Irresistible
Slate's Spoiler Specials
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Dana Stevens, Slate’s movie critic, is joined by Sam Adams, a senior editor at Slate and the editor of Slate’s culture blog, Brow Beat, and Tom Scocca, Slate's politics editor. They dive into Jon Stewart’s comedy starring Steve Carell as an out-of-touch political operative who decides that a former marine would make a great Democratic candidate for mayor in Deerlaken, Wisconsin. It creates a proxy battleground in rural Wisconsin as Carell’s Republican counterpart, played by Rose Byrne, ups the ante. Stewart practically perfected political commentary woven with jokes during his time on The Daily Show. But can he harness that same nuance as a director? And how does the movie’s big twist affect Stewart’s message about unchecked money in politics?
You can read Sam Adams’ review here.
You can read Tom Scocca’s piece on the twist here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.3 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:09.9 | I see dead people. |
| 0:13.0 | Silent green is people! |
| 0:16.9 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:20.3 | Oh, Rushburn. |
| 0:24.9 | What's in the box? |
| 0:28.5 | You minute! |
| 0:30.6 | You blew it up! |
| 0:32.3 | Damn you all the hell! |
| 0:36.2 | Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special. I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic. Today we're going to be spoiling the new John Stewart movie Irresistible. And I'm joined today to do that by Sam Adams, who's the Slate Senior Editor and the editor of our culture blog, Brow Beat. Hey Sam. Hello. And also by Tom Skokka, I think a first-time |
| 0:56.0 | guest on this podcast, who is Slate's politics editor. Hey, Tom. Morning. And before we get |
| 1:00.7 | started just by way of an acoustics note, it seems like we have one of these ever since we all |
| 1:04.5 | started recording podcasts from our homes. But Tom Skoka lives apparently two blocks away from a |
| 1:09.6 | fire station and has nonstop alarms and sirens in his background. |
| 1:13.8 | So if you hear any of that going on in the background, do not be alarmed at the alarms. |
| 1:19.1 | So irresistible. |
| 1:20.6 | I guess we maybe need to give a little bit of background on what irresistible is. |
| 1:24.9 | And because you're the person who wrote on it, reviewed it for Slate, Sam. |
| 1:27.7 | Do you want to tell us about John Stewart's second venture into being a filmmaker and writer-director? |
| 1:33.8 | Do I? |
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