Kelly and Peter break down why California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s antitrust effort against the WarnerMount deal collapsed into a series of meager concessions, and ponder…
- Can We Actually Trust the Midterm Polls? with Lakshya Jain · 44 min.Lakshya Jain, elections analyst and co-founder of Split Ticket, joins Peter to dig into polling reliability, election models, and how voters are responding to economic conditions…
- Panic! At the G.O.P. Disco · 19 min.Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter for a close look at the rising Republican panic over the midterms, as a spate of polls points to a possible blue wave election with voters…
- The Trump-Xi Summit Showdown · 26 min.Ian Krietzberg joins Peter to preview the high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping, breaking down the hopes, expectations, and realities in play…
- The G.O.P.’s Midterm NFL Blitz · 20 min.John Ourand joins Peter to discuss the political ad money pouring into NFL and college football broadcasts this fall, and how it’s overwhelming local TV markets across the…
- ParaBros Settlement Fallout · 18 min.Dylan Byers joins Peter to parse the WBD–Paramount settlement announced Monday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta—who’s now taking heat from Democrats for caving and…
- Media Monday: 60’s Bari Minimum & The Maine Ad Buy Bonanza · 24 min.Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to debate 60 Minutes’ season premiere and whether Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton’s overhaul—or a weak NFL lead-in and shifting Nielsen math—explains its…
- How to Break the Internet (and Win Campaigns), with Alex Bruesewitz · 1 t. 2 min.Trump social media guru Alex Bruesewitz joins Peter to discuss how Joe Rogan and TikTok memes helped Republicans win the White House, which Democrats actually understand the…
