Culture Gabfest: Noah Wyle Lures Us Into The Pitt

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On this week’s show, the hosts discuss Max’s new medical drama The Pitt – a show that we legally can’t call an ER reboot but does have Noah Wyle donning scrubs and handling the next bodily emergency yet again. Our regular hosts also discuss an article from the Intelligencer, The Cruel Kids’ Table about how young Republicans now feel empowered to bring cruelty back into public discourse. Finally, we welcome LA Film Critic Amy Nicholson to discuss the Oscar-nominated film September 5 about the hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics. Also, we’re looking for a new Production Assistant! To apply, send us an email introducing yourself and give two ideas for segments to [email protected]. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel tackles the biggest luminary question of the year: Do you use ‘The Big Light’? Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements: Dana: Just sort of a beautiful moment: Live wolf howls in Manitoba, Canada Julia: Branded in Memory | Signs.com / Draw Logos From Memory – Test your recall and see if you can recreate popular brand logos Steve: The Wired Starter Pack on bsky and Subscribe to Wired Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3	I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest.
0:46.1	Noah Wiley lures us into the Pitt edition.
0:48.6	It's Wednesday, February 5th, 2025.
1:12.4	On today's show, Noah Wiley returns to the ER in The Pit, a TV show that over the course of its 15 episode details in a kind of sort of real time, a 15-hour shift in an emergency room. The show's on Max. And then the movie September 5th retells the story of the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, this time from the perspective of the ABC news crew already on hand to cover the games.
1:13.5	It stars Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, and John McGarrow.
1:17.0	It's been nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
1:20.2	For that segment, we'll be joined by Amy Nicholson, a film critic at the LA Times.
1:24.5	And finally, in the face of the re-election of Donald Trump is cruelty now hip,
1:29.1	we discussed the Cruel Kids Table in New York Magazine piece about Swab, young, good-looking
1:34.5	fascist and fascist-adjacent young people celebrating the recent election results. Joining me today
1:41.8	are Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hello, Steve. Hey, and of course, Dana Stevens,
1:46.3	film critic of Slate. Hey, Dana. Hey, let's make a show. All right, Noah Wiley got famous the
1:52.3	first time around playing Dr. John Carter on ER, the unkillably lucrative NBC franchise back
1:59.0	from the great heyday of broadcast network TV.
2:02.9	The Pitt, his new show is about an emergency room at a beleaguered Pittsburgh Hospital.
2:07.3	It's been called ER meets 24, a line that's just too apt, not to plagiarize.
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