Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Ape Not Kill Ape Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the dark and violent sequel Dawn of the Apes, whether potato salad caused Kickstarter to jump the shark, and the timelessness of Weird Al Yankovic.
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| 0:47.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. Edition. It's Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014. On today's show, the dawn of the |
| 1:05.2 | Planet of the Apes is the second installment in a franchise reboot, normally |
| 1:09.7 | an exercise in dreariness, but critics seem to like it. He has been making parody |
| 1:14.5 | songs and videos for almost four decades. We talked to slate's own Carl Wilson |
| 1:18.4 | about the eccentric fact of Weird Al Yankovic. And finally, |
| 1:22.1 | Kickstarter Mintz a potato salad entrepreneur. |
| 1:26.0 | Joining me today is Slate's editor-in-chief, Julia Turner. |
| 1:28.6 | Hello Julia. |
| 1:29.6 | Hi Steve, you made that sound like mint potato salad, actually could be good fresh mint leaves I know to that |
| 1:35.8 | Kickstarter yeah and of course slate's film critic Dana |
| 1:40.8 | Hey Dana hey Dana hey Steve all right well we'll we'll tuck in with you in one second about Planet of the Apes, but let me set it up. |
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