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Introducing Dynasty from 2022-04-19T09:00
Unimaginable secrets. Unyielding power. Devastating rifts and shocking allegiances. With surprising new interviews as well as historic sound, Vanity Fair’s DYNASTY examines the ties that bind the m...
Listen“He's A Small Man Of 5’6" Saying he's 5’7”: The Psychology Behind Putin’s War from 2022-02-25T11:00
Russia expert Nina Khrushcheva and Trump impeachment hero Alexander Vindman explain what is driving Putin's assault on Ukraine — and how Republicans also have blood on their hands. Cohosts Emily Ja...
Listen"Becoming Lucy Sante”: What does it mean to transition? from 2022-02-18T14:52:27
This week, cohost Joe Hagan talks to renowned writer, culture critic, and scholar Lucy Sante, whose essay in the February issue of Vanity Fair describes her transition at age 67. Sante expands on h...
ListenAre Republicans Slowly Backing Away from Trump? from 2022-02-11T11:00
This week, Inside the Hive cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan examine potential cracks in the American ice. On one side of the aisle, Republicans Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell appear to have dis...
ListenL'Affaire Zucker: Why Did CNN’s President Really Leave? from 2022-02-04T11:00
This week, cohost Joe Hagan talks to Hive media correspondent Joe Pompeo, who helps unwind the Succession-worthy melodrama around the departure of CNN president Jeff Zucker in the wake of the ouste...
ListenWhy Does the Economy Look So Good And Feel So Bad? from 2022-01-28T11:00
The week’s episode of Inside the Hive gets to the heart of this puzzling economic moment—with inflation on the rise and the supply chain a mess but the rest of the fundamentals stronger than they h...
Listen“Bragging and Blaming”: Paul Begala on How Joe Biden Makes a Comeback from 2022-01-21T15:13:16
On this week’s Inside the Hive, cohost Joe Hagan and Paul Begala, CNN analyst and former counselor to Bill Clinton, discuss the woeful state of the Biden White House and the fate of the Democrats, ...
ListenWhat You Actually Need to Know About the State of the Pandemic From Your Local Epidemiologist from 2022-01-14T11:00
The CDC's messaging around Omicron has been a disaster, and with cases surging and despair on the rise, Dr. Katelyn Jetelina stops by this episode of Inside the Hive to give a clear picture of what...
ListenWhat Happens In a Post-January 6 World? from 2022-01-07T11:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox are joined by their colleague Abigail Tracy to talk about what's next for the January 6 commission, what is at stake...
ListenInside the Hive Holiday Special from 2021-12-24T11:00
This week, Inside the Hive cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan discuss strategies for surviving holiday isolation and anxiety during the COVID resurgence. In that spirit, Hagan talks to Don Was, f...
ListenIn a New Memoir, Katie Couric Is “Going There” — But Where Was She Exactly? from 2021-12-17T14:05:57
This week, Katie Couric, legendary onetime cohost of NBC’s Today show, talks to Inside the Hive's Joe Hagan about her frank and searing new memoir, Going There, which pulls back the curtain on her ...
ListenShould Hunter Biden Be Selling Paintings for $300,000? from 2021-12-10T15:32:23
This week, Inside the Hive cohosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox explore the crossroads of art and politics, discussing Hagan’s recent Vanity Fair profile of Hollywood director and democratic social...
ListenBeatlemania!: Inside Peter Jackson’s New Docuseries from 2021-12-03T15:27:15
This week, Inside the Hive cohost Joe Hagan invites resident Beatles fanatics Miriam Elder and Mike Hogan, Hive executive editor and VF.com digital director, respectively, to analyze, review, and o...
ListenWhat To Talk About at Thanksgiving from 2021-11-24T21:57:11
Inside the Hive cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan hash out the big Thanksgiving dinner-table talking points, from the confounding economy to Joe Biden’s political fortunes to what movies and TV ...
ListenDid the Lingerie Business Make Jeffrey Epstein Possible? from 2021-11-19T13:41:09
As the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell starts up this week, Inside the Hive cohost Joe Hagan talks to Vanity Fair correspondents Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabriel Sherman about their reporting on the Jeff...
ListenIs There a Way Out of the Internet? from 2021-11-12T15:26:49
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, Pod Save America host Jon Favreau stops by to talk about his new podcast series, Offline, about the ways in which the internet is changing and possibly br...
ListenWill the metaverse be filled with Nazis and racists? from 2021-11-05T10:00
This week, cohost Joe Hagan reviews the news with Miriam Elder, executive editor of the Hive, examining Tuesday's election results and what they portend for Democrats and President Joe Biden. Are v...
ListenInside Nap Dress Nation with Nell Diamond from 2021-10-29T10:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, Hill House House founder and C.E.O. Nell Diamond talks with Emily Jane Fox about creating an "it" item on Instagram, building a community around a commodi...
ListenAll Politics Are Local from 2021-10-22T10:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox talk how climate change, shipping delays and local school boards could impact midterm elections. Plus: what they're ...
ListenAs Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation: Lone Star Candidate Matthew Dowd on How Democrats Can Win in 2022 The veteran political adviser and analyst talks about now running for office himself on Inside the Hive. from 2021-10-15T15:23:03
Matthew Dowd, former Bush campaign adviser turned analyst, has spent his career behind the scenes. But now he’s running as a Democrat for lieutenant governor of Texas in 2022—with eyes locked on ha...
ListenBack to Reality: Whistleblowers, Trump Derangement, and Democrat’s Big Problem from 2021-10-08T12:22:12
On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox talk about what COVID attitudes feel like in different cities, what the Facebook whistleblower revealed about social...
Listen“The Only Winning Move Is Not to Play”: Vanity Fair's Tech Correspondent on How to Beat Social Media from 2021-10-01T10:00
This week, Vanity Fair tech correspondent Nick Bilton speaks with cohost Joe Hagan about the recent leaks from Facebook that reveal the company knew of the toxic impact of their platforms, includin...
Listen“Texans Are Being Held Hostage”: Julián Castro on “WTF Is Happening” in the Lone Star State from 2021-09-24T15:47:22
This week, Julián Castro, onetime Democratic presidential candidate and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Barack Obama, joins Inside the Hive to discuss the hard-right push on guns, ...
ListenFamily Matters: Gillian Laub Explores the Political Divide from 2021-09-17T10:00
On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, photographer and author Gillian Laub talks about her beautiful new book, in which she documents her family’s love and their divide over President Trump. L...
Listen"I thought you said you’d never forget”: A conversation on 9/11 with author Elliot Ackerman from 2021-09-10T14:34:56
This week, co-host Joe Hagan talks to novelist Elliot Ackerman, a veteran of both the Afghan and Iraq wars, on the meaning of 9/11 and the long-term impact on American life, politics and culture. A...
Listen“Like A Mad Max Movie Plot”: Confronting The Texas Abortion Ban from 2021-09-03T10:00
In the wake of the shocking Supreme Court move that has allowed Texas to effectively ban abortion, cohost Joe Hagan conducts back to back interviews with Amy Hagstrom Miller, of Whole Women’s Healt...
ListenAnti-Vaxxers, Afghanistan, and the Late-Summer Bad News Cycle from 2021-08-27T10:00
Inside the Hive cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan analyze the latest bad news from Afghanistan and the pandemic resurgence sweeping the country, especially Florida. Twenty years after the U.S. i...
ListenIntroducing Food People from 2021-08-26T09:00
Welcome to Food People, a show from Bon Appétit made by, for, and about people who love food. Each week, BA’s editorial director Amanda Shapiro asks a serious or not-so-serious food question: What’...
Listen“Damn, what do we do now?”: A conversation with Afghan TV chief Saad Mohseni from 2021-08-20T12:26:14
This week, cohost Joe Hagan talks to Saad Mohseni, chief executive of the MOBY Group, which has been broadcasting television news and entertainment programming in Afghanistan since 2004. As the Tal...
ListenIntroducing: Love is a Crime from 2021-08-17T10:00
It’s one of the wildest scandals in Hollywood history: In 1951, major Hollywood producer Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) went to prison for shooting an agent who he suspected was having an affair with Joa...
ListenHow Florida Turned American Politics into a Tabloid Nightmare from 2021-08-13T10:00
This week, Vanity Fair correspondent Gabriel Sherman joins cohost Joe Hagan to discuss the “Floridization” of conservative politics, from the hanging chads of the 2000 election to Trump’s “Southern...
