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Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: The Duchess Has a Vagina Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2013

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the new Netflix show "Orange Is the New Black" and the documentary "The Art of Killing," and Simon Doonan joins them to talk about the British royal baby phenomenon. Find show links .


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0:00.0

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0:31.7

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:40.5

I'm Stephen McCaffin. This is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, The Duchess Has a Vagina Edition.

0:46.0

It's Wednesday, July 24th, 2013. On today's show, the new Netflix series, Orange is the New Black.

0:52.7

And then we talk about a truly extraordinary, extraordinary

0:54.5

documentary film called The Act of Killing. And finally, yes, we will talk about the Royal

1:00.3

Baby with Slate's own Simon Dunin. Joining me today is Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hello,

1:06.0

Julia. Hi, Steve. And Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hello, Stephen. Before we drive forward into the heart of the discussion, Julia Turner, we've got some stuff, some business about the summer strut to take care of.

1:17.3

Yeah, Steve, we want to thank our listeners who have sent us hundreds of submissions for the summer strut playlist, which is your official playlist of songs that make you feel kick-ass.

1:29.4

Submissions are now closed.

1:33.0

We're going to review everything that's been submitted, come up with a master playlist that we'll talk about in a week or two, and we'll flip that playlist back to you guys when we do that segment.

1:38.4

All right, thanks, Julia. Orange is the New Black is a new series available for streaming on Netflix.

1:42.8

It's created by Genji Cohen, who's

1:44.7

best known for the Showtime series Weeds, and it's adapted from a memoir by Piper Kerman, a Smith graduate who served 15 months in a Danbury prison. It stars Taylor Schilling as the prisoner, and Jason Biggs plays her fiancé. Why don't we listen to a clip from the show? I'll get you, Blondie. What'd you do?

2:01.1

Aren't you not supposed to ask that question?

2:03.7

I read that you, Blondie. What'd you do?

2:02.8

Aren't you not supposed to ask that question?

2:05.5

I read that you're not supposed to ask that.

2:06.9

You read that?

2:09.7

Are you who studied for prison?

2:15.4

I love that line, actually, because it really showcases this character who becomes our entree into this unfamiliar world of a women's prison.

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