Hella Doomed Edition

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dana Stevens, Aisha Harris, and Julia Turner discuss HBO's Insecure with Slate's Veralyn Williams, the classic film Dr. Strangelove, and the Vulture article: "The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter" with Slate's Laura Miller. The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Sun Basket. Sun Basket sends organic, non-GMO ingredients right to your door, so you can skip the grocery store and prepare meals in just 30 minutes! Choose from Paleo, Gluten-Free, Lean & Clean, and Vegetarian options. Go to SUN BASKET dot com slash CULTURE today and get 50% off your first order! SUN BASKET dot com slash CULTURE. And by the Platinum Card from American Express. There’s a world of experiences waiting to open up with the Platinum Card. Backed by the services and security of American Express. And by Care.com. Care.com is the largest digital marketplace for care for everyone in the family—find nannies, sitters, housekeepers, dog walkers, and more. To save 30% off a Care.com Premium membership— visit Care.com/CULTURE when you subscribe. 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, or building a playlist that will even get your
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0:20.1	Christmas better with Pepsi Max Christmas.
0:23.0	Better with Pepsi Max.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Dana Stevens and this is the slate Culture Gab fest,adoomed edition. It's Wednesday August 16th,
0:45.5	2017 and on today's show, Insecure is an HBO comedy co-created by and starring
0:50.6	Isa Ray as a young black woman negotiating love, friendship, work, and life in Los Angeles.
0:55.5	We'll discuss with Slate's own podcast producer Verily Williams.
0:59.3	Then somewhere back through the eons of geological time that now seem to separate each week in the era of
1:04.0	Trump, we had a little nuclear war face off with North Korea last week that left everyone
1:08.1	feeling for a few days like it was the Cold War era all over again. This terrifying yet absurd incident of saber rattling
1:14.5	got us here at the Culture Fest thinking about what is perhaps the greatest film
1:17.5	made during and about the Cold War, Stanley Kubrick's comic masterpiece Dr.
1:21.5	Strange Love.
1:22.6	And finally, a recent feature in New York magazine
1:24.6	detailed what the author, Kat Rosenfeld,
1:26.4	described as the toxic drama of YA Twitter.
1:29.5	This was the fewer that kicked up online
1:31.3	surrounding the release of a new young adult fantasy
1:33.3	novel we'll have Laura Miller who slates book critic and a frequent guest on the show
1:37.0	on to help us understand what all that toxic drama was about and what it says about the
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