Culture Gabfest - Man Bun on a Hot Tin Roof Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens and Steven Metcalf discuss Netflix's wrestling comedy GLOW, Lorde's album Melodrama with critic Carl Wilson, and Mattel's Ken Doll reboot and if/why it's so funny.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Stephen Meckaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Man Bun on a Hot Tin Roof edition. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Wednesday, June 28, 2017. On today's show, Glow stands for gorgeous ladies |
| 0:23.3 | of wrestling. It's a 10-part streamer on Netflix, a fictionalized take on the 1980s world of |
| 0:29.6 | female pro wrestling. And then Lord became a global pop sensation four years ago at the age of 16, |
| 0:35.2 | somewhat incredibly, with the song Royals and an album |
| 0:38.2 | as good as the song. Her new record, Melodrama, is out, and Carl Wilson has called it the |
| 0:42.8 | pop album of the year. We will query him as to its merits. And finally, the Ken Doll reboot |
| 0:48.2 | has lit up the internet. We will discuss. Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. Hey, and of course, Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey, Stephen. This is the first time the three of us have done a show since we got back from Australia. Yeah, I'm so excited back on American soil. I don't know about you guys, but this is why I wanted to talk about Australia |
| 1:11.1 | and Plus. I still feel like my brain and body are recovering in a good way from the dazzling |
| 1:16.6 | wonders of that trip. Absolutely everything about it was antipital, right? Like it's not only that you're, |
| 1:22.8 | you know, de-planning after 30 hours in the sky to a completely different time zone. |
| 1:29.0 | It's also, you know, the opposite season and our show's really popular and beloved there. |
| 1:33.7 | Yeah, it's like past, I was saying to Steve, it's like passing through a portal where we become |
| 1:37.0 | more interesting going to Australia. We need to do it every year for our own self-esteem. |
| 1:42.4 | I don't know. I think that could be dangerous. |
| 1:44.6 | All right. |
| 1:51.6 | Well, back to, you know, the banal reality of Eastern Standard Time in which were three drab podcasters talking about pop culture. |
| 1:54.7 | Glow is an acronym for gorgeous ladies of wrestling. |
| 1:57.4 | What was an all-female wrestling show in the 1980s is now a fictionalized |
| 2:02.8 | behind-the-scenes account of that show. It stars Alison Brie as a self-serious actress who |
| 2:07.8 | wants to do Strenberg and is just grateful at this point that she's not doing porn. It also stars |
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