Culture Gabfest: Do Androids Dream of Chris Pine?

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

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This week, the panel is joined by June Thomas, co-host of Working (Slate’s podcast on the creative process). They begin by digesting HBO’s Julia Child series, Julia, starring one of June’s favorites: Sarah Lancashire. Then, the panel dives into the world of AI with After Yang. Finally, the panel answers Dana’s very important question: is Chris Pine the Robert Redford of our time? In Slate Plus, the panel discusses their favorite Canadian cultural products. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: An audiobook which revolutionized the way Dana thinks about Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway read by Juliet Stevenson (of Truly, Madly, Deeply fame). June: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand about a wide range of ideas from World War 2 to The Cold War. Steve: An essay by general interest writer and professor Justin E. H. Smith, titled “The Punk-Prophet Philosophy of Michel Houellebecq,” for Foreign Policy, in which he writes an uninhibitedly intelligent assessment of the famed French novelist and essayist. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is "I Want a Change" by The Big Let Down. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now at slate.com/cultureplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen McCap and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.
0:13.5	Do Androids Dream of Chris Pine Edition?
0:16.7	It's Wednesday, April 13th, 2022.
0:19.4	On today's show, Julia, it's on HBO Max.
0:22.4	It's a limited series that tells the story of the revolution in American cooking affected
0:26.6	by Julia Child.
0:28.1	It stars the transcendent Sarah Lancashire.
0:31.7	And then we discuss, after Yang, a dreamy sci-fi meditation from the writer-director, Koganada.
0:38.0	That's not only a mononym, but a pseudonym.
0:39.9	We'll discuss that as well.
0:41.8	And finally, it's not in the air.
0:44.9	Is that the scent of pine?
0:47.5	It turns out, Dana, no marital exception, Stevens, carries a special torch into the Pine
0:53.5	Grove.
0:54.5	I'll stop.
0:55.5	The deeply serious question here is, is Chris Pine our Robert Redford?
0:59.5	She wrote an essay on it for Slate.
1:01.1	Let me first introduce, though, June Thomas.
1:03.7	June is the co-host of Working Slates Podcast about the creative process.
1:08.5	June, a delight to have you back.
1:11.2	And it's a double delight.
1:12.2	I'll explain in a sec.
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