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2301
ICYMI: TikTok’s Couch Guy Is Not Your Friend
Not every video posted on social media is an invitation to invade strangers’ personal lives.
22 min
2302
Working: Designing Costumes for Steve Martin an...
51 min
2303
ICYMI: Scam Goddess on the Worst Fraud She Ever...
Laci Mosley dishes about Shaun King, Karen Civil, and her own hilarious scam experiences.
29 min
2304
Spoiler Specials: The Many Saints of Newark
Dana Stevens and Alan Sepinwall spoil the Sopranos prequel.
47 min
2305
The Waves; Does the New Clinton Impeachment Sho...
The new Ryan Murphy show American Crime Story: Impeachment attempts to give Monica Lewinsky a voice.
37 min
2306
Culture Gabfest: Buttery Soft Leggings
55 min
2307
ICYMI: Is “Soaking” a Real Mormon Sex Thing?
Plus the return of High Speed Downloads, this time about de-aged Ben Platt and killer whales.
26 min
2308
Working: How Nichole Perkins Tapped into Memori...
46 min
2309
ICYMI: Who’s the Little Lad Who Loves Berries a...
And where did all these remixes of rapper Cupcakke’s “Vagina,” come from?
25 min
2310
Hit Parade: Spirit of ’71, Part 2
The hits of 1971 in a very special episode of Hit Parade, continued.
60 min
2311
ICYMI: Did TikTok Find Gabby Petito, or Exploit...
After an aspiring Instagram influencer mysteriously disappeared, she became the TikTok true crime community’s newest obsession.
33 min
2312
Culture Gabfest: Who Butchered the Goat?
54 min
2313
Working: How a Book Cover Designer Catches the ...
47 min
2314
ICYMI: The Dark Subreddit of Men’s Rights Asians
An offshoot of the red pill community, these men focus on attacking Asian women and stoking anti-Black sentiment.
26 min
2315
Spoiler Specials: Shang-Chi and the Legend of t...
Allegra Frank and Sam Adams spoil the new Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
54 min
2316
The Waves: Where Have All The Teen Magazines Go...
CosmoGirl? Gone. Teen Vogue? Online only. What does that mean for the next generation of women?
34 min
2317
ICYMI: Who’s Left Out of Amazon’s LulaRoe Doc?
LulaRich focuses on the women who were hurt by LulaRoe’s predatory practices, but completely ignores the women in the clothing supply chain.
27 min
2318
Culture Gabfest: Lash, Pre-Lash, and Parasocial...
55 min
2319
Outward: Summer's Swan Songs
Saying goodbye to Rumaan, good riddance to Grindr, and long live Todd Stephens' Swan Song!
62 min
2320
Working: How Morgan Rhodes Syncs Music to Picture
The music supervisor breaks down the process of selecting and securing songs for films like Selma and Space Jam: A New Legacy.
47 min
2321
ICYMI: Who Is Egging Chicago? A Hard-Boiled Det...
An ICYMI investigation into the story behind the Chicago Egg Hunters Facebook group.
24 min
2322
Hit Parade: Spirit of ’71, Part 1
Did music 50 years ago really “change everything”? How a new generation of singer-songwriters rebooted the charts.
67 min
2323
The Waves: Did Elizabeth Holmes Kill the Concep...
The idea of the #girlboss has been on trial recently, and so is Holmes.
30 min
2324
Culture Gabfest: 10 Rings, 12 Minutes, and 20 Y...
58 min
2325
ICYMI: We’ve Got Mail: Emoji Hearts, #YoungerSe...
And questions about other TikTok trends, and whatever happened to the cinnamon toast shrimp guy.
28 min