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Care & Feeding | Becoming a Parent Is a Process
Slate’s parenting podcast on the early years.
38 min
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ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Two recent rulings spell bad news for creatives.
40 min
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Care & Feeding | Comebacks For “I’m Bored”
Slate’s parenting podcast on there being, as ever, nothing to do.
35 min
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Decoder Ring | The White Noise Boom
There’s more white noise available than any one person could possibly need. And yet, more keeps coming.
48 min
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ICYMI | The Most Famous Facelift on TikTok
What a woman’s viral trip to Guadalajara and Kylie Jenner’s boob job reveal say about the current state of plastic surgery discourse online.
29 min
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Culture Gabfest: Brad Pitt’s Victory Lap Edition
This week, the panel powers up their engines for the racing blockbuster F1: The Movie, the British game show Taskmaster, and the New York Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century interactive feature.
58 min
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How To! | Start Reading Books Again (Encore)
Maryanne Wolf on the science of the reading brain.
34 min
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Death, Sex & Money | Baywatch Made Me World Fam...
Alexandra Paul's fan encounter turned dangerous. What she learned could help other celebrities.
49 min
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Hang Up | The Caitlin Clark Dilemma
How high expectations for the Indiana Fever star have captivated and polarized the WNBA.
61 min
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Care & Feeding | What Counts as Screentime?
Slate’s parenting podcast on the gray area.
34 min
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ICYMI | How Coming Out Videos Changed YouTube
We sit down with YouTuber Ingrid Nilsen to reflect on the 10-year anniversary of her most popular video to date.
44 min
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Hit Parade | Mighty Real Edition Part 2
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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Care & Feeding | DOGE Cut My Job. How Do I Tell...
Slate’s parenting podcast on coming home.
42 min
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Care & Feeding | DOGE Cut My Job. How Do I Tell...
Slate’s parenting podcast on coming home.
42 min
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ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Wil...
Behind the scenes at VidCon—and 20 years of YouTube.
41 min
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Culture Gabfest: Daddygang Rage Virus Edition
This week, the panel unspool all the allegorical viscera of 28 Years Later, the Alex Cooper documentary Call Her Alex, and Haim’s new album I quit.
58 min
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Outward | The Latest on Trans Rights in the Cou...
48 min
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How To! | Balance Mind, Body—and iPhone
Molly Caro May on the somatic approach to changing our dependency on our devices.
35 min
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Death, Sex & Money | Allison Williams on Botox,...
The actress best known for Girls, Get Out, and M3GAN joins Anna live onstage with some special guests from Gen Z.
69 min
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Hang Up: This NBA Final Was About the Losers
57 min
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Care & Feeding | My Tween Girls Are Jealous of ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on sisterly love.
50 min
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ICYMI | Is Partiful Cancelled?
How Gen-Z’s favorite event invite app got into hot water and why there just isn’t a good online invitation option anymore.
33 min
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Gabfest Reads | Alison Bechdel Explains Selling...
27 min
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ICYMI: The Content Creators Crashing the Diddy ...
And why they’re beating legacy media at their own game.
43 min
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Decoder Ring | The Boston Cinematic Universe
43 min