Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Flying Circus Edition

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4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2009

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the media circus surrounding the Colorado “Balloon Boy,” the case for and against circumcision in New York Magazine, and the new documentary on the 40th anniversary of comedy troupe Monty Python.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.6	The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible, offering more than 50,000 downloadable
0:11.1	audiobooks.
0:12.6	CultureFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership
0:17.8	at Audiblepodcast.com slash culture fest.
0:23.4	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Flying Circus Edition.
0:27.9	This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, October 21st, 2009.
0:33.4	On today's program, the culture of narcissism, run amuck, yes, the balloon boy.
0:38.1	Circumcision, insert inappropriate comment here, and 40 years of glorious Monty Python.
0:44.2	Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.
0:47.1	Julia, hello.
0:48.0	Hi, Steve.
0:48.9	And instead of Dana Stevens, heart's breaking all over the anglophonic world,
0:54.2	instead of Dana Stevens, we have Jody Rosen.
0:57.6	Jody.
0:58.2	Steve.
0:58.7	Jody, you are Slate's music critic.
1:00.6	I am.
1:00.9	Senior music critic.
1:02.4	Yes.
1:03.7	And thanks so much for coming in.
1:06.5	Last moment's notice.
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