Slate Culture

Get the Culture Gabfest and all of Slate's culture coverage here.

Arts
TV & Film
Music
1951
Culture Gabfest: Explain Crypto to Me Like I'm ...
58 min
1952
ICYMI: A Man Ate Rotisserie Chicken for 40 Days...
38 min
1953
Hang Up: The Astros Are the Champs
76 min
1954
Working: A Poet Demystifies Her Process
45 min
1955
ICYMI: How Are the Midterms Affecting Social Me...
Some politicians really understand how to be online, but most don’t.
33 min
1956
What Next TBD: So How’s It Going, Elon?
From canning executives to a plan to charge for blue checks, Twitter has entered the Musk Era.
25 min
1957
A Word: Gang Bangers with Badges
The podcast, A Tradition of Violence, probes charges of deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
25 min
1958
The Waves: Why Sarah Palin Won’t Go Away
The MAGA celebrity is back in politics and we all have questions.
29 min
1959
Working: Giving Constructive Feedback
25 min
1960
ICYMI: Did Deplatforming Andrew Tate Work?
BuzzFeed’s Ikran Dahir discusses Tate’s wealth, misogyny, and the community he’s built around himself.
34 min
1961
Culture Gabfest: Will Elon Musk Ruin Twitter?
55 min
1962
Hang Up: Goodbye Kyrie
68 min
1963
What Next TBD: Big Brother, Big Tech and China
COVID may be an inflection point in the relationship between the surveillance state and the surveilled.
38 min
1964
Working: How a Songwriter Gets in the Zone
45 min
1965
ICYMI: Inside the Online Life of a Health & Wel...
Opening up journalist Julia Craven’s internet diary.
33 min
1966
Hit Parade: Give Up the Funk Edition Part 2
48 min
1967
Spoiler Specials: House of the Dragon
Fire, blood, and the Real Housewives of Westeros.
22 min
1968
What Next TBD: Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
No matter what Elon Musk does, Twitter will never be the same
36 min
1969
A Word: Jim Crow’s Killers
By Hands Now Known: Resurrecting stories of segregation’s brutality.
22 min
1970
The Waves: Hocus Pocus Has No Focus
The Sanderson Sisters are back, but our reaction to witches has evolved.
30 min
1971
ICYMI: How a Lesbian Emu Influencer Got Milksha...
The owner of Emmanuel the emu posted online last week about her sick bird, but then the story took a turn.
34 min
1972
Culture Gabfest: Two Severed Thumbs Up
56 min
1973
Hang Up: What Happened to Russell Wilson?
73 min
1974
1986: The Man From Fifth Avenue
The stranger-than-fiction story of a mysterious American who starred in a Soviet propaganda film.
53 min
1975
Working: How an Abbott Elementary Episode is Born
50 min