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An Elon Legal Mouse Trap Mar 28, 2023

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Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss, among other things, an Elon Musk legal trap of his own design. Then Bill Cohan discusses Credit Suisse’s tragic deal point with Ben Landy.

Media Monday: Tiktokalypse & D.C M&A Mar 27, 2023

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Jon Kelly joins Peter to decipher just how screwed TikTok may be in the current political environment. Then they dish on the inside story behind a D.C. media acquisition.

The Reid Hoffman-DeSantis Curveball Mar 24, 2023

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Teddy Schleiffer joins Peter to discuss Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman’s controversial interest in taking out Trump in the primary. Then Ben Landy and Tina Nguyen evaluate the helium that Trump’s potential indictment has offered his candidacy.

Check Out Teddy's Article

https://puck.news/s-b-f-informants-a-strange-desantis-bedfellow/

Check out Tina's Article

https://puck.news/is-the-republican-primary-already-over/

The Cable Battle for the Trump Show Mar 23, 2023

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Dylan Byers joins Peter for a conversation about the cable news battle for the 2024 RNC debates—the reprisal of the Trump Show. Fox News has the lead, but everyone else (minus MSNBC) is competing for the action. Is this 2016 all over again?

Check Out Dylan's Piece

https://puck.news/psakis-promise-trump-debate-politics-a-cnn-low/

The Trump-DeSantis Legal Quagmire Mar 22, 2023

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Tara Palmeri and Peter Hamby dig into some of the stunning, and bonkers, second order effects of Trump’s potential indictment.

Is Trump Actually Screwed, Legally? Mar 21, 2023

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Julia Ioffe joins Ben Landy to discuss Putin’s latest Xi brown-nosing and dastardly Mariupol goose-stepping. Then Eriq Gardner swings by to discuss whether Trump is truly screwed.

Media Monday: The SVB Media Fiasco & the Next Ben Smith Mar 20, 2023

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Jon Kelly joins Peter to explain how a media crisis fatally exacerbated SVB’s fatal liquidity crisis. Then the duo discuss the next Ben Smith.

Tom Cruise’s Big Snub Mar 17, 2023

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Matt Belloni joins Peter to discuss all the issues stemming from the Oscars: the Tom Cruise snubs, the post-Will Smith ruckus, the big TikTok deal, and why young A-listers hate the red carpet.

The A.O.C. Conundrum Mar 16, 2023

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Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss A.O.C.’s new role in Congress and address all the speculation about her future plans. Then Teddy Schleifer and Ben Landy dig into how Ron Conway helped save SVB.

Did Murdoch Miscalculate? Mar 15, 2023

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Eriq Gardner joins Peter to hypothesize the endgame of the Fox-Dominion lawsuit. And Julia Ioffe and Ben decipher Ron DeSantis’s Putin fantasy.

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