Gotta Bust'em All Edition

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the Ghostbusters reboot, Pokemon Go, and Chuck Close. Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Club W. Get $20 off your first order of wine now by going to ClubW.com/culture. And by Boll and Branch. For luxury bedding at a low price, go to BollandBranch.com and use promo code culture for free shipping and 20 percent off your entire order. And by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Rocket Mortgage brings the mortgage process into the twenty-first century with an easy online process. Check out Rocket Mortgage today at QuickenLoans.com/culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen McAP in this city's Slate Culture Gap Fest, Gotta Bustamall, edition.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, July 20, 2016.
0:21.3	On today's show, the new The New Ghostbusters reboot stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Whig, Kate
0:26.1	McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, you will notice these are all women.
0:29.4	We discuss the film in the politics surrounding it, and then Pokemon Go has taken over more than just the world.
0:34.6	What is it about this little app
0:36.2	that has shot augmented reality, so-called AR
0:39.0	into the forefront of consciousness, human consciousness itself.
0:43.2	And finally, we discuss a provocative profile
0:45.3	of the great American portrait artist Chuck Close
0:49.2	that appeared in the Sunday New York Times magazine.
0:52.2	Joining me today is Slate's editor, Julia Turner.
0:55.8	Hey, Julia.
0:56.9	Hi Steve, how are you?
0:58.6	I'm very good, thanks.
0:59.9	How are you doing?
1:01.3	I'm just like sitting atop a menagerie of Pikachu.
1:04.4	Whatever. That's a lie. I never got a Pikachu yet. Sorry, never mind.
1:09.2	What level are you right now? I don't know, like five?
1:14.0	Zero. You're level five?
1:15.0	Are three something?
1:17.0	I didn't know there were levels.
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