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ICYMI: There’s a Chadwick Boseman NFT?
Plus, by popular demand, the return of High-Speed Downloads.
22 min
2477
Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 2
Chris Molanphy's analysis of Taylor Swift's masterful country-to-pop crossover, continued.
49 min
2478
Spoiler Specials: Mortal Kombat
Karen Han and Matthew Dessem spoil the new action/fantasy movie Mortal Kombat.
41 min
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A Word: Get Ready, Playa One
“Storymodebae” on how Black women creatives are taking online video gaming to the next level.
19 min
2480
Culture Gabfest: Monster Boss
55 min
2481
ICYMI: How Babby Is Formed
An elegy for Yahoo Answers, with the creator of one of the videos that helped make it famous.
28 min
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Working: How Stuart Gibbs Writes Mysteries for ...
44 min
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ICYMI: “Body Positivity” Is Meaningless
What started as a movement advocating for fat acceptance has been diluted into a useless buzzword.
26 min
2484
Outward: Lesbians in Paris … and in Period Dramas
Diana Souhami on her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians.
69 min
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ICYMI: What We Tok About When We Tok About Piss
A deep dive into PissTok—and what its popularity says about the memeification of kink.
24 min
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Culture Gabfest: Organized Crime
58 min
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Working: How Jed Mercurio Makes Realistic TV Dr...
42 min
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ICYMI: Will You Accept This SponCon?
The war between social media and socially conservative values that’s at the heart of The Bachelor.
26 min
2489
Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 1
At the turn of the ’10s, Taylor Swift pulled off a masterful country-to-pop crossover, ruling two genres at once.
50 min
2490
Spoiler Specials: Godzilla vs. Kong
Allegra Frank and Matthew Dessem spoil the action-packed Godzilla vs. Kong.
65 min
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Culture Gabfest: Sleeps With the Fishes
60 min
2492
ICYMI: A Vaccine Is Not a Personality
The memes and merch inspired by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson are not helping the fight against COVID.
26 min
2493
Slate Money: Movies: Working Girl
37 min
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Working: What Healthcare Workers Can Teach Us A...
46 min
2495
ICYMI: Everything Is Tumblr Now
An interview with the creator of This Is White Privilege. Plus: High Speed Downloads on Khloe Kardashian and Rachel Hollis.
25 min
2496
Culture Gabfest: What's Love Got to Do With It?
59 min
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ICYMI: Every Generation Has Its Cringe
Millennials and Gen Z are at war, and the latest battlefront is reaction GIFs.
24 min
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Slate Money: Movies: Margin Call
48 min
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Working: The Activism and Artistry of Joan E. B...
48 min
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ICYMI: What’s Really “Up” With That TikTok Dance
Mya Johnson and Chris Cotter on the “Up” dance challenge—and what it’s like to see their moves go viral without them.
21 min