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Podcasts
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The Culture Gabfest: Plodding Recitative Edition
Slate's podcast about Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, the movie musical Les Misérables, and the question and answer site Quora.
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Do You Creak?
Listen to Slate’s show about the much-reviled phenomenon, prominent among young American women, of “creaky voice.”
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An Inside Look at the Hotel Industry
An interview with Jacob Tomsky, author of Heads in Beds.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Fistic Cliff Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on pro football’s record-breaking season, Black Monday in the NFL, and whether the NHL will cancel its season.
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The 2012 Conundrums Gabfest
Listen to Slate's special year-end show featuring the conundrums that stumped us in 2012.
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Home for the Holidays Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about women and guns, This Is 40, and the agony (or ecstasy) of going home for the holidays.
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The Culture Gabfest: First Time, Long Time Edition
A special call-in edition of Slate’s culture podcast.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Pesca and the Pelicans Edition
The special, year-end, call-in edition of Slate’s sports podcast.
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Why Fiscal Cliff Is Such a Powerful Metaphor
Listen to Slate’s show about the ubiquity of spatial metaphors in our language.
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The Last Shot Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the political legacy of the Newtown shootings, Boehner’s Plan B, and the legacy of Robert Bork.
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The Man With 18 Miles of Books
An interview with Fred Bass, owner of New York’s Strand bookstore.
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The Culture Gabfest: Trapped in a Glass Box With Dwarves Edition
Slate's podcast about The Hobbit, the A&E series Duck Dynasty, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator at 50.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Bionic Running Back Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Adrian Peterson’s incredible return from ACL surgery and baseball’s West Coast power shift. Plus, an interview with NBC Sports’ Stan Van Gundy.
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The Union-Made Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about Michigan’s new right-to-work law, the Supreme Court’s decision to tackle gay marriage, and torture in Zero Dark Thirty.
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Old Sperm Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about the risks of older parenthood, gender-neutral toys, and the sustaining tradition that says men are responsible for all marriage proposals.
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The Culture Gabfest: “I Normally Have To Be Drunk Off My Ass To Do This” Edition
Slate's podcast about Beasts of the Southern Wild, why the art world is so despicable, and Beck’s Song Reader.
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Hang Up and Listen: The Worth Its Wait in Gold Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Johnny Manziel’s Heisman Trophy win, the Army-Navy game, and shot putter Adam Nelson’s belated Olympic victory.
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The Doomsday Scenario Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the fiscal cliff negotiations, lessons from the 2012 campaign, and the New York Post’s tragic cover photo.
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The Culture Gabfest: UniBall Vision Elite Edition
Slate's podcast about gay people who don’t want to get married, the lost art of handwriting, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s take on “neomania.”
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Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
The illiterate Cherokee man who invented the alphabet for his language.
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Hang Up and Listen: The How To Talk About a Murder-Suicide Edition
Slate’s sports podcast on Jovan Belcher, Alabama sports radio host Paul Finebaum, and the contretemps over the Spurs resting their starters.
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The Going Nuclear Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the fiscal cliff, the prospects for filibuster reform, and the ethics of outing bullies online.
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The Audio Book Club on NW
Our critics take on Zadie Smith’s novel about four residents of northwest London.
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Nobody’s Business Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Martha Stewart’s new image, the Rihanna/Chris Brown saga, and the Fox News article “The War on Men.”
