Culture Gabfest: Into the Woods

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week, Steve and Dana are joined by senior managing producer of Slate podcasts and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast, June Thomas. First, the panel discusses the Princess Diana biopic Spencer. Dana tracked Kristen Stewart’s career up to this Oscar vehicle film. Next, the panel gets a taste of the new "meet stew" of a show, Yellowjackets. Finally, the panel is joined by author and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast Isaac Butler to remember the late, great Stephen Sondheim. In Slate Plus, the panel discusses their processes for writing a book. Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements Dana: Susan Orlean reading her own audiobook of her non-fiction novel Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend about the famous Hollywood star...who also happens to be a German Shepherd. June: The exhibit at the New York Historical Society titled “‘Turn Every Page’: Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive.” Steve: Continuing his Rachel Cusk endorsement with his most recently read novel of hers, Transit. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is "Any Other Way" by Particle House Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now at slate.com/cultureplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Darren Brown. I've made a career out of learning the inner workings of our brilliantly messed up brains.
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0:41.0	I'm Stephen Metcalfe and this is the Slate culture gapfist into the woods edition.
0:45.0	It's Wednesday December 1st, 2021.
0:48.0	On today's show, the movie Spencer has made Kristen Stewart into the front runner for Best Actress.
0:53.0	Her portrayal of Diana Princess of Wales is at the center of this beautiful hallucinatory retelling.
0:59.0	The movie also stars Sally Hawkins and Timothy Spall. It's in theaters now and you can watch it streaming.
1:06.0	And then on Showtime we have Yellow Jackets. It's a TV show about a girl's high school soccer team whose plane crashes,
1:12.0	stranding them in the wilderness where they're forced into cannibalism.
1:16.0	The show toggles back and forth between their 19 month ordeal in the forest and their present day middle-aged selves.
1:22.0	It stars Juliet Lewis and Christina Ricci and Melanie Linsky.
1:26.0	And finally, a giant, a true giant, not a cliché giant, but a real giant of musical theater and one of the great artists of the 20th century has died.
1:35.0	Just the unrivaled legacy of Steven Sondheim with Slate's own Isaac Butler.
1:40.0	But joining me first is June Thomas whose Poo-Bot, what are you now?
1:45.0	I'm the senior managing Poo-Bot of all Poo-Bot entities.
1:50.0	I'm actually the senior managing producer of Slate podcast and one of the hosts of working along with Isaac Butler and Karen Han.
1:57.0	Magnificent. June, welcome back to the show.
1:59.0	How great to have you as a full-on three-segment plus plus co-host.
2:04.0	Thank you so much for having me.
2:06.0	And of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate. Hey, Dana.
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