Culture Gabfest - A Raunchy Joy Ride
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Slate writer and editor Dan Kois fills in for Julia. The panel begins by breaking down Joy Ride, Adele Lim’s raunchy first feature about four Chinese-American friends. Then, the panel dives into the second season of the reality show Claim to Fame. Finally, they examine the commodification of storytelling, inspired by Parul Sehgal’s essay “The Tyranny of the Tale” for The New Yorker.
In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel discusses pickleball, America’s fastest growing sport.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements:
Dana: “They Don’t Want Us and We Don’t Need Them” – David Roth on the drama surrounding GQ’s David Zaslav story and the depressing state of media for Defector.
Dan: Patrick deWitt novels – Specifically, the Canadian novelist’s latest, The Librarianist.
Stephen: Diary of a Foreigner in Paris – Curzio Malaparte recounts his return to postwar Europe and his complex relationship with fascism.
Outro music: “Backwards” by Staffan Carlen
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Kat Hong.
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| 0:40.0 | I'm Stephen McCaff in this is the slate culture gapfest. |
| 0:43.0 | A raunchy joyride edition. Every gapfest is a raunchy joyride. This one especially. |
| 0:48.0 | It's Wednesday July 12, 2023. |
| 0:52.0 | On today's show joyride is a raunch comedy and so much more, it stars Ashley Park as a lawyer trying to land a deal. |
| 0:59.0 | But to do so, she must find her birth mother in her native China. |
| 1:03.0 | It's the feature debut of Adele Lim. |
| 1:06.0 | And then the reality genre, well, it remains unkillable. |
| 1:09.0 | Once again, with claim to fame, we're in season two now. It features a group of contestants. |
| 1:14.0 | Each of whom is related to a very famous person. Others must guess who will go home. |
| 1:20.0 | And finally, storytelling is everywhere. |
| 1:23.0 | Has it become though a kind of moral and aesthetic crutch? |
| 1:26.0 | We discuss in New Yorker essay by Powell Segal. |
| 1:30.0 | Joining me today is Slate's own Dan Koys writer, editor, podcaster. |
| 1:34.0 | Host of the Martin Chronicles about Martin Amos and author of the novel Vintage Contemporaries. |
| 1:40.0 | Dan, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:42.0 | So glad to be here. |
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