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Larry Wilmore Is Getting His Own Podcast

Larry Wilmore is returning to the hosting chair — only this time, it’s for a podcast. The former host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore will bring his signature brand of wit and politically charged humor to the podcasting arena with a new show for The Ringer Podcast Network called Larry Wilmore: Black on Air. Larry…

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Now Hear This: Overcast Brings Offline Podcasts to Apple Watch

With Overcast 3.1, you can send individual podcasts to the Apple Watch for offline listening. To date, Apple’s Podcasts app still doesn’t do this, although you can send a playlist of audio files from the Music app. In other words, this is a big deal if you would like listening to podcast while on a…

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'im a heckin black belt' —doggo

Boing Boing ‘im a heckin black belt’ —doggoBoing Boing‘im a heckin black belt’ —doggo … of us are still stuck with the kind of handsets that need to spend the night in a bowl of rice when they get wet. If you want to enjoy your favorite podcasts in the shower but are holding out…

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Scandalmongering won’t topple Trump

On this week’s spiked podcast, Sean Collins discusses the Trump-Comey scandal, Tom Slater explains what’s at stake in the General Election, and Luke Gittos discusses Ian Brady and the concept of evil. Subscribe to our podcasts using RSS Subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes Explore our full podcast archive here. Picture by: Getty Images. Read…

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#AlternativeFacts Podcast: Is My Chemical Romance Ever Getting Back Together?

Also, we preview how Harry Styles’ and Paramore’s new albums are set to perform on this week’s Billboard 200. Last July, My Chemical Romance — broken up since 2013 — leaked a teaser video tantalizingly close to the tenth anniversary of their landmark album The Black Parade, prompting many to assume the storied arena-punks were reforming. Was it…

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Texas Prof Routinely Tells His Class About Killing Whites

Texas A&M University professor Tommy Curry’s outrageous remarks about “white people dying” to further black equality have not been limited to five-year-old podcasts. The College Fix reports that Curry has repeatedly raised the issue in class and now an alumni organization is asking people to withhold all donations to the university until Curry either resigns…

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W. Kamau Bell on Being a ‘Semi-Prominent’ Black Comedian

“Awkward Thoughts” is the latest addition to a small canon of “awkward” work by black creatives. The word has appeared recently as both an adjective and a cultural geotag, locating a book, TV show or podcast left-of-center on the spectrum of Black Cool. Most famously, Issa Rae, the writer, actress and star of HBO’s “Insecure,”…

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A Twin Peaks Podcast: Fan theories and burning questions, answered

Subscribe to A Twin Peaks Podcast: A Podcast About Twin Peaks – on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts – to unwrap the mysteries in EW’s after-show every Monday during the Showtime revival. This weekend, we finally return to Twin Peaks. On Sunday, Showtime’s revival of the cult mystery-horror-romance-comedy-soap will begin, with a two-hour premiere (and two more…

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The Empathy Of "S-Town" Doesn’t Extend To Black People

The podcast S-Town follows the true story of the eccentric genius John B. McLemore, a Southern horologist (aka clockmaker) obsessed with all the apocalyptic problems plaguing the modern world: global warming, poverty, bigotry, corruption, and crime. He contacts Brian Reed, a reporter with This American Life, out of the blue one day and they begin…

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Yara Shahidi on Teen Activism, Academics, and the Game-Changing Power of Personal Style

Yara Shahidi is living the teenage dream. “It’s been crazy and fantastic, and I’ve loved every minute,” she says with a grin in the powder room of The Wing, Manhattan’s all-women social club. At 17, Shahidi is already preternaturally poised in a Gucci ruffled jumpsuit and coordinated heels, but her appeal is more about substance…

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