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The Real Winners of the 2024 Las Culturistas Culture Awards

 The night included performances that would make the Tonys cry with envy. By Jason P. Frank and Tom Smyth
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The Longform Episodes We Won’t Forget

 With the long-running journalism podcast coming to an end, we asked media people to tell us the episodes they can’t get out of their heads. By Nicholas Quah
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What Rachel Maddow Is Listening To

 “There is a part of me that’s still in grad school.” By Nicholas Quah
  1. nepo-pinions
    Emma Roberts Isn’t Into Nepo-Baby Discourse, Unsurprisingly“If you’re kind of not the girl from the middle of nowhere that broke into Hollywood, there’s kind of an eye roll.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  2. cheat sheet
    The Most Influential Podcasters Right NowFrom the “just asking questions” guys to internet hip-hop radio.
    By Nicholas Quah
  3. the industry
    Return of the MicHow chat podcasts have taken over the medium and dominated the cultural discourse (again).
    By Nicholas Quah
  4. child stardom
    Ariana Grande Is ‘Reprocessing’ Her Time on NickelodeonAnd she has some ideas for improving conditions on set.
    By Justin Curto
  5. a long talk
    Matt and Bowen Enter the Honesty ZoneEight years into Las Culturistas, its hosts are recalibrating how open they want to be.
    By Jason P. Frank
  7. 1.5x speed
    What Seth Meyers Is Listening To“I’ve had my time with true crime. I enjoyed it more before I had children.”
    By Nicholas Quah
  8. good one
    Ego Nwodim Is in Her Silly SeasonThe SNL star breaks down six of her strongest and wrongest characters.
    By Jesse David Fox
  9. best of 2024
    The Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far)New tricks from podcast veterans, a glorious rerelease, and a brand-new season of Serial.
    By Nicholas Quah
  10. 1.5x speed
    A Spoofy Podcast Builds Upon Its Poopy First Season“We might go back to fecal matter every other season.”
    By Nicholas Quah
  11. pod save survivor
    Jon Lovett to Leaf It on SurvivorTaking a break during an election year?
    By Jason P. Frank
  12. summer preview 2024
    8 Podcasts We Can’t Wait to Listen to This SummerCollective hallucination, Japanese city pop, and everything in between.
    By Nicholas Quah
  13. suhcuuyyyyttttt
    Finally, a Recap Podcast for Us GirlsTalk about a Happy Ending!
    By Jesse David Fox
  14. 1.5x speed
    Jamie Loftus’s Main Characters“The No. 1 request I get, and the episode I fear the most, is ‘Bean Dad.’”
    By Nicholas Quah
  15. the law
    Hip-Hop Pundit DJ Akademiks Sued for Rape and DefamationAs he defends Drake against allegations of pedophilia in his beef with Kendrick Lamar.
    By Justin Curto
  16. 1.5x speed
    How Should Documentaries Use AI?One group is trying to answer that question.
    By Nicholas Quah
  17. the vacanza queen
    Guess What Dua Lipa’s Favorite Vaction Spot IsNot Epcot … try again.
    By Justin Curto
  18. podcast review
    Return to GuantánamoA fourth Serial season dusts off American terror’s old machinery.
    By Nicholas Quah
  19. 1.5x speed
    Ready to Go Back to Lonely Island?Very early impressions of a new podcast that turns out to be a potent slice of nostalgic millennial history.
    By Nicholas Quah
  20. last night on late night
    The Lonely Island Do the Worst Podcast Promo of All TimeSomehow, it’ll make you more excited to listen to the podcast than ever.
    By Hershal Pandya
  21. important awards
    Las Culturistas Are *Alan Cumming Voice* TraitorsBowen Yang and Matt Rogers’s Culture Awards are colluding with Parvati and coming to Brooklyn.
    By Jason P. Frank
  22. inside job
    How to Turn a Comedy Podcast Into a Comedy DocumentaryAdapting Good One involved Mike Birbiglia’s life story, Ugly Delicious, and Seth Meyers’s bullshit detector.
    By Rebecca Alter
  23. sweet as candy
    How Many Times Did Mandy Moore Say ‘Thank You’ on Las Culturistas?Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers spent the interview showering the multi-hyphenate icon with praise — perhaps a distracting amount of praise.
    By Tom Smyth
  24. 1.5x speed
    JJ Redick, Ur-Athlete Podcaster, Takes His Biggest Shot YetHis new show Mind the Game, co-hosted by LeBron James, tests the limits of how much NBA fans want to nerd out.
    By Nicholas Quah
  25. clingy?
    Travis Kelce Says Love Is Blind Is Worse Than Catching KelceAnd somehow that ringing endorsement doesn’t make Jason Kelce want to watch.
    By Bethy Squires
  26. start here
    My Momma Told Me You Should Listen to This PodcastLangston Kerman and David Gborie’s approach to conspiracy theories is always measured — and always funny.