ListenIs “Hot Vax Summer” a Total Bust? from 2021-08-06T10:00
Cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan discuss the latest COVID wave and how it’s affecting our health, social lives, politics, and summer plans. Mask mandates are back, and not even Barack Obama can...
ListenWhat’s on Mark’s Mind?: Journalist Sheera Frenkel on the “Ugly Truth” about Facebook from 2021-07-30T15:05:17
This week, New York Times reporter Sheera Frenkel, coauthor of the blockbuster book “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination,” describes her and coauthor Cecilia Kang's deep dive int...
Listen“Long-Term Disaster Is the Best-Case Scenario”: Author Nathaniel Rich Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change from 2021-07-23T10:00
Floods, wildfires, skies filled with smoke and ash—it’s been a summer full of alarming signs of climate change. This week, journalist and novelist Nathaniel Rich joins Joe Hagan on Inside the Hive ...
ListenBaby on Board: Balancing Work and Parenthood on Inside the Hive from 2021-07-16T10:00
This week, we welcome cohost Emily Jane Fox back to the podcast from paid family leave to discuss some personal breaking news: the arrival of infant daughter J.R. last week and the implications for...
ListenWhy New York Matters: The Hive’s Chris Smith on the State of the World’s Greatest City from 2021-07-09T10:00
This week, veteran Hive correspondent Chris Smith talks to co-host Joe Hagan about the winner of the Democratic primary for New York mayor, Eric Adams, and his journey toward the most powerful offi...
Listen“S--tcoin” from Shinola: Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton Explains Cryptocurrencies from 2021-07-02T10:00
This week, Vanity Fair special correspondent Nick Bilton returns to Inside the Hive to help cohost Joe Hagan (finally) understand what cryptocurrencies are — how they came to be, how they work, and...
ListenIntroducing "Smarter Better Faster Stronger" from 2021-07-01T11:00
Olympic athletes push relentlessly to be physically and mentally stronger than their competition—Smarter Better Faster Stronger, hosted by GQ writer Clay Skipper, figures out how they do both. Even...
ListenThe Paid Leave Motherlode from 2021-06-25T10:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, Emily Jane Fox talked to White House press secretary Jen Psaki about the administration's plans to pass paid leave and support working families, Reddit co...
ListenA Warm and Fuzzy Start To Summer from 2021-06-18T14:06:56
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox talk about 60 hours of Beatles footage, the fallibility of memories, and recording moments big and small in our own lives. Pl...
ListenHow Jon Chu’s In the Heights Bet on the Big Screen and Won from 2021-06-11T10:00
A year ago, when the pandemic was first raging, director Jon Chu faced a painful decision: He could send his new musical adaptation of Lin Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” straight to streaming on...
ListenDid Cable News Just Die? from 2021-06-04T10:00
On this week’s episode, Vanity Fair’s senior media correspondent Joe Pompeo breaks down what’s happened to all the news networks post-Trump and what he thinks will happen to the hosts, ratings, and...
ListenInfrastructure, Incentives and Settling Back In from 2021-05-28T10:00
Co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox talk vaccine incentives, the two kinds of infrastructure we need to be investing in, and the joys and pains of taking a first reporting trip in more than a yea...
ListenDanny Meyer on the New Future of New York City Restaurants from 2021-05-21T10:00
A year ago, when restauranteur Danny Meyer first stopped by Inside the Hive, the restaurant industry—and every industry, really—was in peril. He’d just laid off 2,000 employees, closed all of his r...
ListenFrom D**k Pic Renegade to Space Travel Trailblazer: Inside the Mind of Jeff Bezos from 2021-05-14T10:00
On this very special episode of Inside the Hive, dear friend of the podcast Nick Bilton is back to interview author and reporter Brad Stone, whose new book on Jeff Bezos and his earth-shaking compa...
ListenAn Interview with Hunter Biden from 2021-05-07T10:00
On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, Emily Jane Fox sits down with the First Son to talk about his addiction, his dad, what makes a Biden love story, and why he thinks the GOP, and Don Jr. in...
ListenHow to Be Happier: an Interview with ABC News’s Dan Harris from 2021-04-30T10:00
After the longest year in history—or four, to be honest—ABC News anchor and founder of meditation app 10 Percent Happier Dan Harris stops by this week’s episode of Inside the Hive to talk about med...
ListenAfter George Floyd: An interview with Minneapolis Activist Sheila Nezhad from 2021-04-23T13:03
This week, Inside the Hive cohost Joe Hagan interviews Sheila Nezhad, the Minneapolis activist whose candidacy for mayor against incumbent Jacob Frey has been powered by the protest movement in the...
ListenParis Hilton, In Reflection from 2021-04-16T10:00
Her fame has endured. Her brand has expanded. The way the media has framed who she was and how she is talked about has changed. Paris Hilton sat down with Emily Jane Fox for an interview to talk ab...
ListenBeautiful and Not So Beautiful Things: Inside the Hive Reviews the Hunter Biden Memoir from 2021-04-09T10:00
This week, cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan pour through the pages of Beautiful Things, the eye-popping new Hunter Biden memoir, to highlight the best revelations and insights—not only into a P...
ListenThe GaetzGate We Deserve from 2021-04-02T10:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox dissect the allegations against Congressman Matt Gaetz—namely that he bankrolled the travel of a 17-year-old with wh...
Listen"I've Got to Do Something. I've Got to Say Something”: A Conversation with CNN’s Don Lemon from 2021-03-26T14:32:26
The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 catalyzed Black Americans far and wide, and CNN’s Don Lemon, the only African-American cable news anchor in primetime, was no different. Lemon joins Inside t...
ListenWhat Does Life Post-Vaccine Look Like? from 2021-03-19T10:00
Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox talk about returning to normal after this year, in terms of news coverage, daily routines, and the way we treat one another going forward. Learn more about your ad choi...
ListenCOVID A Year In: Where We Are and Where We're Headed from 2021-03-12T11:00
On the anniversary of the coronavirus changing everything, Harvard epidemiology professor Willam Hanage stops by Inside the Hive to break down the new CDC guidelines, vaccine messaging and myths, a...
Listen“It Was a Test of My Mettle. Am I Really About What I Say I'm About?”: A Conversation with Late Show Band Leader Jon Batiste from 2021-03-05T11:00
This week, Inside the Hive welcomes special guest Jon Batiste, leader of the Stay Human Band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Hot off his Golden Globe win for his work on the score of Pixar’s...
ListenA Return of Normalcy from 2021-02-26T15:42:56
On this week's episode, Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox extoll the virtues of having time to talk about actual issues--confirmation processes, the minimum wage, Potato Heads. Plus: what the future cou...
ListenThe “Absolute and Abject Failure” of the GOP: Democratic Stars Joe Neguse and Beto O’Rourke on Trump, Cruz, and Finding Hope from 2021-02-19T14:00:17
In this double feature episode of Inside the Hive, cohosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox interview rising Democratic star Joe Neguse, Congressman from Colorado, about last week’s impeachment trial o...
ListenLife On the Disinformation SuperHighway from 2021-02-12T13:23:38
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, NBC News's Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins talk about the roots of the disinformation that gets planted online, fed on social networks and tech platforms,...
ListenCan Trump’s Grip on the GOP Be Loosened?: Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger Says Yes from 2021-02-05T14:00
This week, Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, joins Inside the Hive to talk about his campaign to steer the GOP away from Donald Trump, the QAnon conspiracy cult, and the insurrection of Janua...
Listen"Fake Famous": The Dark Side of Influencer Culture from 2021-01-29T14:30
Nick Bilton stops by Inside the Hive to talk about his upcoming HBO documentary, Fake Famous, about a social media experiment that explores the influencer economy, but not before discussing all the...
Listen“I Don’t Tense Up in Atlanta When I See the Police": An Interview with Author Charles Blow from 2021-01-22T13:18:24
This week, Inside the Hive co-host Joe Hagan talks to New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow about his provocative new book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, which proposes a reverse ...
Listen"The Poison in This Was Donald Trump": PA's Attorney General Talks Insurrection, Elections, and Consequences from 2021-01-15T08:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shaprio joins Emily Jane Fox to discuss what he's doing to hold violent rioters accountable, why he thinks impeachment ...
