Checkin' It Thrice Edition

Slate Culture

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Laura Miller discuss the best TV, books, and movies of 2015. The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Prudential’s 40/40 Vision, a multimedia microsite exploring what life—and the future—looks like to today’s 40-somethings. Hear what inspires real people, the hopes they have for tomorrow, and much more. See yourself in their stories at slate.com/4040vision/family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Slate's 4040 Vision, a multimedia micro site exploring what life and the future looks like to today's 40-somethings.
0:10.0	Here what inspires real people, the hopes they have for tomorrow, and much more.
0:15.0	See yourself in their stories at slate.com slash 4040 vision slash family.
0:20.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:24.0	I'm Stephen MacCaffin's the Slate Culture Gabfest
0:37.0	Checkin' It's Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015. On today's show
0:42.2	we do something a little different.
0:43.6	Gabfest and seasonal cheer come together as we discuss the year in admirable things.
0:47.8	That is, we discuss the top 10 lists in books, TV, and movies with Laura Miller, Willa Paskin, and Dana Stevens, respectively,
0:55.4	the slate critics in charge of those various departments.
0:58.3	And Laura Miller will be joining us to fill in with Julia Turner, who's out on holiday.
1:01.8	Laura, welcome to the show.
1:03.5	Thank you.
1:05.0	Dana, great to see you as always.
1:07.3	Hello, Stephen.
1:10.6	I've beenused you already.
1:12.2	The insincerity flows over the airwaves.
1:15.0	Silky, silky insincerity though.
1:19.0	Not everyone gets silky, Dana.
1:21.0	All right, before we go any further though, Dana, we do have some business to attend to.
1:25.0	What do we got?
1:26.0	All the business I have, Steve, is to mention to our Slate Plus listeners that our Slate Plus segment
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