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Care & Feeding | Preparing Kids for the Worst (...
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ICYMI | The Astronomer CEO Coldplay Cheating Sc...
We break down how an office affair, Chris Martin, and the internet created one of 2025’s best monocultural moments of the year.
40 min
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Outward | From Hit Parade: The Hidden History o...
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Culture Gabfest: Colbert is Cancelled Edition
This week on the show it’s Ari Aster’s Eddington, the new documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, and the alarming cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
59 min
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How To! | Be an Ethical Hater
Slate’s Scaachi Koul on talking trash for the betterment of humankind.
37 min
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Death, Sex & Money | The Elvis Impersonator Tha...
Brendan Paul co-owns the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, which claims to be the site of the world's first Elvis-themed wedding.
31 min
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Hang Up | Golf’s Boring GOAT?
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Care & Feeding | My Only Child Wants a Siblin...
Slate’s parenting podcast on sibling envy, solitude, and seeking connection.
29 min
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ICYMI: The Internet History of Jojo Siwa
The chronically online former children’s entertainer is rebranding (again)
58 min
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Gabfest Reads | A Beach Read for the Outraged
24 min
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Hit Parade | Here’s the Beef Edition Part 1
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.
54 min
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ICYMI | “Gen-Z Stare” and the Log-In Epidemic
Why tech companies force us to log in, download apps, and give our data to access our own services.
46 min
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Decoder Ring | Mailbag: Drug Names, Cow Abducti...
Why aliens might take an interest in livestock, how pharmaceuticals get such wacky names, and more listener questions.
43 min
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Culture Gabfest: Woke Superman Saves the Box Of...
This week, the panel joins the cultural discourse surrounding the new Superman, determines if Too Much is enough, and shares their experience at Viola’s Room, the new immersive theater piece from the creators of Sleep No More.
56 min
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How To! | Get Sweet, Sweet Revenge
Our guide to becoming an antihero begins with the art of getting even.
37 min
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Death, Sex & Money | The Honeymoon That Ended i...
Silvia Camila was returning from her honeymoon when ICE detained her—leaving her new husband, a Trump supporter, to fight for her release.
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Hang Up | Sinner Mows Down Alcaraz on the Grass
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ICYMI | Love Island’s Toxic Relationship With S...
How Love Island USA can learn from the UK franchise’s mistakes.
38 min
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What Next | Stage Managing Sex in Hollywood
The position has experienced a boom in the years after #MeToo—but have they really changed Hollywood?
27 min
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ICYMI | Encore: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
Dazed’s Laura Pitcher on the daily users of ChatGPT who confided in the chatbot as their friend, life organizer, and sometimes, therapist.
36 min
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Culture Gabfest: Sorry, Straight White Male Nov...
This week, the panel wrangle with the tricky to pin down yet compelling traumedy Sorry, Baby, the documentary Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print, and the life and death of the straight white male novelist (as eulogized in a recent New York Times piece).
56 min
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Outward | Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with...
Michael Roberson traces the spiritual, political, and public health roots of the ballroom scene
38 min
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How To! | Stop Giving 110%
Oliver Burkeman on making hard decisions about important things.
38 min
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Death, Sex & Money | What Military Service Duri...
Storyteller Ray Christian, who joined the Army right after the Vietnam War, reflects on why he enlisted and why he didn’t leave for 20 years.
50 min
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Hang Up | The LeBron and Giannis Loyalty Test
Will the NBA’s biggest stars stay or go?
70 min