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Culture Gabfest: The Patriarchy Can F Itself
60 min
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ICYMI: Wendy Williams Said What Now?
The return of High Speed Downloads, plus a surprising number of internet outrages about cats.
23 min
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Slate Money: Movies: The Fountainhead
47 min
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Decoder Ring: Who Killed The Segway?
This is the story of the invention and development of a potentially revolutionary device, how the hype got out of control, and how that speculation helped birth the modern internet.
41 min
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Working: “Genre-Fluid” Musician Yola on Mining ...
52 min
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ICYMI: The Pro-Trump Social Network Has an Anim...
Is GETTR done?
24 min
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Spoiler Specials: Black Widow
Dana Stevens and Karen Han spoil the new Marvel movie Black Widow.
41 min
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Culture Gabfest: I Think Jack Antonoff Should L...
60 min
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ICYMI: How Zola Went From Twitter Thread to Maj...
Jeremy O. Harris talks about adapting 148 tweets into a screenplay that feels like the internet.
28 min
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Slate Money: Movies: The Hudsucker Proxy
40 min
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Decoder Ring: The Sign Painter
What happens, to an artist—to anyone—when they’re good enough, but that’s not enough?
54 min
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Working: Undocumented Journalist Jose Antonio V...
39 min
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ICYMI: Dance Challenge TikTok Is on Strike
Black choreographers on TikTok are refusing to create dances for Megan Thee Stallion’s new song because white influencers can’t stop stealing their work.
27 min
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Hit Parade: Say My Name, Say My Name, Part 2
Chris Molanphy's deep dive on when rappers started singing, continued.
66 min
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Culture Gabfest: Tweeting Through It
50 min
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ICYMI: There’s No Easy Way to Log Off
As Bo Burnham points out in his new special, the internet is inescapable.
27 min
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Slate Money: Movies: Magic Mike
45 min
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Decoder Ring: That Seattle Muzak Sound
Muzak, the purveyors of elevator music, had become a complete joke by the 1990’s when it found many of the players in the Seattle grunge scene working in its offices.
41 min
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Working: How an Intimacy Coordinator Choreograp...
46 min
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ICYMI: Was #FreeBritney Right All Along?
What Britney Spears’ dramatic statement changes in the battle over her conservatorship.
28 min
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Spoiler Special: Luca
In Pixar’s Luca, we meet the world’s sweetest sea monster.
40 min
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A Word: The Racial Reckoning Soundtrack
The summer of protest ignited an explosive reaction in Black music.
21 min
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Political: The “F School, F Softball, F Cheer, ...
The post-pandemic workforce, Tucker Carlson, and student wins at the Supreme Court.
49 min
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Culture Gabfest: Man Out of Time, Fish Out of W...
56 min
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ICYMI: The Saga of Nina Simone’s Twitter Accoun...
It all started with Chloe Bailey’s sexy Juneteenth rendition of “Feeling Good.”
29 min