Culture Gabfest: Gender Swap

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf is joined by two guests hosts: Sam Anderson, New York Times Magazine staff writer and author of Boom Time, and Dan Kois, Slate staff writer and author of How to Be a Family. First, the panel discusses The Assistant, the indie film with heavy Harvey Weinstein overtones. Next, they dive into Hulu’s reboot of High Fidelity, starring Zoë Kravitz. Finally, the panel breaks down the work of Jenny Odell, including her book How to Do Nothing and her recent Paris Review essay “The Myth of Self-Reliance.” On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses Dan Kois’s recent Slate story on a New Zealand fantasy masterpiece—an article that catalyzed the book’s publication in the U.S. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson. Outro Music: ‘Lonely World’ by Moses Sumney Endorsements Dan: The writing of Charles Portis, including True Grit and Norwood. Sam: John Cage’s performance of “Water Walk” on “I’ve Got a Secret” in 1960 (as Jenny Odell recommends). Steve: Seeing Parasite a second time. “The Professor of Denial” by Amanda J. Crawford in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap-Pfest Gender Swap Edition. It's Wednesday
0:24.0	February 19th 2020. On today's show the Indie Film The Assistant takes us
0:28.1	into the indie film world into the hush world of complicity and cleanup that
0:32.2	presumably surrounded Harvey Weinstein
0:34.5	as experienced through a young woman
0:36.1	with an entry-level job at a production company
0:38.6	we are meant to think is based on Miramax.
0:40.5	And then, how easily can you update a rock snob parable to 2020?
0:45.0	We discuss the reboot of High Fidelity on Hulu,
0:47.0	it stars Zoe Kravitz in the old John Kuzak role.
0:50.0	And finally, the writer Jenny Odell exhorts us to quote participate but not as asked unquote
0:57.0	we unpack what that could possibly mean and think about her new book how to do nothing.
1:01.7	I'm joined today by New York Times magazine,
1:05.1	Staff Writers Sam Anderson, who weirdly is sitting directly across from me in my basement.
1:11.6	Hey Sam. Hi Steve, it's great to look into your eyes.
1:14.3	It's great to look and put the lotion in the basket.
1:18.0	Sam, don't look directly.
1:19.5	I don't think that joke is allowed on this show.
1:21.6	It doesn't look directly into my eyes.
1:23.7	I should also say you are the author of Boomtown,
1:25.8	the fantastical saga of Oklahoma City,
1:28.0	its chaotic founding, etc, etc.
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