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Culture Gabfest - Double, Double Rogan in Trouble

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, the panel is first joined by author and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast, Isaac Butler, to discuss the new Joel Coen rendition of The Tragedy of Macbeth. (Buy Isaac’s new book!) Then, the panel is joined by author and Slate correspondent, Justin Peters, to explain the phenomena of Joe Rogan and the recent Spotify controversy. Finally, the panel discusses the decision to rebrand the famous advertising characters of the Mars candy M&M’s.

In Slate Plus, the panel answers listener questions about culture’s relationship to climate change.

Email us at culturefest@slate.com.

Endorsements

Dana: An episode of the public radio show On the Media from WNYC called “Humans, Being.”

Julia: The endorsement: the Chez Panisse Vegetables cookbook from Alice Waters, owner of the famous California restaurant Chez Panisse. And a request for listeners to send in their favorite salad dressing recipes.

Steve: The song “Sweet Baby” by Prince and The New Power Generation.

Buy Dana’s book, Isaac’s book, and a ticket to Dana and Isaac’s book event at The Strand (hosted by our very own Stephen Metcalf)!

Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.

Outro music is "Blue Nights and Yellow Days" by Matt Large.

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Hello listeners, Dana Stevens here. As you might already know, my book titled Camera Man,

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Buster Keaton, The Dawn of Cinema, and The Invention of the 20th Century is now available

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for purchase. And now, Culture Gabbess listeners can get a great deal on the audiobook edition

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of Camera Man, which is read, allowed by me. If you go to slate.com slash Dana, I have

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my own URL, and I love it. You can get the audiobook for just $13.99. That's $10 off the

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list price. Then you can listen to the audiobook in your preferred podcast app. There's no standalone

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to you by Slate. That means that if you buy my audiobook to listen to you on slate,

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Go to slate.com slash Dana. Again, that slate.com slash Dana.

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I'm Stephen McAfin. This is the slate culture gabbess. Double, double, Rogan and Trouble edition.

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