Culture Gabfest: New Weird America

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🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf and Dana Stevens are joined by guest host Jody Rosen, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. First, they discuss Borat 2 (officially, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm). Next, they dive into music with “The Harry Smith B-Sides.” Finally, they discuss Zoom’s newfound, and sometimes dangerous, place in our culture. On this week’s Slate Plus segment the hosts extend their analysis of Borat 2, diving into the scene with Rudy Giuliani. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro music: Next Stop the Big Onion by Chester Malone Endorsements Jody: “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)” by Tom Lamont in the Guardian Top Boy: Summerhouse and Top Boy Dana: The music streaming station “Ocora” from Radio France and its accompanying podcast Steve: The Beatles’ rehearsals on YouTube, particularly the “Think For Yourself Vocal Overdub Session 1965” video Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen Meekhaff and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest, The New Weird America Edition.
0:15.6	It's Wednesday, October 28, 2020 on today's show for the purposes of this introduction
0:20.8	I will call it the new Borat movie or Borat 2 it's out. The
0:25.0	Sasha Baron Cohen alter ego prank fest is both more scabrous and more tender
0:29.3	somehow I think than its predecessor it contains also that scene with America's mayor Rudy
0:35.6	Giuliani we will discuss all of the above and then the anthology of American
0:39.5	folk music which came out in the 1950s I I will argue, remade our world.
0:44.1	I really believe that's a plausible interpretation of that record set.
0:48.8	We'll get into how and why that happened.
0:50.5	There is a new sequel collection out just now of the B-sides from those
0:54.3	original 78s, but without a subset of very racist songs. We will discuss this
1:00.7	intersection of Americana with old-timey racism and finally it's
1:05.0	connecting us it's alienating us it's energizing us it's sapping us and
1:09.5	catching us out yes zoom zoom we, Zoom. We are going to talk about Zoom. I wonder,
1:15.1	Jody, if there's some kind of mildly salacious click-baty peg for that segment.
1:21.8	I can't think of one off the top of my head.
1:24.0	Yeah, I don't know. We'll have to Google that.
1:26.0	Yeah, I think so. We're joined by Jody Rosen, who is a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine.
1:32.0	Hey Jody.
1:33.0	Hey!
1:34.0	You are, there are no FOP levels left.
1:37.6	It's like you have met Elron Hubbard himself after having gone through all of the
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