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And the promo code culture. The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Julia Turner and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest about Lightning

edition. It's Wednesday April 22nd 2015 and on today's program we're going to

discuss about Ellie newly released in America, filmed by

Asgar Farhati, the brilliant Iranian director.

And then we'll talk about Gwyneth Paltrow, who has taken the Snap Challenge and attempted

to live on the amount of money that food stamp recipients

get for a week unsuccessfully?

Is she an entitled snot or a valuable empathic spokesman?

And then we'll talk about the movie trailer.

We've seen two big ones in the past week, the trailer of the new Star Wars movie, the

supposedly leaked trailer of Batman versus Superman which looks so dark I can't even

describe it in an appropriate tone of voice and how this advertisement slash art form has evolved over the past few decades.

And on today's slate plus segment, the historian sits down at his desk.

He's trying to figure out what tends to use.

He doesn't know whether to add those Ds to the ends of all his verbs.

Should he or should he not use the historical present?

We will discuss on Slate Plus.

Joining me today from his Ghent studio is Slates Stephen Metcalf.

Hi Steve.

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