Culture Gabfest - Come as You Were Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the blockbusting Captain Marvel, Hulu's girl-puberty comedy Pen15, and the article Guilty with Seth Stevenson, about Seth coming to terms with being part of jury that convicted a man who didn't deserve it. In Slate Plus, Seth and the panel discuss their own personal experiences on a jury.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. |
| 0:15.8 | Come as You Were edition. |
| 0:17.3 | It's Wednesday, March 13th, 2019. |
| 0:20.2 | On today's show, Captain Marvel is the latest |
| 0:22.0 | MCU offering. It's also the first with a woman in the lead. Bree Larson's turn as a |
| 0:26.5 | caped crusader took in $455 million global B.O over the weekend. A huge hit. Cannot |
| 0:33.7 | wait to discuss with my cohorts. And then Penn 15 is a Hulu comedy. It stars two 31-year-old |
| 0:38.7 | women playing their seventh grade selves. And finally, what does it like to deliberate on the |
| 0:44.2 | fate of another human being? We discuss a riveting article about jury duty with its author, |
| 0:51.7 | Seth Stevenson. Joining me today is the deputy managing editor of the LA Times, who is of course Julia Turner. |
| 0:59.2 | Hey, Julia. |
| 0:59.9 | Hi, Steve. |
| 1:01.1 | Joining from L.A. |
| 1:02.1 | And then, of course, Dana Stevens is Slate's film critic. |
| 1:04.7 | Hey, Dana. |
| 1:05.3 | Hey, Dana. |
| 1:09.3 | Captain Marvel is the 21st installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the so-called |
| 1:14.4 | MCU, since Iron Man debuted in 2008, bringing the stable of Stanley icons to the big screen. |
| 1:21.6 | This is the first one to star a woman. |
| 1:23.5 | The movie is a prequel of sorts, as I understand it. |
| 1:26.0 | I am not a MCU completist by any means in a mid-nides period piece. |
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