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 180: Why Do Today's Leading Men Dress Like Rent Boys?
This week, Katya V. joins us from Moscow with her report on how those inside Russia’s opposition plan to confront Putin in the wake of Alexei Navalny’s death. Then Nicholas Griffin has the inspiring …
00:34:09 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
Episode 179: Meet the One Swan Truman Capote Did Not Betray
If you have been watching the limited series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, you know the famed writer betrayed every one of his friendships with those women. Yet, as Joseph Rodota reveals, there was act…
00:37:13 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
Episode 178: Have You Flown Britney Spears Airlines?
It’s been a year of meltdowns in the media, and Brian Stelter has the scoop on how—and why—a start-up called the Messenger, which promised to re-invent journalism, burned through $50 million in fundi…
00:31:56 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
Episode 177: The True Story Behind Truman Capote's Feud with the Swans
The new mini-series about Truman Capote and his destructive feud with “the swans” is out. Who better to tell us about the gossip behind the feud than Sam Kashner, who details how Capote committed soc…
00:34:18 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
Episode 176: Is This the World's Most Annoying Nepo Baby?
If you hate lawyers, this week we have a story for you. Jeffrey Toobin will tell us how and why partners in New York City’s big law firms are now acting like players on George Steinbrenner’s New York…
00:33:24 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
Episode 175: A Very, Very British Scandal
This week, Alexandra Marshall joins us from France, to tell us about the dashing new prime minister who is 34 years old and why seemingly everyone in the country can’t stop talking about him—includin…
00:36:36 |
Sat 20 Jan 2024
Episode 174: What Is Angelina Jolie Hiding?
If you’re suffering from withdrawal from the end of The Crown and are in need of some monarchy drama, Joseph Bullmore has just what you’re looking for, with not one but two stories about dysfunction …
00:30:18 |
Sat 13 Jan 2024
Episode 173: #MeToo Comes for Gérard Depardieu
This week, Alessandra Stanley looks at how Vladimir Putin punishes women in order to crush dissent. Then, speaking of bad behavior by prominent men, Alexandra Marshall joins us from France to tell us…
00:37:56 |
Sat 06 Jan 2024
Episode 172: Are You an Attention Whore?
If you are an avid reader of Air Mail, you are surely familiar with our Attention-Whore Index, where we rank the most offensive attention-seekers of the week. As 2023 draws to a close, the man who co…
00:32:34 |
Sat 30 Dec 2023
Episode 171: The Movie Nerd on Trial for Manslaughter
This week, Linda Wells tells us what you need to know about looking great in 2024 and why everyone seems to be very nosy these days. Then John von Sothen joins us from Paris with his report on a flam…
00:26:32 |
Sat 23 Dec 2023
Episode 170: Confessions of a Trump Ghostwriter
This week, Charles Leerhsen takes us back to the early 1990s and tells us what he learned while being a ghostwriter for a young (and friendless) Donald Trump. Then Alexander Lobrano joins us from Par…
00:27:21 |
Sat 16 Dec 2023
Episode 169: Life Lessons from an Italian Countess
This week, Johanna Berkman reports on the turmoil rocking Harvard. Then, Bill Keenan has the wild story of what happened when the Pittsburgh Penguins had the crazy idea to try to profit off of what r…
00:35:16 |
Sat 09 Dec 2023
Episode 168: A New York Power Player Reveals the Secret She Hid for Decades
This week, Christopher Mason has the amazing story of how (and why) a trusted confidante to New York’s most elite and powerful hid her true identity. Then Dan Raviv discusses his jaw-dropping report …
00:34:24 |
Sat 02 Dec 2023
Episode 167: A Family from Hell—the Shocking Story Behind a Child-Rearing Empire
This week, Jensen Davis takes us inside her shocking story about an evangelical-based parenting program that has been operating for 40 years and teaches parents that babies are morally corrupt and mu…
00:31:36 |
Sat 25 Nov 2023
Episode 166: It's the Divas Episode: Streisand! Kardashian! And ... Napoleon?
This week, Flora Gill discusses why all of us will soon be unable to avoid Kim Kardashian’s nipples. Then, while we’re on the subject of divas, it’s been impossible to avoid the new memoir by Barbra …
00:29:14 |
Sat 18 Nov 2023
Episode 165: It's the London Issue! With Graydon Carter
This week, Graydon Carter takes us inside a special edition of Air Mail that is all about London, and he shares the places he loves there. Then the acclaimed writer Will Self will share his version o…
00:34:29 |
Sat 11 Nov 2023
Episode 164: The Fight Between Millennials and Gen Z–ers
Gen Z–ers and millennials have grown up agreeing on where to stand on seemingly every social and political issue. But now they find themselves divided. Kat Rosenfield tells us how the fighting in Isr…
00:32:30 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
Episode 163: A Billion-Dollar Scandal Rocks the Art World
Can we all live to 100? The new Netflix hit Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones looks at areas on the planet where there are clusters of centenarians and makes it seem pretty easy. This week, the …
00:33:41 |
Sat 28 Oct 2023
Episode 162: Why Crypto Bro Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going Down
This week, Jacob Silverman reveals why the chances of accused grifter/crypto bro Sam Bankman-Fried beating the government’s rap in his trial for fraud grow slimmer by the day. Then, speaking of revea…
00:32:09 |
Sat 21 Oct 2023
Episode 161: The Craziest Grifter Story. Ever
Here at Morning Meeting we love nothing more than a juicy grifter story. This week, our colleague George Pendle joins us to share a whopper of a tale that involves shifting identities and a shocking …
00:29:00 |
Sat 14 Oct 2023
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