Slate Conversations
A feed of the up close and the personal, drawn from Working and across the Slate podcast network. Let’s talk.
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Money Talks: How to Make the Next Wordle
Gamemaker Zach Gage of Puzzmo shares the secrets of the perfect puzzle.
33 min
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Working: An Artist’s Guide to ADHD and Getting ...
Illustrator and podcaster Andy J. Pizza shares the routines and practices that help to direct his creativity.
45 min
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Dear Prudence | I Found My Happily Married Mom’...
45 min
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A Word: Prayer, Politics, and Power Shifts
Trump and Harris both want Black church support. Do they know how to find it?
39 min
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Care & Feeding: Gus Walz Loves His Dad. Here’s ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on the beautiful, the bad, and the ugly.
49 min
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Well, Now: Eating for Health
How to develop a healthy relationship with food despite society’s push to look a certain way.
38 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Two Friends, at 35 and 95, ...
When despair for the state of the world got them down, friends Jess Serrante and Joanna Macy found a new way forward.
47 min
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Hear Me Out: There’s No Lesser-Evil Candidate
There’s the billionaire class, and then there’s the rest of us.
49 min
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How To!: Fall Out of Love (Encore)
I fell hard for my best friend—he doesn’t love me back.
30 min
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Care & Feeding: We Need to Stop Losing Library ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on turning the page.
34 min
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Working: How a Big Band Leader and Composer Wra...
Darcy James Argue, bandleader for the 18-piece jazz band Secret Society, describes the many hats that he has to weave and wear.
47 min
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Dear Prudence | I’m Dating My Former Professor ...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by comedian and writer Samantha Bee.
29 min
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Care & Feeding: Parenting Fearlessly, Onstage a...
Slate’s parenting podcast on stepping into the spotlight.
47 min
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Well, Now: How to Reclaim Your Life After a Hea...
What’s the realistic path to recovery after a stroke, and what new ways can doctors help?
43 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Life and Death Inside the P...
Crystal Hefner talks about her decade living with Hugh Hefner, how money worked in their made-for-TV marriage, and the complicated pain of losing him.
47 min
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How To!: Be a Family (and Still Be You)
Dr. Lucy Blake on connecting with loved ones who couldn’t be more different
37 min
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Hear Me Out: Schools Do Too Much (Often Badly)
We’re expecting them to care and feed and educate.
40 min
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Money Talks: How to Save a Doomed Economy
Economist Paul Collier discusses rebuilding regions and countries that have been left behind.
33 min
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Care & Feeding: My Son Is Ruining Our Summer
Slate’s parenting podcast on constant complaints.
43 min
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Working: The Founder of a Life-Changing Writers...
Author and poet Judith Barrington talks about Flight of the Mind, a workshop she ran for 17 years.
36 min
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Slate Money: Nate Silver and the Secret World o...
Author and statistician Nate Silver joins the Money squad to discuss Silicon Valley psychology, AI doomsday, and the promise and peril of risking it all.
50 min
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Dear Prudence: My Husband and I Divorced Amicab...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by Rod and Karen Morrow, co-hosts of the pop-culture and politics podcast The Black Guy Who Tips.
39 min
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Care & Feeding: My Kid’s a (Really) Sore Loser
Slate’s parenting podcast on sportsmanship.
44 min
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Well, Now: Food Is More Than Fuel
In Eat & Flourish, award-winning food journalist Mary Beth Albright shows how food supports our emotional well-being.
50 min
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Hear Me Out: Fact-Checks Make Audiences Suspicious
Debunking stuff might be eroding trust, not enhancing it.
31 min