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 220: The Man Who Made New York Special—Bobby Short at 100
No one made New Yorkers feel better than Bobby Short. For 36 years there was no more quintessential New York experience than seeing him perform at the Café Carlyle, and Scott Asen remembers the great…
00:33:24 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
Episode 219: How Marlon Brando Almost Did Not Make One of His Masterpieces
A masterpiece of movies, On the Waterfront, came out 70 years ago, and this week the writer Stephen Rebello reveals how the classic film almost did not get made due to a feud between Marlon Brando an…
00:32:52 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
Episode 218: The Mysterious Murder of Sean Combs's Father
This week, Legs McNeil reports on the murder of Melvin Combs—the man who was Sean “Diddy” Combs’s father. As Legs reports, “Pretty Boy Melvin,” who had links to the notorious drug kingpin Frank Lucas…
00:31:05 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
Episode 217: A Stanley Kubrick Musical? It's True
This week, in lighter matters, John Lahr joins us from London to give us his take on the new stage version of Dr. Strangelove. Then Emilie Hawtin joins us from New York City to tell us about the fash…
00:23:46 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
Episode 216: Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley on Donald Trump and the Election
This week, Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley explain why this election is the final legacy of the baby-boomers—and why Trump is the most lasting and unpleasant legacy of this generation. Then Cla…
00:28:26 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
Episode 215: The Secret Life of Joan Didion
Lili Anolik looks at a question that’s always intrigued the literati—what exactly was the nature of the relationship between Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne? Then our man in Paris, Jo…
00:35:17 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Episode 214: Inside the Mysterious and Deadly Sinking of the Luxury Yacht "Bayesian"
This week, Sam Kashner reveals what happened when a huge luxury yacht owned by Mike Lynch, Britain’s first Internet billionaire, sank in 15 minutes during a freak storm off the coast of Sicily, killi…
00:28:54 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Episode 213: The Dude Abides—The Making of "The Big Lebowski"
When it was released just over 25 years ago, The Big Lebowski was a flop with critics. Now it is regarded as among the funniest movies ever made, one by which we all, well, abide. Josh Karp tells us …
00:32:12 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Episode 212: James Carville on What Kamala Needs to Do to Win
The presidential election is 31 days away, which means it’s crunch time for the candidates. And we have a special guest who knows all about crunch time and campaigns: political strategist James Carvi…
00:35:00 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
Episode 211: Inside the Secretive Asian Las Vegas That Is the World Capital of Crime
Fifty years after Hunter S. Thompson brought us Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, we have a look at a 21st-century Vegas that is unlike anything you could ever imagine. Our writer Darius J. Rubin trave…
00:31:08 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
Episode 210: The Dorothy Stratten Story as Told by Her Sister, Louise
If you’re still trying to understand what exactly is, or was, a Brat summer, you are not alone. These days, “vibe trends” are increasingly incoherent—whether it is “the strawberry girl summer” or “ho…
00:34:07 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Episode 209: "The West Wing" at 25—Inside the Landmark Show
This week, Mark Seal brings us part two of his story about Sergio Pino, the millionaire real-estate developer at the center of a murder case that has shocked the seemingly un-shockable home of bizarr…
00:31:14 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Episode 208: Why Weddings Featured in “Vogue” Are Cursed
This week, Paulina Prosnitz and Carolina de Armas reveal the victims of the Vogue Wedding Curse and explain how it strikes. Then Mark Seal looks at a murder scheme that shocked the seemingly unshocka…
00:34:25 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
Episode 207: Did the F.B.I. Compromise the Case Against the Idaho-Murders Suspect?
This week, Howard Blum shares new details about Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students, and how the F.B.I. may have compromised the case against him. Then Georg…
00:35:01 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
Episode 206: Who Is Gwyneth Paltrow's Plastic Surgeon?
Does she or doesn’t she? This week, Linda Wells, the Editor of Air Mail Look, has the scoop on Gwyneth Paltrow’s “holistic” plastic surgeon. Then Henry R. Schlesinger shares the wild story of how the…
00:34:44 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
Episode 205: How a Volunteer Firefighter Landed a Mansion in the Hamptons
This week, Carrie Monahan joins us from East Hampton with her fascinating story about a volunteer fireman, a reclusive old man who lived in a dilapidated mansion on one of the town’s most exclusive s…
00:30:56 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Episode 204: J. D. Vance Is the New Dwight Schrute
Kamala Harris announced her choice of running mate this week, but right now we need to talk about J. D. Vance. And who better to lead that chat than Andy Borowitz, who will explain why Mr. Hillbilly …
00:36:34 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Episode 203: The Scandal Episode! "Saltburn" on the Riviera, and More
This week, it’s all about scandals. First, John von Sothen reports from the French Riviera on what feels like a real-life Saltburn. Then Pippa Cuckson joins us from the U.K. with her insights into th…
00:33:01 |
Sat 03 Aug 2024
Episode 202: Understanding Your Baggage—What Your Canvas Tote Reveals About You
As summer hits high season and the global smart set decamps to Martha’s Vineyard, the Amalfi Coast, or Jeff Bezos’s yacht, Harrison Vail reveals what your media-branded canvas tote bag (The Paris Rev…
00:34:43 |
Sat 27 Jul 2024
Episode 201: Is Milano the New Monaco? Why the 1 Percent Are Moving to Italy
This week, Joseph Giovannini explains how Paris turned the requirement to build an Olympic Village into an opportunity to create a new, socially equitable and eco-friendly neighborhood that will be a…
00:33:27 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
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