Culture Gabfest - Marconi Plays the Mamba Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Amazon's pilot TV show I Love Dick, bad songs, and what a dismal summer at the box office means for the movie industry.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.8 | Marconi plays the Mamba edition. |
| 0:19.0 | It's Wednesday, September 7, 2016. On today's show, |
| 0:22.7 | I Love Dick is the new Amazon pilot by Jill Salloway, creator of Transparent. It stars |
| 0:27.2 | Griffin Dunn and Catherine Hahn as passive-aggressive bickrers trapped in a hellish marriage, |
| 0:32.3 | and Kevin Bacon as a charismatic intellectual who changes both of their lives. Presumably, we'll |
| 0:36.8 | find out if it gets picked up. |
| 0:38.3 | And then what does it mean to be almost without controversy, the worst song of all time? |
| 0:43.3 | GQ has given us an oral history of We Built This City by Starship. |
| 0:47.2 | Along the way, we'll discuss the very concept itself, while no doubt offering our very |
| 0:51.3 | own contestants for the Crown of Scorn. |
| 0:56.0 | And finally, Hollywood has had a bad summer. Is it fair to say finally that movies, as we've known them at least for 100 years, |
| 1:00.4 | are dying or changing into something unfamiliar? We'll discuss. Joining me today is Slate's |
| 1:06.1 | editor Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And of course, Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic. Hey, Dana. Hey, Stephen. |
| 1:13.6 | Julia, I sort of think of this as the beginning of the year. I was going to see Happy New Year to you. |
| 1:18.6 | I know. It feels like that. I feel like such a happy Q1. No, it's cute. Well, depends which. |
| 1:25.1 | The slate fiscal calendar means this is Q3 adding into Q4. |
| 1:28.7 | Oh, that's so festive. The French actually do have an expression for this time of year. They say, |
| 1:33.7 | Bon Entree, good return, because of course they've all had just had six weeks of holidays on the beach and they're going back to school with their little French school bags. |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, it does always feel like the start of the new year. I feel like that's appropriate to us as an academic show. I definitely feel like when I married into Judaism, I was like, yes, this is right. This is correct. The New Year should be now. Surely this means we have some business we need to attend to before digging in. Yes, I have two pieces of business this week. First of all, we are doing a live show in Los Angeles with the lovely Karina Longworth, star |
| 2:05.0 | podcasterous extraordinaire on Thursday, October 13th. |
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