Culture Gabfest - New Jackass, Old Tricks
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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, the panel begins by pondering the longevity of the Jackass franchise, focusing on the latest addition, Jackass Forever, with Slate staff writer Sam Adams. Then, the panel watches the surprise Oscar Best Picture contender Nightmare Alley. Finally, the panel discusses the conversation-starter article from The Cut’s Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?”
In Slate Plus, Sam joins the panel again to answer a listener's question about how knowing the ways in which people interact with their content (via the internet and SEO development) changes the way they write.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements
Dana: Criterion subscribers (and if you don’t already, you should subscribe!) get a treat: a small program they’re running called “Three Starring Laura Dern,” where they show three movies starring Laura Dern from the early days of her career including: Smooth Talk, Rambling Rose, and Citizen Ruth.
Julia: A counter endorsement, or maybe supplemental endorsement?, for fans of The Last Bookstore in LA: Hennessey + Ingalls in LA, which is an art, architecture, and design bookstore.
Steve: Josh Turner’s cover of Lucienne Boyer’s hit “Parlez-Moi D’Amour.”
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music is "Bloody Hunter" by Paisley Pink
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, new Jackass Old Tricks |
| 0:14.9 | edition. |
| 0:15.7 | It's Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022. |
| 0:19.4 | On today's show, Jackass Forever. Yes, it's the aptly titled movie featuring |
| 0:23.7 | the Mary Band of MTV Pranksters. They're led by Johnny Knoxfield. And they're doing their crazy, |
| 0:29.1 | proudly stupid juvenile violent fill in the blank stunts. They've been doing it for 20 years. |
| 0:34.1 | They can't stop. Why should they have debuted at the top of the box office? It's doing great business. We discuss with Slate's own Sam Adams. And then in the coming weeks, we'll be discussing best picture candidates. Today, we're going to do Nightmare Alley from director Guillermo del Toro, an epic and very American tale of love, money, corruption, starring Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Kate Blanchett. |
| 0:55.4 | It's an amazing cast that could go on and on. |
| 0:58.3 | And then finally, have you heard, vibe is the new zeitgeist. |
| 1:03.3 | Is New York Magazine onto something there, or are they just high on the smell of their own BS? |
| 1:08.2 | Joining me today is Julia Turner, |
| 1:13.2 | deputy managing editor at the LA Times. |
| 1:13.8 | Hey, Julia. |
| 1:14.9 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:16.4 | And of course, Dana Stevens, |
| 1:18.9 | who is the film critic for Slate and the author of Cameraman. |
| 1:22.2 | The subtitle to my book, Camer Man is Buster Keaton, |
| 1:25.6 | The Dawn of Cinema, |
| 1:26.4 | and the Invention of the 20th Century. And actually, I had one thing to add to my weekly plug for cameraman, which is that I wanted to appeal to the people who, for whatever reason, are not going to buy it. Maybe they can't afford to buy it. Their book budget is tapped out for the year. I get that. But if you want to support my book without buying my book, or if you've already bought it and want to support it some more, here are three things that you could do. |
| 1:46.3 | You could order it to your library and then put yourself on hold for a copy. That way the library knows people are interested and they buy more books. |
| 2:19.0 | you could post it on your social media, just go to a bookstore, post a picture of it and say you would like to read it, put it on your Amazon wish list. Or you could tell a friend about it and tell them that you think they would like to read it. So those are all ways that without me reaching into your pocket, you can still help me in the book. Fabulous. All right, shall we make a show? Let's do it. All right. Well, Jack asked the TV show. It premiered on MTV in the portentous year of 2000, the turn of the millennium. |
| 2:21.9 | And back then it seemed like quite a dare. |
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