Podcast Episodes

Hang Up | Hot Dogs and Tommy Johns

Three days from Opening Day, hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh share their roses, thorns, and buds for the upcoming MLB season. T…

1 year, 7 months ago

My Daughter’s Dying To Be Popular

On this episode: Jamilah and Zak talk about the popular kids. A member of the Slate Parenting Facebook group has a daughter who’s become obsessed wit…

1 year, 7 months ago

ICYMI | The Manosphere That Made Adolescence

Kate Lindsay and guest co-host senior Slate editor Rebecca Onion talk Adolescence, the new hit Netflix series Onion wrote is “one of the best shows o…

1 year, 7 months ago

I Love My Sister But I Don’t Like Her. Help!

Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by Traci Thomas, the creator and host of the critically acclaimed literary podcast The Stacks.

Together, they a…

1 year, 7 months ago

What Your Kid’s Skin Really Needs

On this episode: Zak, Lucy, and Elizabeth sit down with Dr. Sheilagh Maguinness — a board-certified pediatric dermatologist, an entrepreneur, and a s…

1 year, 7 months ago

Culture Gabfest: Cate Blanchett Is a Sexy Super Spy

On this week’s show, Slate’s Dan Kois sits in for Stephen Metcaff. The hosts discuss the new Mr. & Mrs. Smith-like film Black Bag, starring Cate Blan…

1 year, 7 months ago

Outward | Should We Get Guns?

A gun won’t make you safer, but it will pull you into America’s deep-seated obsession with armed individualism. This week, Bryan, Christina, and Jule…

1 year, 7 months ago

ICYMI | Are New York City Influencers Boring?

Kate Lindsay fills guest co-host Nitish Pahwa in on the TikTok drama that has the “NYC influencer girlies” in a tizzy. After being accused of being “…

1 year, 7 months ago

How To! | Discover Music You’ll Love

Music streaming services like Spotify offer huge libraries of songs and albums—with recommendation engines that can feel unadventurous and repetitive…

1 year, 7 months ago

Death, Sex & Money | Life After Blowing It All Up: A Sugar Baby Story Revisited

In 2020, we made an episode about a listener who cheated on his wife with sex workers and was going through a divorce. He told us the idea to go on t…

1 year, 7 months ago