Culture Gabfest - Cows and Capitalism
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest host and Slate staff writer Dan Kois talk about Kelly Reichardt’s film First Cow. Next, they bring on Slate television critic Willa Paskin to discuss the latest episode of her podcast Decoder Ring, which dives into the real-life bookstore battle behind You’ve Got Mail. Finally, the panel dives into Molly Fischer’s feature in the Cut on the millennial aesthetic.
On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses the cancellation of Woody Allen’s memoir.
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson.
Outro Music: "Party All The Time" by Eddie Murphy
Other items discussed on the show:
“I Made the Oily Cakes From First Cow,” by Dan Kois in Slate.
“Bookstores That Live Only in the Mind,” by Dan Kois in the New York Times.
Endorsements
Dan: The March Badness bracket of songs.
Julia: Print out your cooking recipes.
Steve: “Reading Richard Rorty in Tehran” by Samuel Thrope in the Nation.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Maccalf, and this is the Slay Culture Gap Fest. |
| 0:14.2 | Cows and Capitalism Edition. |
| 0:15.9 | It's Wednesday, March 11th, 2020. |
| 0:18.5 | On today's show, people are throwing around the M-word masterpiece to describe |
| 0:23.0 | First Cow, the new feature from director Kelly Reichard. It tells the story of a friendship |
| 0:27.6 | blossoming tenderly on the American frontier between a baker, a Chinese immigrant, and a milk cow. |
| 0:33.2 | And then on her hit podcast, Dakota Ring Willa Paskin revisits the rom-com, |
| 1:12.0 | You've Got Mail by way of explaining the rise and fall of big box bookselling. We're joined by Willa for that segment. Can't wait. And finally, we discuss a, I think, tour to four essay in the cut on the tyranny of millennial aesthetics. Joining me today is Dan Coise, who is a staff writer for Slate, an author of How to Be a Family the Year I Drag My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together. Dan, hey. Hello, Steve. Good to have you back. You're the new Dana. Keep it up. And we're joined by Julia Turner, who is, of course, the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. Hey, Julia. |
| 1:13.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:15.8 | It's raining in LA, they tell me. |
| 1:17.2 | Oh, yeah, big news here. |
| 1:18.5 | Does it form puddles out there? Yeah. |
| 1:18.9 | What it does is there's no accounting for drainage needs anywhere in any of the road surfaces. |
| 1:25.6 | So basically, all of the rain that falls on the mountains |
| 1:29.4 | that surround L.A. just sluices down over the city. I once saw the rain running against a curb |
| 1:36.4 | without proper drainage in it, just like buoy an entire, like, upright trash can along the road, |
| 1:44.0 | scooching it down foot by foot. It hasn't rained |
| 1:46.9 | that hard yet, but it's a great little city we got here. What a merry sight. What you just |
| 1:53.7 | delivered really reminded me of the ruck or how soliloquy at the end of Blade Runner. I've seen |
| 2:00.6 | things. I've seen the water run up against the curb of Blade Runner. I've seen things. |
| 2:01.6 | I've seen the water run up against the curb. |
| 2:04.5 | All right. |
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