Slate Conversations

About Slate Conversations

A feed of the up close and the personal, drawn from Working and across the Slate podcast network. Let’s talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Slate Podcasts

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Mar 2017

Latest episode

30 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

618 of 1,030 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   30 Dec 2025

   How To! | Our Favorite Advice of 2025

   In 2025, our listeners contacted How To! for advice about outsmarting student loans, moving to a new city, hosting a low-key gathering, living with chronic pain, quitting a dream job, letting go of ADHD shame, and yes, losing your virginity in your 40s. Today on the show: Carvell Wallace and Courtney Martin get updates from some of those advice-seekers—and they check in with Jeff, whose family narrowly escaped an L.A. wildfire this year. Plus, what’s ahead for How To! in 2026. How To! is produced by Rosemary Belson and Sophie Summergrad. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our senior supervising producer is Joel Meyer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2. 

   30 Dec 2025

   Death, Sex & Money | The Family Drama of Inheritance

   Your stories about inheritance: Gwynn wrestles with her mother's will that would cut out her sister; Trevor inherited money from his father and questions about whether his death was planned; and Anna talks to two young people giving away their inherited wealth despite some family opposition. Podcast production by Zoe Azulay Sign up for a full year of Slate Plus for 50% off by using the code DSM50 at checkout: slate.com/dsmplus (offer available until Jan 1). My Father is Worth $70 Million. I Disinherited Myself. Anna and Husband Arthur Play the Not-So-Newlywed Game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   29 Dec 2025

   Care & Feeding | What We Learned From Our Biggest Parenting Triumphs and Fails

   On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are looking back on 2025, but keeping an eye on 2026. They discuss their biggest parenting fails from this year, and what they’re looking to learn and improve on in the new year. Then, it’s poetry night! Each of the hosts wrote poems for the others to cap off 2025. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you won’t want to miss it. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Video production by Micah Phillips. Join us on Facebook and email us at careandfeedingpod@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inside a recent episode

ICYMI | Our Year of Brain Rot and Tech Dystopia

Published 27 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Why are we only now doing it seriously? Like people have been reporting on this for years. But we are not taking it seriously. At least the UK is, America, listen, less said about her the better, but there was a recent headline that said on from the BBC, boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools. And this is a plan for schools in England that is focused on preventing the radicalization of young men. I haven't looked too much into it. I don't know how successful it will be, but I think it's really interesting that it took a detractor of this said they're only doing this because they watched adolescent. […]

Who has been a guest on Slate Conversations

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Aymann Ismail
• Maryanne Wolf
• Alexandra Paul
• Ingrid Nilsen
• Kelsey Weekman

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

178 ratings

Spotify

1.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

66

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