Culture Gabfest - Can Materialists Revive the Rom-com Edition
On this week’s show, Steve and Dana are joined by guest host Dan Kois to weigh the suitability of Materialists as a rom-com for our transactional age. In choosing between suitors played by Pedro Pasca...
18 Jun 202558min
Decoder Ring - The Boston Cinematic Universe
This episode is a first for Decoder Ring: a live show, recorded at the WBUR Festival in Boston, Massachusetts. Given the setting, we decided to take on a Boston-based cultural mystery: namely, the “Bo...
18 Jun 202543min
ICYMI - The Content Creators Crashing the Diddy Trial
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Nadira Goffe, whose coverage of the United States v. Sean Combs (also known as the Diddy trial) has meant sharing a press room with YouTub...
18 Jun 202543min
Death, Sex & Money - How Much Can Your Love Life Change in One Summer?
In 2018, we followed eight listeners as they dated over the course of the summer. We heard about having sex for the first time, being ghosted, downloading and deleting dating apps, and grieving one pa...
17 Jun 202532min
Hang Up and Listen - Carnage at Oakmont
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs talk about the rainy and unforgiving weekend at the U.S. Open, where J.J. Spaun was the only player to finish under par. They also get into the sh...
16 Jun 20251h 3min
ICYMI - It’s International Bestselling Author Quan Millz
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Wired senior writer and producer of Black Twitter: A People’s History, Jason Parham, to attempt to explain the enigma that is “international bestselling auth...
14 Jun 202538min
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Mighty Real Edition Part 1
Little Richard was rock ‘n’ roll’s flamboyant architect. Lesley Gore sang that no one owned her. Sylvester was a gender-fluid icon who helped define disco. Freddie Mercury made rock operatic, and Geor...
13 Jun 202556min
Culture Gabfest - Pee Wee’s Big Documentary Edition
On this week’s show, the secret word is: Pee-wee. Dana, Steve, and Julia discuss the new documentary Pee-wee as Himself. The fascinating two-part film, directed by Matt Wolf, attempts to reveal the co...
11 Jun 202556min
