Culture Gabfest - We're All Going to F---ing Die
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, author and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast, Isaac Butler fills in for Steve (pre-order Isaac's book!). First, the panel debates the merits of Adam McKay’s star-studded cautionary tale Don’t Look Up. Then, the panel is joined by film historian and journalist Mark Harris to outline the debt we owe to the late Sidney Poitier—a legend whom he speaks about in his book Pictures at a Revolution. Finally, the panel is joined by author and staff writer for the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz, to discuss her new memoir Lost & Found.
In Slate Plus, the panel lists some reboots and remakes that they actually would like to see.
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Endorsements
Dana: David Ehrlich’s, chief film critic for Indiewire, video montage countdown of the best films of 2021, an annual tradition he’s been doing for several years.
Julia: The LEGO set “Flower Bouquet” (set #10280) which ingeniously replicates a bouquet using some creative LEGO pieces.
Isaac: The novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett.
Pre-order Dana’s book and buy a ticket to Dana and Isaac’s book event at The Strand (hosted by our very own Stephen Metcalf)!
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music "I Want a Change" by The Big Let Down
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Slate Culture Gab Fest, we're all going to f***ing die edition. |
| 0:16.0 | It's Wednesday, January 12th, 2022, I'm Isaac Butler, in for Stephen McCaff. |
| 0:21.2 | On this week's show, don't look up as the new, I guess you'd call it satire from Adam |
| 0:25.8 | McCay, skewering our nation's failures to meet the challenges of stopping climate change. |
| 0:30.5 | It's got an all-star cast, including Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark |
| 0:34.8 | Reilance, and Jennifer Lawrence, will discuss the film and the response to it over the past |
| 0:39.2 | month. |
| 0:40.2 | Then, Cindy Poitier, I mean, where do you even start in talking about the colossal achievements |
| 0:45.6 | of the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor, and a man who had such a profound |
| 0:50.7 | impact on generations of actors, filmmakers, and audiences? |
| 0:54.8 | We'll start by talking to film historian and friend of the program Mark Harris about Poitier's |
| 0:58.9 | legacy. |
| 1:00.0 | And finally, Catherine Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and she has a wonderful |
| 1:04.2 | new memoir out called Lost and Found. |
| 1:06.7 | We'll be talking with her about the book and a recent excerpt from it, How I Proposed |
| 1:10.1 | to My Girlfriend, which appeared in last week's New Yorker. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm joined today by Julia Turner, the deputy managing editor of The Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:17.3 | Julia, it has been a very long time since we've co-hosted this show together. |
| 1:21.0 | How are you? |
| 1:22.0 | How are things in Los Angeles? |
| 1:23.4 | Hi, Isaac. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm so happy you're here today. |
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