Listen“Nothing About What Trump Does Surprises Me": An Interview with Democratic Superlawyer Marc Elias from 2021-01-08T08:00
This week, Inside the Hive welcomes Marc Elias, the lawyer who defended the election results against the Trump campaign’s assault, winning 62 out of 63 court cases in multiple states. Despite the f...
ListenA Look Ahead to 2021 from 2021-01-01T08:00
Our good friend Nick Bilton stops by for the first episode of the year, to usher in the new, dissect the old, and resolve what will and should look different. We resolve to mention President Trump ...
ListenThe Best of the Worst: Everything That Was Worthwhile in 2020 from 2020-12-25T08:00
For the final episode of this very tough year, co-hosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan go through what they read, watched, listened to, and loved over the last 12 months. Learn more about your ad ch...
ListenMichael Cohen Predicts Trump’s Future from 2020-12-18T08:00
For years, Donald Trump's personal attorney had to live in Donald Trump's head. He knew his every move. He understood his every action and reaction. On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, he ta...
Listen"America’s Kind of Crazy—and it Doesn’t Go Away” - A Conversation with Rick Perlstein, Author of Reaganland from 2020-12-11T08:00
In 1977, Jimmy Carter entered the White House with as much public goodwill as any president in modern times (an 80% approval rating) on the promise of restoring decency through political restraint ...
ListenProsecuting This President: Attorney General Maura Healey on Trump’s Legal Jeopardy from 2020-12-04T08:00
The Massachusetts AG joined this week’s episode of Inside the Hive to talk about taking on the Trump administration, handling election interference, and how to transition to the next chapter. Learn...
ListenBarack Obama's “A Promised Land”: Inside a Sit-Down With the 44th President from 2020-11-27T17:06
On this week’s episode, we are lucky enough to share the conversation between President Obama and Jesmyn Ward, which is featured in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. They talk about his new memoir, ...
ListenAfter Trump, does truth matter?: A conversation with CNN’S Jake Tapper from 2020-11-20T08:00
Jake Tapper, chief Washington correspondent for CNN, returns to “Inside the Hive” for an in-depth conversation on the state of the media in these bitter, waning days of the Trump era. While Trump a...
ListenIntroducing SELF: Checking In from 2020-11-16T11:00
Introducing Checking In, the advice podcast where we answer real health and wellness questions from real people like you. Hosted by SELF’s Editor in Chief, Carolyn Kylstra, and featuring trusted ex...
ListenAre we on the sunny side of the street yet? from 2020-11-13T08:00
On this week’s podcast, cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan game out the political future of the Trump machine in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s decisive electoral victory. While Trump drums up hyst...
ListenThe Waiting Is the Hardest Part from 2020-11-06T08:00
The election came and went and we are here to talk it all through, break it all down, and feel our way through what may come next. Co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox go over what the polls and p...
ListenSeries Finale of the Trump Show? from 2020-10-30T07:00
On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, co-hosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan ask the question: If this reality-TV presidency was scripted, how might it end? Expanding on a special project publi...
ListenCan America Recover From The Trump Presidency? from 2020-10-23T07:00
This week, Hive special correspondent Gabe Sherman, who has covered Donald Trump since 2015, joins cohost Joe Hagan for an in-depth discussion of the final days of the 2020 election and - possibly ...
ListenGet In the Fight: Jon Lovett's Home Stretch Playbook from 2020-10-16T07:00
With less than three weeks to go before the election, Crooked Media’s Jon Lovett joins co-host Emily Jane Fox to talk about the closing arguments each candidate is making—or not making, as it may b...
ListenJust How Far Will This Super-Spreader Spread? from 2020-10-09T07:00
With President Donald Trump as contagion in chief and the election right around the corner, co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox break down the administration's trust deficit, the debate over the ...
Listen“I Know Our Day Is Coming”: Valerie Jarrett on Women in 2020 from 2020-10-02T07:00
On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, co-host Emily Jane Fox sits down with former Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett to discuss what it’s like to work with Joe Biden, how debate prep u...
ListenWill the Center Hold?: A Primer on Why What Matters Matters from 2020-09-25T07:00
With a Supreme Court nomination fight, a debate slugfest, and a battle for the soul of our nation on the horizon, co-hosts Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox talk about what’s at stake for the winners an...
Listen“Nationalism Will Run Roughshod Over Democracy”: What can Nazi Germany tell us about Trump’s GOP? from 2020-09-18T07:00
This week, “Inside the Hive” welcomes historian Peter Fritzsche, author of "Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich,” to help separate fact from exaggeration on the incre...
ListenLordy, There Are Books: But Will They Matter? from 2020-09-11T07:00
On this week’s Inside the Hive, Joe Hagan and Emily Jane Fox go deep into Bob Woodward's new bombshell of a book, which is all the more rattling because it is backed up by tapes of President Donald...
Listen“I Really Think He is Against America”: Trump The Traitor? from 2020-09-04T07:00
On this week’s “Inside the Hive,” Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan assess the state of the presidential race at the end of the long, hot 2020 summer and find themselves torn between glimmers of hope fo...
ListenRNC EDITION: How Much Can One Nation Take? from 2020-08-28T07:00
On this week’s “Inside the Hive,” Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan parse Trump's ghastly RNC, discussing what the Trump children’s speeches tell us about the family’s inner workings and the psyche of t...
ListenDNC SPECIAL: Is It Safe To Feel Optimistic? from 2020-08-21T07:00
On this week’s “Inside the Hive,” co-hosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan discuss the four-day extravaganza of Democratic hopes and dreams and the official coming out of Joe Biden as the nominee who ...
ListenThe 2020 Circus Hits Primetime from 2020-08-14T07:00
On this episode of Inside the Hive, the co-hosts of Showtime’s The Circus, which premiers its fifth season this weekend, stop by to talk about how quote-on-quote traditional campaigns may be extinc...
ListenThe Crossroads: How the GOP broke America and what to do about it from 2020-08-07T07:00
On this week’s “Inside the Hive," author and journalist Kurt Andersen discusses his new book, “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History,” which is both the story of how the GOP spen...
Listen“Down the Road We Go”: On Loss and Leadership from 2020-07-31T07:00
On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, Nick Bilton comes back to talk with Emily Jane Fox about Congress’s tech mess, Trump’s tweeting, and the loss of our beloved editor, John Homans. Learn mo...
ListenInside the Michael Cohen Saga, Part Bazillion from 2020-07-24T07:00
On this week’s Inside the Hive, Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan go deep into everything you need to know about the governments “retaliation” against Michael Cohen, Trump’s mental acuity test, and the ...
ListenIntroducing: Get WIRED from 2020-07-20T07:00
Introducing Get WIRED -- a new podcast from WIRED about how the future is realized. Each week, they burrow down new rabbit holes to investigate the ways technology is changing our lives—from cultur...
ListenCan Negative Ads Alone Beat Trump in November? from 2020-07-17T07:00
GOP consultant and Never-Trumper John Weaver talks to “Inside the Hive” about the origins and aims of the Lincoln Project, the PAC that’s kicking out incendiary viral ads aimed at exploiting Trump’...
ListenThe September Issue: Can School Really Go Back in Session? from 2020-07-10T07:00
On this week's episode of *Inside the Hive*, Emily Jane Fox talks with Randi Weingarten of American Federation of Teachers about the biggest question on everyone's mind: will schools safely open in...
ListenHow will CNN's Jake Tapper be remembered 30 years from now? from 2020-07-03T07:00
This week on Inside the Hive, CNN’s Jake Tapper joins Joe Hagan for a wide-ranging conversation, from his role covering Trump to the gripping new war movie “The Outpost," based on Tapper’s 2012 non...
ListenIs Facebook the New Fox News? from 2020-06-26T07:00
On this week's Inside the Hive, Nick Bilton comes back to talk about social media during COVID19 and the Black Lives Matter movement, how Mark Zuckerberg will be remembered in the history books, an...
Listen"Nothing Ever Ends Well With Him": Will Trump Crash and Burn In November? from 2020-06-19T07:00
As President Donald Trump stares down a global pandemic, an economic catastrophe, protests following George Floyd's murder, and John Bolton and Mary Trump's books, the general election hangs in the...
ListenCould Trump Steal the 2020 Election? from 2020-06-12T07:00
On this week’s Inside the Hive, cohost Joe Hagan talks to two lawyers on the front lines of the battle over the integrity of November's election. It’s a worrisome picture. Marc Elias, a veteran law...
