Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Only Beyoncé Could Make me Not Like Beyoncé Edition
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🗓️ 20 February 2013
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:42.9 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. Only Beyonce could make me not like Beyonce edition. It's Wednesday, February 20th, 2013. On today's show, Life is But a Dream, a documentary on HBO about Beyonce Knowles, and then kindling a new magazine about fatherhood. And finally, the Oscar-nominated documentary, Searching for Sugarman. Joining me today is Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. She joins us remotely. Hey, Julia. Hi, Steve. How are you? I'm very good. Thank you. How are you? Great. Wonderful. And of course, our film critic, Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Julia. Hi, Steve. How are you? I'm very good. Thank you. How are you? Great. |
| 1:15.0 | Wonderful. And, of course, our Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. |
| 1:15.9 | How are you, Steve? |
| 1:17.4 | Quite well. Thank you. |
| 1:26.3 | All right. Well, the much anticipated HBO documentary, Life is But a Dream about Beyonce, is now available on demand on HBO. |
| 1:29.5 | It's been airing the past week, and we decided to talk about it. It has not been met with a chorus of approval, Julia Turner. |
| 1:34.4 | And I'm going to say outright, you made me, you made me watch this documentary. |
| 1:40.4 | So I start bail in water. |
| 1:42.6 | Justify your love, Julian. |
| 1:43.9 | Because this ship is going on. Okay, first of all, this is Dana's idea. So I didn'ting water. Justify you love, Julian. Because this ship is a, the ship is going on. |
| 1:46.4 | Okay, first of all, this is Dana's idea. |
| 1:47.7 | So I don't even want to hear that from you, Dana. |
| 1:49.6 | Second of all, Steve, you were like totally psyched when I told you that Dana and I were forcing you to watch this document. |
| 1:55.4 | I've never been totally psyched in my life. |
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