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Culture Gabfest | Seth Rogen’s Love/Hate Letter to Hollywood

Slate Debates

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Society & Culture, News

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show, the hosts discuss Apple TV’s latest ode (tragic comedy?) to the movie industry with The Studio. Then, they step up to the plate and take a swing at the baseball film Eephus. Finally, they invite Slate’s Rebecca Onion to discuss the new edition to Panem’s dystopia: Suzanne Collin’s Sunrise on the Reaping. Endorsements: Dana: A French Village Podcast Steve: “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship” by Hannah Arendt Dan: Sky Daddy’ by Kate Folk Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.2

Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Seth Rogen's Love, Hate Letter to Hollywood edition.

1:29.2

It's Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, and this week we will be discussing, first off, the new Apple TV Plus comedy, The Studio, starring and co-created by Seth Rogan, about a mid-level executive at a Hollywood movie studio who finds himself suddenly put in charge of the whole operation.

1:34.5

We will also talk about the new indie film, Ephes, which tells the story of the final game

1:39.0

of Amateur League Baseball at a field in small town, Massachusetts, that's about to be paved over and built on.

1:45.0

Finally, we'll ask on dear friend of the program Rebecca Onion, in fact she's so dear that she was last week's guest host, to discuss the new book by Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping. That's a second prequel to the wildly successful Hunger Games trilogy. This is the first new book from Suzanne Collins in five years,

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