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Orson Welles in a Snuggie Edition

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dana Stevens and Stephen Metcalf are joined by The Atlantic's David Sims, host of the podcast Blank Check to discuss the two new Orson Welles projects on Netflix, Robyn's new album Honey, and the concept of the "blank check" in the film industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.4

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0:16.0

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0:18.0

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0:20.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:23.2

I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Sla Culture Gap Fest, Orson Wells in a snuggy edition.

0:38.0

It's Wednesday, November 7th, 2018.

0:41.0

On today's show, Orson Wells spend years, years and years trying to finance and shoot and finish a movie called The Other Side of the Wind.

0:47.0

Netflix has made a documentary about it and finished the film, and probably we watched both. and then Robin with a why the Swedish dance pop

0:56.1

authorist has a new record we discuss with slates music critic Carl Wilson and finally a director

1:02.1

makes a hit movie after which he gets a blank check.

1:05.0

It's a familiar pattern in Hollywood history and there's a podcast about it.

1:09.0

And I will just segue right into introducing our fill in for Julia this week.

1:13.6

David Sims is the co-host of Blank Jack

1:16.0

and he's the film critic for the Atlantic.

1:17.4

Hey David, welcome to our show.

1:19.2

Hi, thank you for having me guys.

1:21.4

Yeah, thanks a lot for coming in and of course Dana Stevens is

1:24.5

film critic of sleep.com hey hey Dana greetings Stephen I'm feeling Julia's

1:29.9

robot role. A weird fun fact about today's show is we're angsty about an ambiguity and

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