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A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next, The Waves, and the Political Gabfest, with deep discussions that go beyond point-counterpoint and shed light on the issues that matter most.

Episode Date
Hear Me Out: Anti-Vaxers Aren’t Just Extremists
Mar 26, 2024
Hear Me Out: You Probably Don’t Need Therapy Forever
Mar 19, 2024
Hear Me Out: Purity Is Poisoning the Progressive Movement
Mar 12, 2024
Hear Me Out: The House Should Elect The President
Mar 05, 2024
Hear Me Out: Horse Race Journalism Is Good, Actually
Feb 27, 2024
Hear Me Out: Un-Cancel Woodrow Wilson
Feb 20, 2024
Care & Feeding (After Dark): Couples’ Therapy
Feb 15, 2024
Hear Me Out: The Constitution Can’t Save Us
Feb 13, 2024
What Next: A Mass Shooter’s Mom Found Guilty
Feb 07, 2024
Hear Me Out: Campus Assault Hearings Are A Disaster
Feb 06, 2024
Hear Me Out: Actually, Trump Supporters Are Delusional
Jan 30, 2024
Hear Me Out: Feminism Is Dying (But It Can Be Saved)
Jan 23, 2024
Care and Feeding: Private School Guilt
Jan 22, 2024
Hear Me Out: George Santos and Gypsy-Rose Aren’t Your Icons
Jan 16, 2024
Hear Me Out: Trump Voters Are Not Delusional
Jan 09, 2024
Hear Me Out: Yes, You Can Self Improve Right Now
Jan 02, 2024
Hear Me Out: The Holidays Are Tacky. Embrace It
Dec 19, 2023
Hear Me Out: Race Isn’t Real. The Census Should Reflect That.
Dec 12, 2023
Hear Me Out: The Oppressed Still Have Moral Duties
Dec 05, 2023
Hear Me Out: Psychiatry Alone Can’t Heal You Completely
Nov 28, 2023
Hear Me Out: Be The Holiday A--hole
Nov 21, 2023
Hear Me Out: It’s Time To Sunset Social Security
Nov 14, 2023
What Next: How the Israel-Gaza War Rages in America
Nov 14, 2023
Hear Me Out: Nerds are a Menace to Society
Nov 07, 2023
How To!: Build a Marriage That Lasts
Nov 07, 2023
Hear Me Out: On Halloween, Death Should Be Celebrated
Oct 31, 2023
How To!: Hit “Reset” on Your Career
Oct 31, 2023
Hear Me Out: You Don’t Need to Post About Israel and Palestine
Oct 24, 2023
How To!: Let Go of Kid Clutter
Oct 24, 2023
Hear Me Out: Teaching Civics Can’t Save Democracy
Oct 17, 2023
Hear Me Out: Columbus Day Is Worth Celebrating
Oct 10, 2023
Hear Me Out: Walks Are Boring, Nay, Agonizing
Oct 03, 2023
What Next: Can Marriage Fix America?
