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Working: How Actor Blair Underwood Gets Inside ...
43 min
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ICYMI: So You’ve Been Banned on Twitter
A quest to recover an account. Plus, a galaxy-brain take on the word cheugy.
26 min
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A Word: A Black Nerd Star Rises in Hollywood
With roles in Amazon Prime’s The Underground Railroad, and the rom-com We Broke Up, actor William Jackson Harper is in a good place.
21 min
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Culture Gabfest: Hard Sci-Fi
58 min
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ICYMI: The Price of Fan Fiction
Answering your questions about a regrettable TikTok meme (respectfully!) and the latest controversies around Archive of Our Own.
27 min
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Working: Alison Bechdel’s Secrets to Superhuman...
49 min
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ICYMI: There’s a Chadwick Boseman NFT?
Plus, by popular demand, the return of High-Speed Downloads.
22 min
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Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 2
Chris Molanphy's analysis of Taylor Swift's masterful country-to-pop crossover, continued.
49 min
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Spoiler Specials: Mortal Kombat
Karen Han and Matthew Dessem spoil the new action/fantasy movie Mortal Kombat.
41 min
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A Word: Get Ready, Playa One
“Storymodebae” on how Black women creatives are taking online video gaming to the next level.
19 min
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ICYMI: How Babby Is Formed
An elegy for Yahoo Answers, with the creator of one of the videos that helped make it famous.
28 min
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Culture Gabfest: Monster Boss
55 min
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Working: How Stuart Gibbs Writes Mysteries for ...
44 min
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ICYMI: “Body Positivity” Is Meaningless
What started as a movement advocating for fat acceptance has been diluted into a useless buzzword.
26 min
2140
Outward: Lesbians in Paris … and in Period Dramas
Diana Souhami on her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians.
69 min
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Culture Gabfest: Organized Crime
58 min
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ICYMI: What We Tok About When We Tok About Piss
A deep dive into PissTok—and what its popularity says about the memeification of kink.
24 min
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Working: How Jed Mercurio Makes Realistic TV Dr...
42 min
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ICYMI: Will You Accept This SponCon?
The war between social media and socially conservative values that’s at the heart of The Bachelor.
26 min
2145
Hit Parade: Taylor’s Version of Country, Part 1
At the turn of the ’10s, Taylor Swift pulled off a masterful country-to-pop crossover, ruling two genres at once.
50 min
2146
Spoiler Specials: Godzilla vs. Kong
Allegra Frank and Matthew Dessem spoil the action-packed Godzilla vs. Kong.
65 min
2147
Culture Gabfest: Sleeps With the Fishes
60 min
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ICYMI: A Vaccine Is Not a Personality
The memes and merch inspired by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson are not helping the fight against COVID.
26 min
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Slate Money: Movies: Working Girl
37 min
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Working: What Healthcare Workers Can Teach Us A...
46 min