Culture Gabfest: Silicon Valley Pricks

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

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This week, the panel begins by hashing out Hulu’s new Silicon Valley miniseries The Dropout. Then, the panel breaks down Pedro Almodóvar’s recent film Parallel Mothers. Finally, the panel is joined by author and Slate writer Dan Kois to rant about the growing dangers of pickup trucks. In Slate Plus, the panel answers the classic celebrity hall pass question. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: The website Timemaps.com, where you can view maps of the world over time and focus on specific places to get historical summaries. Julia: The instagram account @TheSussmans, which posts consistently funny hospitality industry memes. Steve: The most recent long read from Oliver Bullough for The Guardian, “Gas-powered kingmaker: how the UK welcomed Putin’s man in Ukraine,” which provides insight into the deeper motivations behind the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is "Ruins" by Origo. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now at slate.com/cultureplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Steven Metcalfe and this is the Slate culture gabfest Silicon Valley Pricks edition.
0:15.9	It's Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 and what does that mean?
0:20.0	It means my beloved Kate turns 16 happy birthday baby on today's show that dropout is
0:26.1	a limited on Hulu, it stars Amanda Saferead as Elizabeth Holmes.
0:30.3	The supposedly Steve Jobs-like visionary behind the company Theranos, which turned out
0:34.8	to be a soup-to-nuts fraud, and then Pedro Almodovar returns with the feature film parallel
0:40.2	mothers about two women whose fates become entwined during their stay in a maternity
0:45.1	ward.
0:46.2	We do it either way, I suspect, but you can consider it part of our Oscar Roundup Penelope
0:51.3	cruise has a best actress, nom, deservedly so out of this movie and finally, we will
0:56.6	discuss the surprisingly elaborate semiotics of pickup trucks with Slate's own Dan Coise.
1:03.9	Joining me today is Julia Turner, deputy managing editor at the LA Times, hey Julia.
1:08.6	Hello, hello.
1:09.6	Hey, hey, and of course, Dennis Stevens, the film critic for Slate and author of the new
1:13.7	nonfiction book, Camera Man about Buster Keaton, Dana.
1:18.4	Hello, Stephen, I speak to you from a hotel room in Austin, Texas, where I came to show
1:22.8	a Buster Keaton movie and sign books.
1:24.9	That's fun.
1:25.9	Have you done the event yet, though?
1:27.9	No, it's tonight.
1:28.9	I'm just recording here in the hotel room in advance of the event, but I wanted to mention
1:32.3	because I'm on the road now doing something like a book tour to my surprise.
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