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Premium: Jessica Taylor’s Tattle Battle (Part 3)
The grand finale
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Weekly Open Thread (8/26/26)
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Premium: Jessica Taylor’s Tattle Battle (Part 2)
A very dark web
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Episode 320: Jessica Taylor’s Tattle Battle (Part 1)
The story of a complicated woman
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Weekly Open Thread (8/19/26)
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Episode 319: If You Haven’t Seen Woke 1, This Episode Won’t Make Much Sense To You
It was crazy
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Weekly Open Thread (8/12/26)
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Ask Jon Ronson Anything
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Episode 318: Tick Talk
Plus, a gay icon with a troubling past
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Premium: The Literally True Story Of How Cambridge's Youngest Black Professor Was Really And Truly Victimized By A Racist One-Armed Invisible Man
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Weekly Open Thread (8/5/26)
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WNBA DRAMA with Katie Herzog & Ethan Strauss
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Premium: The Strange Case Of The Legless Surgeon
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Live with Ethan Strauss
Friday! Friday! Friday!
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Weekly Open Thread (7/29/26)
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Premium: The Slow-Motion Implosion Of An Imagined Queer Utopia
Long live The Queery
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Weekly Open Thread (7/22/26)
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Episode 317: Literally Knitler (with Jessica the '80s Baby)
Another knitting saga
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Live with Katie Herzog, Ben Westhoff, and Emily Dufton
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Weekly Open Thread (7/15/26)
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Live with Ben Westhoff and Emily Dufton
Thursday July 16th
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Episode 316: Graham Cracker Crumbles
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Weekly Open Thread (7/8/26)
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Episode 315: You Down With DAC?
The gentrification of the Democratic party
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Weekly Open Thread (7/1/26)
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Premium: Marsha Marsha Marsha (Part 2)
Who threw the first brick?
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Episode 314: Authentic Authenticity On A Silver Platner
The Graham Platner story
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Weekly Open Thread (6/24/26)
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Premium: Before The Brick (Part 1)
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Ask Jessica the '80s Baby Anything
Well, almost anything
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Episode 313: How A Gay Jewish Boob-Hypnotherapist Built A Coalition With Burqa-Wearing Islamists
Meet the Greens
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Weekly Open Thread (6/17/26)
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Episode 312: The Last Straight Woman (with Phoebe Maltz Bovy)
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Premium: Patagonia v. Pattie Gonia
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Weekly Open Thread (6/11/26)
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