Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Summer Strut Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2011
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In this week's episode, critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Page One, a new documentary about the New York Times, Stephen's Slate article about Robert Nozick, and the results of Julia's search for a great summer strutting song.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
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| 0:35.3 | I'm Stephen Metcalfe, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Summer Strut Edition. |
| 0:40.8 | It's Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011. On today's program, the new page one documentary about the New York Times and its possible demise, my piece about libertarianism |
| 0:45.7 | in Slate and our summer strut contest slash mixed tape, which has made my year, Julia, |
| 0:53.4 | that was so freaking inspired. |
| 0:56.1 | Ooh, I'm so glad. I'm so glad you liked our strutting songs. You have a little bit of a |
| 1:00.1 | strut to you today, Steve. It's sort of a libertarian swagger. Yeah, it's an entitled |
| 1:07.0 | strut of self-empowerment. That's just been totally taken from me by your observation. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm completely deflated like a bad souffle, but I'm re-inflating as I turn to my lovely |
| 1:19.1 | co-host, Dan Stevens. |
| 1:21.2 | Looking puffy once more. |
| 1:22.9 | Looking good in the neighborhood. |
| 1:26.7 | No, we're in, we should say that we're coming to you from the Mohunk Mountain House |
| 1:30.2 | in outside of New Paltz, New York, the site of the slate retreat. |
| 1:34.2 | And thankfully, there was no bacchanalian excess last night. |
| 1:37.5 | So we're all fresh as spring daisies. |
| 1:39.5 | My mind is razor sharp. |
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