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What Next: TBD | Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop
No singer, no songwriter, all slop…but paid equally.
26 min
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ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Cl...
Two podcast hosts versus one Slate writer…
47 min
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Care & Feeding | My Kid is Not a Helper
Slate’s parenting podcast on making “helping” a habit
23 min
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ICYMI | Your Next Favorite Book Will Be Fanfiction
Why is fanfiction going mainstream, and did someone leave their Labubu on Karl Marx’s grave?
42 min
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Culture Gabfest: Summer Strut 2025 Edition
On this week’s show, it’s finally time to reveal the rollicking, warm-weather playlist of pure bops generated by you, our listeners. It’s Summer Strut 2025!
77 min
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Outward | From Hit Parade: The Hidden History o...
From Little Richard to Chappell Roan, queer artists have always been vanguards of pop, even when they have not been out.
59 min
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How To! | Let Go of ADHD Shame
Dr. Sarah Wheeler on loving your ADHD brain—and letting go of perfection.
43 min
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Death, Sex & Money | How the Ultra-Rich Think…a...
Writer Evan Osnos guides us into the bizarre world of the “haves and the have-yachts.”
55 min
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Hang Up | Trump vs. the IOC
International athletes keep getting caught up in Trump’s immigration policies. Could kicking out athletes draw the ire of the Olympic Committee – and imperil L.A. 2028?
52 min
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Care & Feeding | How Busy Is Too Busy?
Slate’s parenting podcast on keeping family time sacred amid endless activities.
19 min
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Slate Money | Money Travels: The Eternal Baggag...
14 min
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ICYMI | Why Online Whisper Networks Never Work
The Tea app betrayed the women it was supposed to keep safe.
40 min
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What Next: TBD | The Death of an Online Whisper...
Your safety? There isn’t an app for that.
25 min
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Care & Feeding | I Need Them To Stop. Right Now
How Do I Get My Kid To Stop When It Matters?
31 min
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ICYMI | Astronomer Updates, Jessie Murph, and D...
What’s going on with Astronomer? Why is the internet mad at singer Jessie Murph? And what’s up with this fake TikTok cult?
40 min
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Decoder Ring | The Bad-Mouthing of British Teeth
46 min
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Culture Gabfest: Trump Goes on Down to South Pa...
On this week’s show: the retrofuturism of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the global phenomenon that is KPop Demon Hunters, and the politically explosive premiere of the new season of South Park.
57 min
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How To! | Gossip for Good
Normal Gossip’s Rachelle Hampton spills the tea on … spilling the tea.
43 min
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Death, Sex & Money | The Real-Life Willy Wonka ...
N.D. Austin is an “experience designer” who creates custom-made rituals, for celebrities and the rest of us.
51 min
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Hang Up | Chaos Inside the NFLPA
55 min
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Care & Feeding | Making Space for Messy Feelings
Slate’s parenting podcast on why emotional honesty beats toxic positivity.
27 min
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What Next: TBD | Dupes!
Is your skincare/skirt/vacation island as good as the real thing?
29 min
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ICYMI | Calico Critters Are Beefing Thanks To T...
Fans are enraged by a lawsuit targeting the popular satirical account SlyvanianDrama.
39 min
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What Next: TBD | A Colbert Report
How Trump didn’t (and did) get Stephen Colbert cancelled.
21 min
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Hit Parade | Here's The Beef Edition Part 2
The Kendrick-Drake feud made it all the way to the Super Bowl, but pop star beefs go back to the earliest days of wax.
59 min