Culture Gabfest - Stephen's Universe Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the cartoon phenomenon Steven Universe with intern Daniel Schroeder, SNL and political satire with the Political Gabfest's Emily Bazelon, and The Trump Fiction project with author Ben H Winters.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Stevens Universe edition. |
| 0:16.9 | It's Wednesday, February 15th, 2017. |
| 0:20.1 | On today's show, Stephen Universe has gone from being a semi-hidden curio on the cartoon network to, as some critics argued, the best show on television. |
| 0:29.4 | We discussed this animated gem. |
| 0:32.0 | And then Saturday Night Live, it's suffered a fate that is usually death to satire. |
| 0:35.7 | It's become venerable, but the institution has found |
| 0:38.1 | new life and Mondo ratings making fun of, yeah, that guy. And finally, Slate's series, the Trump |
| 0:46.0 | Story Project, publishes pieces of fiction, but are now in danger of being uncanny depictions |
| 0:51.3 | of the alternate reality that we are all now living. |
| 0:55.5 | Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner. Hey, Julia. |
| 0:59.1 | Hello, from Slate's Washington, D.C. office today. |
| 1:02.6 | I was going to ask, yeah, no, I'm reporting live from the Gent, Slate's Gent studio. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah, and of course, Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. We're all in three separate locations right now. I know. It's Ghent studio. Yeah, and of course Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens, hey Dana, we're all in three |
| 1:12.3 | separate locations right now. I know. It's sort of fitting for Stephen Universe, as we'll talk about when |
| 1:16.8 | we get to it. I feel like we should all fuse into one mega being. Or alternately with like the |
| 1:22.2 | sort of Armageddon Damocles hovering over the human race, I think it's important that all, |
| 1:27.6 | that one member of the Gapfest crew survive, |
| 1:30.4 | no matter what. |
| 1:31.4 | So I think doing it from disparate, |
| 1:34.0 | secret locations may be the way to go. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, concrete bunker. |
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