Culture Gabfest - Women Are Talking, But Is the Academy Listening?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dana, Julia, and Stephen start by discussing the film, Women Talking. Then they chat about the new U.K. import Traitors with Slate’s own Carl Wilson. Finally, they finish by talking ChatGPT and the coming of AI chatbots.
In Slate Plus, the panel talks about this year’s Oscar nominations.
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Endorsements:
Dana: Werner Herzog is in his somber, elegiac mode with The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft. Not to be confused with Fire of Love, about the same people, but made by Sara Dosa.
Julia: Endorsing the third season of Never Have I Ever. It’s such a good show. Sometimes I take for granted the variety of things being made.
Stephen: Two things: 1. I am comically late on Better Call Saul. 2. Sam Gendel is a young L.A. jazz guy with a DGAF attitude towards even the music he makes, in a weird way. The album is called blueblue. Just amazing.
Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama.
Outro music: "Last Sunday" by OTE.
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| 0:43.7 | Women are talking, but is the academy listening addition? |
| 0:47.6 | It's Wednesday, January 25th, 2023. |
| 0:50.8 | On today's show, women talking is the new feature from writer director Sarah Polly. |
| 0:55.7 | Tells the story of a group of men and women coming to grips with a gruesome act of sexual |
| 1:01.2 | violation, which points to a probable history of it, and debating whether to take the radical |
| 1:07.0 | step to leave the only community that they've ever known. |
| 1:10.7 | It stars Claire Foy, Jesse Buckley, Rooney Mara. |
| 1:14.2 | It's a marvelous ensemble cast. |
| 1:16.6 | And then the traitors is a pulpy, can't be reality competition show. |
| 1:22.6 | It has, if nothing else, it has one huge thing going for it. |
| 1:26.0 | It's hosted by the wonderful Alan Cumming, the Scottish actor. |
| 1:31.2 | And we'll be joined by Slate's own Carl Wilson to discuss his wonderful reaction to the TV |
| 1:36.8 | show. |
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