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Dec 18, 2024
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Episode | Date |
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201. Ethan Strauss On the Things Sports Fans Think But Do Not Say
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May 22, 2025 |
200: Diddy-Dum-Dum and the Last Lover in Paris (Warning: Explicit)
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May 14, 2025 |
199. Don't Tell Nick Flynn You Hate Poetry
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May 09, 2025 |
198. Kat Rosenfield on Illiberalism and Dad Bods
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May 02, 2025 |
197. Three-Year Anniversary: Change or Die
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Apr 27, 2025 |
196. When killers become heroes: Luigi Mangione edition
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Apr 15, 2025 |
195. Russell Brand Guilty of Russell Brand-ing
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Apr 10, 2025 |
194. Liz Wolfe on the Awesomeness of Motherhood and Due Process
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Apr 03, 2025 |
193. Lee Fang on the Dark Money Behind Power
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Apr 01, 2025 |
192. Aaron Gwyn on the Vanishing White Male Writer
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Mar 25, 2025 |
191. Donald McNeil Jr. on his Ouster from the NYT, Bad Science, and Lab Leak Theory
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Mar 19, 2025 |
190. The Warp of the True Believer: Ruby Franke, Trump, Covid
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Mar 13, 2025 |
189. Mike Pesca on Newsom-Kirk and What Hell Lululemon Hath Wrought
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Mar 09, 2025 |
188. A Very Bad Night for American Boobs
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Mar 05, 2025 |
187. Eli Lake Goes Through the Looking Glass on Israel, Trump, JFK
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Feb 27, 2025 |
186. Meghan McCain on the Vibe Shift, #MeToo, and Why She'll Never Diet
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Feb 21, 2025 |
185. Sex and Marriage and Elon Musk
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Feb 16, 2025 |
184. White Hot Splendor: The Valentine's Day Special
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Feb 13, 2025 |
182. Emilia Pérez: The Debate!
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Jan 27, 2025 |
181. How We All Ended Up Alone
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Jan 23, 2025 |
180. Noah Rothman on "How the Left Has Come to Excuse Away and Embrace Political Violence"
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Jan 18, 2025 |
179. Do NOT Get Into Neil Gaiman’s Bathtub
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Jan 16, 2025 |
178. On "Babygirl" and Female Submission
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Jan 12, 2025 |
177. Meghan Daum on What We've Lost in the Los Angeles Wildfires
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Jan 09, 2025 |
176. Kat Rosenfield on Lively/Baldoni and the Celebrity Proxy Wars
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Jan 07, 2025 |
176. Best and Worst of Everything 2024
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Dec 31, 2024 |
174. Porn and the Collective Consciousness
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Dec 18, 2024 |
173. The Sinister Entertainment of a CEO's Murder
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Dec 11, 2024 |
172. Raw-Dogging the Air with Matt Welch
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Dec 04, 2024 |
171. Cabinet Pick Scandals and Secret Muses
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Nov 26, 2024 |
170. Can Anything Make America Healthy Again?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
169. Making the Trans Conversation Better with Brianna Wu and Kelly Cadigan
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Nov 14, 2024 |
168. Sex Boycotts, Blue Bracelets, and Justine Bateman
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Nov 11, 2024 |
167. Trumped! November surprise comes after all
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Nov 07, 2024 |
166: What Scares Us: Movies, Politics ... Moldy Cheese?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
165. Election Break! Trauma Vampires and Serial Killers
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Oct 28, 2024 |
164. No Courage, No Convictions: Trade Publication Cancels Promo for Book with "Israel" in Title
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Oct 24, 2024 |
163. In the Path of the Hurricane: Asheville, Kamala, Cruz, DEI
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Oct 17, 2024 |
162. We Read Melania's Memoir So You Don't Have To
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Oct 09, 2024 |
Dispatch from Ukraine: "The War of Information is even More Important than the War on the Battlefield"
