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Imagine thinking you're straight for 25 years, then one day waking up and realizing you're gay. Follow along through Taylor's journey of realization, coming out to everyone (including her boyfriend of 9 years), dating, and everything in between! Follow me on IG: @realezations and TikTok: @taylorlezaa
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Part-interview, part-existential game show – this is Wild Card from NPR. Host Rachel Martin rips up the typical interview script and invites guests to play a game about life's biggest questions. Rachel takes actors, artists and thinkers on a choose-your-own-adventure conversation that lets them open up about their fears, their joys and how they've built meaning from experience – all with the help of a very special deck of cards. Want more Wild Card? Support NPR by subscribing to Wild Card+. ...
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Welcome to Predestined: A Deconstruction of the Netherlands Reformed Congregation. As former members of the NRC, hosts Taylor and Lena will examine the worldviews and beliefs that shape this unique church community, and the ways those beliefs impact people. Instagram: @predestinedpod Email: nrc.story@gmail.com
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Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin takes listeners into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by going inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people we want to understand better: Ira Glass, Lena Dunham, David Letterman, Barbara Streisand, Tom Yorke, Chris Rock and others. Hear what happens when an inveterate guest becomes a host.
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Every Outfit

Chelsea Fairless & Lauren Garroni

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After spending years dispensing bitchy fashion commentary on their viral Instagram account Every Outfit on Sex and the City, hosts Chelsea Fairless and Lauren Garroni realized that they have highly specific opinions about other things, too. Every Outfit is a weekly show born from our deeply unhealthy, lifelong obsession with fashion and popular culture. It’s like The View (but less geriatric) meets Fashion Police from two best friends who have spoken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but ha ...
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Messy Planet

Taylor-Dior Rumble and Maisie Smith-Walters

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Pop culture, politics and all the pettiness in between. Welcome to your new favourite podcast by Taylor-Dior Rumble and Maisie Smith-Walters All views are our own and are not endorsed by our employers nor do they constitute any official communication from our employers.
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This Podcast explores the basic human need for feeling safe and the flow-on effects that occur when we don't feel it. We will discuss the way it shapes us and places a lens over our everyday actions.Whether it be physical safety, safe spaces, or the comfort, trust, and confidence version of "safe" that we seek with the people we live, work, and interact with, we will explore it in all its forms with impactful guests from around the globe.
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We're Still Spinning

We're Still Spinning

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We're Still Spinning: We are two entertainment PR specialists that have spent the last 20 years of our lives manufacturing mainstream headlines from the taint of society (the media machine) and would now like to dedicate the next chapter of our careers to dissecting our collective newsfeeds through a delightfully ruthless (and very qualified) PR lens. Brand apologies, celebrity statements, new products that aim to disrupt but mostly just disturb...we talk (tawk) about it all.
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The Body Protest

