Culture Gabfest - Hello, It's Me Again
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🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Steve and Dana are joined by New York Times columnist and Slate graduate Jamelle Bouie. First, the panel discusses the Richard Williams—father of tennis phenoms Venus and Serena Williams—biopic, starring Will Smith, King Richard. Next, the panel is joined by Slate music critic Carl Wilson as they break down Adele’s latest emotional rollercoaster, 30. Finally, the panel dives into a new comic book, The Department of Truth.
In Slate Plus, the panel discusses their Thanksgiving culinary festivities.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements
Dana: An Adele related endorsement, a clip that went viral from the British TV series An Audience With... on ITV, where famous people perform for an audience of other famous people who then ask the performer questions. In this clip, Adele reunited with her former English Teacher, Ms. McDonald.
Jamelle: The Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.
Steve: The all-time greatest/worst endorsement was in 2014 when John Swansburg endorsed the TV show Cheers. To do John Swansburg one better, Steve endorses The Beatles, more specifically the slant way to get at their greatness, an infamous bootleg that’s been circulating for decades, The Esher Demos. Also: Rachel Cusk, a genius novelist.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music is "Did I Make You Wait" by Staffan Carlen.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello, it's Still Me edition. |
| 0:15.9 | It's Wednesday, November 24, 2021. |
| 0:19.2 | On today's show, King Richard tells the no matter how you slice it, astonishing |
| 0:23.5 | story of Richard Williams, whose parenting helped turn Venus and Serena Williams into two of the |
| 0:28.1 | greatest athletes of all time. The movie stars Will Smith as the heroically demented patriarch. |
| 0:34.0 | It's on HBO Max and also for now in theaters. And then Adele returns with 30, |
| 0:40.1 | an album whose feel and sound make it a sequel to 21, her monster breakthrough, even though I |
| 0:45.1 | understand she had another one, 25 in between. It's a series of smoky, belty, deep moods and grooves |
| 0:51.4 | torch songs we discuss with Slate's own Carl Wilson. |
| 0:55.1 | And finally, we will do something, I believe, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, |
| 0:59.1 | unprecedented for the show, we will discuss a new release comic book, |
| 1:02.9 | The Department of Truth. |
| 1:04.5 | Why are we doing that? |
| 1:05.8 | All becomes clear when I reveal Jamel Bowie has returned for another week on the show. |
| 1:12.2 | Jamel, welcome back. |
| 1:13.7 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:15.4 | It's great to have you back. |
| 1:17.3 | You are, in addition to a Times columnist and a slate alumnus. |
| 1:21.3 | You're both a vintage and a first-run comic book fan, if I'm correct about that. |
| 1:27.3 | That is absolutely correct. I have been a comic book fan since I was a about that. That is absolutely correct. |
| 1:28.7 | I have been a comic book fan since I was a kid and I still read them on the regular. |
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