Podcast Episodes

Culture Gabfest: Blake Lively Brings Melodrama Back

On this week’s show, June Thomas (author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture) and Dan Kois (author of Hampton Heights…

2 years, 2 months ago

Fact-Checks Make Audiences Suspicious

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: pants on fire.

The fact-check is a critical tool in the journalist’s toolbox – and now more than ever, it’s a key p…

2 years, 2 months ago

How To!: Do Housework (and Not Hate It)

Cooper feels like they’re constantly falling behind on their to-do list. Life is busy and household chores are the last thing they want to do. Cooper…

2 years, 2 months ago

Death, Sex & Money: Miranda July’s Perimenopausal Thriller

When Miranda July entered her early forties, she noticed a grim feeling emerge. “It wasn't coming from me,” she said, “I guess it came from this lack…

2 years, 2 months ago

Hang Up: Au Revoir, Paris

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss the Dream Team’s close calls on the road to gold, and the U.S. women’s basketball team’s narrow victory, too. Th…

2 years, 2 months ago

Is My Kid Ruining Hikes On Purpose?

On this episode: Jamilah, Zak, and Elizabeth answer a listener question about a kid who seems dedicated to making family hikes suck. He’s energetic a…

2 years, 2 months ago

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…

2 years, 2 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’…

2 years, 2 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 …

2 years, 2 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 …

2 years, 2 months ago