Culture Gabfest - Lust-Free Dinner with David Plotz Edition

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🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and special guest David Plotz of the Slate Political Gabfest discuss the new podcast S-Town, the film Ghost in the Shell with Represent host Aisha Harris, and the controversy surrounding Vice President Pence and his self-imposed rules around women.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:13.2	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest, Lust Free Dinner with David Platt's edition.
0:19.5	It's Wednesday, April 5th, 2017.
0:22.2	On today's show, S-Town is the latest smash-hit podcast from This American Life in
0:26.6	Cereal.
0:27.4	Tells the story of a brilliant clock repair stranded in an Alabama town he professes to loathe.
0:33.1	And then Ghost in the Shell is a would-be Hollywood blockbuster starring Scarlett Johansson
0:37.0	as a cyborg, a synthetic robot featuring a transplanted human brain.
0:41.8	It's been met with poor ticket sales and a controversy surrounding its casting of a white lead for what had been an Asian character in the manga source material.
0:50.4	We're joined by Aisha Harris to discuss the film and also the so-called whitewashing controversy surrounding it.
0:57.1	And finally, the vice president of the United States has said he refuses to eat a meal alone with a woman who is not his wife.
1:03.8	Is this a courtly anachronism, workplace sexism, or yet another cultural fault line in American life, or all three to be determined.
1:11.7	We're joined today by very specially by the CEO of Atlas Obscura, host of the political
1:19.2	Gab Fest, co-host, I should say, co-panelist, David Plotz, David.
1:23.7	Thanks for having me here, guys.
1:25.4	Okay, so this is kind of the concept, as I understand it, is kind of a yinny-yangi swap between the two gab fests at Slate.
1:33.7	So we traded out Dana Stevens for David Plotz this week.
1:39.0	And, of course, we're joined by Julia Turner Slate's editor.
1:42.6	Hey, Julia.
1:43.3	Hi.
2:01.2	I'm excited about this crossover episode. But now that we talk about the mechanics of the swap, it strikes me that's swapping David for Dana for our one week crossover. It's a little weird because David is not the Dana of the political Gab Fest and Dana is not the David of this Gab Fest. Wait, who's the David of this catfest? You or Steve, then.
2:18.0	I don't know. And who's the Dana of our show? Dana is the John and John is the Dana. I think that can be agreed. You know, acute observer is universally beloved. But I don't know. Maybe it's not like with the Beatles. Maybe we don't map onto each other perfectly. That seems way too reasonable.
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