Join Puck’s chief political columnist, MSNBC/NBC News national affairs analyst, and best-selling author John Heilemann as he roams the corridors of power and influence in America on this twice-weekly interview show, taking you behind the scenes and beyond the headlines with the people who shape and shift our culture: icons and up-and-comers, incumbents and insurgents, moguls and machers in the overlapping worlds of politics, entertainment, tech, business, sports, media, and beyond. The conve ...
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Join Emmy Award-winning journalist Peter Hamby, along with the team of expert journalists at Puck, as they let you in on the real conversations insiders are having across the four corners of power in America: Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Puck's contributors will bring you smart conversation around the inside stories happening in these worlds. Presented in partnership with Audacy, new episodes publish daily, Monday-Friday.
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Puck Sports Correspondent John Ourand and a rotating cast of industry insiders take you deep inside the executive suites and owner boxes that run the entire sports business. You’ll hear interviews with everyone from players to network execs and everyone in between. The Varsity is an extension of John's private email for Puck by the same name. New episodes publish twice-weekly, every Wednesday and Sunday.
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Finally, a media podcast about what’s actually happening in the media—not the over-sanitized, legal-and-standards-approved version you read online. Every Tuesday and Friday, join Dylan Byers, Puck’s veteran media reporter, as he sits down with TV personalities, moguls, political pundits and industry executives for raw, honest, sometimes salacious conversations about the business of media and its biggest egos. “The Grill Room,” an homage to the exclusive dining room within The Four Seasons wh ...
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Washington football legend Brian Mitchell and longtime Commanders reporter JP Finlay team up to provide the best Commanders talk and analysis of the Caps, Nats, and Wizards. Every weekday, BMitch and JP bring listeners the latest sports talk, breaking news, game coverage, and analysis, plus interviews with the top personalities and reporters in the DMV.Catch BMitch & Finlay live Monday through Friday (10 a.m. - 2 p.m ET) on 106.7 The Fan, the exclusive audio home of the Nationals and Capital ...
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The West's obsession with Vladimir Putin's KGB past often misses the biographical detail that can be captured by a single word: dvor. The word means courtyard in Russian, but to a Russian speaker, it is evocative of a whole universe. It was the space where Putin, like so many Soviet kids of his generation, grew up and learned an unforgiving, often brutal social code. Puck journalist Julia Ioffe introduces Westerners to that universe and explains why it’s critical to understanding the Russian ...
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Peter Hamby: The First 100 Days (Almost) of Trump 2.0
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1:12:35On the eve of Donald Trump’s 100th day back in office, John is joined by his Puck Political Superfriend and partner Peter Hamby to look back on what 45/47 hath wrought since January 20 — what has mattered and what hasn’t; the most truly surprising, most entirely predictable, and most grievously overlooked developments and storylines; and both the s…
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Media Monday: Hollywood’s Gen Z Deficit & Shari’s CBS Scandal
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25:10Jon Kelly joins Peter to dig into a surprising new survey revealing which actors still put butts in seats. As Denzel, Tom Cruise, and the old guard hold strong, they break down the generational divide between Gen Z and everyone else. Then they turn to Bill Owens’ painful exit from ‘60 Minutes’ and Shari Redstone’s Trump-world courtship as she tries…
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Best Interviews from WJFK/WTEM: April 21-25, 2025
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1:37:06This week saw the NFL Draft, the Battle of the Beltway, and the Caps’ Cup quest all collide! Listen as Sam Monson, John Keim, and Fred Smoot break down what the Commanders needed to do in the draft, Dave Jageler and Mike Rizzo weigh in on Nats-O’s, and Joe Beninati talks Caps-Habs.
