Culture Gabfest - New Year's Call-In Show
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dana, Julia, and Stephen bring you their yearly call-in episode where they answer questions from Culture Gabfest listeners.
In Slate Plus, the panel answers one final question from a listener named James.
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama.
Outro music: "Blue Nights and Yellow Days" by Matt Large.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McCaff in this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest annual call and show New Year's |
| 0:16.0 | edition. |
| 0:17.0 | No script or rigmarole of the usual kind for this episode. |
| 0:21.6 | Joining me today is Julia Turner, the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello, Julia, season's greetings. |
| 0:28.0 | Happy holidays. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:31.0 | By the time our listeners hear this, we will be in the future. |
| 0:35.0 | 2023. |
| 0:36.0 | I know. |
| 0:37.0 | Amazing, right? |
| 0:38.0 | And of course, Dennis Stevens is the film critic for Slate. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey, Dana, you're always in the future. |
| 0:44.0 | You live weeks if not beyond to head of the rest of the Cuban race. |
| 0:48.0 | I'd be grudgingly being back every week to talk to you. |
| 0:51.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:52.0 | Future women, Dennis Stevens. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay. |
| 0:55.0 | So, I have to say, just by way of introduction, I think this is along with the strut, summer |
| 1:01.0 | strut, my favorite episode of the year. |
| 1:04.0 | Certainly one of them. |
| 1:05.0 | Should we get right to it? |
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