Culture Gabfest: Never Will I Ever Beef with Chrissy Teigen

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Mindy Kaling’s new television show Never Have I Ever. Next, they talk about Twitter beefs in the time of COVID-19—from Alison Roman to Lana del Rey. Finally, the panel dives into Steve’s comfort watch for this week: Out of Sight. On the Slate Plus segment this week, Dana and Steve try Sudoku for the first time, as inspired by this recent captivating video. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Woke by SINY Endorsements Dana: Anne V. Coates’s interview on Out of Sight. Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, especially as an audiobook. Julia: “The Miracle Sudoku” video, as discussed in our Plus segment. “How to Make Wylie Dufresne’s Incredibly Creamy Scrambled Egg Sandwich,” by Wylie Dufresne, as told to Emma Wartzman in Bon Appétit. Steve: “The Painting Behind the Door,” by Emily Benedek in Tablet magazine. Singer Laura Marling’s breaking down her guitar chords on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen Meckhaff and this is the slate culture gap fest.
0:10.0	Never will I ever beef with Chrissy Tegan
0:15.2	Edition. It's Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 on today's show Never Have I Ever is a Netflix sitcom
0:21.4	Substantially created produced and written by Mindy Kaling.
0:24.4	It's about a first generation Indian American girl coming of age in Sherman Oaks, California.
0:29.7	And then Alice and Roman versus, really, the world at this this point it started out as her versus
0:34.5	Chrissy Tigan and Marie Condo had expanded from there into a male strim we also
0:39.6	throw onto that some Lana Del Ray versus the pop world what we're really talking
0:44.0	about in that segment is Twitter Beef's Sin and Age of Pandemic and finally I
0:48.2	chose this week's comfort movies so it does not feature a psychopath. It features the dreamy Jennifer Lopez and
0:56.8	George Clooney being dreamy together. It's Stephen Sotomayorke's 1998
1:00.9	Kaper out of sight.
1:03.6	Joining me is Julia Turner from Los Angeles.
1:06.3	She, of course, is the deputy managing editor,
1:09.0	the LA Times Julia Turner.
1:10.4	Hey, how's it going?
1:11.6	Hello, nice to be with you.
1:13.3	And Dana Stevens, of course, is the film critic for slate.com.
1:16.5	Hey, Dana.
1:17.4	Hi, how are y'all doing?
1:18.6	How are you holding up?
1:20.4	I'm poised between the abject terror of infection of the early portion of the
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