Culture Gabfest: How Quincy Jones Reinvented American Music

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On this week’s show, Extremely Musical Friend of the Pod (EMFOP)‌ Chris Molanphy joins to memorialize pop’s Renaissance Man, Quincy Jones, who passed away on November 3, 2024. The legendary producer worked with every star under the sun, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Chaka Khan, and created the best-selling album in history. (“Thriller,” maybe you’ve heard of it?) Then, the trio mulls over Conclave, a sumptuous new film by director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) about what happens when the Pope dies. It’s a fun, pulp-y romp, but does the movie have anything profound to say?‌ Finally, the panel considers Martha, a Netflix documentary about Martha Stewart’s rise to fame – and confronts all of lifestyle guru’s charms, mysteries, and borderline sociopathic tendencies. Mentioned in today’s episode:‌ Hit Parade’s “I Wanna Rock with Q“ series. Conclave review, written by Dana. In the exclusive Slate Plus bonus episode, the panel unpacks the most interesting part of Conclave:‌ that out-of-left-field plot twist. Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements: Dana:‌ Will &‌ Harper on Netflix. Steve:‌ Getting lost in “Songs of a Lost World,”‌ a new album by the Cure. Chris:‌ The podcast A Very Good Year. Julia:‌ Throwing a birthday for your house; commissioning a micro-history of your home. Podcast production by Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Julia Turner and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, How Quincy Jones Reinvented American
0:15.7	Music Edition. It's Wednesday, November 6, 2004, and we are coming to you from the very recent past.
0:23.9	We, taping Tuesday morning, do not yet know how today's election will go.
0:28.1	And you listening sometime later on the far bank of our electoral Rubicon know at least something.
0:35.3	Hopefully it's something good.
0:37.2	In the meantime, we're going to dig into today's topics.
0:39.9	First up, a film about a pivotal election in which one candidate wants to disempower women
0:44.7	and another wants to recognize their full humanity.
0:47.6	It's Conclave, a thriller set in the Vatican, about cardinals deciding who should be Pope.
0:53.1	Then Martha, a new documentary from R.J. Cutler,
0:56.6	about lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, arguably our first influencer and the doc reveals an unusually
1:02.9	fascinating and prickly one. And finally, we'll be joined by Chris Malanfi to discuss the
1:07.9	life and legacy of Quincy Jones, the extraordinary musician and producer
1:11.9	who helped create the Sound of America as we know it and who died this week at 91.
1:17.1	Joining me today is Steve McCaff.
1:19.4	Hello, Steve.
1:20.5	Hey, Julia.
1:21.8	How you doing this election day morning?
1:24.9	Future me will let you know how present me was feeling.
1:31.4	Okay.
1:32.6	We'll just put a pin in that.
1:34.3	Yeah.
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