Culture Gabfest - Brain and Body Still Rebooting Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
③ Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the new film Private Life, then are joined by Slate's Gabriel Roth to discuss the legacy of Doctor Who and its new season starring Jodie Whitaker, and finally a reading of Kanye West at the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Stephen Mecalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Brain and Body Still Rebooting Edition. |
| 0:19.4 | It's Wednesday, October 17, 2018. On today's show, |
| 0:22.6 | Private Life is a feature film dramedy about a middle-aged couple trying to make a baby. |
| 0:27.8 | Desperately, it stars Paul Giamatti and Catherine Hahn. And then Doctor Who is nothing, if not a TV |
| 0:33.3 | institution. It was booted first in 1963. It's been rebooted over and over again since. |
| 0:39.9 | Only this time, Who Isn't a He? |
| 0:42.6 | The new series stars a she, |
| 0:45.0 | Jody Whitaker. And finally, Kanye West |
| 0:46.9 | and the Politics of Celebrity Politics. |
| 0:49.5 | Joining me today is Slate's |
| 0:51.1 | editor Julia Turner. Hey, Julia. |
| 0:53.3 | Hi, Steve. And of course, Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey, Julia. Hi, Steve. And of course, Slate's film critic, |
| 0:56.4 | Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve. One thing, guys, I had a weird dream last night. For some reason, |
| 1:02.5 | I kept seeing the numbers 4819. Whoa. Is this a Doctor Who reference? |
| 1:11.0 | All right, let's dig in. |
| 1:12.0 | Private Life is the new feature film from the writer-director Tamara Jenkins. |
| 1:16.4 | She of Slums of Beverly Hills fame, among other movies. |
| 1:20.2 | This one follows a couple of middle-aged artsies as they go through torturous and torturous processes of fertility treatments. |
| 1:28.8 | Come to understand, I think, maybe, maybe I'm wrong, that they're in search of a baby as a way of evading one another. |
| 1:33.4 | The movie stars Paul Giamatti, Catherine Hahn, and Kaylee Carter, a first-timer as their |
| 1:38.4 | bar dropout niece whose eggs they may want to harvest. Let's listen to a clip. |
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