Culture Gabfest - Girls on Film
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Steve and Dana kick off the show by talking about season 4 of The Crown with June Thomas, Slate's managing producer and co-host of the Working podcast. Then they're joined by Asha Saluja, operations manager for Slate Podcasts, to discuss one of the internet's latest creations: a TikTok musical based on the Pixar movie Ratatouille. For their third segment, Slate senior editor Sam Adams argues that our new streaming world is a poor replacement for traditional movie-going.
In Slate Plus, Dana, Steve, and June discuss their Thanksgiving plans.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen.
Outro Music: "Backwards" by Staffan Carlen
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Meckhaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest Girls on Film Edition. |
| 0:14.7 | Great song, right? |
| 0:15.3 | It's Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. |
| 0:18.5 | On today's show, The Crown, it's the big hit series covering the reign of QE2. |
| 0:22.9 | It's now in its fourth season. |
| 0:24.8 | The Diana and Margaret Thatcher season will discuss with slavering royal family onlooker, June Thomas. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm glad you laughed, Dana, because that is a JK. |
| 0:34.4 | She is a fiercely skeptical oik, which is why we love her. |
| 0:37.8 | She has the commemorative plates for the Silver Jubilee. |
| 0:40.9 | That's so true. |
| 0:42.4 | Stacked proudly in her shelf. |
| 0:44.4 | That's awesome. And then TikTok redeems itself by being the platform for a remarkable |
| 0:50.0 | crowdsourced Gen Z musical based on Ratatoui, the Pixar Classic. We'll be joined by Asha Saluja, |
| 0:56.7 | who is Slate's operations manager and resident TikTokologist to discuss. And finally, some subjects |
| 1:02.2 | on the show we visit and revisit, but only because we as a culture and a show co-evolve along with |
| 1:08.4 | them. It's the ongoing question of screens, the future of screens, both big and small. |
| 1:13.2 | It's the subject of a really great essay from Slate's own Sam Adams. |
| 1:16.3 | He will join us to discuss. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm joined, of course, by Dana Stevens, the film critic for slate.com. |
| 1:22.2 | Hey, Dana. |
| 1:23.2 | Hello, Stephen. |
| 1:24.6 | Dana, we should indicate to our listeners that Julia's going to be on break for a while for a few weeks, I think. Yes, it's a bit of unfortunate timing because we're all so happy to be back together and weekly once again. But Julia has some work stuff that's drawing her away for the next few weeks. But she should be back with us by the end of the year. And as I'll mention in a minute, she will also be with us for our annual holiday call-in show. Okay, Dana, we don't |
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