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Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Babbling Brooks Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and guest June Thomas discuss the action blockbuster and political allegory film Snowpiercer, the campy and catty British TV import Vicious, and David Brooks tells us that we should all strive to be deep.


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The following podcast contains explicit language.

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I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest

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Babilling Brooks Edition. It's Wednesday July 9th, 2014. On today's show, the movie Snowpiercer is both a $40 million action blockbuster and a seriously

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intended political allegory. Can it find an audience as significant as its message, not to mention

1:41.7

its budget? Then Ian McKellan and Derek Jacoby star as as an elderly gay

1:45.4

elderly gay couple in the British TV import vicious.

1:48.8

And finally, the pundit David Brooks tells us we should all strive to be deep.

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