Culture Gabfest - Money, Sex, and Space
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🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, author, poet, and host of the podcast This Is Good for You, Nichole Perkins, fills in for Julia as the panel begins by digging into Apple TV+’s new series Loot. Then, the panel explores sex and sexuality in the film Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Finally, the panel is joined by science writer and editor, Jaime Green, to break down the meaning of NASA’s new Webb Telescope images—her new book The Possibility of Life title comes out in April.
In Slate Plus, the panel discusses their relationship to plot.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements
Dana: A supplement to the segment on the Webb Telescope: a simple website that takes the images and places them in context to each other for scale.
Nichole: The 2012 romance novel A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant, which centers a recent widow who needs to provide an heir to keep her wealth.
Steve: Kris Kristofferson’s song “Help Me Make It Through the Night”: including the covers by John Doe and The Sadies and Sammi Smith.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music is "What Do You Want From Me" by OTE.
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| 0:00.0 | AppleCard is the perfect credit card for every purchase. |
| 0:03.6 | It has cashback rewards, unlike others. |
| 0:06.2 | You are an unlimited daily cashback on every purchase, |
| 0:09.4 | receive it daily, and can grow it at 4.15% annual percentage yield |
| 0:14.1 | when you open a high yield savings account. |
| 0:16.4 | Apply for AppleCard in the wallet app on iPhone |
| 0:19.0 | and start earning and growing your daily cash with savings today. |
| 0:22.6 | AppleCard's subject to credit approval, |
| 0:24.8 | savings is available to AppleCard owners, |
| 0:26.9 | subject to eligibility requirements, |
| 0:29.1 | savings accounts provided by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, |
| 0:32.3 | member FDIC, Terms Apply. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Jonathan Braylock. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Dra. Milligan. |
| 0:42.7 | And I'm James III. |
| 0:44.1 | And we're those of Black Mink and Jump in Hollywood. |
| 0:46.3 | It's a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors of color |
| 0:50.1 | and analyze them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.1 | Listen to new episodes on Mondays. |
| 0:55.9 | Find us wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:58.3 | I don't care where you get them. |
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