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Best of Commanders on WJFK/WTEM: Welcome, Class of 2025
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1:40:12The NFL Draft has come and gone, and the Commanders started theirs off with the selection of Josh Conerly Jr. at No. 29 overall. Take a listen to reactions to that pick from several hosts, as well as James Crepea from The Oregonian and ex-NFL head coach Mike Tice.Plus, hear from guard Sam Cosmi on his recovery from a torn ACL and Virginia Tech WR C…
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NBC’s data guru Steve Kornacki drops by the pod to talk about his new deal with the network, expanding his footprint across both NBC News and Sports—while also allowing flexibility to pursue other avenues, à la Stephen A. and Pat McAfee. Then he previews his coverage plans for the Kentucky Derby, riffs on the rise of sports betting, explains how he…
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Best of Capitals on WJFK/WTEM: No, Canada
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1:11:47This week marked the first three games of the Capitals-Canadiens first-round playoff series, and so far, it’s 2-1 Caps. Hear John Walton call Ovi’s game-winner, Mikey’s empty-netter, and Tom Wilson sparking an end-of-period brawl from right here on our air.On the talk tip, we look at what the Caps need to do to win it all, and the notion of whether…
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Best of the Nationals on WJFK/WTEM: Impressive Showing in Beltway Series
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1:22:49In the best of the Nationals on WJFK/WTEM, GM Mike Rizzo joins The Sports Junkies following an impressive win over the Orioles; Grant & Danny can't get enough of James Wood; Dave Jageler joins Grant & Danny to break down the Orioles series; Chris Russell shared his thoughts on the Rockies series
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Full Show - Friday, April, 25th 2025
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2:25:39The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 1 features: 1.Commanders Draft OT Josh Conerly Jr From Oregon2.NFL Analysts Reaction To Pick3.Adam Peters Says Conerly Was BPAThe BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 2 features:1.Talking Draft With Nick Baumgardner 2.Josh Conerly Draft Reaction Calls3.More Conerly Pick ReactionThe BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 3 features: 1.James Cr…
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The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 1 : Commanders Draft James Conerly #29 Overall
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36:09The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 1 features: 1.Commanders Draft OT Josh Conerly Jr From Oregon2.NFL Analysts Reaction To Pick3.Adam Peters Says Conerly Was BPA
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The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 2: Nick Baumgardner & Reaction Calls
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39:10The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 2 features:1.Talking Draft With Nick Baumgardner 2.Josh Conerly Draft Reaction Calls3.More Conerly Pick Reaction
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The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 3 : James Crepea & Karl Alzner
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36:30The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 3 features: 1.James Crepea Talks Josh Conerly Jr.2.Talking Caps With Karl Alzner3.Caps Predictions/Will It Be A Sweep?
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The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 4 : Ask BMitch Anything & Peter Rosenberg
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38:57The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 4 features: 1.Ask BMitch Anything2.Peter Rosenberg joins to discuss NFL Draft and more3.Heard It Here First
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Peter Rosenberg trusts Adam Peters to make the right choices in the draft
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Ask BMitch about draft day, NOLA food, and social media
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Former Capitals defencemen Karl Alzner joins the show to preview Caps vs. Canadiens game 3
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James Crepea from the Oregonian talks Josh Conerly Jr.
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Nick Baumgardner from the Athletic on the 1st round of the NFL draft and Commanders pick Josh Conerly Jr.
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The guys react to Adam Peters post round 1 comments
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Mel Kiper and Todd McShay reacted to the Commanders pick
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Commanders Draft OT Josh Conerly Jr From Oregon
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17:40the guys react to night 1 of the NFL draft and the Commanders pick
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Google’s D.O.J. Showdown & YouTube-NFL Murmurs
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53:32Julia Alexander returns to The Grill Room to chart the media industry’s biggest flashpoints: the D.O.J.’s landmark-in-the-making legal battle against Google and the implications for its ad-tech empire; the tantalizing potential of a YouTube–NFL alliance; and Brendan Carr’s escalating campaign against the media. The Grill Room Podcast is presented b…
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Susan Morrison: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night (Live)
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1:22:26John is joined by Susan Morrison, articles editor of The New Yorker, to discuss “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” her biography of SNL creator and producer Lorne Michaels. Morrison argues that no one has done more to shape modern America’s sense of humor than Michaels, an enigmatic Canadian about whom most Americans know nothing; a…
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Eriq Gardner joins Peter for a deep dive on F.C.C. chairman Brendan Carr, the pugnacious regulator who seems to be slow rolling the $8 billion Skydance-Paramount merger while lobbing rhetorical grenades at Comcast, Disney, YouTube TV, and others. Then they discuss whether Carr’s campaign against big media is really an audition to become a MAGA medi…
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Full Show - Thursday, April, 24th 2025
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2:31:11The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 1 features: 1.The Caps Are Up 2-02.Talking Caps With Mike Vogel3.Getting in Draft ModeThe BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 2 features:1.Commanders Pick Predictions2.Who Does BMitch Think The Commanders Will Pick?3.Listeners Commanders Pick PredictionsThe BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 3 features: 1.Draft News And Rumors With Diann…
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Hour 1: The Caps Are Up 2-0 & Mike Vogel Joins The Show
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38:09The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 1 features: 1.The Caps Are Up 2-02.Talking Caps With Mike Vogel3.Getting in Draft Mode
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The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 2 features:1.Commanders Pick Predictions2.Who Does BMitch Think The Commanders Will Pick?3.Listeners Commanders Pick Predictions
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Hour 3: Dianna Russini & Where Will Shedeur Land?
