Culture Gabfest - Where You Once Belonged
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🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, Julia is back! First, the panel discusses Jane Campion’s big comeback, The Power of the Dog. Next, the panel wades through Peter Jackson’s eight hour-long Beatles docuseries Get Back. Finally, the panel discusses the rise of the gift guide and gift giving.
In Slate Plus, Steve and Dana catch up with Julia and chat about how relationships with culture consumption can change.Â
Email us at culturefest@slate.com.
Endorsements
Dana: The last movie Dana reviewed for Slate, Steven Spielberg’s and Tony Kushner’s remake (or re-invention) of West Side Story. It’s only in theaters currently, but (if you feel comfortable making the trip) it’s a great theatrical experience.
Julia: Isabel Wilkerson’s historical study The Warmth of Other Suns. Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award, it’s one of the most incredibly well-crafted narratives of the Great Migration.
Steve: Among the pieces of culture Steve’s recently consumed, the one that meant the most after viewing the Beatles docuseries is a song: Taylor Swift’s re-recording of “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)” is a masterpiece.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.
Outro music is "Pike Place Market" by Rockin' for Decades
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen McCaff in this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest where you once belonged |
| 0:14.2 | edition. It's Wednesday, December 8th, 2021. On today's show, The Power of the Dog |
| 0:20.3 | is the latest film from Jane Campion, its stars Benedict Cumberbats as a cowboy who |
| 0:25.4 | unwilling to adapt to a changing world enters into a simmering feud with his |
| 0:29.9 | brother's wife and her face son. It also stars Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst. |
| 0:34.6 | And then Peter Jackson, he of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was handed 60 |
| 0:39.2 | hours of raw footage of the Beatles, struggling to meet a set of looming |
| 0:43.2 | deadlines to produce both an album and a live show. He has edited those into an |
| 0:48.1 | extraordinary eight-hour documentary about the making of Let It Be, the group's |
| 0:52.1 | penultimate and in many ways most troublesome record. And finally, of holiday |
| 0:57.8 | seasons, many joys and dreads, what is more neurotically loaded than gift giving? |
| 1:03.0 | We will discuss the rise of the gift guide, I suppose, a palliative to the open |
| 1:08.0 | endedness and the dread of such an activity to this season. Joining me today is |
| 1:14.2 | pauses, cheques notes, rejects notes, Julia Turner, Julia, welcome back. |
| 1:21.6 | Hi guys, it's so nice to be here. Oh my gosh, so I wrote down a little quote |
| 1:27.2 | in honor of your return, half of what I say is meaningless, yet I say it just to |
| 1:32.0 | reach you for the ocean child. I think of you as an ocean child, Julia. Steve |
| 1:36.7 | only half. Welcome back. It's so nice to be here. I missed you guys so much. I'm so |
| 1:46.0 | happy to be back. And of course, Dana Stevens, perennial afterthought, |
| 1:49.2 | Dana. Middle child in life and on the show. The George Harrison of the |
| 1:55.7 | Enterprise. No, hardly. Dana is of course the film critic for Slate and has a |
| 2:02.7 | forthcoming book entitled Camry Man. Wait, I think I'm gonna say that I'll say the |
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