Culture Gabfest: Is Love Blind?
This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest host and Slate staff writer Dan Kois talk about the hit Netflix dating reality show Love Is Blind with Slate podcast producer Daniel Schroeder. Next, they discuss tomboys, jumping off of a recent New York Times op-ed. Finally, the panel takes on the coronavirus, analyzing the epidemic through various pieces of culture.\xa0\n\nOn the Slate Plus segment this week, the panel discusses a New York Times op-ed from an editor whose ex-boyfriend is now dating Lady Gaga.\xa0\n\nPodcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Additional production help by Rosemary Belson.\n\nOutro Music: 'Shattered & Hollow' by First Aid Kit\nEndorsements\n\nDan: The graphic memoir Tomboy by Liz Prince.\n\nPitchfork\u2019s Sunday Reviews.\n\nJulia: The viral video where a camera falls from an airplane\u2026\n\nSteve: \u201cNo Ghost in the Machine\u201d by Mark Halpern in the American Scholar.\n\nThe album Stay Gold by First Aid Kit.\n\n\nHosts\n\nStephen Metcalf\nJulia Turner\nDan Kois\n\nSocial Media\n\n@slatecultfest on Twitter\nhttps://twitter.com/slatecultfest\n@slateculturepodcasts on Facebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/slateculturepodcasts/\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices