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Share & Party & Tell with Mina Kimes, Katie Nolan and Patricia Mahomes
Is TikTok the one social-media platform that makes you feel good, or is it an algorithmic wasteland of culturally insignificant content? Are we partying hard enough? And was the pre-Taylor Swift version of Travis Kelce actually hot? Plus: second-person IG love letters to your child, a boombox-holding panda/dog... and the tragic end of Party City.
Further content:
Americans Need to Party More (Ellen Cushing)
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/
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https://www.youtube.com/katienolan
Subscribe to "The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny"
https://www.youtube.com/@minakimes
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Three Yards and a Cloud of Grandpa: We Helped Scatter the Ashes of a Die-Hard Fan
We are living in the era of Peak Cremation, and fans have turned to our true American cathedral as a final resting place: the sports arena. PTFO death correspondent David Fleming reports on a cottage industry for die-hards in the afterlife — from team-branded urns and exploding golf balls to franchises that want the on-field ceremonies gone (and forgotten). And then, of course, we help a woman named Edna spread her husband's ashes... while riding a convertible, on a racetrack, flooring it into eternity.
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Her Way: How an Obscure Mariachi Singer Went from Quinceañeras, to the World Series, to Kendrick Lamar
Deyra Barrera was playing birthday parties and restaurants and funerals in Los Angeles when she got the call: Kendrick Lamar wanted her to sing on his new album, GNX. And now, if we’re lucky, she might be a guest at the Super Bowl 59 halftime show. But today, we find out why there is no better soundtrack for her rise — from a tiny town in Mexico to the World Series, with the Dodgers — than the musical genre she’s mastered: mariachi.
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The Sporting Class: Why the Future of Live Sports TV Is a Bundle
The future of our live TV viewing habits is ever-evolving: Every week, it seems, there's a new bundle. A new "skinny" bundle. A new merger. Is the media industry ready to help us find all the games we want to watch? Will there ever be one sports streaming service to rule them all? David Samson, John Skipper and Pablo pour one out for the streamer that would have included games from ESPN, Fox Sports and Turner Sports — and look ahead to what's next.
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Share & Oddjob & Tell with Domonique Foxworth and Charlie Kravitz
How did Jerry Jones become such a good actor on Landman? Why do people love video games with such bad graphics? And what does it take to be elite in a group chat — or to abandon one? Plus: Bob Kraft's bikini audition tape, Rust Belt Strip Club Enthusiasts, Goldeneye in a bathroom stall, the Bryce Young of texting, the face of the Vanderbilt party scene and active snore simulation.
Further content:
Jerry Jones Gives Monty Life Advice (Paramount+)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crja9fuQyXM
Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good (Zachary Small)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/video-games-graphics-budgets.html
The Agony of Texting With Men (Matthew Schnipper)
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/men-texting-men-loneliness/681076/
The Domonique Foxworth Show
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn3nHXu50t5wnTIdJOdFIA9wxAHHq2LEl
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Award-winning journalist/gasbag Pablo Torre is finally free to f*** around. Follow him down the rabbit hole as he seeks big answers to urgent questions.
Each week will entail in-depth reporting, plus heady conversation on the juiciest stories in sports and news — all with a cast of curious friends, including Dan Le Batard (aka Pablo's boss).
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