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Slate Culture

Culture Gabfest: Summer Strut 2025 Edition

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

It’s the most feelin’ yourself time of the year; a time for uptempo jams to make the sidewalk your runway; a time for the annual Summer Strut playlist! As per tradition, Steve, Dana, and Julia are joined by music critic and chartologist Chris Molanphy to sift through the hundreds of listener submissions to pick their favorite songs to strut to this season. They’ll also kick off the show with a discussion of the song of the summer.  You can find the panel’s collective favorites here, at the Summer Strut ‘25 Shortlist. In addition, Dana, Julia, Steven, and Chris, have also published their personal best-of lists. Intrepid listeners are welcome to explore the gigantic original playlist here. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel does two rapid fire rounds to discuss eight more songs for all your strutting needs.  Email us your thoughts at [email protected].  Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Summer Strut, 2025 edition.

0:15.5

It's Wednesday, August 6th, 2025 on today's show. No topics, no script, no nothing, just the redoubtable Chris Malamthe. Chris, welcome in. Thank you, Steve. And hello everyone out there. Yeah. And Chris, of course, is the host of the Hit Parade podcast for Slate. He's once described himself as a chartologist and it's stuck, but he's so much more than that. It's pleasure to talk to him. Of course, Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate. Hey, Dana. Hey, hey. You know, the joke landed because I didn't think you were an actual lush, but I'm looking at the accruedments for today's show. What do we have? Well, we're taping at 1130, a little

0:54.9

later than we usually tape. It's a celebratory once a year thing. Five p.m. somewhere.

0:58.9

So I brought in mimosa makins, a bottle of champagne and some orange juice. Okay. Well, this is an

1:04.3

audio-based show we're working on. Do you want to, like, uncork here? Yeah, I thought we could hear

1:09.8

a little sonic background of some crinkling foil as the golden foil leaves the champagne pork.

1:16.8

Are we ready?

1:18.7

Steady.

1:19.6

Ooh.

1:21.0

Yeah, that was a very satisfying.

1:23.0

That was for real.

1:24.1

Full on ceiling bounce.

1:25.2

It literally hit the ceiling.

1:27.3

As Chris and Dana are my witnesses, I did not like shake the bottle.

1:31.0

He really didn't.

1:31.9

And Julia Turner is joining us from California.

1:34.4

She is a fellow at the Annenberg Center for journalism at the University of Southern California.

1:39.7

Hey, Julie.

1:40.0

Hello, hello.

1:41.1

I'm so excited to be here.

1:42.3

There's nothing better than watching people drink mimosas through a Zoom screen. I'm still on ice coffee over here. I'll have to mimosa later. Julia, I'm going to throw to you because you really, you are the genesis of this whole concept of Summer Strut. Talk to us about its history. Yes, this is our vital accidental tradition. I think 15 or so years

2:04.1

ago. I had a new commute to work that was walking and I asked our listeners to send me new music. I could strut to work

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