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The Authority: The Tower of the Angels
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Working: Why Writer Ayad Akhtar Reads Shakespea...
47 min
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Culture Gabfest: Happiest Scaffolding
57 min
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The Authority: Theft
39 min
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Working: How Klancy Miller Designs Recipes for ...
35 min
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Spoiler Specials: Happiest Season
Christina Cauterucci and June Thomas spoil a charmingly queer Christmas rom-com.
50 min
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Hit Parade: Friends in Low Places, Part 2
Brooks took on chart competitors from Guns n’ Roses to Madonna to Mariah Carey and bested them all … until he tried taking on the Beatles.
38 min
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Culture Gabfest: Girls on Film
58 min
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The Authority: The Cave
49 min
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Decoder Ring: The Cabbage Patch Kids Riots
How did a children'a toy inspire such bad adult behavior?
31 min
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Working: How Lovecraft Country’s Cinematographe...
46 min
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Culture Gabfest: That Schmoopy Feeling
52 min
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The Authority: The City of Magpies
42 min
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Hit Parade: Friends in Low Places, Part 1
Today your Hit Parade marches to the week ending October 27th, 1990, when “Friends in Low Places” by Garth Brooks was in its fourth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles and Tracks
76 min
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Working: A Look Inside the World's Longest-Runn...
48 min
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Spoiler Specials: Freaky
Sam Adams and Karen Han spoil the new body-switching slasher film Freaky.
35 min
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Culture Gabfest: Endgame
55 min
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Working: Poet Javier Zamora Wants Readers to Kn...
44 min
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Culture Gabfest: Democracy Shaken, Not Stirred
59 min
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Working: How Jane Lynch Strikes the Perfect Lev...
38 min
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Spoiler Specials: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Dana Stevens and Sam Adams spoil the long awaited sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 film, Borat.
53 min
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Hit Parade: Turn Around, Bright Eyes, Part 2
Chris Molanphy continues the story of how Steinman moved on from Meatloaf to emerge as a hitmaker for other artists like Bonnie Tyler with "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Celine Dion with “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”.
52 min
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Culture Gabfest: New Weird America
60 min
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Decoder Ring: Jane Fonda's Workout, Part 2: Han...
How did Hanoi Jane become Exercise Jane?
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Working: Joe Sacco’s Journalistic Comics
The cartoonist and journalist on telling history through comics.
57 min