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🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
0:03.2 | I'm Stephen MacCalf and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest The Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment Edition. |
0:19.4 | It's Wednesday, February 28, 2018 on today's show, The Florida Project is here in now included in our official |
0:26.4 | run-up to the Oscars. |
0:28.5 | Even though it was mostly dissed by the Academy, we will discuss the movie, which I will say right away I loved and why |
0:34.7 | award season mostly seems to have passed it by and then Atlanta Monster is a huge |
0:39.8 | hit podcast been described as the first blockbuster podcast of 2018. It's |
0:44.4 | gripping but it has also been attended by some controversy. We'll discuss both |
0:48.2 | it and the controversy and finally can't live with them can't live without them, can't live without them. |
0:53.0 | Rummates, we discuss a gripping New York magazine article called |
0:56.9 | Worst roommate ever. |
0:59.3 | Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner. |
1:01.5 | Hey Julia. |
1:02.1 | Hi, I'm so happy to be back. is it's film critic, Hey Dana. Hey there, Stephen. |
1:13.3 | The Florida project is Director Sean Baker's third feature. |
1:16.7 | It was done no favors, in my opinion, |
1:18.5 | in its marketing campaign, which made it look like a feel-good tale |
1:21.2 | when in fact it's not really that and arguably the opposite of that. |
1:25.9 | It's a brutal and in many ways quite beautiful look at a childhood lived in poverty and in the shadows of |
1:30.9 | Disney World along Route 192, the corridor that leads into the Magic Kingdom, |
1:35.9 | where people live in a cheap weekly rental motel, transients and fly-by-nights mix with people trying |
1:41.5 | to live rooted in meaningful lives. |
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