Sep 28, 2023
Hear Me Out: Being Adopted Is Traumatic
Sep 26, 2023
Hear Me Out: Bring Back The Draft
Sep 19, 2023
What Next: The Case Against Harm Reduction
Sep 14, 2023
Hear Me Out: It’s Time To End The Engagement Ring
Sep 12, 2023
Hear Me Out: Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court
Sep 05, 2023
Hear Me Out: Harm Reduction Saves Lives
Aug 29, 2023
Hear Me Out: Sit Down and Shut Up at Concerts and Theaters
Aug 22, 2023
Hear Me Out: You’re Not Too Cool To Go On A Cruise
Aug 15, 2023
Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids
Aug 08, 2023
Hear Me Out: Less Porn, More Sex Tapes
Aug 01, 2023
Hear Me Out: Learning Gun Safety Could Save Your Kids’ Lives
Jul 25, 2023
Hear Me Out: The U.S. Sugar Program Isn’t A Sweet Deal
Jul 18, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate
Jul 12, 2023
How To! Sleep Apart to Save Your Relationship
Jul 11, 2023
Hear Me Out: You Need To Care About Meghan Markle
Jul 11, 2023
What Next: Beyond Biden vs. Trump
Jul 05, 2023
Hear Me Out: Insurrection Is A Force For Good
Jul 04, 2023
Hang Up and Listen: The Sports Culture Power Rankings
Jul 03, 2023
Hear Me Out: Patriarchy Hurts All Of Us — Including Men
Jun 27, 2023
Hear Me Out: Descendants Of Slaves Don’t Need Reparations
Jun 20, 2023
Hear Me Out: A Little Racism Can Be A Good Thing
Jun 13, 2023
What Next: The Liberal Case Against Affirmative Action
Jun 12, 2023
Hear Me Out: Corporate Pride is Tacky, Pointless and Counterproductive
Jun 06, 2023
Hear Me Out: “Thank You For Your Service” Feels Cheap
May 30, 2023
Hear Me Out: Policing Can’t Be Reformed And Must Be Abolished
May 23, 2023
Hear Me Out: Workplace DEI Trainings Do More Harm Than Good
May 16, 2023
Hear Me Out: Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything
May 09, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Effective Altruism and its Critics
May 09, 2023
Hear Me Out: The Iraq War Was a Necessary Evil
May 02, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: The Problem with Gig Work
May 02, 2023
Hear Me Out: Trashy TV Is Actually Good For You
Apr 25, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Love in the Time of Replika
Apr 25, 2023
Hear Me Out: Stop The Hiss-Teria: Outdoor Cats Can Thrive.
Apr 18, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Living in a Zoopolis
Apr 18, 2023
Hear Me Out: Don’t Celebrate the Trump Indictment
Apr 11, 2023
Hear Me Out: Childbirth Should Be Free
Apr 04, 2023
Hear Me Out: Secession Could Be A Good Thing
Mar 28, 2023
Hear Me Out: We Need to Argue With Each Other
Mar 21, 2023
Hear Me Out: Coming March 21
Mar 16, 2023
Taking a Trip Down Language Lane
Mar 29, 2022
Dialects vs. Languages
Mar 15, 2022
New Siri. Who’s This?
Mar 01, 2022
“Who Dey” vs. “Who Dat”
Feb 15, 2022
Capital Language From Kyiv to Washington, D.C.
Feb 01, 2022
The Making of Wordle
Jan 18, 2022
The Year of the “Vaxx”
Jan 04, 2022
Choosing Your Voice
Dec 21, 2021
Cracking the Omicron Code
Dec 07, 2021
Taylor Swift’s “F— the Patriarchy”
Nov 23, 2021
Interrupting to Show We Care
Nov 09, 2021
The Millennial Language Cheat Code
Oct 26, 2021
Squid Game in Translation
Oct 12, 2021
The Wide World of Language Diversity
Sep 28, 2021
Double Dutch
Sep 14, 2021
How the Grid Kid Became King of the Online Spelling Bee
Aug 31, 2021
Sponsored: How Can We Improve Our Communication Skills to Strengthen Our Relationships?
Aug 25, 2021
TikTok Language Rabbit Hole
Aug 17, 2021
Taking Home the Gold in Language
Aug 03, 2021
They Might Be Linguists
Jul 20, 2021
Russian Is My Mt. Everest
Jul 06, 2021
Languages of Northern Africa
Jun 22, 2021
You're Gonna Hafta
Jun 08, 2021
The Languages of Southeast Asia
May 25, 2021
Irregardless Make You Cringe? Relax.
May 11, 2021
Nine Nasty Words
Apr 27, 2021
The Invisible Complexities of Translation
Apr 13, 2021
English Is Plain Weird
Mar 30, 2021
Subject-Verb-Object. Right?
