Culture Gabfest - Live From Home
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🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia are live from … Zoom! First, the panel talks about Cuties, the Netflix film that has stirred up controversey. Next, the panel discusses the Emmys—how successful (and necessary) was the virtual awards show? Finally, the panel takes on the future of fashion. Get your closets ready: Sweatpants will not be around forever.
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Endorsements:
Dana: The McMansion Hell blog
Julia: Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin
Steve: The television show Reno 911!
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Special thanks to Faith Smith and Britt Pullie for organizing the live show.
Outro Music: Self Made Woman by Katharine Appleton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to everyone who's tuned in tonight to listen to us to a GabFest live. |
| 0:15.4 | I think you're on Facebook and YouTube, if I understand correctly, it's sweet of you to come join us tonight. |
| 0:22.6 | And as we go, |
| 0:28.8 | you guys can put questions in the comment section of whatever interface you're using and they'll pop up for us. If we get juicy ones or apposite ones, we will try to answer them as we go, |
| 0:34.3 | but we'll also be collecting them for a Q&A pluse segment at the end of the show. |
| 0:40.2 | Typically, I start a live show by slagging off on the host city. |
| 0:45.8 | Come on, Steve, you could take a crack at the internet. |
| 0:48.7 | This is like teed up for you, so perfectly. |
| 0:52.1 | I mean, my pre-written, unfunny joke was I'm in my basement, |
| 0:56.1 | which is eminently self-slagging. |
| 0:58.4 | But none of the books behind me are mine, |
| 1:01.3 | so don't over-extrapolate from the titles. |
| 1:03.8 | They say nothing about my personality. |
| 1:06.2 | My personalities says nothing about my personality. |
| 1:08.8 | So there we go. |
| 1:09.6 | But anyway, you guys good? |
| 1:10.7 | You guys kind of ready? I guess so. So there we go. But anyway, you guys good? You |
| 1:10.8 | guys kind of ready? |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah. So we'll find out. |
| 1:15.0 | Does this slot in immediately in top five surreal moments of your entire life? |
| 1:21.5 | The time that we all did Microsoft connect together at the Redmond headquarters was |
| 1:25.8 | weirder. This is up there, though. I'm waiting for the ringlight to fall over and bonk me in the head. That'll make it a good night. All right. Should we do a show? Let's. I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Live from Home Edition. It's Thursday, September 24th, 2020. On today's show, Cudies is a French |
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