Culture Gabfest - Live From Los Feliz
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf are live in Los Angeles to discuss Parasite with the LA Times critic Justin Chang, happiness in the modern world, and Dickinson from Apple TV+, with showrunner Alena Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest, live from Los Felis Edition. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you. Most Feelous Edition. It's Thursday, November 14, 2019. |
| 0:30.4 | On today's show, Parasite is a deeply unsettling psychological thriller from the celebrated |
| 0:35.5 | director, Bong Joon Ho. |
| 0:37.4 | It is the first South Korean movie to win the palm door at Cannes, and for what it's worth, |
| 0:41.3 | it's making bank globally. |
| 0:43.3 | We're joined by Justin Chang, the film critic of a film critic, the film critic of the LA Times, |
| 0:48.3 | to discuss it. |
| 0:49.3 | And then it is the peculiar American curse. |
| 0:52.3 | It's right there in our founding document that we must pursue happiness. |
| 0:58.0 | What is it about this? |
| 0:59.2 | Our special national imperative that is making us so miserable. |
| 1:08.6 | And then finally, the smart folks at Apple can take a phone and turn it into a camera, a |
| 1:13.4 | Walkman, and everything bagel. Why can't they... That's a joke. That was just nothing. That was |
| 1:21.0 | nothing. We had a pin dropping in the back. All right, well, there's a better joke coming, |
| 1:24.9 | so get ready. So why can't they take the bell of Amherst and turn her into a foul-mouthed badass? |
| 1:30.8 | Dickinson is a new offering on Apple TV. |
| 1:33.5 | We are joined by its creator and showrunner Elena Smith. |
| 1:37.7 | Joining me... |
| 1:43.4 | It's a thrilling lineup tonight. |
| 1:45.3 | Joining me tonight is Julia Turner, who is the deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times |
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