Culture Gabfest - Aristocrats at Sea
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, Steve is joined by author and Slate editor and writer, Dan Kois, and Slate staff writer, Heather Schwedel. The panel begins by discussing the French film Happening with Susan Matthews, Slate’s news director and the host of Slow Burn Season 7, which will focus on Roe v. Wade. Then, the panel sails the high seas with HBO’s Our Flag Means Death. Finally, Julia pops in for a surprise guest segment as the panel discusses Kim Kardashian’s Marilyn Monroe-inspired Met Gala appearance.
In Slate Plus, the panel discusses culture that shaped their ideas of 40s and 50s adulthood.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements
Dan: A contemporary novel about a very bad art friend that was somewhat overlooked in January, Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein.
Heather: Hersey’s Colliders—a two-part refrigerated dessert.
Steve: The 2002 Brazilian epic crime film City of God.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music is "Self Made Woman" by Katharine Appleton.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McCaff in this is the Slate culture gap that's aristocrats at sea edition. |
| 0:16.1 | It's Wednesday, May 11th, 2022. |
| 0:19.0 | On today's show, the French movie, Happening, could not be more urgently timely. |
| 0:22.9 | It's what everyone says about it and should say about it. |
| 0:25.5 | It's a harrowing portrait of a young woman in France in the early 60s trying to secure |
| 0:29.7 | an abortion. |
| 0:30.7 | It's based on the autobiographical novel by Annie Erno. |
| 0:34.3 | We'll be joined by Slate's own Susan Matthews, host of the upcoming season of Slowburn. |
| 0:40.1 | And then our flag means death is a wild queering of the pirate genre. |
| 0:43.9 | The HBO comedy is suffused throughout with the sensibility of producer, director and |
| 0:48.0 | co-star, Tyco YTT. |
| 0:50.5 | And finally, the age old question here it is again, Kim Kardashian, Apotheosis or Travesty. |
| 0:56.5 | The question finds itself refreshed by Kim wearing an iconic dress of Marilyn Monroe's |
| 1:02.5 | to the Met Gala. |
| 1:03.5 | We'll be joined by the Gabfests Sartorial Conscience, her self, Julia Turner. |
| 1:09.0 | But in the meantime, joining me today is Heather Schwidell, Slate Staff writer, Hey, Heather. |
| 1:14.6 | Hi, Steve. |
| 1:15.9 | And of course, Dan Coyce is a writer at Slate. |
| 1:18.2 | He's just released the first episode of The Martin Chronicles, a podcast about Martin |
| 1:22.4 | Amos with Jason Zinemann and Harold Sigal. |
| 1:26.5 | Dan, welcome back. |
| 1:28.2 | Thanks. |
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