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Spoiler Specials: Star Trek: Picard
Three Trekkies spoil the newest installment in the sci-fi franchise.
68 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: Maximum UST
Unresolved Sexual Tension is the key ingredient for onscreen sparks.
62 min
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Culture Gabfest: Walking into the Abyss
63 min
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Flashback: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The psychological melodrama starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford became legendary for its campiness.
75 min
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Decoder Ring: Rubber Duckie
How did the humble rubber duck become an icon of bath time?
22 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: Thirst Buckets Galore!
Thirsty listeners get their time to shine.
59 min
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Sponsored: The Power of Mentorship with Chefs G...
30 min
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Culture Gabfest: Viral Songs and Quarantine Cul...
65 min
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Spoiler Specials: Contagion
Spoiling the eerily relevant pandemic film from 2011.
47 min
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Culture Gabfest: Cows and Capitalism
75 min
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Spoiler Specials: Onward
Spoiling Pixar’s comedic quest about brothers attempting to bring back the rest of their father.
41 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: Flooding the Basement with Ash...
Ashley Ford talks beards, beef, and Beast Mode.
60 min
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Culture Gabfest: Is Love Blind?
78 min
2689
Decoder Ring: The Shop Around the Corner
The 1998 romantic comedy You've Got Mail starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is about the brutal fight between an independent bookstore, The Shop Around the Corner, and Fox Books, an obvious Barnes & Noble stand-in.
35 min
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Hit Parade: I'm Your Whitney Tonight Edition
86 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: We Love James McAvoy, That’ s All
We want … we want … we want James McAvoy
48 min
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Culture Gabfest: Portrait of Taylor on Fire
73 min
2693
How To!: Write the Perfect Breakup Song with Be...
The master songwriter helps a listener express his feelings.
28 min
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Spoiler Specials: Emma.
Marissa Martinelli and Heather Schwedel spoil the Autumn de Wilde adaptation.
53 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: The Deceptive Deference of Cliv...
Clive Owen’s mercurial characters take our breath away
49 min
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Culture Gabfest: Gender Swap
64 min
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Spoiler Specials: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Spoiling the captivating 18th-century French romance.
56 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: Blair Underwood: The Most Charm...
We interviewed Blair Underwood—and yes, we’re (still) in love.
59 min
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Culture Gabfest: Parasite Without a Host
71 min
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Decoder Ring: Friend of Dorothy
When Peter Mac was young, he found solace from his troubles in the voice of Judy Garland. He's now been a Judy Garland impersonator for 17 years.
30 min