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Code-switching and Cussing (with Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro!!)

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Is the Age of Posting Over?

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How an Article of Clothing Goes Viral

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BONUS EPISODE: Dungeon Crawler Carl's Utilikilt Masculinity [preview]

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When Convenience Actually Kinda Sucks

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Fighting is an Art. Here's How To Get Better At It.

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Trying to Have Kids Amidst a Polycrisis

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Why Are So Many Men Unraveling?

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BONUS EPISODE: Let's Talk About Friend Breakups [preview]

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The Politics of White Women's Hair

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All Your Questions About Personal Style, Answered

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How Does AI Mess With Our Creativity?

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The Women's Fitness Industrial Complex

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BONUS EPISODE: The Hair (and Women) of The Odyssey [preview]

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The Case For Quitting

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BONUS EPISODE: The 'Woke' Little House on the Prairie... Kinda Works??? [preview]

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How to Fall in Love with a City

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Who Are The Heartthrobs of 2026???

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You Asked for a Parental Death Prep Episode. We Got the Perfect Guest.

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What Made Our Boomer Moms... Like This?

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RF Kuang Answers Your Questions About Dark Academia

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Intergenerational Friendships Rule

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BONUS EPISODE: Is Off Campus the Corniest New Show on Television... or The Hottest? [preview]

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Dozens of Irish Books for Your Summer Reading (with Maggie O’Farrell)!

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The Future of Summer Camp, Post-Camp Mystic

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A Big Juicy Gossip Episode

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Checking In On The Momfluencers

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What Do We Do With All This STUFF??

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SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Late to The Pitt Party [preview]

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The Content-ification of Wedding Culture

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What's With All The Nostalgia For 2008?

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A Compelling Conversation about The Morality of Taxes (Especially Right Now)

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Surviving Eight Years of Conversion Therapy

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The Fascinating Future of the Chain Restaurant

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Falling in Love with Video Games as an Adult

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Hilary Duff's Irresistible Millennial Mom Image

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Finally a Conversation About a Car-Less Future That Won't Make You Feel Like Crap

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Just Trust Us on This Queer Historical Romance Ep, It Rules

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The Sociology of Baby Names

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[PREVIEW] SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Wuthering Heights Teenage Feeling Edition

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A Very Funny Episode About Being a "Childless Freak"

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The Ridiculously Interesting History of Weird English Words

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The Heartbreaking (and Largely Unregulated) Business of IVF

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How an Audiobook Gets Made (with Julia Whelan!)

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Is Everyone an Influencer Now?

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Let's Collectively Fantasize About a Family-Friendly Society

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How Did Dating Get THIS Difficult?

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What's So Great About a Freaking Hobby?

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Bonus Episode: AHP + Melody's Super Weird Best of 2026 [PREVIEW]

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What's With All This Eldest Daughter Discourse?

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What's Behind All The BIG KOREAN POP CULTURE ENERGY

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How to Fall in Love with Birding

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What It's Actually Like to Run a Small (Creative) Business

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Tracing Cultural Panics with Sarah Marshall (!!!)

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A Very Smart Conversation About Fantasy (and Romance) with Leigh Bardugo

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Love is Blind as a Cultural Skeleton Key

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What It's Like to Grow Up With Hoarders

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The Outdoor Gearification of the American Wardrobe

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How the Manosphere Fuels Climate Change Denial

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Let's Talk About Baseball Culture!!!

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Why Other People's Screen Time Annoys You

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Who Gets a Mid-Life Reinvention?

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Figuring Out What's Behind Seven Recent Food Trends

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How Algorithms Are Changing the Way We Speak

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One Gwyneth Episode to Rule Them All

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Dozens of New-To-You Books for Your TBR Pile

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Don't Mess With Texas Culture

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The Potent Ideological Stew of Evangelical Church Camp

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The Ridiculously Interesting World of American Accents

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All the Ways We Surveil Motherhood

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All the Latest Book & Publishing Trends, Explained

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Why is Montana So in Love With Itself?

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Why Is Katy Perry So Embarrassing?

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Why Are Men's Clothes All Earth Tones

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How Private Equity Destroys the Companies You Depend On

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Let's Unpack Some Intensive Parenting Trends (In a Way That Will Not Make You Feel Like Crap)

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How 2000s Culture Messed Us Up

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What is SoCal Culture?

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Everything We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Periods

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The Backyard Chicken Glamour Campaign

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Unlocking the Allure of Tate McRae

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Boston Culture with Josh Gondelman

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Complicating the Plastic Surgery Conversation

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The Immersive Joy of Fan Fiction

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How a Cookbook Gets Made

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WTF is Spiritual Care for the Non-Religious?

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Does Running Culture Suck?

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Figuring Out How To Feel About 'With Love, Meghan'

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The Irishification of Pop Culture

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The Feminist Playground of Historical Romance

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The Enduring Myths of Budget Culture

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Approximately 72 Old Movies to Fall In Love With

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The Heart of Dad Culture

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Fake, Real, Imagined, & Projected CELEBRITY FEUDS!!!

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Reclaiming "Self-Care" from the Brands

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Who Gets To Ski?

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The Wild and Banal Future of Celebrity Gossip

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How Did Thrifting Get So Bad?

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The Rise of Therapy Speak

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All Your Questions About The Weird World of Kids' Toys

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