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Critics at Large is a weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker. Every Thursday, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss current obsessions, classic texts they’re revisiting with fresh eyes, and trends that are emerging across books, television, film, and more. The show runs the gamut of the arts and pop culture, with lively, surprising conversations about everything from Salman Rushdie to “The Real Housewives.” Through rigorous analysis and behind-the ...
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Kermode on Film

Mark Kermode

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This weekly podcast with film critic Mark Kermode is a podcast version of MK3D - the live show he does every month at BFI Southbank which includes movie guests and questions from the audience. Produced by HLA Agency Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The So What from BCG

Boston Consulting Group BCG

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This podcast from Boston Consulting Group looks around the corner of today’s big business and social issues. The goal–the so what–is to make sense of today and prepare busy leaders and executives for the day after tomorrow. Award-winning British journalist Georgie Frost interviews the leading thinkers and doers at BCG on the trends, developments, and ideas that will shape and disrupt the future. This is not your typical business strategy podcast. This podcast uses the following third-party s ...
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There are a thousand podcasts you can listen to. This one listens back. Alive with Steve Burns continues the conversation you began all those years ago. Back then it was letters and numbers and graham crackers. Now it’s death, sex, taxes, and all the big, messy questions of being alive. Why does money stress us out? Is the American dream dead? What’s the future of truth? Each week, a new guest drops by Steve’s window for a genuine and respectful dialogue between two people just trying to fig ...
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The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

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Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Y ...
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Spoilerpiece Theatre

Evan Crean, Megan Kearns, and David Riedel

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Boston film critics Evan Crean, Megan Kearns, and David Riedel help you decide what to watch by sharing spoiler-filled reviews of the latest blockbusters and independent films, across genres, including films by women, nonbinary, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC filmmakers. Opening music: "My Life as a God" by Augean Stables. Closing music: "Pants Party" by Oilhead. Show edited by Otto Klammer. Logo design by Rita Csizmadia.
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No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

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Research psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they have a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want. New episodes each week. "No Stupid Questions" is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network. To get every show in the Freakonomics Radio Network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Rad ...
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David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and is the Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. Sterritt is known for his intelligent discussions of controversial film ...
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Criticism Is Dead

Criticism Is Dead

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A weekly podcast about the film, TV, and culture we're consuming and what it all means (if it means anything at all). Hosted by producer and writer Pelin Keskin-Liu and culture writer and critic Jenny G. Zhang.
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Sick and Wrong Podcast

Dee Simon and Kate Rambo

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Sick and Wrong is your hearing aid into the dark, depraved, and dripping abscess that is contemporary existence. An enchanting mélange of social criticism, pointed observation, and well-deserved derision; Sick and Wrong is the Pepto-Bismol for society’s indigestion. In their critically acclaimed weekly podcast, award-winning broadcasters Dee Simon and Kate Rambo discuss the most vile, disquieting, and oddly amusing news items for your listening pleasure.
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Citizen Critic

iHeartPodcasts & Double Elvis

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Everyone's a critic, but that doesn't make them immune to criticism. From the famously wrong slams on beloved and iconic movies and music, to the humble user reviews of a Chili’s appetizer, Scott Janovitz and Greg Conley take on the hot takes from professionals and amateurs alike.
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Drawing upon his experience as a former chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee and as an Emmy-winning executive producer and writer of ‘The West Wing,’ Lawrence O’Donnell examines the compelling and impactful political stories of the day. Join him every weeknight.
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'Roger & Me' is a weekly movie review podcast tribute to 'Siskel & Ebert' hosted by film critics Brett Arnold & Mark Dujsik, aiming to cover every new theatrical and streaming release each Friday in the format Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert pioneered.
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The Bomb

BBC World Service

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How the nuclear bomb shaped world history. The scientists who raced to build weapons, the spies who stole the technology and the superpowers who grappled with deployment. In Season 3, nuclear war is terrifyingly close. Can the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the USA prevent apocalypse? Nina Khrushcheva and Max Kennedy, relatives of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy, tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Season 2 is about Klaus Fuchs, the brilliant you ...
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Accelerated Culture

