Culture Gabfest: Viral Songs and Quarantine Culture

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest host and Slate staff writer Dan Kois talk about the film Spenser Confidential, starring Mark Wahlberg on Netflix. Next, they discuss Reply All’s recent episode “The Case of the Missing Hit.” Finally, the panel is joined by Dana Stevens to lay out how they approach culture during this time of quarantine. How much do we lean into escapism? On the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel takes on Steve’s own “missing hit” mystery. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Outro Music: Lost Something in the Hills" by Sibylle Baier. Endorsements Dana: Colour Green by Sibylle Baier. Dan: The “Sondheim at 90” package by the New York Times. The album Side by Side by Sondheim. Julia: The poem “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth. Steve: Always Narrating: The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco by Costica Bradatan in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet?
0:04.0	Or this beach is too sandy.
0:06.0	My name's Christine.
0:08.0	And my name is Sandy.
0:09.0	And we're the host of Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet.
0:11.0	A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off-the-wall reviews on the internet.
0:16.0	We find the funniest real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services
0:21.4	and Trader Joe's, caves toddler beds and Spirit
0:24.5	Halloween. You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be
0:28.1	said on the internet. How else would everyone know that some caves don't have
0:31.1	Wi-Fi? We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time
0:34.0	time Spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo instead of a Halloween
0:37.0	costume and believe it or not we got to the bottom of it.
0:39.8	Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcast.
0:43.4	Beechi Sandy Water Toet is brought to you by the Forever Dog Podcast Network. I'm Stephen MacHuff and this is the slatea Culture Galvest Viral Songs and Quarantine Culture Edition.
1:05.9	It's Wednesday, March 18th, 2020.
1:08.6	On today show, Spencer Confidential is Netflix Mark Walahlberg Joint.
1:13.6	It updates the old Spencer for Higher
1:15.4	character for a new era of streaming and boutique TV.
1:18.8	And then the podcast Reply All has produced what some people
1:21.8	have called the most perfect podcast episode of all time.
1:25.9	I'm so jelly we will discuss and finally comfort culture in an age of pandemic lockdown. Joining me today is Dan Koise, he is of course
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