The Cooler
By KQED
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A monthly podcast from KQED Pop that tackles popular culture in a smart, fun and personal way.
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Stay Cool
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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We Need A Resolution
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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The Great Unliking
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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Coldplay Will Tear Us Apart
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Since We’ve Been Gone
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Queer Eye’s Tan France On How Gays Will Save The World
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Hotline Bling
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Bay Bye: Breaking Up With San Francisco
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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The Bops Of Summer
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Natalie Portman Is Out Of Your League
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Black To The Future
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May 30, 2019 |
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Give Grace Jones The Iron Throne
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May 23, 2019 |
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To Be Or Not To Be Humble
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May 16, 2019 |
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Eurovision Is The Campy Fun We Need Right Now
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May 09, 2019 |
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But Her Hieroglyphs: Meet The Cersei Of Ancient Egypt
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May 02, 2019 |
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Hamilton: A Field Trip with Two Thousand Teens
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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#BeyonceToo: Not Even The Queen Is Safe
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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It’s Not Right But It’s Okurrrrrr
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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That’s Ms. Maya Angelou To You!
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Les Miserables, Now Less Miserably White
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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We Need to Talk About Michael Jackson
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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BD Wong on Coming Out in Hollywood and the Power in Being Yourself
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Got Oat Milk?
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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What Are Dating Shows Doing to Our Brains?
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Excellent Coats on Irritated Women (with Sara Benincasa)
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Best Frenemies Forever
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Boys Don’t Cry (But They Totally Should!)
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Forgotten ’90s Stars: Where Are They Now?
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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A Buffet of Bullsh*t
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Resolutions: Learn a Foreign Language and Say Thank You Next to Anxiety
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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How Well Do You Remember 2018?
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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The Sexiest and Weirdest Christmas Songs You’ve Never Heard
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Coolio Awards: The Best and Worst of 2018 Pop Culture
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Cringeolences, Teatox and Cardi Banks
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Early Aughts Nostalgia Already?! (With Nish Kumar)
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Chani Nicholas on Healing Astrology, Mercury Retrograde and What Our Future Holds
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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Victoria’s Secret Is That She Doesn’t Have Any Trans Friends
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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The Walrus-Penis-Wielding Congressman
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Vote for a Good Time!
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Are You Afraid of ASMR?
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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Oops!…My Hacker Did It Again
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Will ‘A Star Is Born’ Make You Scream ‘Yaas Gaga Yaas’ or ‘Nah Gaga Nah’?
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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Boys Will Be Held Accountable
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Back 2 Stars Hollow (with Gilmore Girls’ Keiko Agena)
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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The 26-Year-Old Virgin
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Put Some Respeck on Serena Williams’ Name
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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DeRay Mckesson on Black Lives Matter, the X-Men and That Blue Vest
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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Crazy in Love with This Summer Preview
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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A Review of Beyoncé and Her Husband’s “EVERYTHING IS LOVE”
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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We Couldn’t Help But Wonder How ‘Sex and the City’ Is Already 20
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Putting the Cult in Pop Culture
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Thank Your Lucky Yelp Stars Your Gyno Isn’t Suing You
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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The Library Is Open!
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May 30, 2018 |
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Men Who Nip and Tuck
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May 23, 2018 |
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The Not So Rural Juror
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May 16, 2018 |
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Stay in Your Emoji Lane
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May 09, 2018 |
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Beyonce Takes Us to Church… Literally
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May 02, 2018 |
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Gen Z Takeover: Teens Talk Vaping, Kanye, Parkland, and Everything Else
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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How Did 420 Become a Phenomenon? We Tracked Down the Guys Who Invented It
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Getting Pregnant in a Jacuzzi with Brontez Purnell
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Slumber Partying Like It’s 1999 with Bob the Drag Queen
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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A Peek Behind The Cooler Curtain
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness on Turning Red States Pink
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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Celebrities Hawk the Darndest Things
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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In Search of Lost Badass Women
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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#OscarsSoYesterday: Are Awards Shows Still Relevant?
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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Wakanda Forever! Elio + Oliver Forever!
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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Dear Valentine, May I (VERB) Your (NOUN)?
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Fauxmosexuals, LILFs, and Justin Timberlake’s Wack Halftime Show
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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Now That’s What I Call Flu!
