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ICYMI | Why Online Whisper Networks Never Work
The Tea app betrayed the women it was supposed to keep safe.
40 min
2
What Next: TBD | The Death of an Online Whisper...
Your safety? There isn’t an app for that.
25 min
3
Care & Feeding | I Need Them To Stop. Right Now
How Do I Get My Kid To Stop When It Matters?
31 min
4
ICYMI | Astronomer Updates, Jessie Murph, and D...
What’s going on with Astronomer? Why is the internet mad at singer Jessie Murph? And what’s up with this fake TikTok cult?
40 min
5
Decoder Ring | The Bad-Mouthing of British Teeth
46 min
6
Culture Gabfest: Trump Goes on Down to South Pa...
On this week’s show: the retrofuturism of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the global phenomenon that is KPop Demon Hunters, and the politically explosive premiere of the new season of South Park.
57 min
7
How To! | Gossip for Good
Normal Gossip’s Rachelle Hampton spills the tea on … spilling the tea.
43 min
8
Death, Sex & Money | The Real-Life Willy Wonka ...
N.D. Austin is an “experience designer” who creates custom-made rituals, for celebrities and the rest of us.
51 min
9
Hang Up | Chaos Inside the NFLPA
55 min
10
Care & Feeding | Making Space for Messy Feelings
Slate’s parenting podcast on why emotional honesty beats toxic positivity.
27 min
11
What Next: TBD | Dupes!
Is your skincare/skirt/vacation island as good as the real thing?
29 min
12
ICYMI | Calico Critters Are Beefing Thanks To T...
Fans are enraged by a lawsuit targeting the popular satirical account SlyvanianDrama.
39 min
13
What Next: TBD | A Colbert Report
How Trump didn’t (and did) get Stephen Colbert cancelled.
21 min
14
Hit Parade | Here's The Beef Edition Part 2
The Kendrick-Drake feud made it all the way to the Super Bowl, but pop star beefs go back to the earliest days of wax.
59 min
15
Care & Feeding | Preparing Kids for the Worst (...
35 min
16
ICYMI | The Astronomer CEO Coldplay Cheating Sc...
We break down how an office affair, Chris Martin, and the internet created one of 2025’s best monocultural moments of the year.
40 min
17
Culture Gabfest: Colbert is Cancelled Edition
This week on the show it’s Ari Aster’s Eddington, the new documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, and the alarming cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
59 min
18
Outward | From Hit Parade: The Hidden History o...
57 min
19
How To! | Be an Ethical Hater
Slate’s Scaachi Koul on talking trash for the betterment of humankind.
37 min
20
Death, Sex & Money | The Elvis Impersonator Tha...
Brendan Paul co-owns the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, which claims to be the site of the world's first Elvis-themed wedding.
31 min
21
Hang Up | Golf’s Boring GOAT?
54 min
22
Care & Feeding | My Only Child Wants a Siblin...
Slate’s parenting podcast on sibling envy, solitude, and seeking connection.
29 min
23
Gabfest Reads | A Beach Read for the Outraged
24 min
24
ICYMI: The Internet History of Jojo Siwa
The chronically online former children’s entertainer is rebranding (again)
58 min
25
Hit Parade | Here’s the Beef Edition Part 1
The Kendrick-Drake feud made it all the way to the Super Bowl, but pop star beefs go back to the earliest days of wax.
54 min