Condensed Soup

Condensed Soup is your daily 10-minute dose of sharp pop culture, delightful weirdness, and deep-dive comedy — hosted by Broadway veteran, comedian, and educator Lulu Picart. It’s part late-night monologue, part backstage hang — all wrapped up in a quick package you can take on your commute, your walk, or your pre-show warmup. Come for the small talk, stay for the big talk.

72 | The Tony Awards bring the largest audience in years; Filipinos shine at the Tonys 06/10/2025

71 | Gibson searches for the Marty McFly guitar; musicians and their instruments 06/09/2025

70 | Improv at Pleasure Island's Comedy Warehouse; Forgotten Broadway; Tina Fey's rules 06/08/2025

69 | June 14: Pope Leo's Chicago Mass; tips for protesters (and non-protesters) 06/07/2025

68 | Fear Factor Live -- what are you really scared of? 06/06/2025

67 | 98% of Americans have a smartphone; I'm going to Podcast Movement! 06/05/2025

66 | The Costco episode 06/04/2025

65 | The Overseas Highway to the Florida Keys; Stephanie Case wins a 100K ultramarathon while breastfeeding 06/03/2025

64 | Paris's football celebrations turn dark; a 7 year old breaks the Rubik's cube world record; a free grocery store in Saskatchewan 06/02/2025

63 | Patti LuPone apologizes to Broadway; 250 million bees are swarming about; quitting your job and sailing to Hawaii 06/01/2025

62 | Loretta Swit sent me tulips from Hot Lips; camogie players can wear shorts; Faizan Zaki wins the spelling bee 05/31/2025

61 | Pigeons on planes; hermit crabs trading shells; the Maori diving technique making the biggest splash (literally) 05/30/2025

60 | In Las Vegas, you can pay your parking tickets with school supplies; standing up when the plane lands 05/29/2025

59 | A Final Destination viewing gets a little too real; the Enhanced Games are coming to Vegas; "Texas" means "crazy" in Norway 05/28/2025

58 | Cruising: directing shows, being Filipino, crew life, and sustainability 05/27/2025

57 | Dorilocos: the newest walking taco; a bear costume and insurance fraud 05/26/2025

56 | An Albany CBS anchor goes into labor on air; the latest DMV phishing scams 05/25/2025

55 | Rural mail in Arizona; the new Head Lettuce of the University of Minnesota 05/24/2025

54 | A Vietnam veteran graduates from college; the baboon signalman of South Africa 05/23/2025

53 | Tokyo suspends water fees during extreme heat; a French town gathers a world-record amount of Smurfs 05/22/2025

52 | Southwest has rules for portable chargers; a Pokemon Fossil Museum in Chicago 05/21/2025

51 | An Austin book club and Finnegan's Wake; a 4,000 mile-long proposal on Google Earth 05/20/2025

50 | George Clooney's Broadway show is streaming LIVE on June 7th; Florida prepares for the sargassum invasion 05/19/2025

Why are people on social media mean?; A Beijing traffic jam hack | 49 05/18/2025

Podcasting from a cruise ship; speaking "un peu" French | 48 05/17/2025

A dam in China is slowing down the Earth's rotation; when to wash your bed sheets | 47 05/16/2025

Hockey players' pregame routines; a bus stop that keeps you safe | 46 05/15/2025

Should emojis be legally binding?; John Oliver will rebrand a Minor League Baseball team | 45 05/14/2025

Problems at Newark airport; major storms coming; Jon Bon Jovi's charitable cafe | 44 05/13/2025

A restaurant with grandma's recipes; 70,000 Dumdums ordered by mistake; McDonald's isn't for kids anymore | 43 05/12/2025