Mar 16, 2021
Parting Company
Mar 02, 2021
Wallowing in Negativity
Feb 16, 2021
Fossil Hunting in English
Feb 02, 2021
Why Do Languages Have Gender?
Jan 19, 2021
Forgetting Your Roots
Jan 05, 2021
Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?
Dec 22, 2020
Getting Got
Dec 08, 2020
On the Origin of English
Nov 24, 2020
White Author, Black English. Problem?
Nov 10, 2020
Do Cats Have Language?
Oct 27, 2020
Sergeant, Corporal, Colonel!
Oct 13, 2020
To Reason Why
Sep 29, 2020
When Talking to Your Mother-In-Law Is a Minefield
Sep 15, 2020
The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole
Sep 01, 2020
This Am a Minstrel Stereotype, Right?
Aug 18, 2020
When Jews Adapted Spanish
Aug 04, 2020
Does English Have a Future?
Jul 21, 2020
Defund Karen
Jul 07, 2020
Beyond the Five Ws
Jun 23, 2020
Tweety Bird and Toddlerspeak
Jun 09, 2020
Coronavirus: Isolation and Aspiration
May 26, 2020
Our Indigenous Languages
May 12, 2020
I Just Can't!
Apr 28, 2020
The Many Meanings of Too
Apr 14, 2020
Sicko, Whacko, Weirdo
Mar 31, 2020
Chinese Has No Grammar, Right? Wrong!
Mar 17, 2020
From Uptalk to Vocal Fry, Women Are Prolific Language Innovators
Mar 04, 2020
In What Order Did Languages Arrive in Europe?
Feb 18, 2020
Digging Up the Past
Feb 04, 2020
Verbs on the Move
Jan 21, 2020
Does PROCESSES Rhyme with KNEES?
Jan 07, 2020
A Bisl Yiddish
Dec 24, 2019
Private Parts
Dec 10, 2019
The Soft Power of Like
Nov 26, 2019
Men, Women and Children
Nov 12, 2019
Zombie English
Oct 29, 2019
Let's Do Lunch
Oct 16, 2019
How to Think Like a Linguist
Oct 01, 2019
Has English Gotten Less Complex?
Sep 17, 2019
S#!t, Hell and Darn
Sep 03, 2019
This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages
Aug 19, 2019
Language vs. Dialect
Aug 06, 2019
The Internet Loves the Exclamation Point!!
Jul 23, 2019
Why Is "Ph" Pronounced That Way?
Jul 09, 2019
Does Language Affect Thought?
Jun 25, 2019
A Fleeting Glance
Jun 11, 2019
The Romance Languages
May 28, 2019
Why Do Some Americans Say Warshed?
May 14, 2019
Flores Man vs. Sulawesi
Apr 29, 2019
The Lingua Francas
Apr 16, 2019
Can Climate Influence Language?
Apr 02, 2019
When Ain't Was Alright
Mar 19, 2019
The Semitic Tongues
Mar 05, 2019
Precious Little
Feb 19, 2019
When Words Collide
Feb 06, 2019
Truth Be Told
Jan 22, 2019
A Penetrating History of F*%k
Jan 08, 2019
When Did English Get Happy?
Dec 25, 2018
Sponsored: Adjusting the Lens on Chronic Disease
Dec 13, 2018
Why Language Can't Be Tamed
Dec 11, 2018
Is Social Media Changing English?
Nov 27, 2018
What Was the First Language?
Nov 13, 2018
So ... Let's Talk About So
Oct 30, 2018
Like-Minded
Oct 16, 2018
Why Do Southerners Talk Like That?
Oct 02, 2018
The Habitual Past
Sep 18, 2018
A Riot of Color
Sep 04, 2018
The Rise of They
Aug 21, 2018
Wabbit Twacks
Aug 06, 2018
Tee Time
Jul 24, 2018
Happy Birthday OED!
Jul 10, 2018
If Frozen, Why Not Squozen?
