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I Think You're Interesting

The entertainment industry is brimming with interesting people who are responsible for your favorite movies, TV shows, and more. Join Vox’s critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff every Thursday as she spea... Read more

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Why 2001: A Space Odyssey is still one of the greatest films ever made, 50 years later

Why 2001: A Space Odyssey is still one of the greatest films ever made, 50 years later

Even if you haven’t seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s mind-melting 1968 science fiction epic, you probably k... Read more

25 Apr 2018

1hr 5mins

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Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein isn't just the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Vox (the site that produces this podcast, in case you were u... Read more

3 May 2017

1hr 6mins

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The Americans' showrunners and star bid farewell to TV's best show

The Americans' showrunners and star bid farewell to TV's best show

If you've listened to this show ever, or read anything Todd has ever written, then you know The Americans is one of his ... Read more

31 May 2018

54mins

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The incredible true story behind Spike Lee's new movie BlacKkKlansman

The incredible true story behind Spike Lee's new movie BlacKkKlansman

The new movie BlacKkKlansman is careful to let you know very early on that, yes, its story is a true one, with a few emb... Read more

16 Aug 2018

1hr 3mins

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Holly Hunter, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, and Emily V. Gordon talk about their movie The Big Sick

Holly Hunter, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, and Emily V. Gordon talk about their movie The Big Sick

The Big Sick is a little slice of romantic comedy perfection and one of 2017's best movies. Based on a very real story f... Read more

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Alan Yang

Alan Yang

Alan Yang's series, Master of None, might be the best TV show of 2017. Yang, who co-created the series with its star, Az... Read more

24 May 2017

1hr 14mins

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The best film and TV performances of 2017, according to our critics panel

The best film and TV performances of 2017, according to our critics panel

Awards season is once again upon us. We’ll soon know which films and performances have been nominated for the Oscars, an... Read more

17 Jan 2018

1hr 1min

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Exploring the role of religion in the Trump era with Matt Carter, co-host of the Bad Christian podcast

Exploring the role of religion in the Trump era with Matt Carter, co-host of the Bad Christian podcast

Few religion podcasts have proved as vital to understanding evangelical Christian America in the Donald Trump era as Bad... Read more

29 Nov 2017

1hr 10mins

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How to build a civilization from scratch

How to build a civilization from scratch

Imagine you're a time traveler whose time machine has functioned somewhere in Earth's past — after humans have evolved b... Read more

1 Nov 2018

1hr 19mins

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Sorry to Bother You director Boots Riley on labor unions, capitalism, and his hit movie

Sorry to Bother You director Boots Riley on labor unions, capitalism, and his hit movie

The riotously funny, incredibly inventive new movie Sorry to Bother You has become one of the summer’s most acclaimed fi... Read more

26 Jul 2018

1hr 2mins

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Ken Burns’s name is synonymous with American history. His new film is eerily prescient.

Ken Burns’s name is synonymous with American history. His new film is eerily prescient.

For a large number of people, just seeing the name "Ken Burns" is mark enough of quality. Whether Burns is producing or ... Read more

20 Sep 2017

1hr 7mins

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Tired of boring blockbusters? Our critics pick the best summer movies of the 2000s.

Tired of boring blockbusters? Our critics pick the best summer movies of the 2000s.

It's a special edition of I Think You're Interesting as Todd is joined by David Sims of The Atlantic and Alison Willmore... Read more

5 Jul 2017

1hr 3mins

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How to write a joke for President Obama

How to write a joke for President Obama

How do you write a joke for the president of the United States? How do you come up with something that will seem perfect... Read more

21 Mar 2018

57mins

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Thanos and Roseanne: how two mad titans took over pop culture

Thanos and Roseanne: how two mad titans took over pop culture

This week on I Think You’re Interesting, we’re trying something different, by dissecting two of the biggest pop culture ... Read more

2 May 2018

49mins

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Alan Sepinwall, on why he doesn’t like the Netflix model of full-season stories

Alan Sepinwall, on why he doesn’t like the Netflix model of full-season stories

Alan Sepinwall's blog What's Alan Watching launched in 2005, when he was working as a TV critic at Newark newspaper The ... Read more

21 Jun 2017

46mins

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Janet from The Good Place and Kelli from Insecure on making TV's funniest shows even funnier

Janet from The Good Place and Kelli from Insecure on making TV's funniest shows even funnier

We're focusing on TV scene stealers this week, as we head into a new fall season. These two performers take some of the ... Read more

13 Sep 2018

1hr 12mins

Ranked #17

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Love the look of Black Panther's Wakanda? Meet the woman who designed its costumes.

Love the look of Black Panther's Wakanda? Meet the woman who designed its costumes.

If you've seen Marvel's new movie Black Panther, you know that one of the best things about it is its use of costumes an... Read more

21 Feb 2018

1hr 1min

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What happened in Hollywood in 2017 — and where it might go in 2018

What happened in Hollywood in 2017 — and where it might go in 2018

From the Oscars mixup to the Disney-Fox deal, and from Netflix’s continuing inability to launch major movie hits to the ... Read more

20 Dec 2017

1hr 10mins

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Novelist Tom Perrotta on white privilege, gender identity, and Tracy Flick 20 years later

Novelist Tom Perrotta on white privilege, gender identity, and Tracy Flick 20 years later

Tom Perrotta’s books have become one of our most consistently enjoyable dissections of a very specific sort of America —... Read more

27 Sep 2017

58mins

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TV ratings, explained

TV ratings, explained

The Nielsen ratings might not have as much power as they once held, but they still can decide the fate of your favorite ... Read more

6 Sep 2018

56mins

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