ListenThe Protests are changing America -- But what about Facebook? from 2020-06-05T07:00
This week, cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan bring you important voices from two fronts of the ongoing struggle for justice after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. First, Fox interview...
ListenThe Fresh Prince of Kalorama: A Jared Kushner Roundtable from 2020-05-29T07:00
Kushner, the President's son-in-law, is one of the Trump West Wing's only survivors, having outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted his rivals as he stayed in his father-in-law's good graces while keep...
Listen"We made this movie to be on the big screen": Director Jon Chu Bets On a Post-Pandemic Hollywood from 2020-05-22T07:00
On this week’s episode, Joe Hagan talks to Crazy Rich Asians director Jon Chu and film editor Myron Kerstein to discuss the wrenching decision to push their new tent-pole film, the Lin Manuel Miran...
ListenCan the Subway Survive Corona, and Can the Public Survive the Subway? from 2020-05-15T07:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, co-host Emily Jane Fox sits down with Sarah Feinberg, the Interim President of the New York City Transit Authority, to talk all things transit in the mids...
ListenCan Progressive Feminists Vote for Joe Biden? from 2020-05-08T07:00
On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, co-host Joe Hagan talks to Rebecca Traister, author of "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger," about the Joe Biden/Tara Reade imbroglio,...
ListenDanny Meyer: Why Taking PPP Loans Is Irresponsible from 2020-05-01T07:00
This week, Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan are back for an interview with Danny Meyer, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack. Meyer and Fox discuss the controversy around Shake Sha...
ListenChris Matthews: To Win, Joe Biden Must Prove Himself from 2020-04-24T07:00
The first episode under new co-hosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan features an exclusive interview with Chris Matthews, former host of HARDBALL on MSNBC, who discusses with Hagan his controversial e...
ListenTrump, Masks, and Sourdough: The Coronavirus Round Table from 2020-04-17T07:00
After 150 episodes, Nick Bilton is handing over the reigns of Inside the Hive to Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan. In today’s episode, all three join together for a round-table discussion...
ListenOn the Frontlines of COVID-19: A Nurse, A Governor and A Journalist from 2020-04-10T07:00
On this week's Inside the Hive we talk to Sydney Gressel, a nurse at UCSF's Benioff Hospital in San Francisco who has started a new nonprofit to help feed doctors and nurses around the country as t...
ListenWill Coronavirus End Like Contagion? from 2020-04-03T07:00
Is coronavirus on track to play out like the movie Contagion? Scott Z. Burns, the writer of the film, and Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, join Nick to explain how mu...
ListenInside the White House’s Coronapocalypse from 2020-03-27T07:00
Does Trump's response to COVID-19 hurt or help his reelection bid? Gabriel Sherman, Vanity Fair special correspondent, and Don Winslow, crime novelist, join Nick to talk about what's going on deep ...
ListenCoronavirus Against the World from 2020-03-20T07:00
Are we nearing another Great Depression? Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace, joins Nick to explain how COVID-19 is going to decimate the global economy, how rapidly job loss will occur, and why this ...
ListenThe Impending American Housing Crisis from 2020-03-13T07:00
First thing's first: Coronavirus! A request from listeners and a short PSA. Second: Are we at the beginning of a massive nationwide housing crisis in America that will force millions into homelessn...
ListenCan Biden Really Beat Trump? from 2020-03-06T08:00
Are Americans on the left and right simply destined to hate each other forever? Ezra Klein, cofounder of Vox and author of the new book, “Why We’re Polarized,” joins Nick to explain how we became a...
ListenCan We UnTrump America? from 2020-02-28T08:00
x`Over the past three years, Trump has become a pox on America, both at home and abroad, and changed politics forever. Daniel Pfeiffer, former Senior Advisor to President Obama, joins Nick to expla...
ListenIs Parasite a Game-Changer for Hollywood? from 2020-02-21T08:00
Let’s talk Trump, Tinseltown, and Parasite! Franklin Leonard, creator of “The Black List,” joins Nick to discuss what effect (if any) Parasite will have on the movies and TV shows that will be crea...
ListenIs the Democratic Party Dumber than Trump? from 2020-02-14T08:00
What brought Hope Hicks back into the fold? Why have Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg succeeded, while Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have failed (so far)? And what on earth is happening with the ...
ListenImpeachment, Iowa, and the Week from Hell from 2020-02-07T08:00
Trump didn't get impeached! Iowa was a disaster! A virus is getting ready to destroy humanity! What's next? Bess Levin, a columnist for Vanity Fair, joins Nick to discuss why this week sucked so mu...
ListenThe Economic Armageddon Ravaging America from 2020-01-31T08:00
Is American retail about to go through its most apocalyptic change since the invention of Main Street, U.S.A.? Larry Ingrassia, a former editor at The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and th...
ListenKnives Out: The Democratic Primary Is About to Get Messy from 2020-01-24T08:00
It’s finally here! No, the impeachment—we’re talking about the Iowa Caucus. After what feels like 30 years of speculation (but has really been three), Jordan Brown, a political consultant and fundr...
ListenHow to Survive America's Job Apocalypse from 2020-01-17T08:00
Are you about to lose your job to a robot? Adam Davidson, creator of NPR's "Planet Money," joins Nick to talk about his new book, "The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-Firs...
ListenYou Won't Believe What Trump Said About His Middle Name from 2020-01-10T08:00
Is the Iran skirmish over? Or is this the beginning of something bigger? Gabriel Sherman, special correspondent for Vanity Fair, joins Nick to explain how this all went down inside the Trump White ...
ListenWill 2020 Kick Off the Gene-Editing Revolution? from 2020-01-03T08:00
Thanks to the rise of the smartphone, the last decade saw the most dramatic technological change in centuries. Over the next ten years, the same thing will happen to science, healthcare, and space ...
ListenHow Jared Kushner and Kim Kardashian’s Pet Issue Could Shape 2020 from 2019-12-27T08:00
Is the American prison system the most broken part of this country? Believe it or not, prison reform might be the one issue Republicans and Democrats can agree on. Scott Budnick, the producer behin...
ListenRonan Farrow Tells All: Weinstein, NBC, and Why Cancel Culture Is Bunk from 2019-12-20T08:00
As the #MeToo movement continues to roil corporate boardrooms and Hollywood studios, the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow has been at its forefront. The author of Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspi...
ListenWhy the $120,000 Banana Is the New Mona Lisa from 2019-12-13T08:00
Does the $120,000 sale of a banana duct-taped to a wall at Art Basel signify the decline of capitalism, or is just really clever P.R.? Stefan Simchowitz, the notorious art dealer, joins Nick to not...
ListenIs It Possible to Get Trump Out of Your Head? from 2019-12-06T08:00
Should we shut down the media complex in order to save democracy? Dylan Byers, senior media reporter at NBC News and MSNBC, joins Nick to talk about why news has become so divisive, why Bloomberg i...
ListenThree Mayors and a Turkey from 2019-11-29T08:00
Will 2020 be “The Battle of the Mayors,” in which former Mayor Mike Bloomberg takes on Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be the 2020 Democratic nominee? Senior Hive correspondent Emily Jane Fox joins Nick to...
ListenCan a Whistleblower Really Bring Down Trump? from 2019-11-22T08:00
The chaos inside the White House, from immigration to Ukraine, would still be a big secret if not for whistleblowers in the Trump administration. John Tye, a former government official turned whist...
ListenAre Evil Capitalist Overlords Ruining Our Lives? from 2019-11-15T08:00
Is Bernie right—has capitalism broken America beyond repair? Yancey Strickler, former CEO of Kickstarter and author of the book, “This Could Be Our Future,” joins Nick to explain how Wall Street, g...
ListenDirector Errol Morris on Bannon, Holmes, and the Scam of the Century from 2019-11-08T08:00
Is Steve Bannon a white nationalist, a patriot, or something way more sinister? Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris joins Nick to discuss his new film about the Trump White House, the rise...
ListenKanye, Kim, Trump and the Battle for the White House from 2019-11-01T07:00
Should we boo and yell “Lock Him Up!” at Donald Trump? Or should we go high when they go low? DeRay Mckesson, the inimitable, Patagonia vest-wearing civil rights activist who helped start the Black...
ListenSam Harris Explains Why There’s No Free Will from 2019-10-25T07:00
Take a deep breath and forget about Donald Trump. On this week’s show, Nick sits down with renowned neuroscientist and author Sam Harris to discuss the science of meditation, why free will is an il...
