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Culture Gabfest: I’ll Be Your Mirror

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, Steve and Dana are joined by Karen Han. First, Slate’s music critic Carl Wilson chimes in to discuss Todd Haynes’s new The Velvet Underground documentary, which he wrote beautifully about for Slate. Next, the panel (minus Dana) is joined by Slate staff writer Rebecca Onion to review Mike Flanagan’s newest Netflix horror series, Midnight Mass—which she also wrote lovingly about. Finally, the panel (minus Dana) is joined by Vulture senior editor and host of the Good One podcast, Jesse David Fox, to discuss the Dave Chappelle controversy. In Slate Plus, the panel discusses media they loved when they were younger that they have since outgrown. Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements Dana: The book equivalent of Todd Haynes’s documentary, the first oral history Dana ever read and still one of the best she’s ever read to this day: Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein and George Plimpton. The oral history tells the story of actress and model Edie Sedgwick completely through testimony from people that were there, without any interstitial material. Karen: New World, the Korean crime drama film from Park Hoon-jung that stars Squid Game’s Lee Jung-jae. The film features Lee as an undercover cop who is tasked with infiltrating the mob, but ends up caught between two worlds. It also stars a slew of great Korean actors including Hwang Jung-min and Song Ji-hyo. Steve: First, Netflix’s series The Chestnut Man, a dark, taught crime drama which takes place in Copenhagen. Then, a whole genre of YouTube videos taking you from raw audio of rehearsal to mastertape of Elvis’s songs, including “And The Grass Won’t Pay No Mind”—though, Neil Diamond’s version of that one is better. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is “I’ll Be Your Mirror” by The Velvet Underground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language.

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Before we start this week's show, we have a special announcement this year, 2021, marks

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the 25th anniversary of Slate, and for a limited time only, we are offering our annual

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Slate Plus membership for $25 off the usual price.

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When you're a Slate Plus member, you get zero ads on any of our podcasts, unlimited

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articles on Slate.com, and members' only content on our show and other Slate podcasts,

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like SlowBurn, Amicus, and the Political Gab Fest.

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For the past 25 years, Slate podcasts have been covering all of the major news events

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from elections to social issues, to historic court decisions.

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I know one of the earliest podcasts we did here for the Slate Culture Gab Fest was about

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the election of Barack Obama, so that's how long we've been at what we're doing.

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Whatever happens in culture as the world changes around us, we have been debating it on

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our show.

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support our work by joining Slate Plus.

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You can sign up for Slate Plus at Slate.com slash Culture Plus to keep us going for another

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Once again, we are giving you $25 off an annual membership through this October 31st.

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So sign up today at Slate.com slash Culture Plus.

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And thank you.

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I'm Stephen McCaff in this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest.

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I'll be your mirror edition.

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