Culture Gabfest: Portrait of Taylor on Fire

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest host and Slate staff writer Dan Kois talk about Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Next, they discuss Taylor Swift’s documentary Miss Americana. Finally, the panel dives into “garbage language” a.k.a corporate buzzwords—unnecessary or effective? On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses a contentious subject—whether Leonardo DiCaprio was already a star before Titanic? Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson. Outro Music: 'The Man' by Taylor Swift Endorsements Dan: Reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies before The Mirror & the Light, the third book in the trilogy, is released March 10. Julia: Golden State by Ben H. Winters. Steve: “Reading Sade in the Age of Epstein” by Mitchell Abidor in The New York Review of Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Hulu.
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0:04.0	Swissy!
0:05.0	I'm Swiss Beats.
0:06.0	My son not saying I will set out on a journey
0:08.0	to explore different car coaches across the globe.
0:11.0	I'm so happy to be here with my father.
0:13.0	I want to bring NASA to see the beautiful land, the beautiful people.
0:21.0	Dive is about family, love, community. Here we come,
0:25.0	saza, saa. Watch every episode of Drive with Swiss Beats now streaming on
0:29.8	Hulu. I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.
0:45.0	Portrait of Taylor on Fire Edition.
0:47.4	It's Wednesday, February 26, 2020.
0:51.0	On today's show, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the latest from French film director of Seline Shama.
0:56.7	It's a historical drama about the love affair between a noble woman and the woman hired to paint her portrait.
1:02.6	And then Taylor Swift is back on the Gapfest, but did she ever really go away?
1:07.4	She's the subtext of everything we do on the show.
1:10.2	We discussed the Netflix documentary Miss American.
1:13.0	Thank you Julia, that was for you.
1:15.0	And finally, the garbage language, quote unquote,
1:17.5	of the Modern American Office,
1:19.0	we discuss a spate of articles about vacuous signifiers rocketing around the office suites these days.
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