Culture Gabfest - Don't Call Me Shirley
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner break down the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox. Next, they bring on Jesse David Fox, Vulture writer and host of the Good One podcast, to talk about the state of comedy today. Finally, the panel dives into Julia’s comfort watch pick for this week: the iconic and hilarious Airplane!
On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses how their fitness routines have changed in quarantine.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Meckhaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. Don't Call Me Shirley Edition. It's Wednesday, April 29th, 2020. On today's show, Unorthodox, tells the story of the young woman escaping her Hasidic Community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and thereby also her arranged marriage. |
| 0:25.1 | It's a four-parter on Netflix. |
| 0:26.9 | And then we're joined by Jesse David Fox of New York Magazine and Fulcher and The Good One podcast to talk about the state of comedy in an age of pandemic. |
| 0:35.8 | And finally, this was Julia's week to comfort us with a movie. |
| 0:38.5 | And so she picked the 1980 comedy classic airplane exclamation point. Julia, I cannot wait to |
| 0:44.0 | talk to you about this movie. You are the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. And hey, |
| 0:49.1 | how are you doing? Hello. I'm delighted to talk about airplane with you guys. Superb. And of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate. Hey, Dana. |
| 0:57.3 | Hey there, Stephen. Good to talk to you. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah, great to talk to you. Okay. Before we actually fully dive in this week, Julia, we do have an announcement. What's up? |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah, we have an announcement. Slate, like many other journalistic institutions, is facing financial |
| 1:11.2 | challenges right now as the ad market is really collapsing with so many businesses facing challenges |
| 1:18.2 | from the coronavirus pandemic and the shutdowns to fight it. And they are changing some podcast |
| 1:24.4 | schedules, including ours. We are going to be going by weekly. |
| 1:29.2 | We'll be coming to you every other week and hope to be returning to a weekly schedule as soon as is |
| 1:33.9 | possible. We thought about this a lot and we've decided to take this moment to try to bring you |
| 1:39.7 | an extra specially excellent version of the show, maybe taking advantage of the longer window |
| 1:45.6 | to dig a little bit more deeply into some of our topics or tackle things that we wouldn't |
| 1:50.4 | necessarily have had time to tackle on a weekly basis. So we hope to be bringing you a show that's |
| 1:55.1 | just as sparkling as we aspire to every week. And of course, in each of those biweekly episodes, |
| 2:01.8 | we'll have a Slate Plus segment. And we are, of course, all ears as to what you would like to hear us discuss. |
| 2:07.0 | The single best thing you can do to help restore us to weekliness and to generally support |
| 2:13.1 | Slate and all of the work and all of the great podcast that it produces is to subscribe. |
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