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2024 WEBBY AWARDS HONOREE FOR BEST INDIE PODCAST! Accelerated Culture: The Rise of Alternative Music in the 80s and Beyond is a walk through an often-ignored bit of music history. We explore how new wave stormed the airwaves in the early 80s and gave way for the rise of alternative music. Find us on the web at AcceleratedCulturePodcast.com. Please note: The music clips included in this podcast fall under the ”Fair Use Doctrine” as defined by Section 107 of the Copyright Act. The law allows f ...
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Time Crunched Critics is a podcast for busy TV fans, offering honest, straight-forward reviews to help you decide what's a worthwhile watch and what's a safe skip. Check out our Weekly Crunch episodes for quick reviews of all the shows on our weekly watch-list. Check out our Extra Crunchy episodes for detailed deep-dives into specific shows/films/topics. Check out our Crunch Wrap episodes for complete summaries and recaps of entire TV seasons (spoilers abound; details about themes/characters ...
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Hosted by Mike Smithgall, Atheistville explores atheism, deconversion, and secular life through open, respectful conversation. The channel features two signature shows: Mike Drop – weekly commentary on religion, politics, and culture from a reasoned, secular perspective. Breakfast with a Heathen – a relaxed Sunday Q&A that tackles listener and Reddit questions about belief, honesty, and living without faith. Together, they create a space for candid dialogue about leaving belief behind, think ...
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We take in the X-Men as it's meant to be enjoyed, with clockwork orange style devices to pry open our eyes. Married couple, Allison and Matt Parent do deep dives into the good, the bad, the squishy and weird X-Men stories. Allison is a newbie to comics and Matt is going to talk about it endlessly to them whether they record it or not. Logo by Emily Kardamis who can be found on Instagram @corruptedgem or on Patreon at Patreon.com/corruptedgem Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in ...
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The horror genre is one that has not only been beloved for hundreds of years, but continues to grow in popularity with each passing decade. Even so, appreciation of the genre is still mostly relegated to artistic communities, with the average moviegoer largely in the dark as to the history of the horror movie. That’s where Bill and Ashley’s Terror Theater comes in. Presented in the tradition of Elvira, Joe Bob Briggs, and DVD audio commentaries, Bill Bria (freelance film critic and historian ...
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Spiritually Hungry

Monica Berg and Michael Berg

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Don’t miss this thought-provoking podcast series with authors Monica and Michael Berg. Together, they’ll answer your most pressing questions, offering sage advice for the modern world. Self-proclaimed Change Junkie, Monica Berg is an author and teacher who lectures internationally. Michael Berg is a rabbi and Aramaic scholar who has published almost 20 books on the teachings of Kabbalah. This husband and wife team has been sharing kabbalistic wisdom and relationship expertise with students f ...
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The day's news made fast, fair and fun – in 10 minutes. Erica Mandy is like a trusted friend who always 'gets' both sides. She's a veteran journalist who was tired of talking heads, alarmist headlines and monotone voices, so she created something different. The NewsWorthy is packed with politics, tech, business and entertainment from a variety of sources -- brought together in one, convenient place (and with a fun twist). Join the thousands of people already listening each weekday!
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Temporally Scripted

Temporally Scripted

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Ever notice how the people who claim to have all the answers usually have the most boring lives? We spent our twenties in underground clubs and festival fields, then built businesses in Vietnam. Now we're watching Western culture implode from 8,000 miles away. From historical figures to simulation theory, from AI's impact to why clever people often end up miserable - we tackle questions that keep curious minds awake. We're not experts claiming to have it all figured out, just two guys naviga ...
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The podcast is hyper-focused on local news, issues and events in the New York City area. This podcast's purpose is to give New Yorkers New York news about their neighborhoods and shine a light on the issues happening in their backyard.
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American Socrates

Charles M. Rupert

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Think Deeper. Live Better. Tired of shallow takes and surface-level answers? American Socrates helps you cut through the noise and see the world more clearly. This is a podcast for anyone who wants to think for themselves, challenge assumptions, and live a more intentional, meaningful life. Host Charles M. Rupert brings the power of critical thinking and timeless philosophical insight into everyday questions—like how to find purpose, make good decisions, grow as a person, and navigate a worl ...
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Bite Back with Abbey Sharp

Abbey Sharp / Frequency Podcast Network

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Abbey Sharp is a Registered Dietitian (RD), award-winning author, founder of Abbey’s Kitchen, creator of Hunger Crushing Combo™, Co-Founder of Neue Theory™, and mother of two. Blending science with sass, Abbey has established herself as a credible voice in the nutrition, health, and wellness space. Abbey’s core philosophy is that a pleasurable relationship with food, your body and yourself is the fundamental secret to good health. From delicious healthy recipes, digital video content, real m ...
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Shelf Love is about romance novels and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host Andrea Martucci invites experts from a variety of perspectives to critically engaging with romance novels. Listen for discussions of individual books, genre discourse, and scholarly topics.
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The World Today is a comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians.
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ThePrint

ThePrint

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ThePrint.in is a news, analysis, opinion & knowledge media company that sharply focuses on politics, policy, government and governance. Start your mornings with our journalists who bring you the big story of the day in ThePrintAM. ThePrintPod offers you our special reports and opinions for when you‘re on the go. End your day with our most popular show ‘Cut The Clutter’ by Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. But that’s not all. We also have Pure Science, National Interest, ThePrint Uninterrupted, ...
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Two former entertainment industry insiders take a weekly dive into The CW’s Riverdale. Brittany and Chris recap episodes and explore ships, theories, casting news, official press, juicy off-screen rumors and answer the question on everyone’s mind: Is Riverdale actually good?
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Considering the Cinema is a podcast about movies (including HORROR movies) and film criticism, hosted by film critic Jason Pyles (aka "Jay of the Dead"), from Salt Lake City. This audio podcast has no set release schedule or topical format, but its focus is movie news, film theory, movie trivia, cinema history, movie reviews and film criticism.
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Sway Podcast

