Culture Gabfest - Dungeons, Dragons, and Depressed College Professors
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Slate’s own Nadira Goffe and Working co-host Isaac Butler join Dana to talk about Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Then they discuss the new AMC series starring Bob Odenkirk, Lucky Hank. Finally, Slate’s Dan Kois joins to talk about the poet Maggie Smith and an essay that was excerpted from her new memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.
In Slate Plus, the panel talks about Phantom of the Opera finally leaving Broadway after more than three decades.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements:
Nadira: Nadira encourages you to visit the weirdo, small museums in your area that you might not go to otherwise, as inspired by her impromptu visit to the New York Transit Museum.
Isaac: The movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and the book Dear Committee Members.
Dana: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama.
Outro music is: "Last Sunday" by OTE
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| 1:10.1 | I'm Dana Stevens and this is the Slate Culture Gabb Fest Dungeons, Dragons and |
| 1:14.5 | Depressed College Professors Edition. It's Wednesday April 5th, 2023 and on |
| 1:18.7 | today's show we are discussing Dungeons and Dragons honor among thieves, the |
| 1:22.3 | new big screen adaptation of the long popular fantasy role-playing game. This |
| 1:26.2 | is directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the creative team who |
| 1:29.2 | brought us the excellent romantic comedy game night a few years ago, which we |
| 1:32.6 | discussed on this show. We will talk about what they did with a tabletop wizard |
| 1:38.0 | role play on the big screen. Secondly, in the new AMC series Lucky |
| 1:42.7 | Hank Bob Odenkirk beloved to all is the con man lawyer Saul Goodman from the |
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