Culture Gabfest - Live From Melbourne Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens are live from Sydney with performances and a discussion with Courtney Barnett, plus Wonder Woman and cultural stereotyping with Michael Williams, director of The Wheeler Centre.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, live from Melbourne edition. |
| 0:27.8 | Thank you. Melbourne Edition. It's Wednesday, June 7, 2017. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, Wonder Woman is not the first superhero movie to feature a female lead, |
| 0:35.0 | but it is being greeted as a breakthrough, not only for the lead character, the title character, but for its plausibly feminist themes and for being |
| 0:42.5 | helmed by Patty Jenkins. And then stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. In a matter of minutes, |
| 0:48.6 | Melbourne's own Courtney Barnett will be sitting to my right, answering my questions, standing to my left, playing. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.1 | And people, I'm only reading the words written down here, playing and discussing her fucking kick-ass music. |
| 1:08.5 | I love Courtney Barnett. |
| 1:09.9 | All right. |
| 1:10.4 | And finally, Michael Williams, the director of the |
| 1:12.3 | Wheeler, who you just met, Wheeler Center will join us on stage for a freewheeling discussion |
| 1:16.2 | about travel stereotyping and how we form our cultural perceptions of place, i.e., what is it |
| 1:23.5 | about Americans and kangaroos. |
| 1:30.3 | Joining me today is Slate's editor, Julia Turner. |
| 1:30.9 | Hello, Julia. |
| 1:31.8 | Hi, Steve. |
| 1:33.9 | And of course, Slate's film critic Dana Stevens. |
| 1:34.3 | Hey, Dana. |
| 1:35.3 | Hello, Stephen. |
| 1:36.4 | Should we dig in? |
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