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Content Lead, Culture // The Ringer

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“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30 In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career.

wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!

www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...

24.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 192    🔁 45    💬 18    📌 42

None of My Business, out today!
open.spotify.com/show/53D9KCj...

13.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
“Former Gifted Kids" With Paige Gallagher
YouTube video by None of My Business “Former Gifted Kids" With Paige Gallagher

new show!

None of My Business: real sex + relationship stories, retold by our favorite funny people

It's hosted by @1followernodad.bsky.social and Kelsey June Jensen, ya know, I think it's a lot of fun

E1 out now!

YT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcNN...

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/6D62...

13.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

thank you, Howard!!!

02.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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8. The Arrest Spotify video

Wedding Scammer back with a big update: We have an arrest.

That means we also have an epilogue.

Chapter 8: The Arrest, out now. The end, hopefully.
open.spotify.com/episode/4snL...

02.09.2025 14:17 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2
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My dad has taken up the most dad hobby I can imagine: making his own bricks to build walls. He's mixing his own concrete—which btw only costs like $4 for a 60-pound bag.

So for Father's Day, I bought him $100 Lowe's gift card. He texted me only this:

15.06.2025 19:29 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

appreciate it!! i ultimately had to cut a few lines about "the deflator," possibly the funniest part of the whole ordeal

16.03.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the Spectacular Rise and Fall (… and Rise Again?) of NBA Top Shot At the height of the pandemic, an NFT project that allowed people to buy and sell NBA highlights for as much as six figures took the crypto world by storm. Within months, the bubble burst. We spoke to...

The best long read we've run in a while.

Here's a deeply reported feature about what went wrong—and whether there's a future—for NBA Top Shot, the NFT platform that blew up in 2021.

A video of a LeBron dunk may have cost $200K but this piece is free:

www.theringer.com/2025/02/26/f...

26.02.2025 17:25 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Yasi's House Burned Down, organized by Tasbeeh Herwees Hello Bandsplainers and general fans of the podcast host known as Yasi Salek. We're Yasi … Tasbeeh Herwees needs your support for Yasi's House Burned Down

Hey friends: My wonderfully talented Ringer colleague Yasi Salek -- host of the fantastic Bandsplain podcast -- lost her home in the Altadena fire. If you're a fan of the show, or just want to help and are able, there's a GoFundMe:

www.gofundme.com/f/yasis-hous...

14.01.2025 20:57 — 👍 79    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 1

One of our excellent podcast managers, Chelsea Stark-Jones, and her family also lost everything. Please help if you can:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

14.01.2025 21:06 — 👍 55    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 0
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‘Jersey Shore’ Vs. the State of New Jersey - The Ringer It’s been 15 years since the premiere of MTV’s Jersey Shore. At the time, the show irritated locals, offended media members, and even bothered the state’s highest elected official. It was also a bona ...

👋 15 years ago today, JERSEY SHORE premiered on MTV. The show was huge. I made a podcast episode about the phenomenon--and the culture war it caused. www.theringer.com/podcasts/the...

03.12.2024 18:16 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

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