Jun 26, 2018
The Pronouning of Profanities
Jun 12, 2018
One Tongue to Rule Them All
May 29, 2018
The Art of the Spiel
May 15, 2018
Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar
May 09, 2018
Getting to Yes
May 01, 2018
The Story of P
Apr 17, 2018
English Spelling Is a Beautiful Mess
Apr 03, 2018
Did the Founding Fathers Have a British Accent?
Mar 20, 2018
No-Uh!
Mar 06, 2018
The Inner Workings of Out
Feb 20, 2018
Words, For Her
Feb 06, 2018
What's the Deal with Eleven?
Jan 23, 2018
There Are Two N-Words
Jan 09, 2018
The Thing Is Is
Dec 26, 2017
An Accidental Sanctity
Dec 12, 2017
Thanksgiving Misnomers
Nov 28, 2017
Sometimes Just Because
Nov 14, 2017
Against Strunk & White
Oct 31, 2017
Whence Baby Mama?
Oct 17, 2017
Este No Es Parqueo
Oct 03, 2017
From Pidgins to Creoles
Sep 19, 2017
Do Languages Simplify Over Time?
Sep 05, 2017
Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?
Aug 22, 2017
New Life for Dying Languages
Aug 08, 2017
In the Negative
Jul 25, 2017
Why Do Languages Have Contractions?
Jul 11, 2017
The Incredible Lightness of Being
Jun 27, 2017
Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
Jun 13, 2017
Mining Graffiti for Slang
May 30, 2017
That's Not a Word, Is It?
May 16, 2017
The Language of Female Friendships
May 02, 2017
The Euphemism Treadmill
Apr 18, 2017
Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton
Apr 04, 2017
Earlier American English—More Profane, Parochial and Provincial
Mar 21, 2017
Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?
Feb 07, 2017
What Had Happened Was Storytelling
Jan 24, 2017
Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read
Jan 10, 2017
Away in a Penthouse, the Little Lord Jesus
Dec 27, 2016
What "The Wizard of Oz" Can Tell Us About "Arrival"
Dec 13, 2016
Black Like Us
Nov 29, 2016
Language Lessons of Past Presidents
Nov 15, 2016
Whither Didst Thou Go?
Nov 01, 2016
Why Do People Talk Like That in Old Movies?
Oct 18, 2016
Billy and Me Went to the Store. Deal With It.
Oct 04, 2016
What Is a Dictionary, Really?
Sep 20, 2016
The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes
Sep 06, 2016
Word Sex
Aug 23, 2016
Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Update?
Aug 08, 2016
Are Emoji a Language?
Jul 26, 2016
Finding Life in a Dead Language
Jul 12, 2016
Rules Are Made to Be Spoken
Jun 29, 2016
The Tragedy of English Spelling
Jun 14, 2016
Your Brain on Profanity
May 31, 2016
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot!
May 17, 2016
The Blaccent: What Does It Mean to Sound Black?
May 03, 2016
A Wild Goose Chase that Stinks from Fish
Apr 19, 2016
Defecation Presentation
Apr 04, 2016
Take This Episode with a Grain of Salt
Mar 08, 2016
The Full, Firm, Valiant, and Heavy-Hearted Trump
Feb 22, 2016
A British Insult Fit for Trump
Feb 08, 2016
They Had a Good Year
Jan 27, 2016
The Curious Case of a Conspiratorial Coinage
Jan 11, 2016
Tears of Joy, Identity, and a Prism of Isms
Dec 28, 2015
Sleeping Hobos in a Tent, Rush 'Em!
Dec 14, 2015
Snoozefest
Nov 30, 2015
Woody Guthrie's Folk Etymology
Nov 16, 2015
A Cat, a Coward, and Female Genitalia
Nov 02, 2015
A Drone, a Bell, and a Suffix
Oct 19, 2015
Seven Centuries of F--ks
Oct 05, 2015
An Ambitious Enterprise, Quixotic and Unavailing
Sep 21, 2015
How New York Became the Big Apple
Sep 07, 2015
Why Do Latin Americans Call English Speakers Gringos?
