The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen Macap and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Redneck Margarita

edition. On today's show, Black Panther is the record-chattering movie, the first

from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to star a black superhero.

It's being adored by audiences and critics alike on the way to a billion in global

B.O. We'll be joined by Carvel Wallace, who's the parenting advice columnist for

Slate as well as co-host of mom and dad are fighting podcast.

And then Queer Eye gets a Netflix reboot, is this Purple State Nirvanavana or gay minstrel C will discuss with

slates own Brian louder. Finally the New York Times op-ed page a daring challenge to

liberal piety or just a total basket case.

Joining me today is Slate's

Hey Dana.

Hey Stephen.

And filling in for the swimming pool size shoes of Julia Turner,

we have big-footed

Wilapaskin slates TV critic I have no fear that those shoes are filled

Komp hi Steve hi Dana are you ready for the Fab Five to come over and make you 15% better?

I'm waiting on the corner of Gay and Straight.

Black Panther entered the theaters this past weekend with the expectation bar set very high across the board.

The movie was directed by Ryan Cougler who took the ultra-stale Rocky franchise and made it into something new and like really

genuinely vital I thought it was a terrific movie in an auteur film totally unexpectedly

it was called Creed but I guess it was Rocky Seven, whatever, we don't care.

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