Darkness On The Edge Of Reason Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and guests discuss the new HBO show Westworld, Bruce Springsteen's memoir, Born To Run, and the unmasking of author Elena Ferrante. We want you to tell us about the podcasts you enjoy, and how often you listen to them. So we created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn’t even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to www.megaphone.fm/survey Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron’s meal kits are delivered right to your door, and make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/culture. And by Boll and Branch. For luxury bedding at a low price, go to BollandBranch.com and use promo code culture for $50 off your first set of sheets. And by Glossier. Upgrade your beauty routine today. Get 20% off your first purchase by going to Glossier.com and using promo code culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:08.0	Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra ink,
0:12.0	or building a playlist that will even get your
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0:21.8	Christmas.
0:23.0	Better with Pepsi Max.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. which. I'm Stephen Meckath and this is the Slate Culture Gap First Darkness on the Edge of Reason
0:44.8	Edition. It's Wednesday October 5th 2016. On today's show, Westworld is the new
0:50.3	gigantically epic show from HBO. It's about a Western theme park and it's the titled Born to Run, we discuss its possible relevance and its many
1:04.1	revelations with Slate's own Carl Wilson and finally the unmasking of Elena
1:09.7	Ferrante. Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner. Hello Julia. Hi Steve.
1:15.0	And of course Slate's film critic Dana Stevens, hey Dana. Hey Dana,
1:19.0	Hey, Steve.
1:20.0	Julia, I'm sure before we dig in, we have many bits of business. What do you have?
1:25.0	Couple pieces of business. Number one, we are doing a live show in Santa Monica, California, on Thursday, October 13th.
1:34.7	We'll be joined by the wonderful Karina Longworth,
1:36.9	host of You Must Remember This,
1:39.4	the world's best Hollywood history podcast.
1:41.5	I feel confident in saying and also one of the best podcasts out there.
1:45.2	So we're very excited about that. You can still get tickets for that at slate.com
1:49.1	slash live. Also in our slate plus segment today we will discuss a fascinating profile in the Washington Post by Stephanie McCrumman
1:57.6	titled finally someone who thinks like me
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