TDB Podcast (Season 1)

TDB Podcast (Season 1)

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A Message for Our Loyal Listeners

June 11, 2025 • 11 mins

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A Message for Our Loyal Listeners

May 29, 2025 • 6 mins

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A Message for Our Loyal Listeners

May 22, 2025 • 6 mins

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A Message for Our Loyal Listeners

May 15, 2025 • 8 mins

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A Message for Our Loyal Listeners

May 7, 2025 • 5 mins

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Why Prince Harry Says King’s Aides ‘Want Me Dead’

May 6, 2025 • 34 mins

The Daily Beast's Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles unpacks the two biggest reality shows of our time: Britain's royal family and Donald Trump's presidency. First she lifts the lid on what's really going on in the White House and Mar-a-Lago with the Beast's Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty and finds out who's been voted off the island, who's been pitted in a brutal head-to-head contest and why Warren Buffett just delivered a stingi...

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Trump’s Spanx Secrets and OnlyFans Meets Politics

May 1, 2025 • 45 mins

Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee get the skinny on Donald Trump’s new body and a lot more from legendary White House correspondent April Ryan—who reveals her very painful “manx” theory about the slimmerline leader. And Ryan dives into the jaw-dropping moment her own colleagues confused her with another Black woman who covers Trump, NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor. Joanna and Sam ask left-field California governor candidate Stephen Cloobeck abo...

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Abby Phillip Spills Secrets of CNN's Wildest Show

April 24, 2025 • 56 mins

CNN star Abby Phillip tells Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee what really happens on CNN Newsnight—the show where angry clashes, shouting matches and even expulsions go viral every night. Phillip spills on whether Scott Jennings is really like that when the cameras stop rolling, names its most-famous viewer and reveals how she gets a word in edgewise. The millennial anchor says whether she watches TV herself and gives her verdict on tu...

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Andrew Cuomo's NYC Comeback Bid

April 17, 2025 • 63 mins

Joanna Coles and guest host Isaac Mizrahi sit down with Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who is attempting a huge comeback by running for New York City mayor. They ask tough questions about his resignation over allegations of sexual harassment, his controversial book about Covid and what he will do to clean up the city's subways. And they get him to dish on former brother-in-law RFK Jr., what he really thinks of Donald Tr...

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White Lotus' Deepest Secrets Revealed

April 10, 2025 • 49 mins

Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee get the most incredible inside gossip on White Lotus direct from its executive producer, David Bernad. Daily Beast Senior Entertainment Editor Kevin Fallon joins Joanna and Sam to probe for what really happened in the show which has everyone talking. Bernad spills what really happened on set and reveals exactly how creator Mike White came up with the plot for the hit third season. He also dishes on off...

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Joanna & Sam LIVE with Don Lemon

April 3, 2025 • 55 mins

Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee go in front of a live audience at exclusive New York members' club Zero Bond to interview Don Lemon. The CNN-star turned independent media pioneer tells the real story about his firing, what he would do if Trump invited him to Mar-a-Lago and why he can't keep MAGA friends. Joanna spills about her top-secret encounter with the most powerful people in the country and explains why they're "giddy" about Do...

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MAGA Meltdown Cancels Amber Ruffin's WH Dinner

March 27, 2025 • 64 mins

Comedian Amber Ruffin has entered the chat with Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee—ahead of hosting the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. Ruffin shares how she will pre-game for comedy’s toughest gig and least receptive audience, and the challenge of roasting both sides in D.C. Commentator Steve Hilton discusses his provocative new book “Califailure” about California’s future. And Joanna and Samantha break do...

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Trump, Sex, Usha and Max Mutchnick & David Kohan

March 20, 2025 • 52 mins

Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles float an explosive theory: Is Donald Trump "post-sex?" They break down the incendiary memoir "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Facebook executive who is lifting the lid on Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. The two relish into Usha Vance's trip with JD to the Kennedy Center. Daily Beast legal columnist Shan Wu breaks down if we're in a constitutional crisis thanks to Trump. And Bea...

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Elon Musk Mystery and Iliza Shlesinger’s Pants

March 13, 2025 • 68 mins

Sam Bee and Joanna Coles wonder just how long Elon Musk could last in the Trump administration. Then, the Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty joins the show to catch every one up on the latest in Trumpworld, including “first buddy” Musk. Plus! Iliza Shlesinger talks her “divisive” pants in her latest comedy special and how she got those abs eight months after having a baby.

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Meghan Markle, Marco Rubio and Ben Meiselas

March 6, 2025 • 62 mins

Sam Bee jokes she’s the “Chief Content Officer of Lauren Boebert’s spray tan” before diving into Trump’s speech, which Coles calls “magnificent television” but warns he’s entering his “Castro phase” of seven-hour speeches. Bee slams Republicans as “half too dumb to pound sand,” while Coles dubs Usha Vance a “mini clapper.” They torch Meghan Markle’s Netflix show—“It’s an Instagram feed, not a show”—and question sprinkling flowers o...

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Michael Wolff: MAGA Meltdown and Melania’s Game

February 27, 2025 • 62 mins

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell All or Nothing, rips open the turmoil behind Trump’s campaign: “They hate each other.” His staff is locked in a ruthless survival game, “all leaking.” Trump was “terrified of dying on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane,” and Melania “doesn’t live with him.” Instead, “she’s cashing in.” He berates his lawyers, “Have you heard of Perry Mason?” Wolff calls his latest strategy “bigger provocations” and ...

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Jim Acosta Challenges Trump to a Sit-Down

February 20, 2025 • 63 mins

Jim Acosta (dubbed “major sleazebag” by Trump) is letting loose since leaving CNN, warning, “What we’re seeing is perhaps even more disturbing than the last Trump presidency.” He slams Trump’s pardoning of January 6 rioters as “an act of aggression against democracy” and mocks his alliance with Musk: “Trump hands him the presidency—Musk vacuums up private data, lays off thousands.” Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles debate polyester che...

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Sam Bee Hits Back at Lorne; Jan Teases Office Return

February 13, 2025 • 59 mins

Melora Hardin (The Office’s Jan Levinson) called surviving the LA fires “surreal,” recalling how her home was spared while friends lost everything. “This is the time you want to meet a neighbor who has a gun,” she said. Meanwhile, The Daily Beast’s David Gardner covered Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as National Intelligence Director and Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. “Are we replacing ballet with military marching bands?” h...

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Amy Klobuchar, Blake Lively and Aroused Democrats

February 6, 2025 • 69 mins

Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee kick off The Daily Beast Podcast in a state of Chuck Schumer-level “arousal”—over Trump turning Gaza into a “beachfront resort” and Elon Musk’s “Lost Boys” running the government like “a DJ at Ultra Music Festival.” Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar slams Trump’s agenda as a “constitutional horror show” and jokes she’s organizing senators “like a trip to The Container Store.” People Pre...

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RFK Jr., Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman

January 30, 2025 • 76 mins

Billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is Beast of the Week and delivers a very informed verdict on Elon Musk, a fellow member of the PayPal mafia from the late 1990s, calling him "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." He says the strange case of Elon is that the DOGE, Tesla, NeuraLink, SpaceX and Starlink supreme is a visionary turned chaos agent. Hoffman also reveals secrets of the new city he and other tech titans are building in Solano ...

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