Culture Gabfest: Do Androids Dream of Chris Pine?
This week, the panel is joined by June Thomas, co-host of Working (Slate\u2019s podcast on the creative process). They begin by digesting HBO\u2019s Julia Child series, Julia, starring one of June\u2019s favorites: Sarah Lancashire. Then, the panel dives into the world of AI with After Yang. Finally, the panel answers Dana\u2019s very important question: is Chris Pine the Robert Redford of our time?\xa0\nIn Slate Plus, the panel discusses their favorite Canadian cultural products.\nEmail us at culturefest@slate.com.\nEndorsements\nDana: An audiobook which revolutionized the way Dana thinks about Virginia Woolf:\xa0Mrs. Dalloway read by Juliet Stevenson (of Truly, Madly, Deeply fame).\nJune: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand about a wide range of ideas from World War 2 to The Cold War.\nSteve: An essay by general interest writer and professor Justin E. H. Smith, titled \u201cThe Punk-Prophet Philosophy of Michel Houellebecq,\u201d for Foreign Policy, in which he writes an uninhibitedly intelligent assessment of the famed French novelist and essayist.\nPodcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.\nOutro music is "I Want a Change" by The Big Let Down.\nSlate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now\xa0at slate.com/cultureplus.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices