Culture Gabfest
New York Times critic Dwight Garner says “The Slate Culture Gabfest is one of the highlights of my week.” The award-winning Culturefest features critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner debating the week in culture, from highbrow to pop. For more of Slate’s culture podcasts, check out the Slate Culture feed.Want more Culture Gabfest? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now...
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Austin Butler Is Caught Cat Sitting Edition
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Denzel and Spike Remix a Classic Edition
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Alien is Back Now With More Aliens Edition
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The Naked Gun And The Nearly Naked Momoa Edition
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Summer Strut 2025 Edition
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Trump Goes on Down to South Park Edition
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Colbert is Cancelled Edition
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Woke Superman Saves the Box Office Edition
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Sorry, Straight White Male Novelist Edition
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Brad Pitt’s Victory Lap Edition
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Daddygang Rage Virus Edition
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Can Materialists Revive the Rom-com Edition
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Pee Wee’s Big Documentary Edition
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The Creator of Succession Takes on the Broligarchy Edition
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Tom Cruise Nearly Died So You Would Like this Movie Edition
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Can Tim Robinson Save Friendship Edition
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The 3 Blake Lively Problem Edition
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Refeed: Annual Call-In Show 2024
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Andor is a Star Wars Series That Actually Feels Real Edition
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Is Sinners Hollywood’s Salvation?
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Putting the Asinine in Astronaut
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Dying for Sex and Living in Malls
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Seth Rogen’s Love/Hate Letter to Hollywood
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Netflix’s Incel Tragedy Adolescence
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Cate Blanchett Is a Sexy Super Spy
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Meghan Markle Sprinkles Potpourri on You
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Zero Day Makes Robert De Niro a Befuddled President
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The Oscars Go Streaming
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Congratulations! You Finally Got Your Severance.
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The SNL 50th Anniversary Industrial Complex
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Noah Wyle Lures Us Into The Pitt
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One of Them Movies About Women That Stuns Hollywood by Being a Hit
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Chalamet Goes Electric
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Babygirls and Nickel Boys
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The Brutalist’s Outsized Ambition
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Annual Call-In Show 2024
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Ted Danson, Gumshoe Grandpa
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The Strange Lionization of Luigi Mangione
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Steve McQueen’s Blitz: Dud or Hit?
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Wicked and Gladiator II in the Box Office Arena
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Lots to Say About Say Nothing
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You Are the Media Now
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How Quincy Jones Reinvented American Music
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Can Stolen Artifacts Return Time?
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Anora Pole Dances to The Oscars
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Does The Apprentice Make Trump Sympathetic?
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The Wild Robot’s Big Heart
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Demi Moore Gives Substance to The Substance
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Colin Farrell Quacks Like a Penguin
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Rebel Ridge’s Violent Ode to Non-Violence
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