Slate Culture Feed

I’ve been listening to the Culture Gabfest for many years and Steve, Dana and Julia feel like old friends who guide me through whatever is new, trendy or worth paying attention to.

The hosts are brilliant It’s so current and keeps me up to date Their smartly formed opinions help me understand what’s going on in the world! Thank you

Great interviews that always contain useful and motivating content. Like a helpful, humble, honest pep talk.

To podcast peruser: Do it. They are brilliant to a person. Even when you disagree it’ll be interesting. They don’t interrupt each other. Fantastic mix of topics. They give a sh** about the world. Probably not for you if you just want updates on reality shows—although they do weirdly seem to keep coming back to the bachelorette (not my thing but I appreciate whatever they’re doing). You will find things you will love forever. To gabbers: I still make that chickpea recipe occasionally (with actual chickpeas, weirdos) and Sharon Van Etten rocks my world. Please change nothing, make the show forever, give us plenty of notice to see you live, keep raising up underrepresented voices, and accept our thanks.

In the Ep, “America’s Obsession with Trans Women”, reduced own arguments to nothing when she resorted to name calling and rudeness towards whole groups of people with one person as an example (“mids”, celebrities are all dumb, etc). Would have been much more effective to practice the respect for all that you ironically were preaching. What a shame, because I think approached differently, this could have been a good episode and an opportunity to teach rather than a turn off.

I really enjoy the Culture Gabfest, but just be aware that if you subscribe, Slate will fill your phone with dozens of other unrelated shows such as Thirst Aid Kit, Working, Decoder Ring, etc. I don’t want to listen to these. Please stop pushing them in this feed.