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On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss the Amazon original series Catastrophe. Does the British import give in to typical sitcom pregnancy plots, or subvert them? Next, Slate deputy editor and resident Dead Head John Swansburg joins the critics to talk the Grateful Dead. Is the band’s 50th anniversary tour really its last hoorah? Finally, the gabbers welcome Slate staff writer Leon Neyfakh on the show to discuss his new book, The Next Next Level, about the rapper Juiceboxxx and what makes some people strive to become artists.
Links to some of the things we discussed this week:
- Amazon’s original series Catastrophe
- You’re the Worst
- Rob Delaney’s Twitter feed
- The Simpsons
- 30 Rock
- “Eyes of the World” by the Grateful Dead
- “Dark Star” by the Grateful Dead
- Grateful Dead fan recordings at Archive.org
- Phish
- String Cheese Incident
- John Swansburg’s Grateful Dead Spotify playlist
- Netflix’s The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir
- “Me and My Uncle” by the Grateful Dead
- “Promised Land” by Chuck Berry
- The Next Next Level by Leon Neyfakh
- Juiceboxxx
- “Like a Renegade” by Juiceboxxx
- Linda Cardellini dances to “Box of Rain” at the end of Freaks and Geeks
- Dana Stevens’ review of Results for Slate
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Endorsements:
Dana: “Morning Dew” by Einstürzende Neubauten and the Grateful Dead–themed final episode of Freaks and Geeks
Julia: A recipe for nose-to-tail lemonade in New York magazine
Leon: Results
Steve: Corrective articles about the “Grexit” crisis from the Financial Times, Guardian, and Foreign Policy
Outro: “Morning Dew” by Einstürzende Neubauten
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