Culture Gabfest - Fetch the Mallet
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the film Midsommar, the life and work of the bossa nova progenitor João Gilberto with critic Nate Chinen, and the end of life-hacking with Slate's Laura Miller.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slay Culture Gap Fest, Fetch the Mallet edition. |
| 0:17.6 | It's Wednesday, July 10th, 2019. |
| 0:20.0 | A happy birthday to my wife and my father. True story. |
| 0:23.9 | On today's show, Mitt Somar is the latest from writer-director Ari Aster, he of hereditary fame. |
| 0:29.7 | His latest horrific turn takes us to the green fields and white nights of rural Sweden. |
| 0:34.3 | And then one of the absolute legends of music has died. We discussed the genre making, |
| 0:38.4 | genre busting career of Titan, Joao Gioberto, with the great critic Nate Chinnan. And finally, |
| 0:44.7 | lifehack. Stop lifehacking. It's for pretentious losers, a segment with our beloved friend |
| 0:50.8 | and friend of the program, Laura Miller. You'll have to pry my life hacking out of my cold dead hands. |
| 0:57.3 | Never. |
| 0:58.6 | Never surrender. |
| 1:00.4 | Okay. |
| 1:00.6 | Well, I'm joined by LifeHacker and Chief, the Deputy Managing Editor at the LA Times, Julia Turner. |
| 1:06.8 | Hey, Julia. |
| 1:07.4 | Hello. |
| 1:08.7 | And of course, by Dana Stevens. |
| 1:10.3 | Dana, I can't imagine you've ever life hacked anything. |
| 1:16.2 | Are you saying that because of what a mess my life is? |
| 1:19.0 | No, but you float above such, you know, menial, you know, solutions. |
| 1:24.9 | Like, you don't even perceive these as problems. |
| 1:27.5 | How could you listen to the music of the spheres if you were... |
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