Culture Gabfest: Half for Me, Half for You

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner dive into Honeyland, Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s Academy Award-nominated documentary following a beekeeper in Macedonia. Next, they chat about Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time. Finally, Slate’s Laura Miller joins the panel to discuss Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror and the role—and critiques—of the modern female essayist. On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses Oscar nominations. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: The Futureheads’ cover of Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love.” Hosts Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner Endorsements Dana: Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror audiobook. Julia: Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing. Steve: Ian Rankin’s “Inspector Rebus” book series. The Futureheads’ cover of Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet?
0:04.0	Or this beach is too sandy.
0:06.0	My name's Christine.
0:08.0	And my name is Sandy.
0:09.0	And we're the host of Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet.
0:11.0	A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off-the-wall reviews on the internet.
0:15.9	We find the funniest real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services
0:21.4	and Trader Joe's, caves toddler beds and Spirit
0:24.5	Halloween. You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be
0:28.1	said on the internet. How else would everyone know that some caves don't have
0:31.1	Wi-Fi? We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time
0:34.0	time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo instead of a Halloween
0:37.0	costume and believe it or not we got to the bottom of it.
0:40.0	Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcast.
0:43.3	Beachi Sandy Water Toet is brought to you by the Forever Dog Podcast Network. I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest, half for me, half for you,
1:04.4	edition. It's Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. On today's show in the lead up to
1:10.0	the Oscars over a year we discuss various nominees we may have missed.
1:14.0	Today we talk about Honeyland, an astonishing documentary.
1:17.1	I mean there is no way to do it justice with a dozen adjectives, much less one, but really a remarkable documentary about a Macedonian beekeeper.
1:26.1	And then Game Show Jeopardy has crowned its greatest of all time.
1:29.5	We discuss a syndication mainstay in light of the failing health of its iconic host Alex Trebek.
1:35.7	And finally, the marvelous, I think I hope, friend of the program, Gia Tolantino, has received a high profile
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