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Gunfight at the O.K. Career

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Netflix's The Great Hack documentary, and a piece about chronic lyme disease in  The Cut. In Slate Plus: Once Upon a Time In Hollywood spoilers. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now.  We're looking for a new production assistant! This is a paid, part-time position based in our office in Brooklyn, NY. Send an email with an attached resume and cover letter to productionassistant@slate.com.  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 Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest gun fight at the

0:17.2

OK Career Edition. It's Wednesday July 31st 2019. On today's show

0:21.8

Quentin Tarantino is now improbably both

0:23.9

wise elder and enfant Terrib, and his new movie once upon a time in

0:27.8

Hollywood is his shaggy love letter to the movie and TV business that both shaped

0:31.5

him as a person and has made his career.

0:33.7

And then The Great Hack is the new Netflix documentary about Cambridge Analytica and the role

0:39.0

the data mining played in the sinister triumphs of both Brexit and Donald Trump.

0:43.6

And finally, what happens when Lyme disease goes from being a mere bacterial infection

0:48.1

to a way of life?

0:49.6

Joining me today is Julia Turner,

0:51.5

who is of course the deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times.

0:55.1

Hello, Julia.

0:56.1

Hello, hello.

0:57.8

And as well, Dana Stevens, who's the film critic of Slate.

1:00.3

Hey Dana.

1:01.3

Hey, hey, hey.

1:02.3

Okay, well in lieu of Anane Banta, we're actually going to shed

1:06.3

us in se your tear here. We actually have some melancholy news. What's up, Dana?

1:12.1

Well, it's melancholy in its way and it's happy in its way too.

1:15.0

Our production assistant truly beloved, really one of my favorite of all the wonderful production

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