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Welcome to Morning Meeting, where AIR MAIL’s Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey take you inside the stories people are talking about this week—and tip you off to the ones the editors are talking about for next week. We cover the people shaping your world that you want to know more about (and more often the stuff they don’t want you to know about). And we talk with friends of AIR MAIL—writers, reporters, and style-setters. So listen in every Saturday as Morning Meeting brings you what’s new and exciting from the world of AIR MAIL.

Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the $1 Billion Lawsuit

30 mins; October 31, 2025

The Nuns, the Masterpiece, and a Remote Canadian Island

23 mins; October 24, 2025

From Jagger to Lennon and More—the Shop That Dressed Swinging Londoners

26 mins; October 17, 2025

Secret Italy—Villages Lost in Time

32 mins; October 10, 2025

How to Grift Your Way into the Ivy League

31 mins; October 03, 2025

How a British Woman Named Jane Became a Bag Named Birkin

35 mins; September 26, 2025

An Epic Con—The Man Who Lived as a Rockefeller for 40 Years

34 mins; September 19, 2025

How Funerals Became the New Social-Climbing Scene

32 mins; September 12, 2025

Prince Andrew's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Moment

36 mins; September 05, 2025

How a Rupert Murdoch Scandal Could Cripple "The Washington Post"

35 mins; August 29, 2025

Billionaires Behaving Badly—The Summer Edition!

32 mins; August 22, 2025

Why George W. Bush Is Gen Z's New Obsession

34 mins; August 15, 2025

Love in the Time of Content Creators—How Gen Z Ruined Wedding Proposals

29 mins; August 08, 2025

Inside the Great Canadian Gold Heist

35 mins; August 01, 2025

Inside the Gwyneth Paltrow Book—Triumph of a Mean Girl?

36 mins; July 25, 2025

What Trump Could Learn About Deceit from J.F.K.

32 mins; July 18, 2025

When Your Friend Is a Fraud—the Mystery of a High-Flying New York Player

34 mins; July 11, 2025

The Mystery of the Man-Child Who Tried to Assassinate Trump

35 mins; July 04, 2025

Why You Should Move to London

26 mins; June 27, 2025

Jared Kushner's Island Full of Poisonous Snakes

29 mins; June 20, 2025

Save Venice! Inside the Bezos-Sánchez Wedding

32 mins; June 13, 2025

Jared Leto's Sex Problem

34 mins; June 06, 2025

The Genius Whom Hollywood Forgot

37 mins; May 30, 2025

The Newest Flex for .01-Percenters—Building a Golf Club

36 mins; May 23, 2025

Why Gen Z College Grads Are Ditching Wall Street for Farming

31 mins; May 16, 2025

When a Billionaire Buys the General Store

35 mins; May 09, 2025

Save America—Deport Lorne Michaels!

30 mins; May 02, 2025

20,000 Kilos Under the Sea—Why Submarines Are the New Way to Smuggle Cocaine

30 mins; April 25, 2025

Taylor Swift and Harvard Business School—Secrets to Her Success

34 mins; April 18, 2025

"Brad Pitt," His Kidney Transplant, and the Cyber-Scammers

31 mins; April 11, 2025

Another Reason to Hate Nepo Babies

34 mins; April 04, 2025

Graydon Carter on His Memoir, Magazines, and Rules for Living

40 mins; March 28, 2025

Putin, Trump, and the Evil Finance Bro

35 mins; March 21, 2025

Tick, Tick, Boom? The Lost Nuclear Bomb That Could Destroy Savannah, Georgia

32 mins; March 14, 2025

What's Behind "Spermageddon," the Male-Fertility Crisis

28 mins; March 07, 2025

How "Annie Hall" Went from Disaster to Masterpiece

34 mins; February 28, 2025

Elon Musk, Welfare Queen—the Dirty Truth

34 mins; February 21, 2025

Are Aperol Spritzes Really the New Birth Control?

32 mins; February 14, 2025

Bridget Jones—Gen Z and the Single Girl

36 mins; February 07, 2025

Trump's Big Payday—Crypto and Crime

35 mins; January 31, 2025

Is Capitalism to Blame for Luigi Mangione?