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Sep 29, 2024 |
160. Kat Rosenfield: "We're In a Cultural Moment that Incentivizes No Grace."
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Sep 23, 2024 |
159. Michael Powell and the Permeability Between Worlds
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Sep 19, 2024 |
158. Helen Lewis on Geniuses, Gurus and Some Regular Guy Named Rogan
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Sep 13, 2024 |
157. Is "Casual Sex" an Oxymoron?
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Sep 07, 2024 |
156. Has the Protest-Industrial Complex Collapsed?
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Aug 28, 2024 |
155. Liberal Women Are Miserable, Let's Discuss
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Aug 16, 2024 |
154. What Is a Woman? (Olympics Edition)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
153. Ann Bauer on How School Closures Broke Her, and the Cultural Death Spiral of Being "Special"
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Aug 01, 2024 |
152. Childless Cat Ladies, Couch Sex, and Our Profound White Women Midst
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Jul 29, 2024 |
151. YMCA, God's Divine Plan, and the RNC
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Jul 19, 2024 |
150. The Biden Apocalypse, Alice Munro's Dark Past
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Jul 12, 2024 |
149. America, Fuck Yeah!
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Jul 03, 2024 |
148. Make Sex Great Again
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Jun 27, 2024 |
147. BRATS! West Coast Liberals + '80s Movie Stars
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Jun 18, 2024 |
146. Mike and Milo Pesca on the "Boy Crisis" and Whatever Toxic Masculinity Turns Out To Be
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Jun 13, 2024 |
The Slow Leave Taking: On Watching My Mother Slip Away
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Jun 07, 2024 |
145. Kat Rosenfield on Women's Right to Shuck Over-Ripe Husbands AND All Those Nudes
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Jun 05, 2024 |
144. GUILTY! Olivia Nuzzi on the Strange Sadness of Donald Trump
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May 30, 2024 |
143. Magic Wade on Gun Violence, Media Gaslighting, and Rational Outrage
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May 27, 2024 |
142. Dirty and Delicious and Not Celibate
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May 20, 2024 |
141. Ken Ilgunas on How Podcasts Saved Our Lives
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May 16, 2024 |
140. Andy Mills on How Curiosity Can Save Journalism -- and Us
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May 08, 2024 |
139. Kegels for Peace: The Great Smoke 'Em Anniversary Letters Show
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May 04, 2024 |
138. Coleman Hughes and The View of a Better Racial Future
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Apr 30, 2024 |
137. Harvey Weinstein, Interrupted
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Apr 27, 2024 |
136. KC Johnson: What the Hell Just Happened with Title IX?!
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Apr 24, 2024 |
135. Eli Lake on Campus Protests, Israel, and Marijuana as Jewish Kryptonite (updated)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
134. Michael Moynihan and the Eternal Orgasm (updated)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
133. OJ Simpson and the Crash of Celebrity
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Apr 11, 2024 |
132. Mike Mooney on the Free Speech Warriors We Deserve
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Apr 11, 2024 |
Smokeshow Special: Raymond Chandler, Robert Altman, and "The Long Goodbye"
