Culture Gabfest - Nature Made Me a Freak, Man Made Me a Weapon Edition

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🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Stephen Metcalf, Jamelle Bouie and Isaac Chotiner discuss the new X-Men spinoff Logan, the new album 50-Song Memoir by The Magnetic Fields with critic Carl Wilson, and Phoebe Maltz Bovy's article in The New Republic: "The Perils of Privilege".

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:13.4	I'm Stephen McCaffin. This is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. Nature made me a freak. Man made
0:18.0	me a weapon edition. It's March 16th, 2017. On today's show,
0:23.2	Logan is the latest and presumably last installment in the Wolverine series. It stars Hugh Jackman
0:28.3	as the talent and brooding superhero mutant brought reluctantly out of retirement. Critics love it.
0:34.7	And then the songwriter Stephen Merritt and his band The Magnetic Fields were 90s indie rock darlings.
0:40.1	They've made a triumphant return with 50-song memoir.
0:43.2	We will discuss it with Slate's music critic Carl Wilson.
0:46.1	And finally, what is it to be privileged?
0:48.4	Who has privileged and who has the privilege to call others out for being privileged?
0:53.0	We discuss a provocative essay from
0:54.7	the New Republic magazine. Joining me today is Isaac Chotner, staff writer for Slate, and soon to be
1:00.3	host of his new podcast, I Have to Ask. Isaac, I am very excited to have you on the show and
1:05.2	almost more excited to hear your new podcast. Welcome. Thanks. I'm excited to be here.
1:10.0	And we're joined by Jamel Bowie Slate's
1:11.8	chief political correspondent. Jamel, welcome back to the show. Thank you for having me.
1:16.2	It's a thrill to have both of you here. I have to admit, Dana and Julia, of course, sorely missed.
1:20.9	They're both at South by Southwest representing. All right, before we dig in, Isaac, do we have some business?
1:27.3	We do. I want to tell you guys about a live show that the Slate Culture Gab Fest is doing on Wednesday, April 19th in D.C. at the Hamilton.
1:37.1	To get more information about this, go to slate.com slash live.
1:42.3	For Slate Plus folks at the end of this show, we are going to give them a list of books they have to read before they die. That's a little morbid. Hopefully not all the books will be morbid. If you want to hear that segment, you can sign up for it at slate.com slash culture plus. All right, Steve, that's business. What do you got?
1:59.1	Thanks, Isaac. Okay, diving in. It's been called less a superhero movie than a Requiem or Unforgiven with Clause. Logan stars Hugh Jackman as the X-Men alumnus Wolverine. It's the series final installment, presumably. Never Say Never in that business. It's a brooding movie directed by the very gifted James Mangold,
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