Culture Gabfest - Half for Me, Half for You

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Half for Me, Half for You edition.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. On today's show in the lead-up to the
0:23.0	Oscars every year, we discuss various nominees we may have missed. Today we talk about
0:27.6	Honeyland, an astonishing documentary. I mean, there is no way to do it justice with a dozen
0:33.3	adjectives, much less one, but really a remarkable documentary about a Macedonian beekeeper.
0:39.0	And then Game Show Jeopardy has crowned its greatest of all time.
0:42.3	We discuss a syndication mainstay in light of the failing health of its iconic host, Alex Trebek.
0:48.4	And finally, the marvelous, I think I hope, friend of the program, Gia Tolentino,
0:52.6	has received a high-profile takedown this past week in the London review of books. It may not be news in and of itself.
0:58.9	It probably isn't, but we discuss its possible significance with Slate's book critic, Laura Miller.
1:04.6	Joining me today is, of course, Julia Turner. Hey, Julia.
1:07.6	Hello, hello. She is, of course, the deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey, Julia. Hello, hello. She is, of course, the deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and Dana Stevens.
1:13.9	Hey, Dana.
1:14.5	Hey, hey.
1:15.3	Who you will know is the film critic of Slate.
1:17.2	All right, let's dive right in, shall we?
1:19.3	Please.
1:19.9	In a remote corner of Macedonia, Haditsai Muratova, and apologies for the pronunciation,
1:25.5	lives as close to a non-money existence as may be possible.
1:29.4	Her tiny settlement is all but abandoned.
1:31.7	Her house, such as it is, is a tiny pre-industrial hovel.
1:35.5	Her only human companion is her aged half-blind mother.
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