We Are a Sacred Troupe Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Gabriel Roth discuss Armando Iannucci's new film The Death of Stalin about the power struggle's in the days after Stalin's death in 1953 Soviet Russia, NBC's new musical series Rise about a high school drama director, and the power or lack thereof of Twitter metrics and if we'd be better off without them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Julia Turner and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest. We are a Sacred Troop
0:19.5	edition. It's Wednesday, March 21st, 2018, and on today's show, The Death of Stalin, a new film from Vip and In the
0:27.4	the Loop creator Armando Iannucci about the power struggles in the aftermath of the dictator's
0:31.6	death in Soviet Russia.
0:33.0	Then Rise, aka Friday Night Musical.
0:38.0	An NBC drama from Jason Cadham's showrunner of Friday Night Lights
0:42.0	and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller about a high school theater program. and And finally we chat about Twitter metrics and what it's like not to look at them
0:55.8	thanks to a relatively new web extension called the Demetricator made by Ben
1:01.2	Grocer. I'm joined as always by Slate Film Critic Dana Stevens.
1:04.8	Hello Dana. Good morning Julia. And filling in for a vacationing Stephen Metcalf who
1:10.2	sent us a very jolly email from London in the middle of the night last night.
1:14.3	I don't know if you got that email.
1:15.2	Oh yeah, he was praising the muse.
1:17.2	He's enjoying the muse of the city.
1:18.9	He's muse bound and we are joined by Sleep Plus Editorial Director and the host of Slate's mom and dad
1:24.4	our fighting podcast, Gabriel Roth.
1:26.4	Hi.
1:27.4	Hi. Hi.
1:28.4	I never get to be on the show with you because you often subbed for me.
1:30.1	Yes, I'm thrilled to be here with you.
1:32.1	Likewise, hopefully our band are going to live up to this hype.
1:35.0	All right, let's get to it.
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