The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, get a load of this clown edition.

It's Wednesday, September 28, 2016.

On today's show, what started as a fringe festival monologue is now a six-parter on Amazon. Flea Bag is a witheringly cynical and funny look at a

young London woman's life and disarray, sexual and otherwise. And then, like the sun burning out,

we knew it would come, but lived in denial of the inevitable. It's an extinction level event, the end of the biggest, glitziest, most celebrityist celebrity couple. It's here. Brangelina is no more. Hold me up. Fan me. I don't know if I'm going to make it. I'm really upset. Steve's looking very piqued. Very. This is bad. And finally, until recently, Addy Walker was the lone black American girl doll. We discussed the story behind Adi's creation on what she meant to young girls of color forced and ambivalently to make do with her. We discussed this with Slate's own Aisha Harris. Joining me today is Dana Stevens, the film critic for Slate. Hey, Dana.

Well, I got introduced first. Does this indicate an uptick in your affection?

I guess I was cavilling over the performance of civilization in the person of Hillary Clinton last night.

And thus.

Thus, somehow I ascended in the ranks. I don't know.

She is wearing a red. You are wearing red.

Shall I do a shoulder shimmy? Yes, do it. Oh, your shimmy is really good. Oh, dear. But don't smile too much or be over-prepared. And of course, Julia Turner is Slate's editor. Hey, Julia. Hi, Steve. We're all here in one room. It's so delightful. I know. It's so embodied. It's nice. Yes. Corporial. Surely we have business.

Numero uno. We are coming to Los Angeles. We will be there Thursday, October 13th at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Our show is on the verge of selling out.

So get your tickets now.

If you're a Slate Plus member, you'll get a discounted ticket.

And we will be talking amongst ourselves and also to Carina Longworth, the absolutely knockout wonderful hostess of the great podcast.

You must remember this, which I think we have all independently endorsed at this point.

You can get tickets now at slate.com slash live, and we're very excited to see you there.

If we sell it out, I think Steve and Dana are going to sing something.

Never said that.

Never said that, not doing music.

If only there were some way to, like, verify what had been said before on the show, like some kind of, yeah.

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