35 mins; January 24, 2025

The "Preppy Killer": The Murder That Riveted N.Y.C. in 1986

35 mins; January 17, 2025

It Ends with Mess—Inside the Blake Lively–Justin Baldoni War

34 mins; January 10, 2025

Pico Iyer on the Perfect Place to Escape 2025

38 mins; January 03, 2025

How Two Cops in 1980s Miami Inspired "The Sopranos"

33 mins; December 27, 2024

Bella Freud on "Fashion Neurosis." Plus: When Jackie O Fought Back

34 mins; December 20, 2024

The Most Overhyped People and Things of 2024

31 mins; December 13, 2024

Ruthie Rogers, of the River Cafe—a Holiday Special

36 mins; December 06, 2024

The Man Who Made New York Special—Bobby Short at 100

33 mins; November 29, 2024

How Marlon Brando Almost Did Not Make One of His Masterpieces

32 mins; November 22, 2024

The Mysterious Murder of Sean Combs's Father

31 mins; November 15, 2024

A Stanley Kubrick Musical? It's True

23 mins; November 08, 2024

Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley on Donald Trump and the Election

28 mins; November 01, 2024

The Secret Life of Joan Didion

35 mins; October 25, 2024

Inside the Mysterious and Deadly Sinking of the Luxury Yacht "Bayesian"

28 mins; October 18, 2024

The Dude Abides—The Making of "The Big Lebowski"

32 mins; October 11, 2024

James Carville on What Kamala Needs to Do to Win

35 mins; October 04, 2024

Inside the Secretive Asian Las Vegas That Is the World Capital of Crime

31 mins; September 27, 2024

The Dorothy Stratten Story as Told by Her Sister, Louise

34 mins; September 20, 2024

"The West Wing" at 25—Inside the Landmark Show

31 mins; September 13, 2024

Why Weddings Featured in “Vogue” Are Cursed

34 mins; September 06, 2024

Did the F.B.I. Compromise the Case Against the Idaho-Murders Suspect?

35 mins; August 30, 2024

Who Is Gwyneth Paltrow's Plastic Surgeon?

34 mins; August 23, 2024

How a Volunteer Firefighter Landed a Mansion in the Hamptons

30 mins; August 16, 2024

J. D. Vance Is the New Dwight Schrute

36 mins; August 09, 2024

The Scandal Episode! "Saltburn" on the Riviera, and More

33 mins; August 02, 2024

Understanding Your Baggage—What Your Canvas Tote Reveals About You

34 mins; July 26, 2024

Is Milano the New Monaco? Why the 1 Percent Are Moving to Italy

33 mins; July 19, 2024

Who's to Blame for the Biden Mess?

34 mins; July 12, 2024

Graydon Carter on Joe Biden's Future

40 mins; July 05, 2024

Adolf Hitler and the Holy Grail—Crazier than Indiana Jones!

29 mins; June 28, 2024

Trump and His Wall Street and Silicon Valley Enablers

31 mins; June 21, 2024

How Big Oil Uses the Arts to Make Us Forget About Climate Change

35 mins; June 14, 2024

A #MeToo Scandal at the Art World's Most Prestigious Design Gallery

32 mins; June 07, 2024

The Sky-High Cost of Summer Travel

37 mins; May 31, 2024

What You Didn't Know About 90s Icon Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

29 mins; May 24, 2024

The Legendary Italian Playboy and His Secret American Daughter

33 mins; May 17, 2024

Is Your Partner Cheating on You with an A.I. Companion?

31 mins; May 10, 2024

The Crime That Scandalized New York's Bluebloods

37 mins; May 03, 2024

Why the Idaho-Murders Suspect Could Walk Free

36 mins; April 26, 2024

"Boogie Nights," Liberace's Boy Toy, John Holmes, and a Murder That Rocked 70s Hollywood

39 mins; April 19, 2024

Kim Kardashian Gets Sued over Her (Alleged) Fakes

32 mins; April 12, 2024

Gen Z and the New Sexual Revolution

34 mins; April 05, 2024

What the Hell Is Gwyneth Cooking Up Now?

35 mins; March 29, 2024

Why Italian Could Soon Be an Extinct Language

31 mins; March 22, 2024

Princess Diana's Brother Lived His Own Special Hell

34 mins; March 15, 2024

Is a Porn Star All That Stands Between Trump and the End of Democracy?

35 mins; March 08, 2024

Tales of Excess—What Happened to the Media Power Lunch?

35 mins; March 01, 2024

Why Do Today's Leading Men Dress Like Rent Boys?

34 mins; February 23, 2024

Meet the One Swan Truman Capote Did Not Betray

37 mins; February 16, 2024

Have You Flown Britney Spears Airlines?

31 mins; February 09, 2024

The True Story Behind Truman Capote's Feud with the Swans

34 mins; February 02, 2024

Is This the World's Most Annoying Nepo Baby?

33 mins; January 26, 2024

A Very, Very British Scandal

36 mins; January 19, 2024

What Is Angelina Jolie Hiding?

30 mins; January 12, 2024

#MeToo Comes for Gérard Depardieu

37 mins; January 05, 2024

Are You an Attention Whore?

32 mins; December 29, 2023

The Movie Nerd on Trial for Manslaughter

26 mins; December 22, 2023

Confessions of a Trump Ghostwriter

27 mins; December 15, 2023

Life Lessons from an Italian Countess

35 mins; December 08, 2023

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