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What Next: TBD | Who Owns TikTok Now?
25 min
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Care & Feeding | The Great Onesie Debate
36 min
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ICYMI | RIP to MTV's Catfish: Caught, But Never...
What nine seasons of Catfish taught us about the internet, fantasy world building, and our ultimate desire for connection.
33 min
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Culture Gabfest: One Banger After Another Edition
This week, the panel report to duty for One Battle After Another, Long Story Short, and a discussion of the troubled economics of Broadway.
59 min
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How To! | Quit IVF (and Start a New Chapter)
Poet Ada Limón offers advice to a listener facing a detour on the road to parenthood.
38 min
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Death, Sex & Money | Why Job Hunting Feels So G...
A.I. recruiters. Endless online portals. Openings that were never meant to be filled. Welcome to “Job Search Hell.”
46 min
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Hang Up | America's Trumpy Ryder Cup Flop
Kevin Van Valkenburg on the embarrassing, raucous, and painfully American display that was the Ryder Cup
66 min
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Care & Feeding | What to Say to Your Kids When ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on boundaries, stigma, and protecting your progress.
35 min
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ICYMI | Jimmy Kimmel & The Death Of Free Speech...
Reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death are being censored, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
48 min
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Hit Parade | Toppermost of the Poppermost Editi...
The odd alchemy that sends a brand-new song to the top of the charts.
51 min
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Care & Feeding | Demystifying Car Seat Safety
Slate’s parenting podcast on every question you could possibly have on keeping your kid safe in the car.
59 min
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ICYMI | Hank Green Started a War With Knitters
Plus, who asked for the return of the internet’s least favorite wife guy, and did we get raptured?
41 min
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Decoder Ring | Why Do Actors Act Like They Can ...
57 min
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Culture Gabfest: Jimmy Kimmel Is Back—Sort Of— ...
On this week’s show, the panel takes up HBO’s Task, the indie birding doc Listers, and the cancelling and subsequent uncancelling of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
57 min
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How To! | Update: Losing Your ‘Virginity’ at 43
Plus, advice on returning to books—and an impromptu How To! pitch meeting.
42 min
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Death, Sex & Money | From Brazilian Butt Lifts ...
Listeners share stories about stopping or starting beauty interventions, from $43,000 in plastic surgery to choosing to go gray.
60 min
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Hang Up | The Year Without Caitlin Clark
How well have the Indiana Fever and the WNBA navigated a season without the superstar?
63 min
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Care & Feeding | The 25 Best Picture Books of t...
Slate’s parenting podcast on timeless kids’ stories
35 min
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ICYMI | Nobody Wants To Party Anymore
Staying in is the new going out, and our phones might be to blame.
41 min
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Gabfest Reads | The Recent Past of Prison Punis...
21 min
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What Next: TBD | A Very Online Shooter
The memes that came before, and the memes that were made after.
32 min
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Care & Feeding | Guiding Kids Through Hard-to-E...
31 min
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ICYMI | The Funniest Guy on Slate's Slack
Slate senior writer Ben Mathis-Lilley shares his Internet Diaries.
45 min
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Culture Gabfest: Can Spinal Tap Still Go to 11 ...
On this week’s show, the panel talks Spinal Tap II, the soapy new series The Girlfriend, and the legacy of Robert Redford.
65 min
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How To! | Use Hypnosis
Dr. David Spiegel on the benefits of a highly focused state of mind.
50 min