Culture Gabfest: Taking Up Space Edition

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf, and Isaac Butler discuss the new documentary Knock Down the House about women competing in Democratic primaries, the new animated sitcom Tuca and Bertie, and then Father of the Bride, the new album from Vampire Weekend with critic Carl Wilson. In Slate Plus, Dana calls in to talk about her time at the San Fransisco Silent Film Festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	I'm Stephen MacKaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest taking up Space Edition.
0:17.8	It's Wednesday, May 8th, 2019.
0:20.2	On today's show, the documentary Knock Down the House follows four insurgent
0:24.0	candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterms. The one you may have heard of is
0:28.1	Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. And then Tuka and Bertie is a fetching little
0:32.4	Netflix animated sitcom
0:34.0	from some of the makers I think an animator behind Bojak Horseman.
0:38.0	And finally it is astonishing to me now that we are doing it how infrequently
0:42.0	over the course of the 12 or so years we've done this show that we're doing
0:44.3	have frequently over the course of the 12 or so years we've done the show
0:44.5	that we've talked about indie rock well maybe maybe now we know why we're
0:50.0	talking about vampire weekend but any excuse to talk to the supreme friend of the program,
0:55.6	Carl Wilson, who is of course Lates Music Critic.
0:58.3	Joining me today is of course Julia Turner, deputy managing editor at the. Times, Julia, buzzing in from Los Angeles.
1:05.2	How you doing?
1:06.2	Beautiful, El Segundo, California.
1:07.8	Hello.
1:09.1	And filling in for Dana Stevens today is Isaac Butler, also a supreme friend of the program in my estimation.
1:14.0	Isaac is many things.
1:15.9	He's the host of Slates Lend Me Your Ers podcast.
1:19.2	He co-authored a book with Dan Koyce, oral history of angels in America, the world only spins forward.
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