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Culture Gabfest: Plastic Stormtrooper Codpiece
58 min
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Hang Up: Linsanity Redux
76 min
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Writer-Director Patrick Marber on Working With ...
“It’s weird until it’s not.”
48 min
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ICYMI: What Makes Online Advice Good?
Slate’s Dear Prudence is here to talk about giving advice online and why everybody likes to chime in with their own opinion.
35 min
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Hit Parade: Give Up the Funk Edition Part 1
48 min
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Spoiler Specials: Halloween Ends
Slate's Sam Adams and Jeffrey Bloomer spoil Michael's last ride.
25 min
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A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
Talking about the intersection of technology and the social sciences with Ruha Benjamin.
27 min
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The Waves: Why the Law Cares About Your Sex
In Paisley Currah’s new book Sex Is As Sex Does, he asks: why do we classify people based on their sexual identity?
31 min
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Culture Gabfest: Mansplaining Marilyn
Slate’s Culture Gabfest on Blonde, Reboot, and the legacy of Loretta Lynn.
49 min
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ICYMI: The Internet Is an Invisible Force
The hosts of NPR’s Invisibilia on how the internet shapes the world around them.
32 min
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Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime...
Did a trench-coat wearing dog’s catchy anti-drug anthems actually work?
42 min
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Hang Up: Wembanyama Mania
80 min
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Working: Movie Poster Design, With Artist Drusi...
42 min
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ICYMI: The Bling Ring Wasn’t Possible Without t...
The new Netflix documentary on the Bling Ring reveals just how savvy and desperate for fame these thieves were.
32 min
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A Word: Bleeding Heart on the Bayou
Interview With the Vampire actor Jacob Anderson sinks his teeth into an iconic role.
21 min
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The Waves: Why Are We Obsessed With Queens?
From real queens to fictional ones, we just can’t seem to get enough.
24 min
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Working: Pitching Fiction
25 min
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ICYMI: Why an Orthodox Jewish Boys Choir Is Goi...
Everybody on TikTok is bopping to pop music in Hebrew right now.
31 min
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Culture Gabfest: Heteronormative Nonsense
54 min
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Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime...
The unlikely origins of the trench-coat wearing bloodhound who tackled personal safety, guns and drugs.
32 min
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Hang Up: Who’s to Blame for Tua’s Head Injury?
86 min
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Working: Author Annie Duke Explains How to Get ...
51 min
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ICYMI: BuzzFeed Set the Try Guys Up to Fail
The recent news about Ned Fulmer’s infidelity reveals how BuzzFeed trapped them in specific and limiting online identities.
37 min
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Hit Parade: At Last, My Legacy Has Come Along E...
59 min
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A Word: The Case for Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory isn’t taught in public schools. Should it be?
23 min