    By Hershal Pandya
  27. semi-charmed kind of feud
    What’s Going on With the Cast of Charmed?This drama is old enough to rent a car.
    By Bethy Squires
  28. call her daddy
    Mischa Barton Says She Briefly Dated Ben McKenzie on the Set of The O.C.Barton talked about The O.C.’s early days on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
    By Bethy Squires
  29. the industry
    Spotify’s New Joe Rogan Deal Brings the Company Full CircleAfter years of splurging and expanding, the audio platform’s podcast strategy has backtracked.
    By Nicholas Quah
  30. movies fantasy league
    The MFL Podcast League SpotlightA certain This Had Oscar Buzz co-host is leading the podcaster mini-league, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of!
    By Joe Reid
  31. 1.5x speed
    The Case of the AI George Carlin Comedy PodcastIs this what the future of podcasting looks like?
    By Nicholas Quah
  32. a good old chinwag
    Is Paul Giamatti the First-Ever Oscar Nominee With a Podcast?The Holdovers star has been chatting it up on a mic for nearly a year.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  33. 1.5x speed
    What Will Podcasting Look Like This Year?Five questions (and some attempted answers) about what the medium will look like in 2024.
    By Nicholas Quah
  34. chat room
    Brooke Averick Has Never Liked Anything a Normal AmountOn @LadyEfron’s new podcast, it’s more than okay to obsess about things until you’re nauseous.
    By Bella Arnold
  35. 1.5x speed
    Who? Weekly Makes a Fake Sydney SweeneyHosts Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber tell us about their AI bit.
    By Nicholas Quah
  36. survey says
    The Best Podcasts of 2023, According to People Who Make PodcastsHundreds of hosts, producers, creatives, and executives reveal what they heard and loved this year.
    By Nicholas Quah
  37. the industry
    The Podcast World’s Year From HellDozens of hosts, producers, and executives vent about a tough year for the audio industry — and cautiously look ahead to 2024.
    By Nicholas Quah
  38. best of 2023
    The Best Podcasts of 2023Despite a tough year for the industry, the podcast world remains vast in its pleasures.
    By Nicholas Quah
  39. the industry
    Heavyweight Down, Stolen GoneSpotify dropped two critically adored podcasts this week.
    By Nicholas Quah
  40. sign off
    Julianna Margulies Now ‘Sincerely Apologetic’ for Racist Podcast RemarksWalking back claims that the Black community had “been brainwashed to hate Jews,” among other inflammatory comments.
    By Justin Curto
  41. play rights!
    Chelsea Peretti Will Be Playing the Role of MotherHer new play Thatcher Island features ghosts, seagulls trained to defecate on target, and a pirate named Vagina.
    By Tom Smyth
  42. vulture festival 2023
    Song Exploder Won’t Repeat Guests, Even U2Hrishikesh Hirway explains the podcast’s no-repeat rule, no matter how big the artist may be.
    By Tom Smyth
  43. ring ring!
    Need a Beloved Comedy Podcast Relaunched? Call Chelsea Peretti!The comedian’s call-in show is back and her phone line is open for business.
    By Rebecca Alter
  44. start here
    On the Best Episode of Ologies, Alie Ward Goes Balls-DeepPhallologist Dr. Emily Willingham makes the perfect entry point for new listeners of the science-themed podcast.
    By Sean Malin
  45. one more time
    Giving Britney’s Music Its DueThe miniseries Listening 2 Britney stripped away the layers of baggage and bad-faith narratives that have plagued Spears’s career.
    By Vulture Editors
  46. into it
    Britney Was Always Trying to Tell Us Who She WasThe Woman in Me is out today, but her music already serves as a record of her story.
    By Sam Sanders
  47. into it
    If Hollywood Hates Long Movies, Why Does It Keep Making Them?Killers of the Flower Moon clocks in at three hours and 26 minutes long, but Martin Scorsese is one of the few filmmakers who could pull this off.
    By Sam Sanders
  48. switched on pop
    What We Owe Lil Jon, King of CrunkA close look at the origins of the genre and its wide-ranging influence.
    By Reanna Cruz
  49. switched on pop
    Feeling Fine With Faye WebsterThe genre-defying singer-songwriter discusses the anomalous sound behind her two latest singles, “Lifetime” and “But Not Kiss.”
    By Charlie Harding and Reanna Cruz
  50. switched on pop
    Business Is Booming for Metro BoominA deep look into the extended production catalogue of Atlanta’s modern trap savant.
    By Reanna Cruz
  51. into it
    What Will It Take for Celebrities to Throw Out the Legacy PR Playbook?TikTok’s PR lady explains why stars keep making the same mistakes.
    By Sam Sanders
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