ListenThe 2020 Terror That Keeps Democrats Up at Night from 2019-10-18T07:00
Joel Stein, a writer for The Los Angeles Times and author of a new book, “In Defense of Elitism,” joins Nick to explain how impeachment could backfire on Democrats, why the best chance to win in 20...
ListenWhy Can’t #MeToo Bring Down Trump? from 2019-10-11T07:00
And why wasn’t the movement been able to touch Brett Kavanaugh? Nick talks to New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly about their new book, “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh,” which ...
ListenWill Impeachment Cost Democrats the White House? from 2019-10-04T07:00
Or will it cause Trump to unravel? David Plouffe, former campaign manager for Barack Obama, joins Nick to discuss the chances of Trump winning a second terrifying term, whether Dems can retake the ...
ListenInside the 9/11 Coverup Worse Than Ukraine from 2019-09-27T07:00
Forget impeachment, let’s talk hidden government torture programs and shell corporations stealing money from the poor! Filmmakers Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns join Nick to talk about writi...
ListenDid Adnan Syed Do It? from 2019-09-20T07:00
And was Meek Mill targeted by a rogue judge? Tyler Maroney, a former journalist-turned private investigator with QRI, talks about some of the most bizarre and infuriating cases he’s covered as a P....
ListenWas Uber's CEO a Sociopath? from 2019-09-13T07:00
Travis Kalanick did unspeakable things to grow his company. But is the rest of Silicon Valley any better? Mike Isaac, a tech reporter at The New York Times, joins Nick to discuss all the insider dr...
ListenTrump and “1984”: Inside the Plot to Break the Media from 2019-09-06T07:00
As the election nears, Republicans are going full Mao Zedong on the media. Can journalism as we know it survive? Joe Pompeo, Media Correspondent for Vanity Fair, joins Nick talk about the new right...
ListenCould Gene Editing Turn You Into Captain America? from 2019-08-30T07:00
Scientists are on the brink of creating super humans that are stronger than Chris Evans and faster than Usain Bolt. But should we? Jamie Metzl, author of the book “Hacking Darwin,” joins Nick to di...
ListenMarianne Williamson on God, Guns, and Transcendental Meditation from 2019-08-23T07:00
Do Democrats need to find God before they can defeat Trump? Marianne Williamson, the controversial spiritual guru turned presidential candidate, joins Nick to explain how the left lost religion, wh...
ListenWas Jeffrey Epstein Murdered? from 2019-08-16T07:00
Everything about Epstein’s alleged suicide seems fishy, from the the sleeping guard to his broken neck. Vanity Fair correspondent Emily Jane Fox and writer-director Lee Eisenberg join Nick to talk ...
ListenIs Your Phone Trying to Kill You? from 2019-08-09T07:00
Breaking news. Push notifications. Email alerts. We live in a world where technology has become inescapable—and where tech CEOs profit from our addictions. Ryan Holiday, author of a new book on “St...
Listen#MoscowMitch and the Republican Plan to Steal 2020 from 2019-08-02T07:00
Is Mitch McConnell a secret Russian agent, or just an unpatriotic hack? Political reporter Abigail Tracy joins Nick to discuss how Republicans plan to win in 2020 and whether Warren, Biden, Buttigi...
ListenEpstein, Mueller, and the Secret of Human Life from 2019-07-26T07:00
In this jam-packed episode, Emily Jane Fox joins Nick to reveal her most startling reporting about Jeffrey Epstein, Mueller, and Michael Cohen. Afterward, musician-turned-tech investor D.A. Wallach...
ListenWall Street Braces for Trump’s Economic Colonic from 2019-07-19T04:00
Recession! Inflation! Economic collapse! We’ve heard the doomsday predictions for Donald Trump’s economy, but will any become a reality? William D. Cohan, the Hive’s resident Wall Street expert, jo...
ListenQAnon, UFOs, and America’s Craziest Conspiracy Theories from 2019-07-12T07:00
When the hell did American politics get so weird? Investigative journalist Anna Merlan joins Nick to talk about her new book, “Republic of Lies,” which details all of the conspiracy theories curre...
ListenBill Nye the Science Guy on Aliens, the Universe, and Trump from 2019-07-05T07:00
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? What about in the White House? Bill Nye the Science Guy joins Nick to answer all of the questions that keep you up at night, including why we’re...
ListenWhy Kumail Nanjiani Is Sick of Big Tech from 2019-06-28T07:00
The star of Silicon Valley (the HBO show) joins Nick to explain why he hates Silicon Valley (the industry), why so many CEOs appear to be sociopaths, and the reason he all but stopped using Twitter...
ListenCan Fox News Keep Trump in the White House? from 2019-06-21T07:00
Is Fox News the most insidious organization in the history of journalism? Gabriel Sherman, author of “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” the definitive book about Roger Ailes—now coming to Showtime as...
ListenWait, Elizabeth Holmes Got Married?! from 2019-06-14T07:00
Emily Jane Fox joins Nick to talk about the Theranos founder’s secret wedding, and who did and didn’t make the guest list. Plus: Fox takes us inside the clink with former Trump fixer Michael Cohen,...
ListenIs YouTube Secretly the Worst Company in America? from 2019-06-07T07:00
This week, Vanity Fair’s Abigail Tracy flips the script to interview Nick about Chinese spies in Silicon Valley, whether President Warren will annihilate Amazon, and why YouTube might be the worst ...
ListenScott Galloway on the Algebra of Happiness from 2019-05-31T07:00
The grumpiest man on earth (or one of them) joins Nick to explain how decades of research have finally uncovered the key to happiness. (That answer is not what you think.) After uncovering the worl...
ListenWill a New Cold War Break the Internet? from 2019-05-24T07:00
With Trump blacklisting Chinese technology companies, will a new Iron Curtain split the digital world in two? Oz Woloshyn and Karah Preiss, technology journalists and podcast hosts, join Nick to ex...
ListenDid Texas Execute an Innocent Man? from 2019-05-17T07:00
In 2004, Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee, for killing his three daughters in an arson fire. As numerous investigations and news articles have uncovere...
ListenWhy is America So Violent? from 2019-05-10T07:00
Gun laws in America have barely changed despite hundreds of mass shootings in America over the past decade. Yet when a gunman opened fire in a mosque in New Zealand, the country’s leaders banned as...
ListenIs America Too Bigoted for Pete Buttigieg? from 2019-05-03T07:00
Mayor Pete speaks seven languages, is deeply religious, fought in Afghanistan, and is smarter than Donald Trump in every way imaginable, but is America evolved enough to elect a gay president? Tina...
ListenThe “Homeless Billionaire” Predicts Humanity Is Toast from 2019-04-26T07:00
Is America broken beyond repair? Nicolas Berggruen, the “homeless billionaire” who now runs his own think tank, joins Nick to discuss why we’re losing to China, how gene-editing could create a new ...
ListenThe Mueller Bombshell Hiding in Plain Sight from 2019-04-19T07:00
It appears Attorney General William Barr wasn’t being truthful about the Mueller report. Abby Tracy, Vanity Fair’s resident expert on everything Russia-related, joins Nick to discuss all the bombsh...
ListenWill Silicon Valley Wipe Out Hollywood? from 2019-04-12T07:00
Some say Hollywood is the weirdest, most-wasteful industry in earth. So what happens when Silicon Valley disrupts it? Will actors be replaced by CGI versions of themselves? Rob Fishman, a techie tu...
ListenHow Fox News and Trump Are Melting Our Brains from 2019-04-05T07:00
Has Donald Trump broken our minds, and is it possible to tune him out? Longtime White House correspondent Jessica Yellin joins Nick to discuss the 2020 horse race, why so much of the media sucks (o...
ListenWas Boeing the Start of the A.I. Apocalypse? from 2019-03-29T07:00
The airline industry is one of the most regulated in the world, yet a potential software bug on Boeing’s 737 Max may have killed hundreds of people. Should we be worried the same thing could happen...
ListenHow the Mueller Debacle Could Save Dems from Total Annihilation from 2019-03-26T01:51
For two years, Americans have assumed Trump colluded with Russia. Did the media lead us astray? Or did the Democrats? Or perhaps we’re just asking the wrong question. Emily Jane Fox joins Nick to ...
