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...
Notable Guests
Episodes (933)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Revives Tim Burton
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Jeff Goldblum Lords Over KAOS
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Vince Vaughn is Back in Bad Monkey
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Will Industry Succeed Succession?
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Blake Lively Brings Melodrama Back
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Culture Gabfest “Summer Strut 2024”
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Deadpool & Wolverine #%&$ the Box Office
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Twisters Blows Away the Box Office
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Longlegs Has Legs
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Has The Bear Jumped the Shark?
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Celine Dion’s Heart Goes On
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Much Ado About Ren Faire
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Does Inside Out 2 Get Anxiety Right?
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Can The Acolyte Redeem Star Wars on TV?
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What Even Is Garfield?
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Furiosa’s Glower
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Can Babes Make Childbirth Funny?
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Damn Dirty Apes
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Ryan Gosling Falls for Emily Blunt
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Zendaya Plays Doubles
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Taylor Swift’s Messy Maximalism
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Civil War: What Is It Good For?
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Dev Patel Goes John Wick
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Beyoncé’s Country Kaleidoscope
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Jon Stewart Returns
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Kristen Stewart Pumps Iron
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The Oscars Are Back, Baby!
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Timothée Chalamet Rides the Worm
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J.Lo’s This Is… What Now?
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Remarried
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We’re Saving Our Own Lives
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Why Zone of Interest Is Dividing Critics
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Life and Art, from FT Weekend: Comfort Watch: Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
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American Fiction, Oscar Contender?
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True Detective’s Coldest Case Yet
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When Mean Girls Sing
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Much Ado About Anyone But You
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Willy Wonka, Naive Sweetheart?
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Encore: Barbenheimer Blockbuster Bonanza
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Annual Call-In Show 2023
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Emma Stone’s Horny Frankenstein Movie
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The Beyhive Swarms the Box Office
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Napoleon Attempts to Conquer
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Nathan Fielder Goes Even Fuller Cringe
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Nicolas Cage is Your Nightmare
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Does Voice-Over Kill the Killer?
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Priscilla's Heartbreak Hotel
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Scorsese’s Killer Epic
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Swifties at the Movies
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Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson Style
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