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Chasing Tom Hardy’s Pillowy Lips
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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Weird Stories Your History Teacher Should Have Taught You
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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The Way We Were: A Look Back at Our First Episode
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Resolutions: Ditch America, Live Off the Grid and MYOB
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Coolio Awards: The Best and Worst of 2017 Pop Culture
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Dec 27, 2017 |
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It’s Not Xmas Until You Hear Patti LaBelle Butcher This Holiday Classic
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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How to Survive Your Family, Long Flights and Bad Food This Holiday Season
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Keeping It 💯 : Fans Take Over
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Keep Calm and Don’t Marry Your Cousin
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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What ‘Stranger Things’ and a Young Mary J. Blige Have in Common
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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Thanks for Everything, Rihanna! Thanks for Nothing, 2017!
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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A Whole New World (with Genie from Broadway’s Aladdin)
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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Listen to Women (It’s Not That Hard)
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Debutante Balls
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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What Your Zodiac Sign Says About Your Chances in a Horror Movie
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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Would Jesus Listen to ’90s Music?
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Lady Gaga is 30, Flirty & Thriving
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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If These Playboy Mansion Walls Could Talk
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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Harry Potter and the Brokeback Mountain
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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James and the Giant Peach Emoji
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Is It Too Late to Say Sorry for Eating So Much Avocado?
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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Look What You Made Taylor Swift and Cersei Do
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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A Guide to the Most Anticipated Releases of Summer 2017
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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Chilling Pop Culture Curses, from ‘Poltergeist’ to Drake
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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What Do Bad Sci-Fi Movies Predict for the Next Few Years?
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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Summer of Love Bops The World Forgot
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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The Book of Diesel: Life Lessons from the Fast and Furious Franchise
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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How to Travel the World While Broke
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May 25, 2017 |
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Jessamyn Stanley on Why Yoga Isn’t All Peace, Love, and Rainbows
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May 18, 2017 |
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I’ll Have What He’s Having. Privilege.
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May 11, 2017 |
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Aretha Franklin Hates You, Your Sister, and Your Friend
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May 04, 2017 |
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Girls, Bye: Can a Series Finale Ever Satisfy?
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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It’s Been 84 Years Since My Last Confession
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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S-Town: A Show about Murder, Nipple Rings… and Double Standards in Podcasting?
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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The Dark and Twisted World of Tickling
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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The Spice Girls: Woke Baes Since 1996
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Oprah 2020? Celebrities We’d Love to Call President
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Don’t Cut Your Hair Like Felicity & Other ’90s Dating Rules
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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When Netflix and Chill Turns into Netflix and Cheating
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Zahra Noorbakhsh Speaks on Behalf of All Muslims
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, Thanks to Trump
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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Fight the Power with Protest Songs and Radical Self-Care!
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Mandy Moore Reinvented Herself, and So Can You!
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Why Britney Spears and Ariel Are Basically the Same Person
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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A Trump Impeachment and a Roomba Homicide in 2017? This Psychic Thinks So
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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Resolutions: Stop Being an Emo Hermit, Start Seeking Friends Out
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Coolio Awards: The Best and Worst of 2016 Pop Culture
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Best Christmas Songs You Don’t Know, But Should
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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Gilmore Girls: A Lovefest & Tender Critique of the Netflix Revival
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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‘The Walking Dead’ and Other Apocalypse Entertainment: Suddenly Too Real?
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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Canada: Fun Facts, Slang, and Celine Dion Songs You Need to Know
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Dec 01, 2016 |
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Thanks for Everything, Solange! Thanks for Nothing, 2016!
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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The Best, Worst and Weirdest Fake Celebrity Accents
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: Controversial Celebrities We Can’t Stop Loving
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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Happy Halloween, Boo! Let’s Share Ghost Stories and Not Wear Anything Problematic!
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Karina Longworth on Everything from Taylor vs. Kanye to What’s Next for ‘You Must Remember This’
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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To Be or Not to Be a Kim Kardashian Defender and a Kanye West Fan
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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R.I.P. Brangelina: Why Do We Care So Much about Celebrity Breakups?
