Death, Sex & Money - A 101-Year-Old Rediscovers a Love Lost to War
Anna talks to Jonathan Goldstein, host of the Pushkin podcast Heavyweight, about the show getting a second chance after a long period of uncertainty, and how that time helped some of the stories they ...
20 Jan 52min
ICYMI - Twitter’s Chatbot Keeps Undressing Women
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Parker Molloy, writer of The Present Age. After Elon Musk implemented updates to his Grok chatbot that encouraged it to be more sexually explicit, ce...
17 Jan 43min
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Starman to Blackstar Edition Part 1
Chameleon: That’s long been the word used to describe David Bowie, pop music’s shapeshifting extraterrestrial. He shifted personas, genres, and looks, emerging from swinging London with psychedelic fo...
17 Jan 1h 4min
ICYMI - Get In Loser, We’re Friction-Maxxing
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Kathryn Jezer-Morton, writer of The Cut column Brooding, and author of the viral article, In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing. Over the past fifteen yea...
14 Jan 51min
Culture Gabfest - Sydney Sweeney’s Box Office Triumph Edition
Podcasting is a privilege as Steve is joined by Dan Kois and Rebecca Onion to unpack and cackle at the domestic thriller schlockfest The Housemaid. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in the Paul ...
14 Jan 1h 3min
Decoder Ring - Decoder Rings Back | Why the Mona Lisa?
We are really lucky to get lots of listener suggestions for the show, more good questions than we can possibly answer in a mailbag episode once or twice a year. So we’re starting a new segment we call...
14 Jan 25min
Death, Sex & Money - Why Autopsies Are in Decline and Why it Matters
In the 1950s, about 50% of patients who died in a hospital in the U.S. received an autopsy. Today, that figure is in the single digits, which is a big loss according to two people who care a lot about...
13 Jan 42min
Hang Up and Listen - The Wildest Wild-card Weekend
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh unpack a thrilling wild-card round of the NFL playoffs. Lindsay’s Panthers are out, John Harbaugh has been fired, the reigning champions exit earl...
13 Jan 55min