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Apr 08, 2024 |
131. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Internet
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Apr 06, 2024 |
130. The Purity Decade With Porn Slipped in the Side Door
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Mar 31, 2024 |
129. Squee, Boof, and the Devil's Triangle: Kavanaugh Trial Returns to Haunt Us
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Mar 27, 2024 |
128. Leigh Stein Has a Squeaky Clean Colon*
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Mar 19, 2024 |
127. Bryan Burrough on '70's Political Violence, Youthful Activism, and "Days of Rage"
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Mar 16, 2024 |
126. You're Just Ken
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Mar 11, 2024 |
125. Tucker, Everlasting
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Mar 05, 2024 |
124. Spicy Chicken Sandwich With a Side of Culture War
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Mar 01, 2024 |
123. NUDES! NUDES! NUDES!
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Feb 27, 2024 |
122. Knives Out! The Great Personal Essay Debate
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Feb 20, 2024 |
121. Walter Kirn: "Everybody's Learned to Love the Bomb Except Me"
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Feb 17, 2024 |
120. Dan Savage Gives the World's Best Valentine's Advice, Then Picks Bone With Nancy
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Feb 14, 2024 |
119. The Curious #MeToo Case of Yascha Mounk
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Feb 08, 2024 |
118. Jon Ronson on How We Lost Our Minds in 2020
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Feb 05, 2024 |
117. Not Just a Nightmare, but an "American Nightmare"
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Jan 30, 2024 |
116. Oscars So Male
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Jan 26, 2024 |
115. The Great Polyamory Debate!
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Jan 22, 2024 |
114. Matt Welch Doesn't Care How You Vote, As Long As You Laugh
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Jan 18, 2024 |
113. Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream, or Was It an American Fiction?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
112. A Taste for the Humiliation of Others
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Jan 11, 2024 |
111. Kat Rosenfield Holds a Party on Our Faces
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Jan 05, 2024 |
110. 2023 Best and Worst of Everything
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Dec 31, 2023 |
Pie Talk 38: A Little Chocolate Cake
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Dec 31, 2023 |
109. It's a Christmas Sex Scandal Special!
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Dec 25, 2023 |
108. Sherman Alexie Wants His Scars
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Dec 19, 2023 |
107. Kerry Howley on Getting Lost to Find the Story
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Dec 14, 2023 |
106. Immoral Clarity
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Dec 08, 2023 |
105. Just the Tip
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Dec 05, 2023 |
104. Love and Rockets and Whoever the Heck Parson Brown Is
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Nov 29, 2023 |
103. Second Thoughts on the Revolution
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Pie Talk #33: Thanksgiving Stuffing
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Nov 19, 2023 |
102. Protesting the Protesters
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Nov 14, 2023 |
101. The Intimacy and the Horror: Footage of October 7
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Nov 09, 2023 |
100. Hollywood Behaving Badly
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Nov 03, 2023 |
99. Mike Pesca, Turbocharger of Sensible Political Commentary
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Oct 31, 2023 |
98. Campus Clashes, Power Grabs, and a Scary Anti-Semitism
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Oct 27, 2023 |
97. Yael Bar Tur on Israel, Moral Cowardice, and Heroism Among Strangers
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Oct 24, 2023 |
96. Killers of the Golden Bachelor Moon
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Oct 20, 2023 |
95. Bridget Phetasy on Slut Years, Grief-Scrolling, and Late Motherhood
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Oct 17, 2023 |
94. Greg Lukianoff on the Canceling of the American Mind
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Oct 10, 2023 |
Pie Talk #29: Kugel (Pies for Peace)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
