Anyone have good YA recs for a pre teen?

What's the email? Oh, you know, the town school board explaining that they will cut ties with school picture day company because one of its executives is in the Epstein files.

Perhaps you've seen Coalie, the Trump admin's cute coal mascot, over the last couple weeks. I wondered how it came to exist, so in the latest Decoder Ring, we found out. It's way more complicated and freighted than it seems. As ever, the goofy stuff can go deep places slate.com/podcasts/dec...

I know top 10 season still works on me bc here my middle aged behind is listening to Geese

However chunky you are imaging this sweater to be, the reality is better. Like someone’s grandma crocheted her a sleeping bag w shoulders www.thecut.com/article/wick...

A little shook MTV is ending as a broadcast network, and even more shook it was announced a few weeks ago and I had no idea!

Congrats to 4 (!!) @slate.com podcasts -- Decoder Ring, Death, Sex & Money, Slow Burn and Political Gabfest -- for making Left of Dial’s list of the 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time (voted on by 300 audio creators, podcast hosts, writers, etc.) www.leftofdialmedia.com/essential-li...

Ready to give it all up and embrace my true calling as a lantern fly hunter

Had a fantastic time working with Willa & Katie from @slate.bsky.social's Decoder Ring. It's funny how when someone else makes a thing based on your thing, they can see so much more clearly what it's all about (if that someone else is great at what they do) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

unexpected sandworm remix bsky.app/profile/clas...

one of my kids calls podcasts cadposts and im gonna try and keep it going til college

All the haute-jello looks great but come on with how it tastes!

Excited for The Brutalist to have been out long enough for people to start writing about what the whole final thrust is actually about!!

Jealous of this piece! I have come to love Panettone almost Because I dont like it that much and think the real answer is to get a not insanely expensive one in chocolate and sort of wonder why you’re eating it for a week even as you can’t stop www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

I was thinking about how all contemporary musicals sound…so like musicals but the songs in The Sound of Music or Singin’ in The Rain do not. What happened? I think part of it is a (Sondheim-ish) verbosity, but someone who knows about music, please explain!

For good reason, BLUEY is the recent kids cartoon that’s received the most “Actually, This is Actually Good” attention from the critterati. But our younger daughter is watching HILDA now, and we, as a culture, have slept on HILDA.

Carry On expects me to believe that’s how TSA works??

Real self own, but if I had to describe my musical taste it would be: songs that can play during a movie montage (preferably rom-com)

Blowing my mind about my fave movie!

The TV top 10 lists are…so bleak

Gift guide singularity: the point at which there are so many gift guides everything has been recommended as a gift

If you read a piece of fiction in which a group of people were so fixated on uncovering pedophiles and sex predators everywhere that they went and…installed sex predators as the state you would be like this author has read a little too much psychoanalytic theory, it’s a little too tidy

For Decoder Ring, I look into "Pink Lady & Jeff," the infamous 1980 NBC variety show flop, dubbed one of the "worst shows in TV history." But it turns out that old narrative is too simplistic, too US-centric, and omits the voices of the Japanese stars of the show—the sensational pop duo Pink Lady.

Has anyone observed already it’s the reverse of the cliche? First time as farce, second time as tragedy

Latest Decoder Ring is a good one (lol I think) about a failed, 30 year old video game with a lot of contemporary resonances! slate.com/podcasts/dec...

While researching my next book I discovered a hilarious, wild, unlikely story that I ALSO knew wouldn’t fit! Today, I bring it to Decoder Ring. So… Here is the story of how Melrose Place became home to a multi year long experimental art installation: