Culture Gabfest: Don't Call Me Shirley

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🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen MacKaff and this is the slate culture gap fest.
0:13.0	I'm Stephen Meckhaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Don't Call Me Shirley Edition. It's Wednesday, April 29th, 2020.
0:17.0	On today's show, Unorthodox tells the story of the young woman escaping her Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
0:23.1	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
0:28.7	of New York magazine and Vulture
0:31.0	and The Good One Podcast to talk about the state of comedy in an age of
0:35.0	pandemic and finally this was Julia's week to comfort us with a movie and so she
0:38.8	picked the 1980 comedy classic airplane exclamation point Julie I cannot wait to talk to you about this movie Comedy
0:43.0	I cannot wait to talk to you about this movie.
0:45.0	You are the deputy managing editor of the LA Times and hey, how you doing?
0:50.0	Hello, I'm delighted to talk about Airplane with you guys.
0:53.0	Super, and of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for slate.
0:56.3	Hey, Dana.
0:57.3	Hey there, Stephen, good to talk to you.
0:59.2	Yeah, great to talk to you.
1:00.4	Okay.
1:01.4	Before we actually fully dive in this week, Julia, we do have an announcement.
1:05.0	What's up?
1:06.0	Yeah, we have an announcement.
1:08.0	Slate, like many other journalistic institutions, is facing financial challenges right now as the ad market is really collapsing
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