Culture Gabfest - Silent or Silenced
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🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by Slate’s executive producer of podcasts Alicia Montgomery for a segment about Oprah’s widely viewed interview with Meghan and Harry. Then the hosts discuss the ever-growing popularity of Stanley Tucci, from his viral cocktail videos to his CNN show Searching for Italy to his new movie Supernova. Finally, the group talks about the discontinuation of six Dr. Seuss books.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Maccalf and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Silent or Silenced edition. |
| 0:15.8 | It's Wednesday, March 10th, 2021. |
| 0:18.3 | On today's show, Harry and Megan sat down with Oprah, and they dished about the |
| 0:22.8 | racism and gossipy intrigue that drove them to become ex-royals. We discussed the Super Bowl of |
| 0:28.7 | interviews with Slate's own, Alicia Montgomery. And then the Tooch, Stanley Tucci, he's the star of a new |
| 0:35.1 | movie, The Indie Darling Supernova. He's got a new TV show, |
| 0:38.6 | his ever-so-fetching CNN travelogue about eating his way through Italy. And he's a social media star. |
| 0:45.1 | We discuss how a quintessential character actor makes him swoon like a leading man. And finally, |
| 0:51.2 | Dr. Seuss is considered by many people to be the greatest children's author of all time. He has now had six of his books pulled due to their racial insensitivity, leading predictably to a right-wing freak out we will discuss. Joining me today is Julia Turner, the deputy managing editor at the L.A. Times. Hey, Julia. Hello, hello. And of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate.com. Hey, Dana. |
| 1:13.2 | Hey, Steve. |
| 1:14.3 | Shall we? |
| 1:15.4 | Let's go. |
| 1:17.9 | This past Sunday, Megan and Harry sat down with Oprah Winfrey. That's Megan Markle. |
| 1:23.0 | And Harry, I guess he's some sort of something of Sussex still, but he made himself an ex-prince recently. |
| 1:29.6 | They were parked under a rustic chic pergola bath in California's son, where Megan opened up about what it's like to become an almost universal object of envy and contempt, to be tabbed a palace mean girl to become tabloid fodder and a magnet for racist vitriol. And why finally she and her |
| 1:46.7 | husband, who joins her midway through for the interview, decided to unroyal themselves. |
| 1:51.8 | It's been called the Super Bowl of interviews as only Oprah could deliver it, and it scored |
| 1:56.9 | appropriately mammoth ratings. Before we hear the clip, let me set it up a little bit. |
| 2:02.0 | Here Megan opens up about her mental health struggles within the House of Windsor |
| 2:06.8 | and the whopping insensitivity with which they were greeted. |
| 2:10.7 | Did you ever think about going to a hospital, or is that possible that you can check yourself in someplace? |
| 2:18.5 | No, that's what I was asking to do. |
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