Live From Toronto Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and Stephen Metcalf are live in Toronto to discuss Justin Trudeau as dreamboat meme factory, the critical under-recognition of Joni Mitchell with critic Carl Wilson, and the film Mudbound with director Dee Rees. It's pledge week on Slate podcasts! If you love the Culture Gabfest, support it by signing up for Slate Plus at Slate.com/CulturePlus and get ad-free shows and bonus segments. Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Right now, get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets plus free shipping by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code culture. And by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Home plays a big role in your life. That’s why Quicken Loans created Rocket Mortgage. It lets you apply simply and understand the entire mortgage process fully, so you can be confident that you’re getting the right mortgage for you. To get started, go to RocketMortgage dot com/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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen McCaffin. This is the Slate Culture Gap Fest live from Toronto edition. Greetings, polite, biolite, bilingual, multicultural, tolerant nanny status friends. We are your new American overlords. It's Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 on today's show.
1:20.0	Justin Trudeau is arguably the leader of the free world and as such she is bearer of the virtues of democracy and the enlightenment,
1:27.0	but far more critically he's clickbate.
1:30.0	What is it about the hunky boy king that generates means?
1:34.0	And then Joni Mitchell is a great, if not the greatest, singer-songwriter of both or any conceivable gender,
1:41.0	but what is it about her that confounds critics?
1:44.8	We ask a great critic we are lucky to have on hand Slates own Carl Wilson whose essay on
1:49.7	Johnny Mitchell appears in the current issue of Book Forum.
1:53.0	And then, Mudbound premiered at Sundance
1:55.6	and was screened at this week's Toronto Film Festival.
1:58.1	It is a violent, poignant, intense period epic
2:01.1	about two families, one one white.
2:03.4	We discussed this remarkable film
2:05.1	with its director, D. Reese.
2:07.0	And finally, on Slate Plus, Restaurant Tricks
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