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Decoder Ring | Cozy Autumn Mysteries
Autumn may have more cozy signifiers than any other season—though we all have our own favorites. Maybe for you it’s sweater weather, football games, s...
Culture Gabfest: Lily Allen’s Revenge Tour Edition
On this week’s show, Steve, Dana, and Julia pull up proverbially barstools at Sardi’s to discuss Richard Linklater’s latest film Blue Moon, which is a...
ICYMI | The Alarm Clock That Woke Up #DemonTok
On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate contributing editor Angelina Mazza to explain why Christian creators are throwing away their H...
How To! | Talk to Contractors (With Sam Sanders and Mercury Stardust)
Sam Sanders is many things: journalist, podcaster, pop-culture obsessive, and a familiar voice from public radio. He’s also ”quite possibly the world'...
Death, Sex & Money | After SNL, Ego Nwodim Has Her Weekends Back
This September when SNL announced its season 51 cast, Ego Nwodim made the cut. Then, just days later, she announced on social media that she was leavi...
Care & Feeding | Everything You Need to Know About Homeschooling
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen dig into homeschooling kids. They bring on special guest Julie Bogart from Brave Writer...
ICYMI: Can The Internet Save Animation?
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by producer Vic Whitley-Berry, whose favorite animated shows like Hazbin Hotel have been funded by the...
ICYMI | Halloween Used to Be Fun Online
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Jonquilyn Hill, host of Vox’s Explain It To Me podcast. The pair chat about how the internet used t...
Culture Gabfest: Netflix Goes Nuclear with A House of Dynamite Edition
On this week’s show, Dana is joined by fellow movie critics Amy Nicholson of The Los Angeles Times and Slate’s Sam Adams for an all-film edition of th...
Hang Up | The NBA’s Growing Gambling Affair
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh discuss the federal indictments of NBA players and coaches for gambling incidents and how the ub...
Care & Feeding | My Kid is Saying 6-7…Can I Say It Too?
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are joined by ICYMI host Kate Lindsay to discuss viral slang like “67” and “41” and what...
ICYMI | TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by writer and streamer Laura Kate Dale to talk about what happened to Emiru at this year’s TwitchCon....
Care & Feeding | “It’s Not Easy!” Parenting After a Bad Fight.
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen have a triple…fail. Lucy clapped back to her teen, Elizabeth said the thing to her kids...
ICYMI | The Streamer and the Shock Collar
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate staff writer Luke Winkie to talk about Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who some viewers have acc...
Decoder Ring | The Red String Board Conspiracy
There’s a ubiquitous prop in just about every police procedural and conspiracy thriller: a cork board pinned with documents, newspaper clippings, and...
Culture Gabfest Slate Plus Preview: Jad Abumrad Inquires How We Make the Gabfest
This is a special preview of this week's Slate Plus episode. To get the full episode, another one like it every single week, and unlimited reading on...
Culture Gabfest: Guillermo del Toro Can Take Frankenstein Off His Bucket List Edition
On this week’s show, Dana, Steve, and Julia step into the gothic, visually rich world of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. It’s been years in the mak...
How To! | Survive Getting Fired
If you recently lost your job—or think you might lose it soon—Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill are here to help! On this episode of How To!, Carvell W...
Hang Up | Nate Silver and the NFL's Year of Parity
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh are joined by Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight and Silver Bulletin, to discuss his new NF...
Hang Up | Nate Silver and the NFL's Year of Parity
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh are joined by Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight and Silver Bulletin, to discuss his new NF...
Care & Feeding | Is Gaming Taking Over Boys’ Lives?
On this episode: Friend of the show Jamilah Lemieux tackles helping kids get a better night's sleep. She’s joined by gentle sleep coach Macall Gordon....
What Next: TBD | Why Bands Are Leaving Spotify
Paying a fraction of a penny per stream and diminishing the value of music were bad enough for Xiu Xiu, but when Spotify owner Daniel Ek announced an...
ICYMI | Candice Lim Logs Off
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay celebrate Candice’s three years at ICYMI, and send her off onto her next chapter. They talk Dan...
Hit Parade | If You Love Sting, Set Him Free Edition Part 1
Walk into any store or flip on a radio, and you’ll probably hear the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” sooner or later. Thanks to that ubiquity, the sw...
What Next: TBD | Inside the MAGA Content Mill
As Trump throws out journalists and outlets that report anything negative about him, he’s limiting access to a group of right-wing influencers who wor...
Care & Feeding | Make My Kid Eat, Please!
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are tackling picky eating. They’re joined by Jennifer Anderson from Kids Eat In Color to...
ICYMI | Stop Trying To Make A.I. Trendy
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay get into tech’s latest effort to turn A.I. into a status symbol. Anthropic has been pushing “Thinking” caps into the tren...
Culture Gabfest: Channing Tatum on the Lam Edition
On this week’s episode, Julia and Steve are joined by guest host Rebecca Onion to admire and puzzle over the magnetic appeal of Channing Tatum in Roof...
Hang Up | How the Ceasefire Keeps Israel in European Soccer
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh are joined by the Times’s Martyn Ziegler to explain the ripple effects of the Gaza ceasefire on...
Care & Feeding | A Tooth Fairy Fail
On this episode: Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth joins Zak Rosen and Elizabeth Newcamp to debate wedding ceremony etiquette. A listener’s kid is the...
ICYMI | Taylor Swift Is Rewriting Her Internet History
Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim wade through the negative reactions to Taylor Swift’s album The Life of a Showgirl. From outdated meme references to clun...
Decoder Ring | What the Cuck?!
Earlier this year, a tweet went out from the official account of the Democratic Party, tagging the Trump advisor Stephen Miller. It was an image of wh...
Culture Gabfest: The Rock Goes for the Oscar Edition
On this week’s show, our fighters Steve, Julia, and Dana enter the ring to tussle over The Smashing Machine, the Dwayne Johnson vehicle directed by Be...
How To! | Raise a Boy
Jen is raising a pretty stellar 9-year-old son. With his tween and teen years on the horizon, she wants to steer him toward kindness, acceptance, and...
Death, Sex & Money | A War Photographer on the Limits of Bearing Witness
Photojournalist Peter Van Agtmael once believed war images could change the world. But after two decades documenting violence, his views and soul were...
Hang Up | Everything Is Sports Betting
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh speak to Slate’s Nitish Pahwa about prediction markets and the legally gray future of gambling....
Care & Feeding | Help! I'm Touched Out By My Kids.
On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen have a question from a mom who is TOUCHED OUT. The ‘Rents give parents everywhere permis...
What Next: TBD | Saudi Arabia Gets into EA’s Games
How one of the largest video game companies was bought for $55 billion by a group that includes Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and Jared Kushner...
ICYMI | Saudi Arabia Is Coming For The Sims
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate senior editor Tony Ho Tran to talk about why it matters that EA Games has b...
What Next: TBD | Who Owns TikTok Now?
TikTok exploded to popularity not by giving users what they asked for—but by figuring out what users really were interested in, and serving that.