Culture Gabfest - Crash! I Dropped a Vase Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf discuss Christopher Nolan's new film Dunkirk, the musical podcast 36 Questions, and sellouts with musician and writer Franz Nicolay.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Stephen MacHap, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. Crash, I dropped a vase. |
| 0:16.7 | Edition, it's Wednesday, August 2, 2017 on today's show. Dunkirk is the new Christopher Nolan movie. |
| 0:24.6 | It's a film about the famous World War II non-battle in which hundreds of thousands of allied |
| 0:29.1 | troops were evacuated by patriotic British citizens manning their own small boats. And then 36 |
| 0:34.6 | Questions is the latest in a new trend towards the scripted podcast. |
| 0:39.1 | This one is from the producers of Limetown. It's a musical about a married couple getting |
| 0:42.6 | to know one another all over again after the wife's deceptions have been revealed. And finally, |
| 0:48.1 | the shifting history and valence of the concept selling out with the wonderful musician Franz Nicolay of the Hold Steady and |
| 0:56.4 | many other projects. But joining me right now is Slate's editor, Julia Turner. Hey, Julia. Hi, Steve. |
| 1:03.1 | Valence. We don't often use that word on this show, do we? I've been accused of overusing |
| 1:08.3 | Valence. I feel like I'm a frequent Valence abuser. I talk about valences a lot. |
| 1:12.6 | And I should introduce Slate's film critic Danny Stevens. |
| 1:16.6 | Hey, Dana. |
| 1:17.6 | Dana was joking that we're going to sing. |
| 1:19.6 | We're going to sing the whole podcast today before we started. |
| 1:22.6 | And with friends Nicolay, maybe we can. |
| 1:25.6 | We get some accompaniment. |
| 1:28.5 | This is just the banter before the first big I want number. |
| 1:32.1 | What do we want on this show? |
| 1:35.1 | We just want to gab. |
| 1:37.4 | I had five minutes of hot material on Valance, and you guys just cut it right off. |
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