Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, First Ever Live Gabfest Edition

Slate Culture Feed

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Music, Arts

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Ridley Scott’s retelling of the Robin Hood myth starring Russell Crowe, Sam Lipsyte’s novel The Ask and the ongoing dispute over Facebook’s privacy setings.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.5	The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible,
0:11.4	offering more than 50,000 downloadable audiobooks.
0:15.6	CultureFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership
0:20.8	at Audiblepodcast.com
0:23.2	slash culture fest.
0:26.0	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest, first ever live Gabfest edition.
0:31.7	This is also the daily podcast from Slate.com for Wednesday, May 19th, 2010. And here we should pause and say,
0:38.6	there's something a little different for this Gab Fest.
0:42.3	I think we all know what it is.
0:44.1	I shaved.
0:46.4	And Dana is shit-faced.
0:48.8	That's different?
0:49.9	Yeah, right.
0:52.0	Kudos.
0:52.7	We come to you live from the Housing Works bookstore since 1990 Housing Works has provided
0:57.2	life-saving services to more than 20,000 homeless men, women, and children living with AIDS and
1:01.7	HIV in New York City and beyond.
1:04.5	We're very proud to be in this lovely venue.
1:07.0	Please support it by lots of rolled gold, guzzle a lot of beer.
1:10.9	We're psyched to be here.
1:19.7	And we're nervous as all get out.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.