ListenLook Out, Beto: How Trump Could Nuke the Dems for a 2020 Landslide from 2019-03-22T07:00
Will the countless Democratic presidential nominees destroy each other before Trump destroys himself? Will a Republican take on Donald in the primaries? And will we finally see our first female POT...
ListenWhat AOC Really Thinks from 2019-03-15T07:00
The Hive’s Abby Tracy visited AOC in her New York district and then spent some time with the freshman congresswoman in her apartment where she opens up about fame, Trump, and what’s next. Learn mor...
ListenCan Facebook Save Itself From Ruin? from 2019-03-08T08:00
Facebook has gone from being a viral sensation to a virus people want nothing to do with anymore. This week, amid more bad news for the social network, Casey Newton of the Verge joins Nick to take ...
ListenThe Secret Story of the Cohen Deposition from 2019-03-01T00:28:53
Emily Jane Fox, the Truman Capote of the Michael Cohen saga, swings by the studio to discuss the backstory behind Cohen’s remarks; the checks; and what lies ahead for Trump’s former lawyer during h...
ListenBreaking: Inside Theranos' Final Days from 2019-02-20T22:32:14
In September 2017, Elizabeth Holmes was watching her company go up in smoke. There were government investigations, nightmarish legal bills, a dwindling bank account, and the evaporation of her cred...
ListenJared Kushner’s Clintonian Nightmare from 2019-02-15T08:03
There is likely only one single issue the Democrats and Republicans agree on: the desperate need for prison reform. Jason Flom, the founding board member of the Innocence Project, joins Nick to exp...
ListenInside Trump’s Inauguration Nightmare from 2019-02-08T08:03
“I am disgusted.”: Taped conversations reveal how money was being spent on Donald Trump’s inaugural events (a whopping $107 million), the general chaos of the process, the involvement of the Trump ...
ListenWas Cheney More Evil Than Trump? from 2019-02-01T08:03
Adam McKay, the Oscar-nominated director of Vice, offers his unfettered opinions on Cheney, Bush, Trump, when the American train fell off the tracks and why his next movie might be the most importa...
ListenWhy @AOC Scares the S**t Out of Republicans from 2019-01-25T08:03
This week Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stirred up the Republican Party when she warned that that if we don’t solve the climate crisis in 12 years, the Earth could be doomed. Peter Brannen, author of “T...
ListenIs Impeachment a Done Deal? from 2019-01-18T08:03
On the latest episode of Inside the Hive, Nick talks to West Wing supersleuth Gabe Sherman about Giuliani’s latest meltdown, if the painful shutdown will ever end, whether Trump will even make it t...
ListenSource: Human Civilization Won’t Be Around Much Longer from 2019-01-11T08:03
Are We Nearing the End of Human Civilization? Description: What if there was a simple calculation that could foretell when a company will go bankrupt, when artificial intelligence will become smar...
ListenInside Apple’s iPhone Problem from 2019-01-04T08:03
In this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, Nick games out Apple’s startling revenue news. (Is it China? Trump? Or flat-lining iPhone growth. Then The Hive’s Claire Landsbaum swings by to discuss Th...
Listen“Financial Colonoscopy”: Trump, Snap, Dara, Sheryl and Other 2019 Predictions from 2018-12-28T08:03
What will the Democrats do with their newfound power in the House in 2019? Will Snap sell to Verizon, Disney or Apple? Will Facebook be broken up by government regulators? What will Uber's valuatio...
ListenIs Facebook Becoming Marlboro? from 2018-12-21T08:03
Being a tech company in Silicon Valley could be bad for your health, and the health of yourcompany. Jason Fried, author of the book, "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work," joins Nick to explain why...
ListenWill MAGA Turn on Trump? from 2018-12-14T08:03
Michael Cohen is now going to jail as more federal investigations into Donald Trump open up. Will the people who voted Trump into the White House finally see him for who he is? Joel Stein, a journa...
ListenDid Mueller Create a Perjury Trap? from 2018-11-30T08:03
While Donald Trump tweets like a two-year-old at investigators, it appears Robert Mueller has been a dozen steps ahead all along, ready to catch Paul Manafort lying to investigators, turning Michae...
ListenThe Crisis that Dwarfs Facebook from 2018-11-23T08:03
While we’re all full on Thanksgiving turkey, a global food crisis, worse than anything we could imagine, looms in the distance. Sara Menker, founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence, joins Nick to expla...
ListenThe End of the Sheryl Sandberg Myth? from 2018-11-16T08:03
Is the appointment of Matthew Whitaker the beginning of Donald Trump’s first constitutional crisis? Katie Benner, who covers the Justice Department for The New York Times, joins Nick to take us i...
ListenThe Silicon Valley Atomic Bomb from 2018-11-09T08:03
While the Democrats celebrate the blue wave, we all seem to be ignoring the larger problem in America: inequality. Anand Giridharadas joins Nick to explain how elites are destroying the world, how ...
Listen“No question: He Gives a S**t About the Country”: The Mooch Explains Trump from 2018-11-02T07:03
Anthony Scaramucci candidly discusses it all: his eleven days in the White House, the Lizza call, Bannon’s self-fellating, Trump’s political instincts, the midterms, border separations, what the me...
ListenShould Zuck be Fired? from 2018-10-26T07:03
As Facebook’s scandals mount, and its mea culpas fall flat, some are wondering how society can rein in the company—regulation, intervention, God knows what. On this week’s episode, Sally Hubbard, w...
ListenMichael Avenatti Says He is Trump’s Kryptonite from 2018-10-19T07:03
The TV lawyer-turned-political aspirant talks to Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox about his political dreams, the Stormy Daniels of it all, and how he found himself in front of the audience of one. Lea...
ListenMonica Lewinsky and Hannah Gadsby Talk Trauma from 2018-10-17T19:39:40
In this special episode, the award-winning stand-up comedian and creator of “Nanette” talks to Monica Lewinsky, social activist and Vanity Fair contributing editor, on how to deal with trauma in th...
ListenInside the Westeros Wing from 2018-10-15T21:39:55
On a special episode of Inside the Hive, taped during the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, new WarnerMedia C.E.O. John Stankey tells Andrew Ross Sorkin about his plans for HBO—and the rest of ...
ListenExclusive: Dara on Uber’s Path to World Domination from 2018-10-12T07:03
This week, Nick interviews Uber C.E.O. Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to pivot the conpany’s culture, his relationship with Travis Kalanick, and the horrors posed by autonomous vehicles. Plus: Nick ...
ListenThe Tech Mess Trump Won't Clean Up from 2018-10-05T07:03
As America tears itself apart over social issues, like Roe vs Wade and whether to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, technology could soon make things even worse in this country. Aaron L...
ListenThe Kavanaugh Monstrosity from 2018-09-28T07:03
It's been decades since there has been a Supreme Court hearing like Brett Kavanaugh's, and yet, the outcome could end up being exactly the same as Anita Hill's testimony. Vanity Fair's Emily Jane...
ListenIs Kavanaugh Going Down in Flames? from 2018-09-21T20:36:26
As Americans await the news of whether Dr. Christine Blasey Ford will appear before the Judiciary Committee, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh could go down in flames, bringing Republicans and ev...
ListenIs the Housing Market About to Implode? from 2018-09-14T07:03
A decade ago this week, America officially entered the worst financial collapse since The Great Depression. Now, as Donald Trump rolls back regulations meant to protect consumers, some fear that we...
ListenTrump's Deep Throat from 2018-09-07T07:03
Who was it? Who wrote the New York Times OpEd from deep inside the White House? Nick and Jon discuss this, who will be fired next as a result, Bob Woodward’s new bombshell book, “Fear,” and if Cong...
ListenWhich Trump(s) Will Go to the Clink? from 2018-08-31T07:03
Will Donny Jr. be indicted for lying to Congress? Does Michael Cohen sleep with one eye open? Will Paul Manafort spend the rest of his life in jail, or be pardoned by his old buddy, POTUS? Will Tru...
ListenThe Coming Trump Recession from 2018-08-24T07:03
Could a Trump impeachment destroy the economy, or save it? Is Trump's trade war with China going to usher in a new recession? Will Trump's deregulation end up screwing over consumers, who could los...
ListenYou Won’t Believe Trump’s Biggest Regret from 2018-08-17T07:03
It’s been a few weeks since Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing his diabolical decision to separate children and parents at the border, but the story is far from over. Jacob Soboroff, ...
