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Culture Gabfest: Toppling Teddy Roosevelt
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Working: The Vulnerability of Memoir Writing, W...
49 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: A Dog Called Rex (with Jason Ma...
Jason Matzoukas really knows how to make us blush.
59 min
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Working: Cole Escola Provides the Perfect Comed...
46 min
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Spoiler Specials: The Hunger Games Prequel: The...
President Snow’s origin story departs from the YA dystopian genre shaped by the Hunger Games trilogy.
61 min
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Decoder Ring: The Metrosexual
In 2003, the word "metrosexual", meaning a well-groomed heterosexual man, exploded all over the English lexicon. It invaded the news, TV, and even American politics.
34 min
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Culture Gabfest: Black Lives Matter
56 min
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Working: How YouTuber Adam Ragusea Learned to T...
45 min
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Working: Documentary Theater From Interviews to...
47 min
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Spoiler Specials: The Lovebirds
Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani’s murder mystery rom-com.
39 min
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Hit Parade: Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture Ed...
Outkast is inarguably one of the most important acts in hip hop and pop music history, but their impressive chart runs, and the brand of Atlanta hip hop they championed, was far from inevitable.
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Culture Gabfest: Never Will I Ever Beef with Ch...
60 min
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Working: How Curator Sheena Wagstaff Chooses Ar...
40 min
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Outward: The Queerness of Quarantine Bubbles
We’ve spent our whole lives negotiating contested spaces.
62 min
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Working: Alison Wright Explains How Actors Get ...
39 min
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Spoiler Specials: Hollywood
Ryan Murphy’s revisionist Netflix series trades history for self-serving fantasy.
49 min
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Culture Gabfest: Normal People?
55 min
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Decoder Ring: Gotta Get Down on Friday
Rebecca Black's music video for Friday was Youtube's most watched video of 2011, thrusting the thirteen-year-old Rebecca into a very harsh spotlight.
40 min
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Working: Megan Abbott's Go-To Story Structure
45 min
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Working: How DeMane Davis Pivoted From Advertis...
46 min
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Hit Parade: Still Billy Joel to Me Edition
Billy Joel’s first Top 40 hit, way back in 1974, was “Piano Man,” and the nickname stuck. But for a guy who became famous sitting behind 88 keys, few of his biggest hits are really piano songs. In fact, on all three of his No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, keyboards are not the primary instrument.
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Culture Gabfest: Don't Call Me Shirley
59 min
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Working: Behind the Scenes at the Opera With Ja...
The mezzosoprano on the nuts and bolts of working as a freelance performing artist.
48 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: Conscious Coupling
Sometimes the thirst is for a TV couple
68 min
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Culture Gabfest: Fetch the Patriarchy
62 min