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Culture Gabfest: Boingity Boing Music

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Arts, Music, Tv & Film

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner dive into Ford v Ferrari before the Oscars this weekend. Next, they discuss Netflix’s reality show The Circle with Slate’s editorial director—and Circle-enthusiast—Laura Bennett. Finally, they analyze the controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt with Los Angeles Times staff writer Daniel Hernandez. On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses Super Bowl ads with Slate’s Justin Peters.  Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: ‘The Circle Theme (Netflix)’ by Patrizio Knight   Hosts Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner Endorsements Dana: “‘Jojo Rabbit’ Captures the Horror and Absurdity of our Trumpian Moment,” by Masha Gessen in The New Yorker. Julia: The Good Wife. Steve: Cheer (specifically, La’Darius’s brother’s face). “The Money Behind Trump’s Money,” by David Enrich in The New York Times Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and

0:03.4

Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to office hours live

0:07.8

with me and my co-host DJ Doug Pound and Vic Berger.

0:12.3

Howdy.

0:13.0

Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games and lots of other surprises.

0:16.4

It's live, we take your Zoom calls.

0:18.0

We love having fun.

0:19.0

Excuse me?

0:20.0

Vicks said something.

0:21.0

Music, music.

0:22.0

Music. I like having fun. I like to laugh. I like to meet people who can make me laugh.

0:29.0

Please subscribe. No.

0:36.0

Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet. Or this beach is too sandy.

0:38.0

My name's Christine.

0:40.0

And my name is Sandy.

0:41.0

And we're the host of Beach 2 Sandy Water 2 Wet.

0:43.6

A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off-the-wall reviews on the internet.

0:48.0

We find the funniest real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services, and Trader Joe's to

0:54.6

cave, toddler beds, and Spirit Halloween.

0:57.7

You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be said on the internet.

1:01.3

How else would everyone know that some caves don't have

1:03.2

Wi-Fi? We hear about the good, the bad, and that one-time Spirit Halloween

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