Culture Gabfest - Hum In the Drum Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf discuss Edgar Wright's new film Baby Driver, Jay Z's album 4:44 with Slate's Jack Hamilton, and David Brooks' infamous sandwich column.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Stephen Meckaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Hum and the Drum edition. |
| 0:16.8 | It's Wednesday, July 19th, 2017. |
| 0:20.0 | On today's show, Baby Driver is the latest tour to Magnum Force from director Edgar Wright, |
| 0:24.8 | he of Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and Dana, give me some more titles here. |
| 0:29.4 | At World's End, Scott Pilgrim versus the World. |
| 0:32.3 | Anyway, we'll discuss. |
| 0:33.5 | And then Jay-Z's latest album, 444, is being greeted as a reflective response to his own life career and his marital shortcomings as aired by his wife Beyoncé on her lemonade project. |
| 0:44.3 | We discuss with Slate's on Jack Hamilton. |
| 0:46.4 | And finally, David Brooks goes to lunch. |
| 0:49.2 | Joining me today is Slate's film critic Dana Stevens. |
| 0:51.8 | Hey, Dana. |
| 0:52.6 | Hello, Stephen. |
| 0:53.7 | And Slate's editor, Julia Turner. Hey, Julia. |
| 0:56.4 | Hi. Steve, before we start, can I interject with an outcry of calumny against the Slate Culture Gab Fest? |
| 1:04.3 | Sure. |
| 1:05.0 | Or against calumny? That sense didn't really make sense. |
| 1:07.0 | But we were roundly cuffed on the Slate Culture Gab Fest Facebook page for our ginger |
| 1:17.0 | shaming and body shaming of Ed Sheeran. It was assumed that we objected to the song, |
| 1:22.8 | Shape of You, because we are lookest and because we did not think anyone who had the appearance of Ed Shearin had any business singing about putting his body near anyone else's body. |
| 1:34.6 | And I just want to say, that is a ludicrous charge in my view. |
| 1:38.6 | I'm curious to hear what Stephen Dana think. |
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