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Hang Up: Who Gets to Be a March Madness Folk Hero?
60 min
1152
Care & Feeding: Helping Little Wild Things Lear...
Slate’s parenting podcast on our language about language.
42 min
1153
Working: How to Curate a Small Town Art Museum
Sun Valley Museum of Art curator Courtney Gilbert discusses the unique challenges and thrills of serving a small community.
43 min
1154
ICYMI: Fybrefest, Fake Deaths and Acrylic vs. Wool
Internet culture reporter Morgan Sung takes us through the five messiest scandals of the online knitting and crocheting communities
35 min
1155
A Word: Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price
An assassin ended Medgar Evers’ life. His widow Myrlie Evers-Williams still nurtures his dream.
25 min
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What Next TBD: Reddit’s IPO Gamble
Will the public upvote it?
24 min
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Dear Prudence: My Parents Are Flaunting Their W...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by Slate writer and host Joel Anderson.
26 min
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Working: Finding Your Why
15 min
1159
Culture Gabfest: Kristen Stewart Pumps Iron
This week, the hosts discuss Love Lies Bleeding, Kate Winslet in The Regime, and the ethics of posthumous publishing.
52 min
1160
Outward: Chase Strangio, Continued. Trans Visib...
Part two of our conversation with ACLU Lawyer Chase Strangio
19 min
1161
Well, Now - "People Feel Like They’re Drowning"...
With symptoms ranging from fatigue to cognitive impairment, Long Covid still confounds physicians. It doesn’t help that most of the nation has already moved on.
32 min
1162
ICYMI: Anatomy of a Vasectomy
Plus, why Gypsy Rose Blanchard exited social media and called it the “doorway to hell”
40 min
1163
Hear Me Out: You Probably Don’t Need Therapy Fo...
The point of therapy is to equip you for success on your own.
41 min
1164
How To!: Help a Loved One With Dementia
Tami Anastasia on caring for loved ones at every stage of a difficult journey.
39 min
1165
Death, Sex & Money: A Former Pro Climber On End...
After years of scaling cliffs for a living, Mason Earle was diagnosed with ME/CFS, commonly called chronic fatigue syndrome.
57 min
1166
Hang Up: The NFL’s Quarterback Shuffle
66 min
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Working: From Corporate Job to Broadway Playwright
46 min
1168
Political Gabfest Reads: How Tana French Uses G...
The author’s new book The Hunter is another in a long line of great Tana French crime novels. But for French, the mystery structure has always been a means to an end.
26 min
1169
ICYMI: Reddit is the Real Host of “Love is Blind”
The sixth season of Netflix’s megahit reality tv dating series takes its best cues from Reddit.
40 min
1170
Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 1
A smash remake of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has reminded us of the power of cover songs. But why are hit covers so rare today?
53 min
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Dear Prudence: My Ex Had Sex With My Brother. H...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by author Michael Arceneaux.
33 min
1172
A Word: Black Country Renaissance
After Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” tops charts, the spotlight shines on Black women in country music.
37 min
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What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
Why does this issue snap a dysfunctional Congress into bipartisan agreement?
22 min
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ICYMI: An ICYMI Birthday Spectacular
We’re turning three!
37 min
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Well, Now: Life After Lockdown
After four years and more than a million deaths, is America’s Covid crisis really over?
38 min