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 240: Taylor Swift and Harvard Business School—Secrets to Her Success
This week, Jennifer Gould reports on Ivy League professors living the Handmaid’s Tale life—fleeing America for Canada out of fear for their freedoms. Then, Barbara Schroeder looks at the murder that …
00:34:11 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Episode 239: "Brad Pitt," His Kidney Transplant, and the Cyber-Scammers
This week, Mark Seal reveals the amateur detectives who busted a group of cyber-scammers who impersonated Brad Pitt and swindled a woman out of more than $850,000. Then, speaking of swindles, Jeffrey…
00:31:49 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Episode 238: Another Reason to Hate Nepo Babies
This week, Andrew Zucker reports on the latest luxury for Ivy League nepo babies of the 1-percenters: private, white-glove housing stocked with amenities. (So long, grungy communal bathroom down the …
00:34:39 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Episode 237: Graydon Carter on His Memoir, Magazines, and Rules for Living
The founder and Co-Editor of AIR MAIl, Graydon Carter, has written his long-awaited memoir, entitled When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, and we’re…
00:40:53 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Episode 236: Putin, Trump, and the Evil Finance Bro
Would you be surprised to learn that the man Putin has tapped to negotiate a Ukraine peace agreement with Trump is a rich, Ivy League smoothie who spent time on Wall Street? Andrew Ryvkin tells us ab…
00:35:43 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
Episode 235: Tick, Tick, Boom? The Lost Nuclear Bomb That Could Destroy Savannah, Georgia
If you think things can’t possibly get worse, you might want to duck and cover. John von Sothen has the incredible story of how the U.S. Air Force dropped a nuclear bomb off the coast of Savannah, Ge…
00:32:04 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
Episode 234: What's Behind "Spermageddon," the Male-Fertility Crisis
This week, is Donald Trump smarter than we think he is on foreign policy? Could he, as some say, be pulling a "Reverse-Nixon"? Our colleague George Pendle joins us with his insights. Then, Tesla used…
00:28:01 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
Episode 233: How "Annie Hall" Went from Disaster to Masterpiece
This week, Air Mail Co-Editor Alessandra Stanley explains how Trump has replaced D.E.I. with his own brand of affirmative action. Something you might call L.O.O.—loyalty, obsequiousness, and obedienc…
00:34:45 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
Episode 232: Elon Musk, Welfare Queen—the Dirty Truth
Elon Musk is all over Washington, D.C., these days. But did you know that before he became the emperor of DOGE, he was a needy recipient of government spending? Oz Woloshyn reveals all the details. T…
00:34:51 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
Episode 231: Are Aperol Spritzes Really the New Birth Control?
It’s become a common worry in America: why can’t we listen to each other? Well, 60 years ago, the great American writer Studs Terkel showed us all what happens when we do listen to the stories and pe…
00:32:35 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
Episode 230: Bridget Jones—Gen Z and the Single Girl
Tom Goldstein was one of Washington, D.C.’s top lawyers, arguing 44 cases before the Supreme Court. Yet few knew he was also one of the world’s highest-rolling—and most reckless—poker players, rackin…
00:36:05 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
Episode 229: Trump's Big Payday—Crypto and Crime
Under Donald Trump, crypto-currency is challenging the dollar’s supremacy, and Jacob Silverman is here to explain why, in doing the bidding of crypto’s boosters, Trump has inadvertently revealed the …
00:35:08 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
Episode 228: Is Capitalism to Blame for Luigi Mangione?
This week, David Christopher Kaufman explains why Trump’s first shot in the war on woke could backfire. Then, it was a cold-blooded murder that shocked the country when Luigi Mangione allegedly gunne…
00:35:11 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Episode 227: The "Preppy Killer": The Murder That Riveted N.Y.C. in 1986
Across the U.S. and Europe it’s ski season, and Simon Mills will join us with his report on an exclusive destination in France that was once the domain of oligarchs and that has now been taken over b…
00:35:57 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
Episode 226: It Ends with Mess—Inside the Blake Lively–Justin Baldoni War
Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni—it’s the battle that has captivated Hollywood. But just what the hell’s going on and who is to be believed? Stuart Heritage gives us his insights. Then Carrie Monahan,…
00:34:42 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Episode 225: Pico Iyer on the Perfect Place to Escape 2025
It’s the beginning of a new year and a time of resolutions, and if you are thinking of taking time to reflect on what you want to do in 2025, Pico Iyer joins us from Tokyo to share what he learned du…
00:38:35 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Episode 224: How Two Cops in 1980s Miami Inspired "The Sopranos"
This week, the man behind our infamous Attention-Whore Index, George Kalogerakis, takes us inside the year-end awards for the biggest winners—or, really, losers—of 2024. Then, it’s been 40 years sinc…
00:33:45 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Episode 223: Bella Freud on "Fashion Neurosis." Plus: When Jackie O Fought Back
What would it be like if Sigmund Freud were alive in the age of podcasts? Would he have one? Well, his great-granddaughter the fashion designer Bella Freud does, and she’s going to stop by to tell us…
00:34:57 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
Episode 222: The Most Overhyped People and Things of 2024
This week, Jeanne Malle reveals the winners and losers of Air Mail’s 2024 Over-Under List, wherein we present the year’s most overhyped (and underhyped) people and things. Then, on the subject of wel…
00:31:01 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
Episode 221: Ruthie Rogers, of the River Cafe—a Holiday Special
It’s the holidays, which means entertaining and cooking, so who better to chat with than one of our favorite people who knows a bit about both: Ruthie Rogers, the owner of one of the world’s great re…
00:36:31 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
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