Morning Meeting
Welcome to Morning Meeting, where AIR MAIL’s Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey take you inside the stories people are talking about this week—and tip you off to the ones the editors are talking about for next week. We cover the people shaping your world that you want to know more about (and more often the stuff they don’t want you to know about). And we talk with friends of AIR MAIL—writers, reporters, and style-setters. So listen in every Saturday as Morning Meeting brings you what’s new and exciting from the world of AIR MAIL.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 261
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 260: Prince Andrew's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Moment
If you’re a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm—and who isn’t?—you are surely a fan of Susie Essman, who played Susie Greene on the show. And this week she joins us with a rather Curb-like story about her en…
00:36:03 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Episode 259: How a Rupert Murdoch Scandal Could Cripple "The Washington Post"
This week, Nick Davies reveals his new findings about the phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch that rocked the U.K. in the 2010s, and what it could mean for The Washington Post. Then Gracie…
00:34:19 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Episode 258: Billionaires Behaving Badly—The Summer Edition!
This week, Clara Molot reveals how Yale has managed to escape the wrath of Trump and his war on America’s universities. Then William D. Cohan has all the dirt and drama about how the 75 billionaires …
00:32:41 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Episode 257: Why George W. Bush Is Gen Z's New Obsession
Donald Trump’s attack on Harvard has gotten a lot of headlines, but his skirmish with the University of Virginia has become a major political battleground between two possible presidential rivals, J.…
00:34:30 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
Episode 256: Love in the Time of Content Creators—How Gen Z Ruined Wedding Proposals
This week, Cazzie David tells us how and why Gen Z has turned the marriage proposal into something completely stupid. Then Andrew Lownie discusses why Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson tried to kill h…
00:29:45 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Episode 255: Inside the Great Canadian Gold Heist
This week, Elena Clavarino reports from Italy on how a pasta king is in hot water thanks to his plans to build a Las Vegas–like spa at Lake Garda. Then Sarah Ditum looks at why viewers can’t quit rea…
00:35:41 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
Episode 254: Inside the Gwyneth Paltrow Book—Triumph of a Mean Girl?
This week, Ashley Baker tells us what she learned reading the book on Gwyneth. Then Rich Cohen shares what he’s learned about Jennifer Dulos since writing his new book about her tragic murder. Later,…
00:36:41 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Episode 253: What Trump Could Learn About Deceit from J.F.K.
This week, Stuart Heritage reports from the U.K. on why The Salt Path, the inspirational best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn, now seems to be a hive of untruths. Then, on the subject of deceit, J. Ran…
00:32:20 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Episode 252: When Your Friend Is a Fraud—the Mystery of a High-Flying New York Player
This week, author Jane Boon recounts her friendship with Matthew Pietras, a dashing, handsome fixture on the New York social scene who worked for the Soros family and whose life now seems to have bee…
00:34:18 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Episode 251: The Mystery of the Man-Child Who Tried to Assassinate Trump
It was almost a year ago that a young man named Thomas Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump. Yet, all this time later, he and his motives remain essentially a mystery. Our writer Rich Cohen has b…
00:35:00 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
Episode 250: Why You Should Move to London
This week, Ashley Baker reports on why London is a steal if you want to live abroad. Then, James Sikura tells us how famed Hollywood producer Robert Evans was behind the making of one of the most sta…
00:26:56 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Episode 249: Jared Kushner's Island Full of Poisonous Snakes
This week, Mitchell Prothero joins us with his report on why Jared Kushner is pursuing a multi-million-dollar development deal on an uninhabitable former Cold War air base in Albania. Then, many of y…
00:29:37 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Episode 248: Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding
It may feel like the world is going to hell, but for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, it’s a Bonfire of the Vanities moment. In a little less than two weeks, the billionaire and his fiancée will take o…
00:32:52 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Episode 247: Jared Leto's Sex Problem
Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto has starred in films ranging from American Psycho to House of Gucci. Now he stands accused of impropriety and grooming by 10 women. Our writer Elena Clavarino has her r…
00:34:53 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
Episode 246: The Genius Whom Hollywood Forgot
This week, Sam Tanenhaus discusses the life of William F. Buckley Jr., the man who set the blueprint for the modern conservative movement, which has reached a new iteration in Donald Trump. Then, spe…
00:37:54 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Episode 245: The Newest Flex for .01-Percenters—Building a Golf Club
This week, Carrie Monahan reports from East Hampton on a shooting range for locals that has allegedly been peppering million-dollar homes of part-time residents with bullets. Then William D. Cohan lo…
00:36:00 |
Sat 24 May 2025
Episode 244: Why Gen Z College Grads Are Ditching Wall Street for Farming
This week, Jeanne Malle reveals why some Gen Z college graduates are choosing blue-collar jobs instead of working on Wall Street. Then Stuart Heritage reports on the family drama that’s riveted the U…
00:31:03 |
Sat 17 May 2025
Episode 243: When a Billionaire Buys the General Store
This week, Leigh Giangreco reports on why so many foreigners—as well as American citizens living abroad—are now afraid to travel to, of all places, the United States. Then, Clara Molot has an update …
00:35:19 |
Sat 10 May 2025
Episode 242: Save America—Deport Lorne Michaels!
This week, David Kamp explains why it’s time to make Trump deport the creator of Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels. Then, Stuart Heritage tells us how and why the notorious Fyre Festival is back. W…
00:30:47 |
Sat 03 May 2025
Episode 241: 20,000 Kilos Under the Sea—Why Submarines Are the New Way to Smuggle Cocaine
This week, Jacob Silverman looks at what he believes is the biggest financial fraud in American history: how the Trump family reportedly made $100 million from trading fees on their own crypto-curren…
00:30:59 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
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