Culture Gabfest - Flying Puppet Baby
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🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week is a Bizarro Fest featuring associate editor Marissa Martinelli; June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate podcasts; and Benjamin Frisch, senior producer, Decoder Ring. First, the panel discusses the bizarre experience of watching Annette. Next, they talk about the BBC miniseries, The Pursuit of Love. Finally, they talk about the board game Wingspan with Slate editor and writer Dan Kois.
In Slate Plus, the panel answers a listener question about which board game they would choose to play on a first date.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Cleo Levin.
Outro music is "Death Dance" by Luftmensch.
Endorsements
June: The writing of all the Mitfords. Especially Hons and Rebels and Poison Penmanship by Jessica Mitford. (As well as the biography Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody). And The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford.
Ben: Promises by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and The London Symphony Orchestra. And the game Disco Elysium.
Marissa: “How Science Saved Me From Pretending to Love Wine” by Anne Fadiman in The New Yorker.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Marissa Marissa Martinelli, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Flying Puppet Baby Edition. |
| 0:15.9 | It's Wednesday, August 25th, 2021. |
| 0:19.1 | On today's show, it's sure to be one of the strangest movies you'll see all year. |
| 0:23.7 | Annette stars Adam Driver as a stand-up comedian who marries an opera singer, played by Marianne Cotillard. |
| 0:30.0 | If you think, well, that doesn't sound so strange. Did I mention that their young daughter is played by a series of puppets? |
| 0:35.8 | Buckle up for this one. Then, The Pursuit of Love is a British mini-series about two cousins, one hopelessly romantic, the other hopelessly practical, |
| 0:44.3 | figuring out what they want from their lives in the period in between World Wars. |
| 0:48.3 | The series, written for the screen, and directed by actress Emily Mortimer, debuted across the pond earlier earlier this year and has now landed here in the States. |
| 0:56.7 | We'll discuss. |
| 0:58.0 | And finally, how did a board game about birds shake up an $11 billion industry? |
| 1:03.2 | That's right. |
| 1:03.9 | We're talking and playing Wingspan. |
| 1:06.4 | Slate's own Dan Cois will join us for that. |
| 1:09.0 | But first, let's say hello to my co-hosts. June Thomas is a |
| 1:12.7 | senior managing producer and co-host of Slate's working podcast. Hi, June. Hey, Marissa, I'm glad that the |
| 1:19.1 | podcast gods made it so that I could be here again with you today. So am I. Also with us is |
| 1:26.2 | senior producer of Slate's Dakota Ring podcast and former producer of this very show, Benjamin Frisch. |
| 1:31.8 | Hi, Ben. |
| 1:32.4 | Hey, Marissa. |
| 1:33.4 | It is so glad to be back. |
| 1:34.6 | I'm so glad that, you know, finally the Culture GabFest fans are being heard. |
| 1:40.0 | They've been saying, where's Ben? |
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