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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Uber for Manservants

    Women don’t really think male strippers are sexy or appealing. What they really want are men who will feed them grapes, carry their umbrella, fill their champagne glass...

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 30, 2014 • 1 min read

    Women don’t really think male strippers are sexy or appealing. What they really want are men who will feed them grapes, carry their umbrella, fill their champagne glass... ManServants.co offers men who will do your bidding for $125 an hour; and writer and actor Julieanne Smolinski went out on the town with a couple of man servants and wrote about it for medium.com

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    The Teenage Brain on Pot, ManServants.Co, and the Toughest Job in TV
    1. 0:00Cracking Down on For-Profit Student Debt
    2. 8:15Your Brain on New Potent Pot
    3. 17:28How Hackers Exploited Video Poker Slots
    4. 26:26Showrunners
    5. 43:11Uber for Manservants You’re reading this
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Christian Bordal

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      Matt Holzman

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      Julieanne Smolinski

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    The full episode

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    The Teenage Brain on Pot, ManServants.Co, and the Toughest Job in TV
    1. 0:00Cracking Down on For-Profit Student Debt
    2. 8:15Your Brain on New Potent Pot
    3. 17:28How Hackers Exploited Video Poker Slots
    4. 26:26Showrunners
    5. 43:11Uber for Manservants You’re reading this
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