Culture Gabfest - Live from Steve's Porch Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens are live from Steve's porch this week and answer listeners' calls.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest live from Steve's Porch edition. |
| 0:19.1 | It's Wednesday, August 17th, 2016. |
| 0:21.8 | On today's show, we sit on my windy, gusty back porch in a beautiful late summer, late afternoon, |
| 0:29.7 | and we take listener questions. |
| 0:32.8 | So what do you say, guys? |
| 0:34.0 | Should we just dig in? |
| 0:35.9 | Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:36.9 | If people can hear us behind the cussarations of the tree leaves behind us, dig away. |
| 0:43.9 | All right, let's take the first call. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello, this is Katie in Santa Barbara. |
| 0:49.0 | And since this is your vacation episode, I thought I'd ask a question for your inner child, which is, what is your |
| 0:56.2 | secret, favorite, childish thing? So, for instance, you talked about Pookie Monko, which I love playing |
| 1:04.5 | with my 12-year-old son. We've had a blast exploring our neighborhood in that way, but I would |
| 1:08.9 | feel a little embarrassed just wandering around |
| 1:10.8 | playing by myself as a grown woman. Another thing in that category for me is like building sandcastles. |
| 1:16.6 | Love it if I have any excuse. So in that vein, what's yours? Well, the experience of parenting |
| 1:22.8 | is the experience of rediscovering what childhood stuff you enjoy. So there's a lot of tactile pleasures like |
| 1:28.9 | the particular feeling of the lump of extruded Play-Doh when it comes out of a fresh can |
| 1:37.4 | and that smell and the weird kind of textured ends of it and the smooth sides. That is very |
| 1:43.0 | pleasurable. One thing I've discovered is I really |
| 1:45.4 | can see why my boys love trains, and they're not quite dexterous enough to make complicated |
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