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Thirst Aid Kit: Next Stop: Penn Badgley
From Easy A to Netflix blockbuster You, Penn Badgley has a bit of everything we like
50 min
2377
Culture Gabfest: Boingity Boing Music
72 min
2378
Decoder Ring: The Stowe-Byron Controversy
When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an exposé of Lord Byron's incestuous affair in 1869, it nearly destroyed The Atlantic Monthly, and threw the reputations of two literary icons into chaos.
38 min
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Hit Parade: The White and Nerdy Edition
Novelty songs were a tough way to make a music career. Until one self-proclaimed Weird guy turned parodies into pop classics.
84 min
2380
Thirst Aid Kit: TAK Takes Sundance
Daniel Dae Kim and Kendrick Sampson turn up the heat in Park City
51 min
2381
Culture Gabfest: Making Mat
67 min
2382
Flashback: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The psychological thriller that swept the big Oscar awards that year and had audiences screaming in theaters.
10 min
2383
Culture Gabfest: Half for Me, Half for You
56 min
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Culture Gabfest: "Royal Pain In The Arse" Edition
54 min
2385
Spoiler Specials: The Witcher
Should you toss a coin to your witcher?
44 min
2386
Culture Gabfest: The Secret Mailbox
73 min
2387
Spoiler Specials: Cats
Sam Adams and Marissa Martinelli come to the jellicle ball to spoil Cats.
45 min
2388
Culture Gabfest: "Welcome to Slaht Ploos, Books...
77 min
2389
Spoiler Specials: Little Women
Dana Stevens and Rachel Syme spoil Little Women
59 min
2390
Culture Gabfest: "Call Us, Definitely" Edition
Steve, Dana, and Julia take listeners' questions
66 min
2391
The Authority: Betrayal
56 min
2392
Outward: Special Episode: The Inheritance
A multigenerational roundtable of gay men discuss Matthew Lopez's epic play
53 min
2393
Hit Parade: Make My Wish Come True Edition
70 min
2394
Spoiler Specials: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The Ninth, and Final, Episode of the Skywalker Saga
76 min
2395
Thirst Aid Kit: The 2019 Thirst Report
From luscious eyebrows to chunky sweaters, a look back at the key moments of thirst in 2019.
57 min
2396
Culture Gabfest: "Peloton Prisoner" Edition
TV Club, Mariah Carey, and the Peloton Ad
61 min
2397
The Authority: The Fight to the Death
50 min
2398
Spoiler Specials: Uncut Gems
Dana Stevens, Jeffrey Bloomer and Heather Schwedel spoil Uncut Gems
60 min
2399
Thirst Aid Kit: Randall Park: He Has the Range
Randall Park shows us why he’ll always be our baby
48 min
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Culture Gabfest: Impenetrable Façade Edition
66 min