Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Old Fogies and Jailbait Edition
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🗓️ 2 September 2009
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible, offering more than 50,000 downloadable audiobooks. |
| 0:12.8 | CultureFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership |
| 0:18.0 | at Audiblepodcast.com slash culturefest. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate CultureGab Fest, Fogies and Jailbate Edition. |
| 0:26.4 | This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009. |
| 0:31.5 | On today's program, we're going to talk about Mad Men, TV as high art or another primetime soap, |
| 0:37.0 | the latest multi-platinum pop-tart, Taylor Swift, and the September issue, the new documentary by R.J. Cutler about Anna Winter and Vogue magazine. Joining me today, our Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Julia. And our film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve. And our music critic, Jody Rosen, hey, Jody. |
| 0:54.6 | Hello, Steve. Jailbate or Fogie. Which are you, Jody? Foggy. I'm Jailbate then. And John Swansberg, John, you're now, what's your title? Your culture editor? Yes, of course. Good to be here. So Mad Men, as I'm sure all of our listeners know, is the elaborately conceived period piece from AMC. |
| 1:12.7 | It's about an advertising agency called Sterling Cooper. |
| 1:15.4 | It's now in its third season. |
| 1:17.1 | There was Julia the third episode of the third season, which as I'm picking up from you, you regard it as the watershed in the series and maybe the best of the show. |
| 1:25.2 | And as a setup, I should say, that first of all, you guys are doing a TV club, an online TV club back and forth with Patrick Radin-Keefe discussing the show. |
| 1:34.4 | And I should also say that one of the reasons we have extra guests on today is both Dana and I are kind of agnostics on the show. |
| 1:42.5 | We've withheld our viewing. Right. Glancing acquaintance, |
| 1:46.6 | but... Glancing acquaintanceing acquaintance not quite sure. I've not yet been... I've not yet |
| 1:49.8 | discovered that. Might have them over for dinner, but not sure. Anyway, so Julia, I punt to you, Mad Men. |
| 1:55.5 | So we want to talk about Mad Men this week because the episode that aired Sunday night was both |
| 2:00.2 | very, very excellent and a little bit |
| 2:02.8 | explosive and divisive in that it |
| 2:04.7 | featured one of the show's most beloved |
| 2:06.9 | characters Roger Sterling |
| 2:08.6 | performing in blackface |
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