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Spoiler Specials: Star Trek: Picard
Three Trekkies spoil the newest installment in the sci-fi franchise.
68 min
2352
Thirst Aid Kit: Maximum UST
Unresolved Sexual Tension is the key ingredient for onscreen sparks.
62 min
2353
Culture Gabfest: Walking into the Abyss
63 min
2354
Flashback: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The psychological melodrama starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford became legendary for its campiness.
75 min
2355
Decoder Ring: Rubber Duckie
How did the humble rubber duck become an icon of bath time?
22 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: Thirst Buckets Galore!
Thirsty listeners get their time to shine.
59 min
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Sponsored: The Power of Mentorship with Chefs G...
30 min
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Culture Gabfest: Viral Songs and Quarantine Cul...
65 min
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Spoiler Specials: Contagion
Spoiling the eerily relevant pandemic film from 2011.
47 min
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Culture Gabfest: Cows and Capitalism
75 min
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Spoiler Specials: Onward
Spoiling Pixar’s comedic quest about brothers attempting to bring back the rest of their father.
41 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: Flooding the Basement with Ash...
Ashley Ford talks beards, beef, and Beast Mode.
60 min
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Culture Gabfest: Is Love Blind?
78 min
2364
Decoder Ring: The Shop Around the Corner
The 1998 romantic comedy You've Got Mail starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is about the brutal fight between an independent bookstore, The Shop Around the Corner, and Fox Books, an obvious Barnes & Noble stand-in.
35 min
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Hit Parade: I'm Your Whitney Tonight Edition
86 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: We Love James McAvoy, That’ s All
We want … we want … we want James McAvoy
48 min
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Culture Gabfest: Portrait of Taylor on Fire
73 min
2368
How To!: Write the Perfect Breakup Song with Be...
The master songwriter helps a listener express his feelings.
28 min
2369
Spoiler Specials: Emma.
Marissa Martinelli and Heather Schwedel spoil the Autumn de Wilde adaptation.
53 min
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Thirst Aid Kit: The Deceptive Deference of Cliv...
Clive Owen’s mercurial characters take our breath away
49 min
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Culture Gabfest: Gender Swap
64 min
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Spoiler Specials: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Spoiling the captivating 18th-century French romance.
56 min
2373
Thirst Aid Kit: Blair Underwood: The Most Charm...
We interviewed Blair Underwood—and yes, we’re (still) in love.
59 min
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Culture Gabfest: Parasite Without a Host
71 min
2375
Decoder Ring: Friend of Dorothy
When Peter Mac was young, he found solace from his troubles in the voice of Judy Garland. He's now been a Judy Garland impersonator for 17 years.
30 min