The Body Protest

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The Body Protest is a podcast hoping to uncover the hidden journey of the relationship you have with yourself. Exploring the individual obstacles that makes everyone’s journey of self-love complicated and occasionally treacherous, we hope to unify people with the common understanding that the struggle to love ones self, is very real. We hope to explore themes of race, toxic masculinity, eating disorders and general pressures put on us by the media and how these factors altered the journeys o ...
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On today’s episode, we discuss the demise of SJP Collection, J.Lo and Ben Affleck’s divorce, Lady Gaga’s underwhelming duet with Bruno Mars, Joaquin Phoenix’s shock departure from Todd Haynes’ latest project, the trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s new film The Room Next Door, the deaths of Los Angeles legends Peggy Moffitt and Gena Rowlands, the confusi…
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What happens when one of the best-sourced reporters in the game catches up with an old friend to share his latest scoop? Every week, we listen in as journalist Michael Wolff (Fire and Fury, Siege, Landslide) speaks with James Truman, former editorial director of Condé Nast. They dish from inside the Trump campaign and share election intel before th…
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Rob Delaney has experienced great success as a comedian and actor. He created and starred in the acclaimed TV series Catastrophe and he's been featured in blockbuster movies like this summer's Deadpool & Wolverine. But he's also experienced tragedy, including the death of his son. He talks to Rachel about loss, failure and why he kind of wants a me…
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In this episode, we examine Donald Trump's recent use of AI to create an unauthorized candidacy endorsement from Taylor Swift. It kind of reminds us of the movie CLUELESS when 'Cher' sends herself flowers and accepts them in front of a room of people she is hoping to impress and influence. We look at the media coverage around this news item, noting…
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We are continuing our summer tradition at Here’s The Thing, where members of the staff select their favorite interviews from the archives. This week, we revisit Alec Baldwin’s 2021 conversation with actress and activist Marlo Thomas, who has been breaking barriers for women for more than five decades. She first became a household name as Ann-Marie,…
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Today we’re discussing Sex and the City’s most f**ked up episode: Models and Mortals, a journey into the twisted world of models, modelizers, and the sex crimes that happen along the way. Topics discussed include Candace Bushnell’s original Observer article from ‘95, Skipper’s excessive screen time, Samantha’s brief foray into amateur pornography, …
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In this episode, we focus on the PR swirls surrounding "This Ends With Us," specifically relating to Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. What was Justin's process of hiring a crisis comms expert, and why did he do it? Does he still need one? How did the PR tables turn on Blake Lively, and how does she get out of this entanglement? (Which is arguably h…
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Jenny Slate is known for her roles in Obvious Child, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Parks and Recreation. Jenny opens up to Rachel about whether fate brought her to her husband, what she's sacrificed for motherhood and what's so special about margarine and white bread sandwiches. To listen sponsor-free, access bonus episodes and support the sho…
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Our staff picks continue at Here’s The Thing, where throughout the summer, members of our team select their favorite interviews from the archives. This week, we revisit Alec’s 2021 interview with actress Marilu Henner. The Golden-Globe winner is known for a lot of things, from her groundbreaking role as Elaine Nardo on Taxi to her New York Times be…
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On today’s extra bitchy episode, we discuss our new national nightmare, a.k.a. the press tour for Blake Lively’s new film It Ends With Us, her spooky haircare line Blake Brown, and of course, her September Vogue cover shot by Baz Luhrmann. We also chat about our recent excursion to Beverly Hills, Kamala’s charming VP pick, the forthcoming Gus Van S…
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Welcome back to "We're Still Spinning," your NEW(ish) favorite podcast where 2 very seasoned, semi-anon PR professionals scroll through the latest headlines to reveal the hidden agendas, brand strategies, and overall chaos of the media machine. And most importantly, we help explain how it all affects YOU. In this episode, we look at the misinformat…
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner built her journalism career with her incisive celebrity profiles and then found additional success with two novels that examine wealth and class, including this year's Long Island Compromise. She and Rachel talk about what makes fame and fortune so compelling, whether some people are just innately restless, and longing for a c…
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It’s time for our summer tradition at Here’s the Thing, where staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives in our Summer Staff Picks series. This week, we revisit Alec Baldwin’s 2023 interview with documentary filmmaker James Jones, who tells the unbelievable story of CEO-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn in “Wanted: The Escape of…
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It’s a slow news week, so we’re answering questions that were submitted by listeners on our recent tour. We also discuss the bizarre opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, featuring robot horses, Lady Gaga as Zizi Jeanmaire, an underwhelming fashion show, this creepy ass torchbearer, the extremely major Les Mis / Gojira performance, and of course…
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As the U.S. women's national soccer team's all time top goal scorer, Abby Wambach knows what it feels like to win. She's brought home a World Cup and multiple Olympic gold medals, but she says true success comes after the podium. She and Rachel talk about forgiving yourself, how a little narcissism isn't a bad thing, and why she wants to be forgott…
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Buckle up. The news cycle hath giveth us many a PR crisis since our last episode. After pulling the curtain back on the day-in-the-life of a PR girlie during our weekly "cold open" - we look at the recent release of Down Syndrome and blind Barbie via Mattel, plus the recent comments about Spongebob Square Pants' autism. We share thoughts about repr…
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We’re back to discuss our new democratic nominee and her brat summer, the New York Times article about Lauren’s wedding, the Hollywood Reporter’s piece about the drama and tragedy behind the scenes at Euphoria, our conspiratorial thoughts about the funeral scene that was recently filmed for And Just Like That, the false rumors that Kim Cattrall wil…
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Musician Ani DiFranco has never stopped growing as an artist. In the last year alone, she starred in the Broadway production of Hadestown, was featured in a documentary about her life and career, and released her 23rd album. She and Rachel talk about reinventing yourself in middle age, finding power in scaring people, and the magic of a late-night …
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Following the historic election drop-out of President Biden, a newly rebranded campaign slogan ("Let's finish the job" to "Let's WIN this!")...and some unexpected line-drops into internet culture, VP Kamala Harris is on deck for the 2024 democratic nomination. We look into the PR shifts she is implementing at speeds unknown to the painfully slow to…
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Actor and comedian Jack McBrayer is known for his cheerful demeanor, captivating Southern charm and impeccable comedic timing. The Georgia native honed his improv skills at the famed Second City in Chicago before gaining national exposure for his portrayal of various characters on “Late Night with Conan O'Brien.” He then landed the role of a lifeti…
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