Culture Gabfest: Congratulations! You Finally Got Your Severance.

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show, Slate Business and Tech reporter Nitish Pahwa sits in for Julia. The panel discusses Severance season 2 from Apple TV+. They then talk about the Oscar-nominated film No Other Land – a Palestinian documentary following a young activist fighting his community's mass expulsion by Israeli occupation. They end by discussing Nitish’s recent reporting on Buzzfeed’s upcoming AI-infused social media platform, BF Island. Endorsements: Dana: The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott Steve: The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner Nitish: Work by the late author Tom Robbins, particularly Jitterbug Perfume, who recently died at 92 Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.
1:17.1	Congrats.
1:17.7	You finally got your Severance edition.
1:20.0	It's Wednesday, February 19th, 2025.
1:23.5	On today's show, Severance, the Apple TV show, has returned for a second season, belatedly,
1:28.0	we should note, after three years, I think, away.
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