ListenInside the Alex Jones Debacle from 2018-08-10T07:03
Do this week’s voter numbers in Ohio, and elsewhere, foreshadow a blue wave? Is Donald Trump actually the Republican party’s most powerful weapon, or its Achilles’ heel? Could Trump finally be impe...
ListenHow Trump Became a Kardashian from 2018-08-03T07:03
The rise of celebrity culture, and now influencer culture, has it's good sides, and it's bad. But does one outweigh the other? Nick Adler, who manages investments and social media for The King of R...
ListenFacebook After Zuck? from 2018-07-27T07:03
Its been the craziest week in recent Silicon Valley memory--Facebook's stock fell of a cliff; Elon Musk went after one of his critics; and Robert Mueller started looking into Trump's Twitter feed. ...
ListenHow Silicon Valley Turned Evil from 2018-07-20T07:03
Technology has a history of starting out with good intentions, and eventually being leveraged for quite the opposite. On this week’s episode, Adam Fisher, author of Valley of Genius, joins Nick to ...
ListenDid RFK’s Assasination Pave the Way for Trump? from 2018-07-13T07:03
On the face of it, it seems like America is currently more divided than anytime since the Civil War. But back in 1968, America was embroiled in chaos, torn over the war in Vietnam, the assassinatio...
ListenTom Arnold Lets Loose from 2018-07-06T07:03
Are Tom Arnold and Michael Cohen, as one recent tweet could have been construed to suggest, teaming up to take down Donald Trump? The famous comedian and Trumpworld scold joins Nick to explain how ...
ListenHas Putin Fixed the World Cup? from 2018-06-29T20:19:08
A few years ago, a chance encounter between Christopher Steele, of the now-famous Steele Dossier, and an FBI agent who was working on a gambling case at Trump Tower, opened the door to a multi-year...
ListenIs Ivanka a Bigger Liar Than Her Daddy? from 2018-06-22T07:03
While Americans watched in horror as innocent children, as young as 9-months-old, were torn from their parents arms, Ivanka Trump was posting photos of her and her children, as happy as could be. I...
ListenHillary’s campaign Manager Bares All from 2018-06-15T07:03
Robby Mook, former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, joins Nick this week to discuss how Russian is planning to drive more discourse in our democracy, and the 2018 election. Mook also discusses...
Listen‘’Sociopathic Tendencies”: Inside Elizabeth Holmes’ Colossal Disgrace from 2018-06-08T07:03
Silicon Valley is notoriously full of founders who exaggerate, intentionally lie to the media, and dupe investors, and even Congress. But there are few stories that rival the fraud behind Theranos,...
ListenSelling Guns, Drugs, and Murder on the Dark Web from 2018-06-01T23:05
Should it be legal to sell mild drugs, like weed and magic mushrooms, on the Internet? What about heroin? Handguns? AR-15s? Even murder-for-hire? Nick Bilton sits down with Tom Conrad, former produ...
ListenIs There Another Donald Trump in The Cosmos? from 2018-05-25T07:03
Why are we here? Is there a God? A reason to it all? How, and why, did the universe begin, and how, and why, will it end? Sean M. Carroll, a cosmologist and physicist specializing in dark energy an...
ListenThe Conservative Case Against Trump from 2018-05-18T07:03
Donald Trump has always been a blatant liar, making up stories about his worth to how many people were at his inauguration, but do people actually like it when Trump lies to them? Amanda Carpenter,...
ListenWho is Worse: Trump, Pence, Kanye, or Zuckerberg? from 2018-05-11T07:03
Comedian and commentator, formally of The Onion and The Daily Show, Baratunde Thurston, joins this week to talk about whether Kanye West poses a bigger threat to civilization than Trump, how white ...
ListenHow Evil is Silicon Valley? from 2018-05-04T07:03
As of late, tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Google, are being perceived as evil for taking advantage of our deepest, darkest secrets and fears with one goal: to make us click on more...
ListenThe Magic Tricks to Beat Trump in 2020 from 2018-04-27T07:03
The only reason that magic tricks actually work, according to the world famous magician and puzzle-maker David Kwong, is that “people want to believe.” The same theory applies to politics, fake new...
ListenIs The Trump Administration Full of Racists? from 2018-04-20T07:03
Is Trump making it more difficult to be African American in the U.S.? Does Ben Carson secretly dislike people of color? Is Donald Trump a true racist? Jamil Smith, a writer for The New Republic, Ti...
ListenWill Facebook Be Broken Up? from 2018-04-13T07:03
Since the Cambridge Analyitca scandal broke just a few weeks ago, Facebook has seen its stock fall by $100 billion, and Mark Zuckerberg was forced to go before Congress. But what happens next to th...
ListenWhy a Woman Will Win in 2020 from 2018-04-06T07:03
Will America finally vote a women into the White House in 2020? Will she be a Democrat or a Republican? Does it even matter? Could Stormy Daniels be the scandal that topples Trump? Jennifer Palmier...
ListenWill Stormy Nuke Trump into Oblivion? from 2018-03-30T07:03
Stormy's in, Hope is out. Bolton's hired as Shulkin is fired. How does FLOTUS feel POTUS? Emily Jane Fox joins us to explain what's going on inside the Trump's chaotic White House. Then, Nick Bilto...
ListenThe Most Hated Man in Silicon Valley from 2018-03-23T07:03
Ryan Holiday, author of the new book "Conspiracy," tells the inside story of how Peter Thiel took down Gawker Media and Nick Denton, how the tech billionaire's relationship with Donald Trump isn't ...
ListenWhat Will Kill Us First: Trump or Technology? from 2018-03-16T07:03
Will robots kill us all? Will a rogue A.I. shut off the power grids? Could we lose track of what is real, and what is not, in a permanently augmented reality? My guest today, Kevin Kelly, has spent...
ListenWould You Turn Down $125 Million From Zuck? from 2018-03-09T08:03
One minute, Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of Foursquare, was building a little app in a New York City coffee shop, and the next he was being wined and dined by every VC in Silicon Valley, being of...
ListenCan Trump Survive Without Hope? from 2018-03-02T08:03
Gabe Sherman, who has known Hope, Lewandowski and Trump since the nascent days of the campaign trail, joins us to explain what the latest round of chaos inside the White House means, how Jared Kush...
ListenHas the NRA Met its Maker? from 2018-02-23T08:03
The students behind the #neverAgain movement are more eloquent than any politician, and are totally unphased by Trump and his online trolls. Abigail Tracy, who covers Washington for The Hive, joins...
ListenTrump is Proof There is no God from 2018-02-16T08:03
Sam Harris, a world renowned author, neuroscientist and atheist, joins us to explain why there is no such thing as God, how consciousness is the most incredible invention in the universe, why polit...
ListenThe Great Trump Recession? from 2018-02-09T08:03
Description: For the last year, Trump has bragged about the rise of the stock market, taking credit for every upswing since Obama left office. Yet this week, when the bottom fell out of the market,...
ListenHow Trump F**cked Democracy from 2018-02-02T08:03
It really is even worse than you thought, notes David Cay Johnston, author of a new book with a slightly more elegant title. Johnston explains how Trump is systematically, and intentionally, disman...
ListenThe Threat Worse Than Trump from 2018-01-26T08:03
Donald Trump has turned back more climate-related safety measures in the past year than any president in history. Jeff Orlowski, the Oscar short-listed filmmaker behind "Chasing Coral" and "Chasing...
ListenHow Donald Trump Could Crush Facebook from 2018-01-19T08:03
The Hive’s tech reporter and millennial expert, Maya Kosoff, joins us to explain why the government may soon start regulating social media companies, why you should delete Facebook from your phone ...
ListenLet's Meet Some Robots! from 2018-01-12T08:03
At this year's CES in Las Vegas, robots of all shapes and sizes were on display. There were robots that can fold your clothes, others that can clean your windows, walk your dog or make you an omele...
ListenAre We Approaching the End of Days? from 2018-01-05T08:03
Terrified by Trump's latest nuclear tweet? Worried that Kim Jung-Un might fall asleep on his little button and blow us all up? This podcast will probably terrify you even more. Kal Raustiala, Direc...
ListenWill We Finally Stop Talking About Trump in 2018? from 2017-12-29T08:03
If you think 2017 was tough to get through, just wait until next year. In the year’s final podcast, Nick Bilton and Jon Kelly offer predictions for 2018. Among them: Will the Dems actually win back...
