Culture Gabfest - Democracy Shaken, Not Stirred
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🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Steve and Dana are joined by guest host Isaac Butler, writer and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast. First, the group talks about What the Constitution Means to Me, the Broadway play now streaming on Amazon. Next, they talk about the legacy of Sean Connery, who passed away last week. Finally, they discuss the new Netflix documentary series Song Exploder, based on the podcast.
In Slate Plus, the hosts talk with Isaac about the future of the theater industry in pandemic times.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Whitney Tesi and Rachael Allen.
Outro Music: A Sail by Lisa Hannigan
Endorsements
Dana: Isaac’s interview with Alex Lacamoire on Slate’s Working podcast
To Be or Not to Be and Criterion’s accompanying commentary track
Isaac: John M. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting
The Danish political drama Borgen
Steve: Cowboy Junkies’ cover of “Flirted With You All My Life”
Lisa Hannigan’s “A Sail”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McHaffin. This is the Slate Culture Gapfest, Democracy, Shaken, not stirred edition. It's Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. |
| 0:17.0 | On today's show, what the Constitution means to me was a Broadway, is a Broadway play. It was |
| 0:22.6 | filmed. It's now streaming on Amazon. It is a mostly one-woman show written and performed by |
| 0:27.5 | Heidi Shrek about the relationship of our cherished document to the lived experiences of abortion, |
| 0:32.5 | violence, sexual violence, and misogyny. And then, yes, the untouchables. |
| 0:38.2 | Yes, Marnie. |
| 0:39.5 | Yes, the wind and the lion. |
| 0:41.2 | Okay, the man who would be king. |
| 0:42.7 | Great movie. |
| 0:43.5 | But Sean Connery is the original and forever the only James Bond. |
| 0:49.5 | He died this past week. |
| 0:50.9 | We're going to remember him in part by having rewatched the movie Goldfinger. |
| 0:55.1 | He loves only God. |
| 0:59.9 | All right. And then finally, Song Exploder, it was a podcast about the exquisitely occult |
| 1:05.5 | processes by which songs are born are turned into something from nothing. Now it's a pretty super cool Netflix show. We will discuss that too with Isaac Butler. Isaac, I'm looking at your list here. You're a quintuple threat or something. You're a writer. You're a director, a teacher, a union member. I do too many things. No, no, no, not at all. Co-host of Slate's working podcast. And your |
| 1:27.9 | forthcoming book, which we are going to discuss without fail is about Stanislauski, and it's |
| 1:33.0 | called The Method. It's out in sometime in 2021, I take it. Yeah, late to 2021, maybe early |
| 1:39.5 | 2022, depending on, you know, what the editing process is like. Brilliant. And of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate.com. |
| 1:46.9 | Hey, Dana. |
| 1:47.7 | Hey, how you doing, Steve? |
| 1:49.2 | I think we're all going to be just a wee bit punchy today. |
| 1:53.9 | Because we're taping on Election Day, we should say. |
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