Culture Gabfest: Happiest Scaffolding

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week Steve and Dana are joined by writer, poet, and co-host of the Thirst Aid Kit podcast, Nichole Perkins. First, the they weigh in on Happiest Season, the new holiday rom-com starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. Then they chat with Culture Gabfest producer Cameron Drews about why he loves the HBO show How To with John Wilson. And finally, the hosts a talk about a big mistake made recently by the publisher Fireside Fiction, where a white voice-over artist put on a fake accent to read an audio essay written by a Black woman. The essay, written by Dr. Regina N. Bradley, is called Da Art of Speculatin’ . In Slate Plus, the Steve, Dana, and Nichole discuss their pop culture blindspots. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: "What Do You Want From Me" by OTE Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen Meckaff and this is the Slave Culture Gapfest happiest scaffolding edition.
0:14.4	It's Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020.
0:17.4	On today's show, happiest season stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.
0:20.8	It's a standard issue in some respects. Meet the
0:23.5	parents holiday romcom with a very unstandard or somewhat
0:27.1	unstandard twist. Parents, your girlfriend is meeting for the first time, do not know
0:31.6	you're gay. And then how to with John Wilson is a
0:34.3	wonderful and strange what's it show on HBO it's part video diary personal essay
0:39.2	it's all genius as far as I can tell we We discuss with our producer who turned us onto it
0:45.3	Cameron Drew's and finally the question of who speaks and who is silenced is
0:49.8	arguably the political question of our time it It's found a new and quite perverse twist.
0:55.2	Who voices whom in an audio book or audio essay?
0:59.2	Joining me today is Nicole Perkins. She's a writer and podcaster. She's co-host of Thirstaid Kit and the Waves and I have to say when someone is a poet,
1:06.5	Nicole, you always always pointed out your collection of poetry, Lilith but dark was published in 2018. Welcome onto the show.
1:15.0	Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to talk about all the things that we're going to talk about today.
1:21.0	Yeah, yeah, so am I. Let's begin with Thursday
1:23.5	Kit. What's the status of the show? Okay, so Thursday Kit is retired as a
1:29.0	weekly podcast, but we are open to come back as a live show or a virtual live show or to do one-off special kinds of interviews when the world opens back up.
1:40.0	But yeah, right now we're not doing any more weekly podcast, but you know we may pop up in you know in your theater the next time
1:48.3	Theaters are open for the world
1:50.9	Superb and of course we're joined by Dana Stevens, Yin Yoga Maestra.
1:57.0	Namaste Day, Dana.
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