Queen of Shade Edition

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dana Stevens, Isaac Butler, and Benjamin Frisch discuss HBO's documentary The Inventor about the Theranos scandal, the meteoric rise of Rupaul's Drag Race, and Netflix's awkward attempt at branding itself in the wake of cancelling the beloved show One Day at a Time. 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	Hello I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest Queen of Shade Edition.
0:18.0	It's Wednesday, March 20, 2019, and on today's show, The Inventor is a new HBO documentary directed by Alex Gibney that profiles Elizabeth Holmes
0:25.6	and the Theranos scandal.
0:27.3	It's one of several competing properties now profiting on the story of this Silicon Valley
0:31.1	fraud.
0:32.1	Why is this resonating right now?
0:33.7	We will discuss.
0:35.0	Then we returned to RuPaul's Drag Race.
0:37.4	We last covered the show in 2012
0:39.1	back when it was a low-rated curiosity.
0:40.9	Now it's a world-conquering phenomenon. What should we make of drag going mainstream?
0:45.0	And finally, we will talk about brands, social media, and marketing.
0:48.0	When Netflix tells us it's so sorry that it canceled one day at a time,
0:52.0	should we believe it?
0:53.2	Stephen and Julia are both out this week,
0:54.8	but I am joined in the room by the co-author of the World Only Spence
0:58.9	Forward and the host of Slates, lend me your ears
1:01.0	podcast, Mr. Isaac Butler.
1:02.6	Hello Dana.
1:03.6	You're becoming such a friend of the program, a FOP,
1:06.6	you need your own special FOP acronym.
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