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Care & Feeding | What Your Kid’s Skin Really Needs
Slate’s parenting podcast on popping “big pimple”.
48 min
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Culture Gabfest: Cate Blanchett Is a Sexy Super...
This week, the hosts discuss Black Bag, Deli Boys, and the enduring legacy of Dave Eggers’ memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
64 min
178
Outward | Should We Get Guns?
39 min
179
ICYMI | Are New York City Influencers Boring?
Or are we just following the wrong creators?
37 min
180
How To! | Discover Music You’ll Love
Derrick Gee on rekindling your love for sonic adventure.
44 min
181
Death, Sex & Money | Life After Blowing It All ...
In 2020, we talked to “Ethan” about cheating on his wife with sex workers. We called him back to see what happened after we stopped recording.
43 min
182
What Next | Is this the End of Sesame Street?
How the struggles of a once universally beloved children’s show are emblematic of a larger cultural shift.
25 min
183
Hang Up | Tiger's Last Round?
Will the legendary golfer finally retire following another devastating injury?
50 min
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Care & Feeding | Does My Baby Have Separation A...
Slate’s parenting podcast on very secure attachment.
25 min
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ICYMI: Hacktivism, Slacktivism, and (Cybertruck...
The digital resistance is back.
24 min
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Gabfest Reads | The Day the Challenger Fell Fro...
Adam Higginbotham’s new book delves deep into the tragedy of the Challenger explosion and the impact the disaster has had on American culture.
32 min
187
Hit Parade | Singing Nuns and Green Tambourines...
The 1960s will always be associated with counterculture and the Summer of Love, but the decade’s pop charts were full of novelty, schlock and bubblegum.
47 min
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Dear Prudence | I Don’t Like Being My Coworker’...
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by Heather McMahan.
33 min
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Care & Feeding | Should I Keep My Kid’s Secrets?
Slate’s parenting podcast on “please don’t tell dad.”
31 min
190
Supercommunicators | 3. How to Have the Hardest...
The inside story of how Netflix encouraged employees to talk about the hard stuff.
29 min
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Decoder Ring | Truck Nutz (Encore)
Why would someone dangle plastic testicles from their bumper?
34 min
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Culture Gabfest: Meghan Markle Sprinkles Potpou...
This week, the hosts discuss Mickey 17, Netflix’s With Love, Meghan, and the plague of the white homes.
67 min
193
ICYMI: What’s Going On with Alabama Barker and ...
Why a nepo baby and an internet meme have been fighting online using Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s diss track template.
37 min
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Outward | Why Love Isn’t Apolitical: Liberation...
Bryan Lowder sits down with Dean Spade to talk about his new book Love in A F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
36 min
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How To! | Lose Your ‘Virginity’ at 43
Nicole Hardy, author of Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin, on leaning into curiosity and pleasure.
41 min
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Death, Sex & Money | Call It ‘A Midlife Awakening’
Anna talks to writer Ada Calhoun and comedian Rosebud Baker about some of life’s big transitional moments: motherhood, divorce, and following crushes.
51 min
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Hang Up | UNC’s March Sadness
The Tar Heels continue to flounder while Duke dominates.
56 min
198
Care & Feeding | I’m Dating A Single Mom
Slate’s parenting podcast on meeting the kids.
27 min
199
What Next | Til Trump Do Us Part
How husbands’ votes for Donald Trump threw whole relationships into question.
23 min
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ICYMI: Does This Makeup Make Me Look Republican?
Conservative influencers are coming out of hiding—and heading to Nashville.
26 min