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38:19The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 3 features: 1.Draft News And Rumors With Dianna Russini2.Where Will Shedeur Sanders Land?3.Does Shedeur Sanders Love Football?
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Hour 4: Charles Davis & Anonymous Draft Quotes
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36:51The BMitch & Finlay Show Hour 4 features: 1.NFL Network Analyst Charles Davis Joins The Show2.Commanders Draft 10453.Heard It Here First
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Where do Anonymous Draft Quotes come from?
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Opinions on Shedeur Sanders are all over the place
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NFL Network Analyst Charles Davis Joins The Show
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20:58Charles Davis tells us who his favorite players in the draft are
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Draft News And Rumors With Dianna Russini
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Who Does BMitch Think The Commanders Will Pick?
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12:46BMitch gives us his Commanders 1st round pick prediction
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Who do you think the Commanders will take at pick 29?
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Mike Vogel on the Caps game 2 victory
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The guys react to the Capitals game 2 win over the Canadiens
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Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial spectrum are opening their wallets—and their lives—to tell you everything: what they make, what they want, and—for one week—what they spend. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices …
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Julia Ioffe swings by the pod to discuss the state of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia—if there are any negotiations to be made at all. As Putin plays coy and Zelensky holds the line, Julia explains why Trump’s mounting frustration could, ironically, be Kyiv’s best hope. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit…
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Full Show - Wednesday April 23, 2025
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2:32:51Wednesday's BMitch & Finlay features a full Commanders NFL Draft Preview along with some Capitals discussion ahead of a massive game two battle with the Canadians.
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Hour 1 of BMitch & Finlay features a full preview of the Commanders NFL Draft strategy, with predictions from the guys and comments from general manager Adam Peters
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Hour 2: Neil Greenberg Talks NFL Draft & Should Commanders Make A Draft Day Trade?
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38:40Hour 2 of BMitch & Finlay features an interview with Neil Greenberg and listeners calling in to give their opinions on what the Commanders should do with the No. 29 pick in the NFL Draft.
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Hour 3: Previewing Capitals vs. Canadians Game 2
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40:19Hour 3 of BMitch & Finlay features an extensive preview of the Capitals upcoming playoff matchup against the Canadians.
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Hour 4: Commanders Biggest Draft Busts & 2025 Mock Draft
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33:56Hour 4 of BMitch & Finlay features the guys listing some of the biggest Washington draft busts of all time as well as a mock draft for this year's draft.
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Looking Back On Commanders Draft Picks Of The Past
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16:12JP & BMitch debate whether some Commanders draft picks of the past few years deserve the bust label.
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Rooster joins the show to talk hockey, bus fares, and other things going on around the station.
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How Confident Are You In The Caps Heading Into Game 2?
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10:46JP & BMitch are very confident in the Washington Capitals heading into the second game of the series against the Canadians.
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Joe Beninati Talks Capitals Stanley Cup Chances
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20:50JP & BMitch discuss the remainder of the Capitals first round matchup against the Canadians with Capitals play-by-play announcer Joe Beninati.
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