Ranked #1
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #2
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
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1hr 6mins
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Ranked #3
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
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54mins
Ranked #4
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
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #5
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
22 Nov 2017
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #6
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
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1hr 14mins
Ranked #7
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #8
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
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #9
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
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1hr 19mins
Ranked #10
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #11
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
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #12
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
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #13
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
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57mins
Ranked #14
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
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49mins
Ranked #15
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
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46mins
Ranked #16
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
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #17
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #18
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
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #19
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
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58mins
Ranked #20
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
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56mins