A grounded conversation about AI, sex, and the social side of desire.
ICYMI brings in porn historian Noelle Perdue for a conversation about AI, sex, and the way private fantasy can become a more isolated experience.
Sharp culture talk for platform-era life.
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Slate Culture Feed moves between ICYMI's internet-culture reporting and Culture Gabfest's roundtable criticism. Recent episodes range from AI intimacy and workplace automation to influencer retirements, Coachella backlash, films, television, cigarettes on screen, and the emotional end of a long-running culture conversation.
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About Slate Culture Feed
Slate Culture Feed works like a crowded culture page with the audio left on. It gathers internet reporting, critic roundtables, interviews, previews, and valedictory conversations under one Slate banner. The ICYMI episodes are especially alert to the mechanics of online life: AI-generated intimacy, influencer fatigue, creator retirement, workplace automation, Coachella backlash, and the odd ways every app can become social if people push it hard enough. The Culture Gabfest side is broader and more critic-driven. Films, limited series, streaming dramas, smoking aesthetics, media, celebrity dogs, and the end of a long-running show all become material for argument. The best moments start small. A specific TikTok memory, a festival image, a Peacock premise, or a New Yorker article gives the conversation something to hold before it moves toward a bigger claim. That gives the feed its useful rhythm. It is accessible, but it does not talk down. It assumes listeners can keep up with names like Steven Soderbergh, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Sheridan, Richard Pryor, Alex Cooper, Alex Earle, and Jenna Marbles, while still pausing long enough to explain why those names matter in the moment. The tone can be funny and dry. It can also turn sincere, especially when the speakers mark endings, departures, or the strange persistence of online communities after a creator disappears. The show is not tidy. That is part of its appeal. It moves from screen criticism to platform behavior to media gossip to cultural memory without pretending those categories are separate. For listeners who want a running read on how entertainment, internet fame, technology, and taste keep shaping one another, Slate Culture Feed offers a brisk, literate, and frequently pointed way in.
Made for: For listeners who follow film, television, internet culture, media drama, and the social meaning of trends. It especially suits people who like cultural criticism with conversation, humor, and clear editorial judgment.
What sets it apart: The feed combines Slate's internet-culture lens with roundtable criticism, so the same stream can move from AI sexuality to Soderbergh, influencer burnout, workplace bots, and a farewell to Culture Gabfest. Its range is broad, but the connective tissue is always behavior: how people watch, post, work, desire, remember, and argue.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sharp conversations and detailed cultural history reveal how platforms, communities, and creative partnerships shape public life.
Slate Culture Feed treats culture as something made through platforms, fandom, technology, and the relationships people form around them. Its range runs from Kate Lindsey's guest-led conversations about internet culture to detailed pop history and the affectionate final…
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Slate Culture Gap Fest makes its farewell episode feel less like a formal ending than a close study of personality in the margins. The title riffs, the self-corrections, and the care taken to name the occasion without overloading it give the discussion its shape.
A thoughtful look at what remains when an influencer leaves the internet without a clear farewell.
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Episodes
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ICYMI - Wikipedia Is The Most Human Place On The Internet
Kate Lindsey interviews Annie Rauwerda, creator of the Depths of Wikipedia Instagram account, about Wikipedia's human side.
·31m·3 clips - 2
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The Queen of Disco Edition Part 1 (Encore)
This episode of Hit Parade explores Donna Summer's career, starting with her surprising achievement as the first artist to top the Billboard album chart with three consecutive double albums.
·31m·3 clips - 3
ICYMI - AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
Kate Lindsay brings in porn historian Noelle Perdue after a small Google Maps detour.
Jul 4, 2026·47m·3 clips - 4
ICYMI - Influencers Are Hitting Retirement
Kate Lindsey is joined by Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick to talk through what happens when an influencer stops posting.
Jul 1, 2026·37m·2 clips - 5
Culture Gabfest - So Long, and Thanks for All the Granola Edition
Hidden gemStephen Metcalf opens by treating the Slate Culture Gap Fest as a farewell more than a regular episode.
Jul 1, 2026·1h 37m·5 clips - 6
Decoder Ring - We Are Monumentally Bad at Statues
Hidden gemDecoder Ring examines why Trump’s proposed 250-statue National Garden of American Heroes faces a shortage of realist sculptors and foundries in the United States.
Jul 1, 2026·49m·3 clips - 7
Death, Sex & Money - Emmy-Winner Jeff Hiller Returns! Talking Bodies and Money in a Changing Hollywood
Hidden gemAnna Sale interviews Emmy-winning actor Jeff Hiller about how his unexpected Emmy for Somebody Somewhere changed his visibility without guaranteeing more money or stable work.