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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Mara Wilson on What Happened after ‘Matilda’ and Why She Quit Hollywood
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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Why Is Everyone So Obsessed with LaCroix and Mercury in Retrograde?
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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We’re Gonna Podcast Like It’s Our Birthday
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Can Disagreeing over ‘Stranger Things’ Lead to Divorce? Probably!
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Summer Recap: Ryan Lochte and Other White Dudes Are Teflon, Get Away with Everything
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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Brexit: How Drugs and Sex Sorta Kinda Broke Up the E.U.
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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Chuck Klosterman on Why We’re Wrong about the Past, the Future and Almost Everything Else
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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Celebrity Couples You Never Knew Were a Thing
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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Can Astrology Predict Who Will Win the 2016 Election? Maybe!
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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An Oral History of Selfies and the Warriors
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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The Most Delightfully Unusual Idioms from Around the World
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Bob the Drag Queen on Winning Drag Race, Rising Above Haters and Putting Purse First
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May 23, 2016 |
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Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford, The Shadiest Hollywood Feud of All Time
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May 19, 2016 |
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What’s Really Behind All the Hate Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop Get?
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May 12, 2016 |
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Sorry Not Sorry: The Best and Worst Celebrity Apologies
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May 05, 2016 |
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Let’s Go Crazy Over Beyoncé’s LEMONADE
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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Can’t Get Hamilton Tickets? Watch the Next Best Thing: Beyoncé’s 2001 Hip Hopera, Carmen
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Nancy Jo Sales on the Dangers of Social Media, Donald Trump and the Infamous Alexis Neiers Voicemail
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Apr 14, 2016 |
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The Kennedy Curse: A Family-Sized Portion of Murphy’s Law
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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Luna Malbroux on Her Wage Gap App and Why It’s Tricky to Be Black and into BDSM
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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Zootopia and Crossroads: The Most Woke Movies of 2016 and 2002?
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Ann Friedman on Everything from Shine Theory to Kim Kardashian
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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Is It Time to Break Up with Reality TV?
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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Are You Too Old for Snapchat?
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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Sanjay Patel on ‘Sanjay’s Super Team’ and the Struggle of Being Culturally-Hyphenated
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Feb 29, 2016 |
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Is Kanye West The Reincarnation of Caligula?
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Feb 26, 2016 |
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God Bless Beyoncé (and America Too)
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Feb 19, 2016 |
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Will You Accept This Deep Analysis of The Bachelor?
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Feb 12, 2016 |
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The People vs. Janet Jackson
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Feb 05, 2016 |
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Will David Bowie Join Tupac in Life After Death?
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Jan 29, 2016 |
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The 10 Most Amusing Predictions Nikki, Psychic to the Stars, Made for 2016
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Jan 15, 2016 |
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Resolutions: Stop Saying ‘Sorry’ in Work Emails, Learn Justin Bieber’s ‘Sorry’ Dance Instead
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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Coolio Awards: The Best and Worst of 2015 Pop Culture
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Dec 30, 2015 |
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British Christmas Songs That Never Crossed the Pond (Because They’re Weird)
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Dec 22, 2015 |
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‘Titanic’ Turns 18: What You Don’t Know About the Film
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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Don’t Feel Like an Introvert or Extrovert? You Might Be an Ambivert
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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Can You Guess the Unintelligible Song Lyric?
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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Holiday Survival Guide: How to Deal with Family, Long Flights and Bad Food
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Nov 25, 2015 |
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Let’s Talk About Race, Baby
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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The Kids Are All Right
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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Candice Cuoco of ‘Project Runway’
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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This Is Halloween
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Oct 29, 2015 |
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Aminatou Sow of ‘Call Your Girlfriend’
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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Taylor Swift vs. Mansplainers, Taking Back Snobbery, and the Downfall of American Apparel
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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French Feminism, A Less Problematic Barbie, and the Dangers of Unfriending
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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The Cooler LIVE! with Brontez Purnell & Jocquese Whitfield
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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The Cooler LIVE! with W. Kamau Bell
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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The Real Housewives of Congress On Fleek, Taught by James Franco
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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Shakespearean Snobs, Hella Appropriation and a Dose of Riddle-in
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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Introducing ‘The Cooler,’ Your New Favorite Podcast
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Sep 10, 2015 |