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Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest Beautiful BlindSpot

edition.

It's Wednesday, January 23rd, 2018, and on today's show, First, The Fire Festival was a foe luxury music experience,

which was described by Slates Sam Adams as the equivalent of a Ponzi scheme for would-be social media influencers,

a snowball that gathered victims and cultural significance as it went.

Now it's the subject of two documentaries released days apart Netflix's Fire and Hulu's Fire Fraud,

but does either one get to the heart of who's really to blame for the debacle, we will discuss.

Then, the wife won Glenclosa Golden Globe Award and her seventh Oscar nomination for her star turn as a loyal self-effacing spouse of a soon to be Nobel Prize

winning novelist. This role has made close a front runner for best actress but

is the film itself anything more than just a vehicle for her performance? And finally

we will chat about the Oscar nominations

which were released just a few hours before we came into record this morning.

Stephen is out this week and Julia is off editing furiously for our first

segment but I'm joined to talk about the Fire Festival

and the two documentaries about it by Sam Adams the editor of Browbeat and a

culture writer at Slate. Hello Sam. Hello.

Hello. And also here with us in the studio for this first segment on Fire is Slate Staff Rider and for today our millennial slash music festival correspondent Shannon Palis.

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