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Culture Gabfest: Bogus Journey

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week Steve, Julia, and Dana take a trip to the Bill and Ted universe and share their thoughts on the latest addition, Bill and Ted Face the Music. Then Wesley Morris from the New York Times joins the show to pay tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman. And finally, Dana shares the group's final comfort pick, Days of Heaven. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Stephen MacKaff and this is Sla Culture Gap Fest bogus Journey Edition.

0:15.0

It's Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020.

0:17.6

On today's most excellent show, Bill and Ted face the music.

0:21.2

It's the belated sequel to the wonderfully inane movies of the

0:24.7

80s and early 90s starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. They return as

0:28.8

their most egregiously non-bogous middle-aged selves, Bill and Ted.

0:32.6

And then Chadwick Bozeman has died at the age of 43.

0:35.6

We're joined by Wesley Morris of the New York Times

0:37.7

to discuss the legacy of a great actor and movie star

0:40.8

lost before his time. And finally, Dana had what appears to be maybe our final comfort pick, at least for now.

0:47.0

She chose Days of Heaven, the Terence Malick movie from the late 1970s stars Richard Gere Sam Shepard, Brooke Adams and

0:54.3

Linda Mants who herself has just passed away. We will discuss joining me today is

0:59.8

Julia Turner who's the deputy managing editor the LA Times. Hey Julia.

1:04.6

Hello hello. And of course Dana Stevens the film critic for slate.

1:09.1

Come. Hey Dana. Hey Steve. Okay before we dig Dana, we do have some good news.

1:14.0

Yes, we have some very good news for us and I hope for our listeners too, which is that the slate culture

1:18.6

gap best is going weekly again with the coming of fall and the crisping of the leaves and the somewhat

1:25.0

adjusting of the economy to our new pandemic circumstances we can now afford to make

1:29.8

our show every week once more so So in the Grand Tradition of the

1:33.7

Lake Culture Galvest you will be hearing from us every week going forward.

1:36.7

Yay! Thank you all so much for hanging in through our Fortniteed. And thanks of course to anyone who helped. our fortnight attitude.

1:43.2

And thanks of course to anyone who helped it happen by joining Slate Plus during this interregnum period

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