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I'm Stephen my calf and, this is the Slay Culture Gap Fest, all this science I don't understand,

addition. It's Wednesday, June 5th, 2019.

On Today Show, Rocketman is a fanciful biopic of the legendary pianist singer-songwriter,

Rock icon, Elton John.

And then Chernobyl is HBO's new limited series.

It's a dramatized deep dive into the catastrophic failure of the

nuclear reactor in the late 1980s and finally cops is the first and by almost any

measure the most successful reality TV show in history a new

podcast looks at how it's made who it is harmed and how it has framed our

understanding of crime in America.

Julia Turner will not be joining us today due to a,

I'm sorry to report medical emergency.

I hope she is doing well Julia get better.

So we've gathered up a team of people to see us through on a

on a last minute basis.

The culture editor of Slate is Forrest Wickman.

He's been choppered in.

Yeah, that's so true.

Forrest, how you doing?

Good.

Welcome back to the show.

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