Aug 24, 2015
What Do You Mean What Is It Like?
Aug 10, 2015
LinguaFile XIV | Heebie Jeebies
Jul 27, 2015
What's the Deal with Translating Seinfeld?
Jul 13, 2015
LinguaFile XIII | Bozo
Jun 29, 2015
The Pollyanna Hypothesis
Jun 17, 2015
LinguaFile XII | Kibitz
Jun 01, 2015
M'athchomaroon, Zhey Lajak Vezhven!
May 18, 2015
LinguaFile XI | Seersucker
May 04, 2015
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Apr 20, 2015
LinguaFile X | Pumpernickel
Apr 06, 2015
And Infinitum
Mar 23, 2015
LinguaFile IX | Carnival
Mar 09, 2015
Sex Workers
Feb 23, 2015
LinguaFile VIII | Quiz
Feb 09, 2015
The Many Lives of Anna Karenina
Jan 26, 2015
LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie
Jan 12, 2015
Exposure to Vape Culture
Dec 29, 2014
LinguaFile VI | Grog
Dec 15, 2014
What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?
Dec 01, 2014
LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat
Nov 17, 2014
Number Theory
Nov 03, 2014
LinguaFile IV | Snark
Oct 20, 2014
Man on the Street
Oct 06, 2014
LinguaFile III | Orange
Sep 22, 2014
Demonstratively Speaking
Sep 08, 2014
LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
Aug 25, 2014
The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
Aug 11, 2014
LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
Jul 28, 2014
Lexicon Valley No. 38: Fisherman's Whorf
Jul 14, 2014
Lexicon Valley No. 37: Legislating Language
Mar 10, 2014
Lexicon Valley No. 36: The Dude Abides
Jan 27, 2014
Lexicon Valley No. 35: Learning to Say No
Dec 23, 2013
Lexicon Valley No. 34: Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"
Dec 16, 2013
Lexicon Valley No. 33: The End of Ambiguity
Dec 09, 2013
Lexicon Valley: Special Announcement
Dec 04, 2013
Lexicon Valley No. 32: The Burden of Being Right
Aug 05, 2013
Lexicon Valley No. 31: Name That Tone
Jul 15, 2013
Lexicon Valley No. 30: Eject at High Altitude
Jul 01, 2013
Lexicon Valley #29: 30 Million By Four
Jun 24, 2013
Lexicon Valley #28: A Brief History of Swearing
Jun 17, 2013
Lexicon Valley #27: Accentuate the Positive
Jun 10, 2013
Special Announcement
Jun 01, 2013
Special Announcement
Feb 13, 2013
Lexicon Valley #26: The Fawth Flaw, Part II
Jan 28, 2013
Lexicon Valley #25: The Fawth Flaw
Jan 14, 2013
Lexicon Valley #24: Get Your Creak On
Dec 31, 2012
Lexicon Valley #23: Good Is Up
Dec 17, 2012
Lexicon Valley #22: Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
Dec 03, 2012
Lexicon Valley #21: Undocumented Illegals
Nov 12, 2012
Lexicon Valley #20: Death to Potatoes
Oct 29, 2012
Lexicon Valley #19: Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop
Oct 15, 2012
Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange
Oct 01, 2012
Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word
Sep 17, 2012
Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
Jul 18, 2012
Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words
Jul 09, 2012
Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then
Jul 02, 2012
Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them
Jun 18, 2012
Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past
Jun 11, 2012
Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English
Jun 04, 2012
Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing
May 27, 2012
Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity
May 14, 2012
Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
May 07, 2012
Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals
Apr 30, 2012
Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread
Apr 23, 2012
Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
Apr 04, 2012
Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble
Mar 12, 2012
Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String
Mar 05, 2012
Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O
Feb 27, 2012
Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost
Feb 20, 2012
Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots
Feb 13, 2012
Lexicon Valley #1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty
Feb 06, 2012