Culture Gabfest: Exploiting Pamela Anderson...Again?

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, the panel begins by discussing Hulu’s new biopic Pam & Tommy. Then, they dive into the Academy Award-record breaking animated Danish film Flee. Finally, the panel discusses Jennifer Senior’s popular article for The Atlantic, “It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart” about friendships as you age. In Slate Plus, the panel takes inspiration from the Scriptnotes podcast and ponders what aspects of other languages they would want to borrow for English. Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements Dana: Charter Books in Rhode Island. Julia: An update on her preferred digital clock, per Twitter request. Steve: Thomas Nagel’s article—“What is rude?”—for the London Review of Books which is a review of Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb’s novel The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is "If Only I Was a Poet" by Staffan Carlen 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 McCaff in this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, exploiting Pamela Anderson
0:15.0	again, question mark edition.
0:17.5	It's Wednesday, February 16th, 2022.
0:20.4	On today's show, Pam and Tommy is on Hulu.
0:22.7	It's a limited series that tells the purportedly whole story behind the theft and publication
0:27.1	of the homemade sex tape featuring Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
0:31.8	And then flee is, it's really an unusual movie.
0:35.7	I hope we can do it justice.
0:37.4	It's a documentary whose story is told mostly through animation.
0:41.3	It's about an Afghan refugee and his escape first from Kabul and then Moscow and his
0:46.5	resettling in Copenhagen.
0:48.1	It's been nominated for multiple Oscars, including best international feature film.
0:52.7	I left it.
0:53.7	Only why and how does something so beautiful as a friendship die?
0:58.4	We discussed an Atlantic monthly piece by the writer Jennifer senior.
1:02.8	Joining me today is Julia Turner, deputy managing editor of the LA Times.
1:06.8	Julia, hey, how are you?
1:08.3	Hello, hello.
1:09.3	And of course, Dana Stevens and Dana is the film critic for Slate, but also the author
1:15.1	of Camera Man, Colin.
1:17.9	I mean, welcome to the world's worst running joke is my total fucking inability to master
1:27.4	the subtitle of your book.
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