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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Bunny Emergency Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2011

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Listen to Slate's show about the new TV dramas Pan Am and The Playboy Club, the breakup of R.E.M., and the robot job market.


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.4

This episode of the Slate Culture Gab Fest is brought to you by Gazelle, the easy way to sell or recycle the used tech gadgets from your home or office.

0:13.5

From used smartphones and gaming devices to cameras and ebook readers, don't just sell it, gazelle it.

0:19.9

Gazzle your used gadgets today at gazelle.com.

0:23.6

I'm Stephen Metcath, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Bunny Emergency Edition. It's Wednesday,

0:28.8

September 28, 2011. On today's program, the new fall TV shows The Playboy Club and Pan Am.

0:35.3

The band REM splits up after 31 years.

0:38.2

I think that's about right.

0:39.2

About 31 years, 1980, I believe.

0:42.4

And Will Robots steal your job with Slate's own Farhad Manju?

0:46.5

Joining me today, our Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.

0:48.9

Hello, Julia.

0:49.9

Hi, Steve.

0:50.7

And our film critic, Dana Stevens.

0:51.9

Hey, Dana.

0:52.7

Everyone, I have to say, everyone, and this is really inclusive, I'm really throwing the compliment out wide here.

0:59.9

Everyone looks hot.

1:02.7

Hot today.

1:03.8

Danny, you look, you look that, I love, how did you describe that dress?

1:07.9

It's like Hote early 90s, Sassy Magazine.

1:11.4

It's got daisies on it, but they're chic daisies and polka dots. And it's not white on black. It's white on brown. And it's got cap sleeves. And it's got a little Peter Pan collar. It's fucking nuts. It buttons up the front. It's a cute-ass dress. That's a visual word. Do the words Betsy Johnson are coming to my, is that 90s kind of?

1:30.4

That's a visual word. Do the words Betsy Johnson are coming to my, is that 90s kind of? That's 90s. This is not a Betsy Johnson. It's better than Betsy Johnson. And then Matt Siegel has a, what did you call it, Dana? A brush cut. He's got a brush cut. That sounds like something you do to a wheat field, but is it something you do to a Matt Siegel? I think it's actually

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