93. The Dangers of Missionary Zeal
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Oct 06, 2023 |
92. Marisa Meltzer Takes Us Inside a Beauty Machine
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Oct 04, 2023 |
91. Portnoy's Complaint
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Sep 26, 2023 |
90. Kat Rosenfield Makes Us Laugh About Culture, And Also Rethink It
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Sep 21, 2023 |
89. Michael Moynihan on FIRE!
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Sep 15, 2023 |
88. Weird Justice: Masterson, Tarrio, Kutcher & Kunis
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Sep 11, 2023 |
87. Chaya Leah Sufrin on the Epiphany of Weight Loss
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Sep 07, 2023 |
86. Ethan Strauss Is Our Kind of Sports Writer
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Sep 01, 2023 |
85. Sex! Marriage! Divorce!
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Aug 22, 2023 |
84. Jennifer Senior Turns Pain Into Beauty
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Aug 15, 2023 |
83. Thou Dost Dirty Talk Too Much
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Aug 10, 2023 |
82. The Shame Game
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Aug 03, 2023 |
81. "They Didn't Realize I Was a Seed" - Sinead O'Connor, 1966-2023
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Jul 29, 2023 |
80. Bob and Barbie Save the (Movie) World
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Jul 25, 2023 |
79. Barbie Everlasting
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Jul 22, 2023 |
Sophie Scott on 10 Things You Should Know About the Brain
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Jul 19, 2023 |
78. Penis Talk
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Jul 09, 2023 |
LIVE! Smoke 'Em Does Dallas
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Jun 27, 2023 |
77. The Love Robots Are Coming
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Jun 19, 2023 |
Pie Talk #18: Zucchini Bread (with a side of Portland)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
76. She Ate, She Prayed, She Pulled That Book
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Jun 14, 2023 |
75. Problematic Men! (And Hannah Gadsby)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
Pie Talk #16: Gravy
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Jun 04, 2023 |
74. "Succession" with Caitlin Flanagan
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May 30, 2023 |
73. The Golden Age of Masturbation
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May 26, 2023 |
72. Jon Ronson, a Femme Fatale for Nazis, and the Lens of Wonderment
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May 18, 2023 |
71. Nick Wallis and #MeToo's Turning Point
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May 15, 2023 |
70. Real Danger, Political Football
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May 09, 2023 |
69, dude. The Met Gala, RFK Jr., BuzzFeed: Who Wore It Best?
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May 04, 2023 |
68. One Year, Baby!
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Apr 27, 2023 |
67. Dance Party with the Dalai Lama
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Apr 20, 2023 |
Laura McKowen and the Gift of Quiet Change
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Apr 17, 2023 |
66. Meme Lords and Mean Girls, with Pinch Hitter Matt Welch!
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Pie Talk #8: "Sweet Enough"
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Apr 02, 2023 |
65. The Disgusting Sisters: "Succession," Paltrow, and Film's Last Stand
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Mar 30, 2023 |
64. How to Fake a Hate Crime
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Mar 23, 2023 |
Smokeshow Special: The Unlike-Minded Weirdos
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Mar 20, 2023 |
63. The Oscars of Inclusion, Ozempic, and the American Dream
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Mar 16, 2023 |
63. The Oscars of Inclusion, Ozempic, and the American Dream
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Mar 14, 2023 |
Dispatch from Portland 2023: Lisa Schroeder
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Mar 13, 2023 |
Pie Talk #5: Guacamole
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Mar 12, 2023 |
62: Stephen Elliott and the Power of Women
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Mar 08, 2023 |
Dispatch from Portland 2023: "What's Happening Here?"
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Mar 06, 2023 |
61. All Cops Are (Not) Bastards
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Mar 02, 2023 |
Pie Talk #3: Hoisin Chicken
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Feb 26, 2023 |
60. Burn, Baby, Burn: Roald Dahl & J.K. Rowling
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Feb 25, 2023 |
59. Journalism as Harm: The NYT Open Letter
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Feb 18, 2023 |
58. Steve Kornacki Loves America, Hates Vegetables
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Feb 15, 2023 |
57. Cannibalizing Armie Hammer, with guest Jamie Kirchick
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Feb 08, 2023 |
56. Abolish the Language Police
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Feb 01, 2023 |
55. Would You Tell Your Friend She's Fat?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
54. All Gas and No Mercy
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Jan 21, 2023 |
53. Our Oepidal Complex, Duke of Sussex edition
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Jan 18, 2023 |
52. The Romance of Being a Total Fraud
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Jan 12, 2023 |
51. "You're a Bimbo, a Stalker, a Seductress"
