Culture Gabfest - Beige Goo Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Barry Jenkins' new film Moonlight, Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize and subsequent snub, and taste test Soylent, the tech world's attempt at food disruption.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Bejew Edition. |
| 0:18.1 | It's Wednesday, October 26, 2016. |
| 0:20.7 | On today's show, the new film Moonlight |
| 0:22.6 | from writer-director Barry Jenkins tells the story of growing up poor, black, gay, and persecuted |
| 0:27.1 | in America. It's being hailed as the best movie of the year, maybe of the millennium, maybe |
| 0:31.2 | of all millennia. I can't wait to ask Dana Stevens how high her esteem is for it. And then |
| 0:36.1 | Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in |
| 0:38.4 | literature. A worthy topic in itself is now followed by the news that Dylan refuses to even |
| 0:43.4 | acknowledge the award. Is this being Dylan-esque? We're just rude. And finally, Silicon Valley |
| 0:48.8 | tries to disrupt food in which the panel tastes soylent. Yum, yum. Can't wait. We've got green, we hope. Is this going to be better or worse than when we tried the pumpkin spice latte? That's the real question. We should have brought in that as like a control. It's true. Or distinguishable. We'll see. Oh, my God. All right. Well, joining me today is Slate's editor, Julia Turner. |
| 1:13.4 | Hey, Julia. |
| 1:14.0 | Hi, Steve. |
| 1:14.7 | And, of course, Slate's film critic, Dana, Dana. |
| 1:17.1 | Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve. Nice to be in the room with you. I know. It's so nice to finally be. Are you feeling a little better? I'm feeling great until the next time my neurasthenia takes over and lays me low for a mysterious 24 hours. |
| 1:30.3 | We missed you. next time my neurasthenia takes over and lays me low for a mysterious 24 hours. |
| 1:30.3 | We missed you in LA. |
| 1:32.3 | I feel I'm really chagrined. |
| 1:35.4 | I really regret I couldn't go. |
| 1:36.7 | It would have been fun. |
| 1:37.7 | And Dan and I would have done an 11 or maybe 12 songs set. |
| 1:42.2 | Driving every conceivable listener from the venue. |
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