Podcast Episodes

Culture Gabfest: Much Ado About Ren Faire

On this week’s show, Isaac Butler (co-host of Slate’s Working podcast and the author of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act) sits in…

2 years ago

What Next: Is the Apprentice Movie Fired?

The Apprentice, starring Captain America’s Sebastian Stan and Succession’s Jeremy Strong, was financed in part by the widely-loathed former-Washingto…

2 years ago

Death, Sex & Money: Kara Swisher and Orna Guralnik on How to Get People Talking

Anna talks to Dr. Orna Guralnik, the psychoanalyst from Showtime’s Couples Therapy, and then to Kara Swisher, the pugnacious tech journalist and podc…

2 years ago

How To!: Make Bank at a Yard Sale

How To!’s senior editor Joel Meyer recently experienced a yard sale fail and wants to know what went wrong. He spent hours planning and organizing th…

2 years ago

Money Talks: Does Anyone Need Cookbooks?

For this Money Talks, Felix Salmon chats with food writer, podcaster, and cookbook author Matt Rodbard about the latest trends in the culinary biz. T…

2 years ago

Tradwives Show Us Feminism’s Failures

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: aprons off.

Has there ever been a better time to be a woman in America? Probably not… but that’s a low bar. Modern …

2 years ago

Hang Up: Remembering Willie Mays

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin share their thoughts on baseball legend Willie Mays, who died last week at age 93. Morgan Campbell of th…

2 years ago

Vacation With a Big Group (Seriously!)

On this episode: Zak, Lucy and Elizabeth talk about the bold thesis statement of this piece from Romper Magazine… arguing that actually, traveling wi…

2 years ago

Working: A New Kind of “Live Documentary” Honors the Temporary

This week, host Isaac Butler talks to Sam Green, a documentary filmmaker who has pioneered a new kind of performance called “live documentary,” which…

2 years ago

ICYMI: John Green, Tall Love and the Star Wars Hotel

On today’s episode, ICYMI is bringing back a time-honored tradition: High Speed Downloads. For Candice’s first and Rachelle’s last HSD, they’ll have …

2 years ago