Jun 30, 2026·52m·3 clips - 8
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Don’t Fear the Repeat Edition
Jun 27, 2026·52m - 9
ICYMI - Your Favorite World Cup Moment Might Be Fake
Jun 27, 2026·31m - 10
ICYMI - My Decade-Long Payment App Feud
Jun 24, 2026·45m - 11
Culture Gabfest - Toy Story 5 Crushes It at the Box Office Edition
Jun 24, 2026·1h 21m - 12
Death, Sex & Money - Was Dad Being a Creep? And Other Childhood Memories to Decipher
Jun 23, 2026·53m - 13
ICYMI - Your Group Chats Are Now Blackmail
Jun 20, 2026·42m - 14
ICYMI - Everything Is Phone
Jun 17, 2026·34m - 15
Culture Gabfest - One Last Strut Edition
Jun 17, 2026·1h 27m - 16
Decoder Ring - The Tootsie Shot (Encore)
Jun 17, 2026·36m - 17
Death, Sex & Money - Spouses Peter Dinklage and Erica Schmidt on Bad Interviews, Fame, and Parenting
Jun 16, 2026·1h 11m - 18
ICYMI - A YouTuber Made Your New Favorite Horror Film
Jun 13, 2026·34m - 19
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - More Than a Feeling Edition
Jun 13, 2026·51m - 20
Culture Gabfest - One Last Taylor Swift Throwdown Edition
Jun 10, 2026·1h 23m - 21
ICYMI - You Keep Falling For Secret Ads
Jun 10, 2026·33m - 22
Death, Sex & Money - Something Rotten at Stanford
Jun 9, 2026·50m - 23
ICYMI - Beware The Boy Mom
Jun 6, 2026·40m - 24
Decoder Ring - Tina Turner and the Dance That Conquered Australia
Jun 3, 2026·49m - 25
ICYMI - Keep TikTok Out Of Our Favorite YA Books
Jun 3, 2026·41m - 26
Culture Gabfest - Stuck in the Backrooms Edition
Jun 3, 2026·1h 15m - 27
Death, Sex & Money - A Sex Party Love Story
Jun 2, 2026·49m - 28
ICYMI - AI Detectors Won’t Save Us
May 30, 2026·35m - 29
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Near-Miss Hits—’70s Edition
May 30, 2026·36m - 30
ICYMI - The Secret Marketing Tactic Killing The Internet
May 27, 2026·26m - 31
Culture Gabfest - I Love Boosters Heightens the Contradictions Edition
May 27, 2026·59m - 32
Decoder Ring - Preview: Decoder Rings Back | Duck, Duck, Jeep
May 27, 2026·10m - 33
Death, Sex & Money - The Parent-Child Anxiety Trap
May 26, 2026·37m - 34
ICYMI - There's No Point To Influencers Anymore
May 23, 2026·34m - 35
ICYMI - Phone Etiquette Is In The Toilet
May 20, 2026·37m - 36
Culture Gabfest - You’re My Obsession Edition
May 20, 2026·55m - 37
Decoder Ring - No Pulp: The Killing of the Florida Orange
May 20, 2026·41m - 38
Death, Sex & Money - A Brat Pack Star Remembers How to Have Friends
May 19, 2026·51m - 39
ICYMI - Right-Wing Creators Are In Their Flop Era
May 16, 2026·37m - 40
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Hit Parade: Dancing With Himself Edition
May 15, 2026·45m - 41
ICYMI - To Leak or Not To Leak? That's The Fandom Question
May 13, 2026·36m - 42
Culture Gabfest - Lord of the Sheep Edition
May 13, 2026·59m - 43
Hang Up and Listen - Announcing Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Gorsuch
May 13, 2026·11m - 44
Death, Sex & Money - Death, SNAKES & Money
May 12, 2026·54m - 45
ICYMI - “Blue Dot Fever” Is A Symptom Of Bigger Problems
May 9, 2026·37m - 46
Decoder Ring - Mailbag: Spooky Strings, Phone Menu Options, and Eye Rolls
May 6, 2026·48m - 47
ICYMI - Are You “Numbing Out”?
May 6, 2026·32m - 48
Culture Gabfest - Somehow, Miranda Priestly Returned Edition
May 6, 2026·58m - 49
Death, Sex & Money - Kara Swisher on the Rich Guys Trying to Live Forever
May 5, 2026·55m - 50
ICYMI - The Personal Essay Is Back. The Internet Isn't Ready.
May 2, 2026·32m - 51
ICYMI - We’re Taking This “Mormon” Trend Too Far
Apr 29, 2026·37m - 52
Culture Gabfest - Michael Jackson Moonwalks the Box Office Edition
Apr 29, 2026·58m - 53
ICYMI - We Are Over Influencers At Coachella
This episode discusses the backlash against influencers at Coachella and the public drama between influencers Alex Cooper and Alex Earle, exploring internet culture trends.
Apr 18, 2026·40m - 54
Culture Gabfest - Richard Pryor: The Truth Teller Who Changed Comedy Forever | From Big Lives
This episode previews the podcast Big Lives, focusing on how it reveals new insights about cultural figures like Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian who transformed comedy with his truth-telling.
Apr 17, 2026·44m - 55
Culture Gabfest - There Are No Small Parts Only Miniature Wives Edition
This episode of the Slate Culture Gabfest discusses Steven Soderbergh's film 'The Christophers', the Peacock series 'The Miniature Wife', and the resurgence of cigarettes in media and among Generation Z.
Apr 15, 2026·58m - 56
ICYMI - Bosses, Stop Using AI And Do Your Job
This episode discusses how bosses are using AI in the workplace and why employees dislike it, featuring writer Laura Helmuth.
Apr 15, 2026·31m - 57
Culture Gabfest - The Drama Surrounding The Drama Edition
This episode discusses recent films and TV shows featuring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, and Michelle Pfeiffer, along with a segment on the popularity of doodle dog breeds.
Apr 8, 2026·1h 2m - 58
Death, Sex & Money - Doree Shafrir On The Out Of Control IVF Train
This episode explores the emotional and financial challenges of IVF and infertility, featuring listener stories and reflections on doubt in life choices.
Apr 7, 2026·44m - 59
Death, Sex & Money - AI Confessions: A Chatbot Ended My Marriage
This episode explores how AI chatbots are destroying relationships, including marriages, and causing mental health crises like obsession and suicide, focusing on the risks of new technology interactions.
Mar 17, 2026·51m - 60
Death, Sex & Money - AI Confessions: A Chatbot Saved My Life
This episode explores how people are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT for emotional support, companionship, and personal advice, sometimes finding them more effective than human relationships.
Mar 10, 2026·45m - 61
Death, Sex & Money - After Two Wars and PTSD, He Became an Oyster Farmer. Why is He Running for Senate?
This episode explores the unconventional U.S.
Mar 3, 2026·1h 28m