Central Air, the show where the temperature is always just right. Join Josh Barro, Megan McArdle and Ben Dreyfuss every week for a well-centered conversation on American politics. www.centralairpodcast.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchCentral Air, the show where the temperature is always just right. Join Josh Barro, Megan McArdle and Ben Dreyfuss every week for a well-centered conversation on American politics.
Recent episodes include "AI Probably Won't Kill Everyone" (23 June 2026, 59 minutes), "Speaking of Getting Screwed (feat. Andrew Sullivan)" (16 June 2026, 34 minutes), and "The Talent Show (feat. Matt Yglesias)" (9 June 2026, 39 minutes).
Central Air publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 64 minutes across 52 episodes.
Booking probability for Central Air is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Central Air requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Central Air's contact route on record: verified email.
Central Air is a news show with 52 episodes published.
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com<br/><br/><p>This week: the case for AI regulation and what it would look like, with Dean Ball, who helped to shape AI policy in the...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com<br/><br/><p>This week: Andrew Sullivan joins us from Provincetown to assess the emergent Iran deal. Paying subscribers also get our...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com<br/><br/><p>This week: Matt Yglesias joins us to recap WelcomeFest and discuss “dog-whistle moderation," and why the factional...
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<p>Listen to two conversations Josh, Ben and Megan had at WelcomeFest, the center-left organizing conference: one with San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins, and the other with Tejano singing legend-turned-congressional...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com<br/><br/><p>This week: Reihan Salam of the conservative Manhattan Institute on the state of the center and the right in cities. Why...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com<br/><br/><p>As noted last week, we don’t have a regular episode this week, due to the Memorial Day holiday. We’ll be back with two...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com<br/><br/><p>On this week's show: Why is Europe poor? Megan wrote about the issue this week, and Sam Bowman of Works in Progress...
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<p>On this week's show: Robinson Meyer, executive editor of the excellent Heatmap News, talks with us about why oil has not gotten even more expensive, if there is hope for permitting reform, why Republicans hate...
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<p>On this week's show: Gary Leff, author of the View From the Wing blog on the airline industry, joins us to discuss who killed Spirit Airlines — the airline made strategic errors, but it could have been profitably...
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<p>On this week's show: Sean Trende joins us to discuss the continued devolvement of the gerrymandering wars. Sean is an election analyst for Real Clear Politics and lecturer in political science at The Ohio State...
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<p>On this week's show: We joined in the discourse about whether dog owners have gotten too big for their britches. (Dogs are sycophants, I say — at least cats have self-respect.) We discussed the wisdom of New York’s...
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<p>On this week's show: Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini joins to discuss the strength of Trump's multiracial populist coalition amid the Iran war. He offers his take on how the Republican party can avoid a cataclysm...
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<p>On this week's show: Daniel Biss joins to discuss the changing way Democrats are relating to Israel. Daniel is the mayor of Evanston, Ill., and very likely soon to be a member of Congress representing Chicago’s north...
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<p>On this week's show: Marc Caputo, White House Correspondent for Axios, joins the podcast to help us understand how Trump and his advisers are deciding what to do with the Iran war, and how they are preparing (or not)...
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<p>On this week's show Tyler Austin Harper joins to talk about his reporting on the Mellon Foundation and its role in pushing humanities academia in the direction of progressive social activism, his on-the-ground take...
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<p>On this week's show: congressional candidate Alex Bores — he’s a New York state representative and author of the controversial AI regulation law, the RAISE Act — joins us to talk about the fight between the...
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<p>On this week's show: Mike Solana of Pirate Wires joins us to talk about Silicon Valley. He’s been talking with lots of billionaires who are taking steps to exit California in anticipation of a proposed wealth tax. We...
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<p>On this week's show: Jesse Singal, co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast, joins us to discuss the shift toward more cautious thinking among (some of) the U.S. medical societies about youth gender medicine...
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<p>On this week's show: The Bulwark's Tim Miller joins to discuss his recent trip to Minnesota, the apparent continuation of significant but less bombastic ICE operations in the state, and why we differ on the extent to...
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<p>On this week's show: Cartoons Hate Her joins us to make her argument that Democrats need a presidential candidate who “fucks.” First we try to figure out what this figurative sense of “fuck” means exactly — “fucking...
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Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and former Senior Policy Advisor on AI and Emerging Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Foundation for American Innovation
political commentator and Catholic writer, Unfiltered Wine Festival
congressional candidate, unknown
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