Podcast Episodes

Working: How a TV Writer Keeps the Ideas Coming

This week, host Ronald Young Jr. talks to Mike Gauyo, a TV writer and creator whose credits include the beloved series Insecure and Ginny and Georgia…

1 year, 11 months ago

ICYMI: Should I Stop Sharing My Location? Why Do My Friends Act Wild In My Instagram Comments?

Candice Lim is joined by internet culture writer Steffi Cao, whose Substack recently started an advice column all about internet etiquette. On today’…

1 year, 11 months ago

Hit Parade: Building a Herstory Edition Part 1

For decades—literally since Woodstock—female musicians had battled music-industry perceptions that amassing too many of them, on the radio or on the …

1 year, 11 months ago

Building a Herstory Edition Part 1

For decades—literally since Woodstock—female musicians had battled music-industry perceptions that amassing too many of them, on the radio or on the …

1 year, 11 months ago

A Word: Project 2025: A Contract on Black America?

Project 2025, the massive Heritage Foundation policy blueprint, has become a major issue on the campaign trail for Democrats. While former President …

1 year, 11 months ago

Dear Prudence: Politics Is Ruining My Family. Help!

In this episode, David Roth and Drew Magary (the hosts of Defector Media’s The Distraction) join Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from…

1 year, 11 months ago

Why Is My Friend Body Shaming Toddlers?

On this episode: Jamilah, Elizabeth and Zak help a listener who’s wondering why her friend is bodyshaming her own toddler so intensely — not to menti…

1 year, 11 months ago

What Next: The Olympics Meet the Culture Wars

How Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting—two women boxers fighting in the gender category they were assigned at birth—became the targets of trans panic and s…

1 year, 11 months ago

Working: Surviving the Book Release Process

June Thomas recently published her book A Place of Our Own: Six Places That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture, and on this episode of Working Overtime co-…

1 year, 11 months ago

ICYMI: Encore: Why YouTube Loves Video Essays

Today, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from this January about longform video essays.

In this episode, Candice Lim is joined by Anisa Kh…

1 year, 11 months ago