Podcast Episodes

What Next: TBD | Trump Vs. Cancer Research

President Trump has proposed cutting $2.5 billion from the National Cancer Institute, which in addition to cuts to the National Institutes of Health and research universities almost makes you wonder:…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

ICYMI | ChatGPT Has Ruined the Em Dash

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay get into the war between em dashes and artificial intelligence. Back in 2024, what started as a developer question became an all-out grammar war, with the use of em dashe…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

What Next: TBD | The CDC Under Fire

Two weeks ago, a gunman fired over 500 bullets at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building in Atlanta. Between the anti-public health rhetoric coming from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the …

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

ICYMI | Ethel Cain, Lana Del Rey, and the Lorax Girl

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay explain what’s going on between the internet’s favorite sad girls, Ethel Cain and Lana Del Rey. Where did their beef start and why is Peter Griffin involved? Then, they d…

Published on 3 weeks ago

How To! | Declutter Your Digital Life

Safiya is one clumsy coffee spill away from catastrophe. A Gen Xer who hasn’t yet embraced the cloud, she stores thousands of digital files, documents, and photos on devices with maxed-out storage li…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Down the Text-Scam Rabbit Hole

The scam du jour arrives via a text message, offering you a job. What happens when you accept?

Guest: Alex Sammon, Slate features writer. 

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Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

ICYMI | The Great Girlboss Comeback

On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate senior writer Scaachi Koul to talk about the return of the girlboss. Over five years after various exposes exposed their poor management and, …

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

What Next TBD | Trump Dips into NVIDIA’s Chips

Jensen Huang, cofounder of NVIDIA, finds himself president of a $4 trillion company, at the forefront of A.I. technology, and, consequently, something of an international diplomat, as he charms Presi…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

ICYMI | Kendra Fell In Love With Her Psychiatrist—Then She Met TikTok

On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario to talk about Kendra, the woman whose 25-part TikTok series about falling in love with her psychiatrist ha…

Published on 4 weeks ago

What Next: TBD | Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop

It’s hard to make money in the music industry. But if you could flood every streamer with hundreds of “original” songs without having to, you know, write or produce it yourself, there’s money there—a…

Published on 1 month ago