Hello, Slate Culture Gabfest listeners.

I am coming to you on a Friday.

This is Julia Turner, the editor-in-chief of Slate,

to tell you about something new.

We are launching a feature in this feed called Culture Cabfest Presents where we will bring you

fascinating culture content on days where we don't give you one of our Culture

Gabfest shows. Today we are introducing something I'm extremely excited

about, a monthly show from one of our favorite culture get-fest contributors, Chris Malanfi.

Hello, Chris.

Hey Julia, how are you?

Good, I'm so excited for what we're unveiling today.

As am I?

Please tell our listeners what they are about to hear.

So it's going to be a monthly podcast called Hit Parade.

And it's basically a storytelling podcast, slightly long form, not too long telling stories about the

hits from yester year and bringing you up wherever possible to the present day.

So we're going to you know take just little stories about number one hits or maybe in the future, smaller hits and talk about how they became hits. As I always say, what's interesting about why songs become hits as part of my why is this song number one

column for slate is it's a mix of art and commerce right it's the song itself and

it's it's the machinations behind the song so that's what we will do with hit parade

and a bit of the historical and cultural moment

at which those songs drop.

I mean, that's one of my favorite things about your column.

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