Culture Gabfest - We Love Spunk Edition
Slate Culture Feed
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Slate’s culture editor Laura Bennett discuss the film Elle, NBC's This Is Us, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code culture.
And byThirdLove, the lingerie brand using real women’s measurements to design better-fitting bras. Try one of their best-selling bras for free for 30 days by visiting thirdlove.com/culture. And by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses. Get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by going to Casper.com/cultureand using the promo code culture.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. |
| 0:16.3 | We Love Spunk Edition. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Wednesday, February 1st, 2017. |
| 0:22.1 | On today's show, the feature film, |
| 0:26.8 | Elle, stars the great French actress Isabel Uper, as a woman coming to grips with the fact of her brutal sexual assault that took place in her own home. The movie is directed by Paul |
| 0:31.0 | Verhoeven. And then This Is Us is a huge, huge hit on NBC. This is almost like the Empire |
| 0:37.3 | of Network TV striking back with a big |
| 0:39.9 | theme, warm-hearted mass audience crowd-pleasing show. It seems to have done all those things, |
| 0:44.8 | warmed hearts on a mass basis. We discussed with Slate's own Laura Bennett. And finally, |
| 0:50.4 | Mary Tyler Moore, I would say along with Lucille Ball, it's fair to say she was the greatest television comedian of all time and a woman who spearheaded a comedy and a feminist revolution. She has died. And we will discuss her remarkable legacy. Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner, Julia, you realize you occupied that seat. Thanks only to Mary Tyler Morris, Mary Richards. |
| 1:12.9 | Absolutely. |
| 1:13.8 | All of the conference rooms at Slate are named after fictional journalists, and the one that I use most frequently is named Richards in honor of Mary, Tyler Morris, Mary Richards. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.1 | That's so fantastic. |
| 1:24.8 | And of course, Dana Stevens, who is, she occupies her seat as Slate's film critic solely on her own merits. |
| 1:33.2 | There didn't need to be any tossed berets for me to sit in my place. On the contrary, I owe everything to marry. We all do. All right, before we dig in, Julia, presumably, some business, yeah? |
| 1:44.9 | We do. |
| 1:47.5 | In fact, we have four pieces of business today. |
| 1:53.6 | Number one, in our Slate Plus segment, we will be talking about the controversial ending of L. |
| 1:57.8 | If you have seen L or if you have read about L, you know that its ending is controversial. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.