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Thirst Aid Kit: Flooding the Basement with Ash...
Ashley Ford talks beards, beef, and Beast Mode.
60 min
2677
Culture Gabfest: Is Love Blind?
78 min
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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
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How To!: Write the Perfect Breakup Song with Be...
The master songwriter helps a listener express his feelings.
28 min
2683
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
2690
Thirst Aid Kit: Next Stop: Penn Badgley
From Easy A to Netflix blockbuster You, Penn Badgley has a bit of everything we like
50 min
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Culture Gabfest: Boingity Boing Music
72 min
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Decoder Ring: The Stowe-Byron Controversy
When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an exposé of Lord Byron's incestuous affair in 1869, it nearly destroyed The Atlantic Monthly, and threw the reputations of two literary icons into chaos.
38 min
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Hit Parade: The White and Nerdy Edition
Novelty songs were a tough way to make a music career. Until one self-proclaimed Weird guy turned parodies into pop classics.
84 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: TAK Takes Sundance
Daniel Dae Kim and Kendrick Sampson turn up the heat in Park City
51 min
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Culture Gabfest: Making Mat
67 min
2696
Flashback: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The psychological thriller that swept the big Oscar awards that year and had audiences screaming in theaters.
10 min
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Culture Gabfest: Half for Me, Half for You
56 min
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Culture Gabfest: "Royal Pain In The Arse" Edition
54 min
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Spoiler Specials: The Witcher
Should you toss a coin to your witcher?
44 min
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Culture Gabfest: The Secret Mailbox
73 min