We Go To S-Town

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We’re back! And we’re picking up right where we left off: thinking about “Get Out.” Jordan Peele’s instant classic is the lens through which we’re seeing everything these days, from the hit podcast “S-Town” to that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad the internet will never let us forget. We've got a grand theory about how it all connects.

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:01.7	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:03.2	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.9	I'm mostly right about how humans relate to technology.
0:08.6	And I'm mostly right about how movies and popular culture relate to humans.
0:12.0	Nice.
0:12.9	Thank you.
0:13.9	This is still processing.
0:25.5	Welcome to season two of still processing.
0:28.9	Honestly, it feels so good to be back in our pop culture confession booth.
0:33.4	Is that what we're calling it now?
0:34.6	I mean, it feels like it.
0:35.6	I mean, with that works for me, I mean,
0:38.0	OK, so instead of talking about our sins, although we can be naughty and nice.
0:41.8	So we'll talk about stuff we are thinking about and things that are on our minds.
0:46.8	Yes.
0:47.4	Wesley, what's been sticking with you recently?
0:49.5	Like tell me some things we've been on in mind.
0:51.6	OK, new Drake record.
0:53.3	It's got so much house music on it and so much appropriated British slang that I had one
0:57.6	question as much as I enjoy it.
0:59.6	It's not a contradiction to that, but is he the new Madonna?
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