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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
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Care & Feeding | Preparing Kids for the Worst (...
35 min
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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?
54 min
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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
166
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
168
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
170
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.
49 min
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Hang Up | Sinner Mows Down Alcaraz on the Grass
76 min
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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