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Jan 06, 2023 |
50. Even Hotter-Girl Brain Scramble 2022 (Kwanzaa Edition)
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Dec 31, 2022 |
Meghan Daum and the New Counter-Culture
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Dec 27, 2022 |
49. Harvey Weinstein Is Guilty, But of What?
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Dec 23, 2022 |
48. Elon, Elon, Elon
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Dec 19, 2022 |
47. Stars, They're Not Like Us
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Dec 13, 2022 |
46. Sex Cults and Twitter Files
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Dec 11, 2022 |
45. Baby, Remember Our Names
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Nov 30, 2022 |
44. Thanksgiving Blue-Plate Special!
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Nov 24, 2022 |
43. How To Solve a Problem Like Candace Owens?
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Nov 18, 2022 |
42. Democracy Lives in Darkness!
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Nov 10, 2022 |
41. Truth, Consequences, and "Shitty Media Men"
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Oct 27, 2022 |
40. Radical Empathy
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Oct 19, 2022 |
39. The Dahmer Dilemma
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Oct 14, 2022 |
38. Men Are Very Necessary
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Oct 07, 2022 |
37. On 'Blonde' and Bourdain
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Oct 02, 2022 |
35. Women vs. Women! Girls Against Boys! It’s Cage Fight 2022 (with Russian Trolls)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
A Ukrainian Leaves the War for New York
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Sep 17, 2022 |
34. When Do-Gooders Do Bad Things
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Sep 14, 2022 |
33. Go Ahead and Worry, Darling
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Sep 09, 2022 |
32. The Hoax Heard Round the World
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Sep 01, 2022 |
The Camera and The Audience
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Aug 30, 2022 |
31. The Fashion of Feminist Crank
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Aug 25, 2022 |
30. Filling the Hole: Sex, Love and What Lies Beneath
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Aug 21, 2022 |
29: Tell Me More, Tell Me More edition: Life after Roe and Olivia Newton-John
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Aug 13, 2022 |
28. The Things We Do For Love
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Aug 04, 2022 |
Down That Dark Passage: Kathyrn Miles of "TRAILED: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders"
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Aug 01, 2022 |
27. Trash-Talking the Boss (and Other Questionable Strategies)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
26. Everybody’s Broken, Everyone’s Connected: It’s TV Week
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Jul 19, 2022 |
25. Free Speech, Free Love
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Jul 15, 2022 |
24. Let's Get Ready to Rumble
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Jul 09, 2022 |
23. The Lost Art of Forgiveness
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Jul 03, 2022 |
On Movie Stars and How I Got These Scars: An Audio Story for a Breaking Heart
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Jun 28, 2022 |
22. Roe v. the World
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Jun 27, 2022 |
21. The Destruction of Others
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Jun 23, 2022 |
AUDIO: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Depp v. Heard
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Jun 21, 2022 |
19. The Celebrity Delusion
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Jun 18, 2022 |
Double Play: Sonmez Out at WaPo, Boudin Out as SF DA
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Jun 14, 2022 |
18. Prison of Our Own Making
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Jun 11, 2022 |
17. We Regret This Episode
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Jun 07, 2022 |
16. Defamed
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Jun 04, 2022 |
15. Robert De Niro Is Sexy Full Stop
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Jun 01, 2022 |
14. Bad Wives Club
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May 28, 2022 |
Meet the best reporter on Depp v. Heard
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May 27, 2022 |
13. The Villains We Needed
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May 25, 2022 |
12. From the Trenches of Depp-Heard
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May 21, 2022 |
11: Her Food Is the Misery of Others: Female Con Artist Edition!
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May 20, 2022 |
10: Fabulists!
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May 17, 2022 |
The Smoking Diaries: Voice Memos of a Woman Traveling Alone
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May 16, 2022 |
9: Hollywood's New McCarthy Era
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May 12, 2022 |
What Man Can Do To Man: 13 True Crime Books That Get it Right (audio!)
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May 10, 2022 |
8. What Do Women Want?
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May 06, 2022 |
7. True Crimes of the Heart
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May 05, 2022 |
6. Does Twitter Suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Apr 30, 2022 |
5. You're the Man Now
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Apr 27, 2022 |
4: The World is Not Full of Monsters! Rommelmann and Hepola Discuss
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Apr 23, 2022 |
3: Entanglements! Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola Take On Hollywood
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Apr 23, 2022 |
2: Cheerleaders and Buzzer Beaters: Sarah Hepola Redux!
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Apr 23, 2022 |
1: Blackouts and Sexpots: Sarah Hepola
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Apr 23, 2022 |