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Wayne Rooney to D.C. United, and the RSL loss: Filibuster podcast

Strap on your seatbelts and get ready for an extra-long episode of Filibuster. Jason, Ben, and Adam have a lot to say about the very frustrating game against Real Salt Lake, and we start (8:42) with what frustrated us the most. We talk about how both the beginning and end of the game were good,…

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9 podcasts to listen to if you love ‘Black Mirror’

We are in an audio-drama renaissance, and some of the best stories are science-fiction.  We’re not being spooked by War of the Worlds as we gather around hefty, wooden radio consoles, but we are, more and more, pulling up podcasts about dystopian futures on our phones.  While listeners are mostly flocking to non-fiction podcasts, according…

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‘Zebra Sisters’ call out R. Kelly, Kanye West for ‘twisted’ racial comments

Leslie Baldacci (left) and Mary Mitchell, of the Zebra Sisters podcast, in the Chicago Sun-Times studio, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Subscribe for unlimited digital access.Try one month for $1! Subscribe for unlimited digital access. Try one month for $1! Subscribe Print subscriber? Hosts Mary Mitchell and Leslie Baldacci call out Camille Cosby,…

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9 news and politics podcasts that’ll help you make sense of the world

As movies like The Post and TV shows like The Newsroom will tell you, it is the civic duty of every citizen to stay informed. But with so much happening all at once in our news cycle, it can be tough to keep up with what’s going on in current events, let alone make sense…

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The Den of Geek Podcast: Thanos, Black Panther, Supernatural, Star Wars and More

G! News, our Den of Geek podcast, continues with the first half of May 2018. Twice a month, the hosts pull some of the more discussable topics from the recent goings-on in movies, television, comics, and gaming to add their own commentary while directing listeners to where they can read more about the entertainment news…

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PODCAST #102: Still Frosty About Frost

On this edition of the Black & Gold Banneret Podcast, Jeff and Brian discuss the flap over Scott Frost’s comments regarding UCF Football’s national championship, and then they catch up with UCF Baseball on the verge of its non-conference series with Oklahoma. Then Eric joins Jeff from Tampa to preview the American Athletic Conference Softball…

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BuzzFeed News’ podcast cohost, Jojo the bot, wants to help listeners follow along without friction » Nieman Journalism Lab

*techno beep* “Did you hear that? That’s Jojo, our gender neutral robot.” Jojo, a chatbot, acts as a cohost of BuzzFeed News’ new weekly general-interest news podcast along with human Julia Furlan to help listeners follow along with the stories discussed on the show. The News, which will be released by BuzzFeed’s PodSquad team every…

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Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web

Mr. Peterson has endured no small amount of online hatred and some real-life physical threats: In March, during a lecture at Queen’s University in Ontario, a woman showed up with a garrote. But like many in the I.D.W., he also seems to relish the outrage he inspires. “I’ve figured out how to monetize social justice…

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Rachel Bloom on ‘WTF’

The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast…

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College Basketball Podcast: Condoleezza Rice wants student-athletes to be able to profit from their likeness

Condoleezza Rice wrote a column for USA TODAY in an attempt to clarify that, yes, she does believe student-athletes should be allowed to benefit from their name, image and likeness. That’s nice to hear. But her insistence that the NCAA can’t move forward on the issue until the courts provide a legal framework is difficult…

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