Jarrett Fuller and Rory King

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With weekly themes as its foundation, Sway researches, curates, discourses, envisions, and art directs the upcoming and current trends of visual communication. Its editors are based in the Lehigh Valley and San Francisco.
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Sentientism

Jamie Woodhouse

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We discuss the biggest questions: "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" with scientists, celebrities, activists, writers and philosophers. The Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined. Find out more at https://sent ...
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Glamour spell gone wrong? Astral projection got you untethered? Want to know why your angry dead rich father is haunting you? Consider Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services. After a controversial fallout with her coven, Kalila Stormfire must juggle complex clients and an anonymous critic hellbent on besmirching her new business. The decaying urban block where Kal operates appreciates her affordable experience in a broad range of supernatural ailments and remedies. Still, Kal is not s ...
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Crack Between Worlds

Louise Rainey and Dane Farren

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Welcome to the Crack – the wound between worlds, the rift among the stars, the fracture between universes, the only news network that brings you every story from every reality. CRACK BETWEEN WORLDS is a weekly fantasy/science fiction podcast from a pocket universe that exists inside a tear in time and space. The CBW Channel broadcasts news and popular shows like Diced, Violet Anatomy, and Dance Sharks. CEO and owner Mr. Stanton, a palm-sized fuchsia dragon with itty-bitty spectacles perched ...
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The power is out in one Radnor neighborhood after trees fell Monday evening, taking down a power line and causing a small fire in one man’s yard on Brookside Avenue.Residents said the power went out around 8:30 p.m. Several large trees have been chopped up and removed, and emergency crews are working on replacing a downed pole. The intersection of …
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India's Op Sindoor in response to Pahalgam attack was the biggest headline in 2025. As the year ends, watch #NationalInterest from 16 August 2025 on the war of IAF, PAF doctrines. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta argued that while Pakistan obsesses over numbers of aircraft downings, India embraces risk and wins.…
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Police are searching for the person who shot and killed a man in North Philadelphia Monday night. Just before 8 p.m., officials responded to a reported shooting at the 3600 block of North 17th Street, where they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds inside a car.The unidentified man was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. This …
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All week, the city will debate whether Eagles starters should play Sunday against the Commanders in a game that can possibly improve their seeding for the playoffs. KYW Newsradio's Dave Uram and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Voice of the Eagles Merrill Reese discuss what coach Nick Sirianni had to say.…
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In November, two men were convicted of murdering Philadelphia Police Sgt. Richard Mendez at the airport in 2023. Within the family’s grief, new friendships blossomed in support of the fallen hero’s family. KYW Newsradio's crime and justice reporter Kristen Johanson takes a look back at the case.
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Here’s a run down of what we discussed in today’s episode: Introduction What Is the Yuka App and How Does It Work? How Yuka Scores Food Products Potential Benefits of Using the Yuka App Limitations of the Nutri-Score System Inconsistencies in Food Ratings How Yuka Evaluates Food Additives Understanding Additive Safety, Risk, and Dose Organic Foods …
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Existential crisis for the Left, BJP’s Southern ambitions, test of Hindutva politics— ThePrint Political Editor DK Singh analyses the challenges and opportunities for parties in 2026 in this episode of #PoliticallyCorrect https://theprint.in/opinion/2026-elections-redefinebjp-and-opposition/2814193/By ThePrint
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The news to know for Tuesday, December 30, 2025! We're talking about what could be a dramatic escalation between the Trump administration and Venezuela, and the latest warnings from a dangerous winter weather system in the U.S. We'll also tell you why charges were dropped against an influencer shot in an immigration operation. Plus, what to know ab…
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In a special year-end episode of #WorldviewWithSwasti , Consulting Editor Dr. Swasti Rao is joined by renowned strategic thinker Prof. C. Raja Mohan to reflect on the defining geopolitical upheavals of 2025. The conversation examines how shifts in global power, regional conflicts, and evolving alliances have reshaped the international landscape. Dr…
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Five people join Mark in this episode, to talk about two different kinds of rom-coms First off, Tim Key and James Griffiths come on stage to talk about their heartwarming musical rom-com THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND. Next Mark talks about the affecting sci-fi inflected romance ALL OF YOU, with stars Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots, and director Wil…
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The Philadelphia Parking Authority has switched on another red light camera in the city.Starting Monday, a 45-day warning period begins for the camera at 58th Street and Baltimore Avenue. After Feb. 12, red light runners at that location will be mailed $100 fines.There are now red light enforcement cameras at 34 intersections throughout the city.(p…
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Crews at the Navy Yard were busy on Monday loading fireworks for the two New Year's Eve spectacles over the Delaware River. Those shows are in addition to the display after the concert on the Parkway. And they'll be bigger than ever for 2026, as KYW's Mike DeNardo reports.(photo credit: Mike DeNardo/KYW Newsradio)…
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