The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen McCaffalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap City knew what the High Line was?

You could point at the building and there were those weird legacy sockets and

old man Metcalf.

All right, on today's show,

the feature film Late Night stars Mindy Kaling

as a wannabe comedy writer,

and Emma Thompson is a TV talk show legend.

Can these two women work together

and triumph over the sexism so endemic

in their Guy Bro working environment,

like Dana Stevens did?

The film was also written by Kaling

and will be joined for the segment by Slatone Inguang.

And then Dr. John was both a totally singular act of self-creation and a child of the American

weird.

We discussed the career of a true music legend

who died last week at the age of 77.

For that segment, we're joined by Slates, Chris Malampi.

And finally, we discussed the daring production of Shakespeare's harrowingly dark masterpiece, King Lear,

which was up at the court theater.

I think it's in the process of closing right now.

It stars, it starred the legendary English actress, Glenda Jackson, as Lear, and that's

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