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The Brutalist’s Outsized Ambition
On this week’s show, it’s an all-movie week! Isaac Butler — author of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act and host of the new Criter…
1 year, 4 months ago
Annual Call-In Show 2024
On this week’s show, it’s one of the Gabfest’s most cherished traditions: the yearly call-in show. Dana, Julia, and Stephen answer listen-submitted q…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ted Danson, Gumshoe Grandpa
On this week’s show, the hosts indulge in the cozy pleasures of A Man on the Inside, a six-part Netflix series from showrunner and feel-good sitcom v…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Strange Lionization of Luigi Mangione
On this week’s show, the hosts chew over Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s (Queen’s Gambit, Can You Ever Forgive Me, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, MacGrub…
1 year, 5 months ago
Steve McQueen’s Blitz: Dud or Hit?
On this week’s show, Slate experts June Thomas (author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture) and Dan Kois (author of H…
1 year, 5 months ago
Wicked and Gladiator II in the Box Office Arena
On this week’s show, the hosts consider ‘Glicked’ (or is it ‘Wadiator’? ‘Gladicked?’), the Wicked and Gladiator II double feature that promised to be…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lots to Say About Say Nothing
On this week’s show, Isaac Butler (Supreme Friend of the Show and author of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act) sits in for Dana. …
1 year, 6 months ago
You Are the Media Now
On this week’s episode, the hosts tackle A Real Pain, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg’s tale of two cousins (played by himself and Kieran Culkin) wh…
1 year, 6 months ago
How Quincy Jones Reinvented American Music
On this week’s show, Extremely Musical Friend of the Pod (EMFOP) Chris Molanphy joins to memorialize pop’s Renaissance Man, Quincy Jones, who passed…
1 year, 6 months ago
Can Stolen Artifacts Return Time?
Episode 495
On this week’s show, Slate senior editor Rebecca Onion sits in for Julia Turner. First, the hosts examine Dahomey, an audacious new documentary by ac…
1 year, 6 months ago