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Pop Culture Happy Hour: L'Amour For 'Lupin'
Sam joins the Pop Culture Happy Hour team to talk about the French Netflix series Lupin with culture writer Bedatri D. Choudhury and co-hosts Aisha H…
5 years ago
Voting Rights Under Threat, Plus Do We Still Need Sports?
A new case before the U.S. Supreme Court could jeopardize the power of the Voting Rights Act. Sam talks to Mark Joseph Stern, staff writer for Slate,…
5 years ago
Author Torrey Peters On Seeing Through A Trans Lens
Torrey Peters' new book Detransition, Baby, is about navigating identity, commitment, parenthood and divorce. The three main characters, a pregnant c…
5 years, 1 month ago
A Weird Awards Season, Plus "Anything for Selena"
What's an awards season when many theaters are still closed and it's harder to track which movies and shows deserve buzz? Louis Virtel and Ira Madiso…
5 years, 1 month ago
Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction
A special episode from our friends at NPR's history podcast Throughline: Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striki…
5 years, 1 month ago
Your Vaccine Questions, Answered
Will the vaccine make me feel sick? Is it OK if I see grandma if she's vaccinated but I'm not? And what's the deal with double masking? Listeners had…
5 years, 1 month ago
The (Not So?) Wonderful World of Disney
Sam talks to filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney, daughter of Roy E. Disney, about her views on inequality in the U.S., corporate greed and why, de…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Union Fight At Amazon, Plus 'Your Korean Dad'
An Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, has become ground zero in a battle that could change Amazon as we know it. Sam chats with a worker…
5 years, 1 month ago
Desus And Mero On Politics, Fame And Life In The Pandemic
Desus Nice and The Kid Mero went from calling up "anyone in their phone book" in the early days of their podcast Bodega Boys, to booking big names in…
5 years, 1 month ago
Presenting 'Snap Judgment': Money Truck
What would you do if a truck full of money flung its doors open right in front of you? Our friends at the Snap Judgment podcast tell six stories that…
5 years, 1 month ago