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 200: Who's to Blame for the Biden Mess?
This week, Todd S. Purdum, a longtime political reporter for The New York Times, explains why Democrats have only themselves to blame for the Mexican standoff they’re now locked in with a very stubbo…
00:34:52 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
Episode 199: Graydon Carter on Joe Biden's Future
This week, Graydon Carter joins us to talk about what’s next for Joe Biden. Then, if you find yourself longing to be like the super-wealthy, floating on a massive yacht in the Mediterranean, our coll…
00:40:11 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
Episode 198: Adolf Hitler and the Holy Grail—Crazier than Indiana Jones!
It’s summer and for some that means golf. Lots of it. And Andrew Zucker tells us why, in the super-wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, the ritzy residents who usually play at their exclusive and expensive…
00:29:50 |
Sat 29 Jun 2024
Episode 197: Trump and His Wall Street and Silicon Valley Enablers
This week, Alessandra Stanley explains why prominent tech and finance tycoons are giving piles of money to Donald Trump—and why their behavior might be similar to that of certain German bankers and i…
00:31:54 |
Sat 22 Jun 2024
Episode 196: How Big Oil Uses the Arts to Make Us Forget About Climate Change
It’s summer and it’s travel season, and if you live on the East Coast of the United States, your travel will likely intersect with I-95, the great interstate that runs from Miami to Maine. Everybody …
00:35:41 |
Sat 15 Jun 2024
Episode 195: A #MeToo Scandal at the Art World's Most Prestigious Design Gallery
This week, Elena Clavarino takes us inside her story about a culture of alleged sexual harassment and alleged financial impropriety at the art world’s most prestigious design gallery. Then it’s elect…
00:32:54 |
Sat 08 Jun 2024
Episode 194: The Sky-High Cost of Summer Travel
Ashley Baker has thoughts on summer travel. Then, for more than a century, being selected as a Rhodes scholar, and given the opportunity to study at Oxford University, was seen as a great validation …
00:37:33 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
Episode 193: What You Didn't Know About 90s Icon Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
We have a frightening article this week courtesy of Clara Molot, a Senior Editor here at Air Mail. Many people are not aware that across the U.S. and around the world rates of cancer in young people …
00:29:28 |
Sat 25 May 2024
Episode 192: The Legendary Italian Playboy and His Secret American Daughter
The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing in the South of France, and one of the big stories everyone is following concerns Francis Ford Coppola. Forty-five years after he won the Palme d’Or for Apoc…
00:33:29 |
Sat 18 May 2024
Episode 191: Is Your Partner Cheating on You with an A.I. Companion?
Is your partner cheating on you with an A.I. companion? As Flora Gill tells us this week, many people, in search of physical and emotional intimacy, are increasingly turning to what are known as “A.I…
00:31:33 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Episode 190: The Crime That Scandalized New York's Bluebloods
For decades, the Eurovision Song Contest has been a source of fun for millions. This year, people are bracing for other possibilities. Jonathan Margolis tells us why. Then Michael Gross has a reveali…
00:37:13 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Episode 189: Why the Idaho-Murders Suspect Could Walk Free
This week, Howard Blum, who has been following the story of the man accused of killing four students at the University of Idaho, has new revelations that could sink the case against Bryan Kohberger. …
00:36:05 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Episode 188: "Boogie Nights," Liberace's Boy Toy, John Holmes, and a Murder That Rocked 70s Hollywood
This week, Spike Carter has the wild tale of a man known as “the Zelig of Awful,” who went from being the boyfriend of Liberace to a pivotal witness in one of Los Angeles’s most gruesome murders. The…
00:39:39 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Episode 187: Kim Kardashian Gets Sued over Her (Alleged) Fakes
It’s a dirty little secret that interior designers to the rich and famous love to make knockoffs of museum-quality furnishings, often with no penalty. Well, no more. And you can thank—who else?—Kim K…
00:32:49 |
Sat 13 Apr 2024
Episode 186: Gen Z and the New Sexual Revolution
This week, Kat Rosenfield explains how we are in the throes of a new sexual revolution. Yet where baby-boomers were obsessed with the practice of sex, Zoomers are more interested in the principle of …
00:34:21 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
Episode 185: What the Hell Is Gwyneth Cooking Up Now?
This week, Jensen Davis reports on how Gwyneth Paltrow’s healthy-takeout restaurant chain—Goop Kitchen—is taking over Los Angeles. And even Gwyneth haters can’t get enough of it. Then John Arlidge re…
00:35:57 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Episode 184: Why Italian Could Soon Be an Extinct Language
This week, Elena Clavarino has a fascinating and funny report on how English is conquering Continental Europe’s native languages. The problem is so pervasive that Germans can’t help but call it “ein …
00:31:47 |
Sat 23 Mar 2024
Episode 183: Princess Diana's Brother Lived His Own Special Hell
This week, Andrew Ryvkin shares his thoughts on the election in Russia being held for Vladimir Putin. Then Pico Iyer gives us his review of A Very Private School, a new book by Princess Diana’s broth…
00:34:49 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Episode 182: Is a Porn Star All That Stands Between Trump and the End of Democracy?
This week, Jeffrey Toobin explains how Stormy Daniels may just be the unlikely savior of American democracy. Then Alexandra Marshall joins us from Paris. Yes, the rest of the world is dreaming of see…
00:35:43 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
Episode 181: Tales of Excess—What Happened to the Media Power Lunch?
This week, Dana Brown reports on how and why one of New York’s great institutions—the media power lunch—seems to have seen its last days. Then, Linda Wells, knower of all things beauty-and-wellness-r…
00:35:57 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
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