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 60: The "Squid Game" Secret to Success
This week, we reveal the secret to Squid Game’s becoming a $900 million global juggernaut.
00:30:04 |
Sat 06 Nov 2021
Episode 59: A Very Revealing Show—From Kylie Jenner's Swimwear to Chippendales
This week Ashley and Mike look at the shocking story of ladies-only strip club Chippendales, the inspiration for Magic Mike and more.
00:34:11 |
Sat 30 Oct 2021
Episode 58: The Secret History of “The Godfather”
This week we take you inside the making of The Godfather—and reveal how Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone was based on … a woman! Writer Mark Seal joins Ashley and Mike to discuss his new book about the m…
00:33:27 |
Sat 23 Oct 2021
Episode 57: We’ve Found the World’s Best Pizza
This week, we discover the world’s best pizza, hidden in a rural Italian village, and we go inside the mind of Succession’s scheming patriarch, Logan Roy.
00:30:31 |
Sat 16 Oct 2021
Episode 56: Welcome to America's "Grifted Age"!
This week, we look at the Sacklers, the OxyContin-peddling robber barons who made billions pushing a drug that destroyed lives and communities.
00:29:43 |
Sat 09 Oct 2021
Episode 55: The Best Books of the Fall
This week, we’ve got the inside story on the Big Books of the Fall, and what you need to read, thanks to AIR MAIL Senior Editor Julia Vitale.
00:24:35 |
Sat 02 Oct 2021
Episode 54: Anderson Cooper on How Money Destroyed His Family
This week, Anderson Cooper reveals how money destroyed his dynastic family—and why he won't leave his money to his son.
00:29:29 |
Sat 25 Sep 2021
Episode 53: The Man Behind Roger Ailes and Churchill, John Lithgow
This week, the ever witty actor John Lithgow discusses (and reads from!) his very funny new book, A Confederacy of Dumptys.
00:28:49 |
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Episode 52: The Elizabeth Holmes–Theranos Trial: What You Need to Know
Is Elizabeth Holmes the greatest fraudster of our era?
00:29:18 |
Sat 11 Sep 2021
Episode 51: J.F.K. and the Radcliffe Girl—60 Years Later, a Mistress Speaks
At 20, Diana de Vegh began an affair with John F. Kennedy that continued through his time as president. Now, for the first time ever, she tells how she came into his orbit, how her life was forever a…
00:29:34 |
Sat 28 Aug 2021
Episode 50: Could You Be a “Genuinfluencer”?
This week, we have a look at “Genuinfluencers”—Gen X–ers who think being into clothes and beauty is soooo 2020.
00:29:53 |
Sat 21 Aug 2021
Episode 49: Randy Brits and Supreme Court Twits
This week, Ashley and Michael look at the high jinks and “corridor creeping” that happens at Downton Abbey–ish estates during shooting season.
00:27:03 |
Sat 14 Aug 2021
Episode 48: A Book-Lover's Dream—a Lost Library Is Discovered
This week, the always witty, ever entertaining Stephen Fry joins us to discuss a long-secret library that has come to light—and has book-lovers and readers losing their minds.
00:29:29 |
Sat 07 Aug 2021
Episode 47: "My Unorthodox Life": What You Need to Know
In My Unorthodox Life, a new reality show on Netflix, Julia Haart has captivated people with her incredible story—how, at age 43, she and three of her children broke from their repressive, ultra-Orth…
00:31:35 |
Sat 31 Jul 2021
Episode 46: Gen Z and the Great WFH Revolt of 2021
Did you know that nearly 50 percent of workers under 40 would rather quit their job than return to the office full-time?
00:31:48 |
Sat 24 Jul 2021
Episode 45: Inside Trump's Crazy Final Days
What really happened inside the White House—and Trump’s brain—between Election Night and the violent storming of the Capitol?
00:32:09 |
Sat 17 Jul 2021
Episode 44: Sleeping with a Psychopath
What is it like to sleep with a psychopath?
00:29:45 |
Sat 10 Jul 2021
Episode 43: Liz Taylor, Queen Elizabeth, and the Bachelor
How did Queen Elizabeth help Liz Taylor land husband No. 6?
00:20:20 |
Sat 03 Jul 2021
Episode 42: Google and the Adulterer in the Room
This week, Ashley and Mike look at the sex-life drama of yet another tech bro, Eric Schmidt, the former C.E.O. of Google.
00:26:38 |
Sat 26 Jun 2021
Episode 41: Vaxxed and Waxed and Looking for Trouble
This week, master crime writer James Ellroy, the acclaimed author of L.A. Confidential, joins Ashley and Mike to discuss depravity, secrets, and all-around bad behavior among the elite in Hollywood, …
00:33:12 |
Sat 19 Jun 2021
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