Culture Gabfest - The Tree is a Colander Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss Steven Soderbergh's new film Logan Lucky, the eclipse with Atlas Obscura's David Plotz, and speech on the internet after Charlottesville.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Julia Turner and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. The Tree is a Collander edition. |
| 0:18.8 | It's Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017, and on today's show, |
| 0:23.1 | Logan Lucky, the new caper from Steven Soderberg, it's been called Oceans 11 for Red State America. |
| 0:28.6 | We'll discuss. |
| 0:29.8 | Then, the eclipse briefly distracted us from everything else happening in the world. |
| 0:34.6 | We watched it together in Brooklyn, and we'll also discuss with David Plots of Alice Obscira who experienced the totality. And finally, after Charlottesville, |
| 0:44.4 | many companies began to cut internet services of various kinds to white supremacist sites and to white |
| 0:50.2 | supremacists themselves. Is this progress or a dangerous precedent? |
| 0:55.3 | Today, I'm joined as always by Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi, Dana. |
| 0:58.5 | Hey, Julia. |
| 0:59.7 | And since Steve McHaff is still on vacation, we're joined by managing producer of Slate podcasts, June Thomas. |
| 1:05.8 | Hey, Julia, Dana. |
| 1:07.1 | It is so fun to have June on the show. |
| 1:09.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:10.0 | Let's get into it. Logan Lucky is the new film from Steven Soderberg who declared, I think, four years ago that he was done with film. But he's back. Few. We love Steven Soderberg. With Logan Lucky, which stars Channing Tatum and Adam Driver and tells the story of two brothers who try to pull off a heist at a NASCAR race in order to get money to make their various problems go away. |
| 1:36.4 | Let's listen to a clip. |
| 1:37.6 | Yesterday as you were leaving the bar, you said the word cauliflower. |
| 1:42.9 | That's right. I didn't. |
| 1:45.0 | The last time you said that word to me, I ended up getting sent down for six months. |
| 1:52.0 | It was juvie. I was 13. |
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