ListenThis Podcast Could Make You Filthy Rich! from 2017-12-22T08:03
Here's a fact for you: If you bought $1 — yes, one single dollar — of Bitcoin in March, 2013, it would be worth $6 million today. Joyce Kim, who has been in the cryptocurrency game since the very b...
ListenHow to Beat Donald Trump at Twitter from 2017-12-15T08:03
Tim Wu might be the most prescient person in tech: he invented the term “net neutrality,” and predicted the global dominance the Internet would have on society. He joins us this week to explain why...
ListenForget the Dow, Trump Is About to Trigger Financial Armageddon from 2017-12-08T08:03
Each week, the stock market reaches all-time highs, and Donald Trump takes all the credit. But is his insanity and destruction going to lead to a crash of biblical proportions, or possibly to a rec...
ListenEven America's Top Expert on God Can't Explain Donald Trump from 2017-12-01T08:03
For the past two decades, Reza Aslan has been studying religions from all over the globe, and talking to people who believe in one God, many Gods, or no God at all. He joins us this week to explain...
ListenThis Podcast Will Scare You To Death (Seriously) from 2017-11-24T08:03
Do Donald Trump's provocations of Kim Jong-Un have you scared? You might not be scared enough. Right now, U.S. generals are performing war games exploring how to retaliate in the event of a nuclear...
ListenThe Gwyneth Paltrow Industry from 2017-11-17T08:01
Gwyneth Paltrow joins us to explain what acting has in common with running a company; why she doesn’t miss the movie business and won’t ever go back; how Goop (if all goes well) could go public one...
ListenCan We Turn Texas Blue? from 2017-11-10T18:59:31
After the Democratic wins in New Jersey and Virginia, this week, could Texas become increasingly blue in 2018? Jay Hulings, who is running to repressent the state’s 23rd congressional district, j...
ListenImagine Jared Kushner is Your Boss… from 2017-11-04T01:37:07
Kyle Pope spent 18 months running the New York Observer under Jared Kusher. In that time, he was forced to contend with more problems than he had ever anticipated when he took the job. Jared's fath...
ListenAnd Then There Were Four from 2017-10-27T11:09:23
The past decade has seen the biggest disruption in American business in a hundred years — and its only just the beginning. Scott Galloway, author of the new book “The Four,” joins me to explain how...
ListenThe End of Harveywood from 2017-10-20T07:03
For 30 years, Harvey Weinstein bullied his way through Hollywood, sexually assaulting and harassing countless women. But how did he get away with it for so long? Krista Smith, who is been with Va...
ListenDecoding Trump's Lies from 2017-10-13T07:03
When Tim O’Brien wrote the book, "Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald," he noted that Trump wasn't actually a real billionaire. In response, Trump sued O’Brien, and after a salacious legal ba...
ListenColumbine to Vegas from 2017-10-06T07:03
Columbine, Fort Hood, Sandy Hook, and now Las Vegas. America once again this week broke a record for the most number of people killed in a mass shooting. Dave Cullen, author of the book "Columbine,...
ListenJared’s Daddy Issues from 2017-09-29T22:17:23
Emily Jane Fox discusses Jared Kushner’s recent spate of bad press, whether he’ll learn from it, and how much trouble the president’s son-in-law, and adviser, is really in. Also: we discuss Don Jr....
ListenCategory 5! from 2017-09-22T07:03
You’ve heard of Irma and Harvey, Jose and Maria, but you might not have heard of Phil Klotzbach, an expert on hurricanes in the Atlantic. He joins us today to tell us what’s really going on with ...
ListenCurb His Enthusiasm from 2017-09-15T07:25:59
Want to know how Curb Your Enthusiasm, SNL, ESPN and CAA all began? Want to know how they all became so insanely successful? Well, this week's guest, James Andrew Miller, is here to tell us, and of...
ListenLeave it or Lovett from 2017-09-08T07:03
You've heard him on Pod Save America, you've heard him on Lovett or Leave It, you've heard him through the speeches of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Now you get to hear Jon Lovett as our guest ...
ListenFAKE NEWS! #MAGA from 2017-09-01T07:03
Today's guest, Sarah Ellison, was hate-tweeted by Donald Trump this week. Find out why, and hear us discuss what people in Washington really think of Jared and Ivanka (hint: it ain't pretty), why F...
ListenDonald Trump of the Art World from 2017-08-25T07:03
Stefan Simchowitz is easily one of the most controversial figures in today's art world. Partially because he's breaking the norms of the establishment, and making tons of money in the process. He t...
ListenThe End is Nigh! from 2017-08-18T07:03
We might manipulate the genes of the next generation to make them kinder, or create seeds that you plant in the ground that grow into a house. This week, we talk to D.A. Wallach, a rockstar-turned-...
ListenValley Talk: Uber's Headache, Zuck's Political Ambitions, and the Future of Twitter from 2017-08-11T07:01
This week we go deep into Silicon Valley to see if the ousted C.E.O. of Uber, Travis Kalanick, will return to the company to rule again, if there will be a President Zuckerberg in the White House o...
ListenThe Winklevoss Twins are Back! from 2017-08-04T07:03
What's 6’5" and 220 pounds, and there's two of them? Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss! This week, Bilton talks to the world's most famous twins about their obsession with Bitcoin, their Hollywood por...
ListenJoe Trippi Diagnoses Washington's Illness from 2017-07-28T17:35:33
Joe Trippi, the legendary political consultant and campaign insider, who has worked with everyone from Ted Kennedy to Howard Dean(with a little Gary Hart in between), explains what the hell is cur...
ListenA Podcast of Ice and Fire from 2017-07-21T07:03
Joanna Robinson, the world (and Vanity Fair's) renowned expert on all things Game of Thrones, joins us to explain what's going on in Westeros this season, which of our favorite (and least favorite)...
ListenMalcom Gladwell's Sad Country Songs from 2017-07-14T07:03
Who do you know who could weave together stories about McDonalds french fries, the civil rights movement and a Los Angeles golf course? Yes, you guessed it: Malcom Gladwell. He's our guest this w...
ListenKara Swisher on Uber, Zuck, and the Legend of the Red Chair from 2017-06-30T17:55:49
Kara Swisher sits down with The Hive to talk about covering, and interviewing, the biggest names in tech and politics, from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. We talk ab...
ListenThe Secret of the Handmaid's Tale from 2017-06-23T20:10:45
There are few shows on television today that are more prescient than The Handmaid's Tale. This week, we sit down with Bruce Miller, the show's creator, to talk about life inside the dystopian world...
ListenYou Are Wonder Woman! from 2017-06-16T07:01
Patty Jenkins, the director of Wonder Woman, discusses how you direct a $150 million movie, why women make up most of the audience in theaters and yet so few of the directors and leading roles, and...
ListenSnoop, Trump and Jesse from 2017-06-10T00:45:26
YouTube star Jesse Wellens tells us how he went from being a used car salesman to becoming one of the most followed people on the Internet. He also talks about directing the latest Snoop Dogg video...
ListenDick Costolo on Twitter, trolls and Trump from 2017-06-02T07:01
Dick Costolo started his career as an improv comedian, sharing the stage with Steve Carell, and ended up in Silicon Valley running Twitter. He discusses what it's like to bomb on stage in front o...
ListenFamous for Being Conan from 2017-05-26T07:01
The iconic talk show host talks about how celebrity culture is ruining society, why he has a piñata of Donald Trump in his office, and why The Conan O'Brien Show probably won't be on TBS in 10 year...
ListenIger 2020? from 2017-05-19T07:03
The Disney C.E.O. Discusses the next Star Wars installment, his strategy for conquering the ever-shifting media landscape, why he buys certain companies (but not others), and—yes—those lingering 20...
ListenInside the Hive with Nick Bilton - TEASER from 2017-05-02T19:23:16
Every week, Nick Bilton interviews the leading minds in tech, politics, and the culture to find out what motivates them, how they make decisions, what keeps them up at night, where their ideas come...
ListenInside the Hive with Nick Bilton - TEASER from 2017-05-02T19:23:16
Every week, Nick Bilton interviews the leading minds in tech, politics, and the culture to find out what motivates them, how they make decisions, what keeps them up at night, where their ideas come...
ListenInside the Hive with Nick Bilton - TEASER from 2017-05-02T19:23:16
Every week, Nick Bilton interviews the leading minds in tech, politics, and the culture to find out what motivates them, how they make decisions, what keeps them up at night, where their ideas come...
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