Culture Gabfest: Bottoms Queers the High School Comedy

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, the panel jumps into Bottoms, the chaotic second feature from director and co-writer Emma Seligman that satirizes… something (what that thing is, they have yet to discover). They then discuss Telemarketers, a Michael Moore-style documentary that exposes the telemarketing industry’s dark underbelly in a weirdly captivating tour de force. Finally, the trio takes on Strike Force Five, a new Spotify podcast hosted by late-night veterans Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers that deals with the ins and outs of the trade and raises money for their striking writing staffs. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel considers the joys of trains and sleeper cars, inspired by Bryn Stole’s essay for Slate, “Wake on a Train.” Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements: Dana: A very funny, investigative piece in The Guardian by Elif Batuman: “Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote.” Julia: In a wonderfully kismet moment, Julia stumbled upon Hilltown Hot Pies, a neapolitan-ish pizzeria in the Berkshires run by chef Rafi Bildner, who previously owned one of Stephen’s favorite pizza spots in Ghent. Stephen: “The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty” by Rachel Corbett for The New York Times Magazine, an essay that lays bare an empire built on shell companies, weird art depots, and paintings sequestered in vaults. Outro music: “Break The Line” by Coma Svensson Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Kat Hong. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen McCaff in this is the Slake culture gap best bottoms queers the high school comedy
0:15.1	edition.
0:16.3	It's Wednesday, September 6th, 2023.
0:19.3	Anteresia bottoms is the gonzoest high school comedy maybe ever, about two lesbian teens
0:25.8	who'd push back against the tyranny of the jocks, start a fight club.
0:30.7	It stars IO, adeberi, and Rachel Senet, Senet also co-wrote the film, we should say.
0:36.7	For that segment we'll be joined by Slate's own Christina Kaururuchi, and then HBO has
0:41.8	a new docu-series, telemarketers, it's a wild exposé of maybe the shadiest, least well-regulated
0:48.6	industry in America.
0:50.4	It's hard to describe briefly, but for now let's just say it's a triumph of guerrilla
0:54.5	film making in my estimation.
0:56.2	And finally, Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Myers, and Oliver, the big five late-night hosts
1:01.9	are making a podcast together in support of their striking writers, it's called Strike
1:06.4	Force Five.
1:09.0	Joining me today is Dana Stevens, the film critic for Slate, hey Dana, and Julia Turner
1:14.5	of the LA Times, hey Julia, hey there.
1:17.7	For our first segment I should say you'll be sitting out for our segment on bottoms, we'll
1:22.1	be joined instead by Christina Kaururuchi, Slate senior writer, and host of the outward
1:28.0	podcast.
1:29.0	Christina, welcome back to the show.
1:30.9	Thanks for having me.
1:31.9	Alright, well bottoms is the new feature film from the writer director Emma Seligman, her
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