Fetch the Mallet

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the film Midsommar, the life and work of the bossa nova progenitor João Gilberto with critic Nate Chinen, and the end of life-hacking with Slate's Laura Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	I'm Stephen Meckhaff and this is the Sla Culture Gap Fest fetch the mallet edition.
0:17.0	It's Wednesday, July 10th, 2019, a happy birthday to my wife and my father. True story. On today's show,
0:24.4	Mitzomar is the latest from writer director Ari Astor. He of hereditary fame. His
0:29.7	latest horrific turn takes us to the Greenfields and white knights of rural Sweden.
0:34.5	And then one of the absolute legends of music has died.
0:37.0	We discuss the genre-making genre-busting career of Titan Joao Roberto with the great critic Nate Chinon.
0:43.9	And finally, life hack.
0:46.2	Stop life hacking.
0:47.2	It's for pretentious losers, a segment
0:49.2	with our beloved friend and friend of the program Laura Miller.
0:53.2	You'll have to pry my life hacking out of my cold dead hands.
0:57.0	Never, never surrender.
1:00.0	Okay, well I'm joined by Life Hacker and Chief, the Deputy Union Managing Editor of the L.A. Times Julia Turner.
1:06.8	Hey Julia.
1:07.8	Hello.
1:08.8	And of course by Dana Stevens.
1:10.4	Dana, I can't imagine you've ever life hacked anything.
1:15.0	Are you saying that because of what a mess my life is?
1:19.0	No, but you float above such, you know, menial, you know, solutions.
1:24.8	Like these, you don't even perceive these as problems.
1:27.6	How could you listen to the music of the spheres
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