Culture Gabfest - The Kardashians and Other Liquid Creatures
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🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Netflix film My Octopus Teacher. Next, they chat about the legacy and ending of Keeping Up With the Kardashians (check out the Gabfest’s 2011 conversation about the Kardashians here). Finally, the panel is joined by Slate staff writer Aaron Mak to analyze the latest episode of Reply All on QAnon.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Meckoff, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, the Kardashians and other |
| 0:14.8 | Liquid Creatures edition. |
| 0:16.7 | It's Wednesday, September 30th, 2020. |
| 0:19.1 | On today's show, My Octopus Teacher is a Netflix documentary |
| 0:22.3 | about the improbably spiritual connection between a prominent wildlife filmmaker and a mollusk. |
| 0:28.3 | It's on Netflix, and then, like it or not, keeping up with the Kardashians' revolutionized |
| 0:32.7 | television, social media, our notions of celebrity. After 14 years, its run has come to an end. We discuss |
| 0:38.9 | with Slate's own Willa Paskin. And finally, the podcast reply all, among other media outlets, |
| 0:44.3 | has reported on QAnon revealing possibly the persons behind the original conspiracy theory |
| 0:49.7 | who might be writing it now and how it's leaking out dangerously into the world. We're joined by |
| 0:54.9 | Slate's own Aaron Mack. But joining me right now is Julia Turner, the deputy managing editor of the |
| 1:00.7 | LA Times. Hey, Julia. Hello, hello. Hey, and we're joined also by Dana Stevens. Dana, how are you? |
| 1:08.1 | Greetings. I'm good. How are y'all? I'm really good, but it almost sounds like you're in like a tent in the middle of an urban |
| 1:15.6 | landscape. |
| 1:16.6 | That is exactly where I am. |
| 1:18.6 | I should explain this because I'm going to have strange sound in the few segments of the show |
| 1:22.6 | that I'm in, and that's because, yeah, I'm basically in sort of a wedding-style tent |
| 1:26.6 | that's off the edge of what's going to be in a few days a TV set. |
| 1:31.9 | And that's because, as I may have mentioned before on the show, my daughter, who is an aspiring actor and who just started at a performing arts high school, got a part, a small part in a TV show, a TV show that we have talked about on our podcast, Modern Love, the Amazon TV series that's based on the New York Times column, and we're up here in Schenectady, New York filming it. So the place that I'm taping to you from is this kind of crazy tent outdoors in Schenectady. Oh, that is marvelous. I didn't realize you were up in Schenectady. |
| 2:01.6 | That's, you know, you're sort of in my neck of the woods. |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah, I'm not far from you. |
| 2:04.6 | I think, I mean, I'm, I think that Modern Love may not be the only show that's moved some of its |
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