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Culture Gabfest: Buttery Soft Leggings
55 min
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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
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Working: How Nichole Perkins Tapped into Memori...
46 min
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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
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Hit Parade: Spirit of ’71, Part 2
The hits of 1971 in a very special episode of Hit Parade, continued.
60 min
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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
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Culture Gabfest: Who Butchered the Goat?
54 min
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Working: How a Book Cover Designer Catches the ...
47 min
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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
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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
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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
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Culture Gabfest: Lash, Pre-Lash, and Parasocial...
55 min
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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
2464
Outward: Summer's Swan Songs
Saying goodbye to Rumaan, good riddance to Grindr, and long live Todd Stephens' Swan Song!
62 min
2465
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
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ICYMI: Who Is Egging Chicago? A Hard-Boiled Det...
An ICYMI investigation into the story behind the Chicago Egg Hunters Facebook group.
24 min
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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
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The Waves: Did Elizabeth Holmes Kill the Concep...
The idea of the #girlboss has been on trial recently, and so is Holmes.
30 min
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Culture Gabfest: 10 Rings, 12 Minutes, and 20 Y...
58 min
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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
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Working: Writing Trivia Questions With LearnedL...
44 min
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ICYMI: Psst! We’ve Got a Secret
The one thing we love more than sharing secrets on the internet is reading the secrets other people have shared.
29 min
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Spoiler Specials: The White Lotus
Dana Stevens, Isaac Butler and Rachel Syme spoil HBO’s The White Lotus.
56 min
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The Waves: What’s Next for TV’s White Guys?
They’ve always been TV’s default protagonists. Where do they go when someone else gets to be the hero?
32 min
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ICYMI: Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Crates
The dangerous viral challenge has swept social media, but where did all these milk crates come from?
26 min