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🗓️ 30 June 2010

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dan Engber, Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, Dana Stevens, James Sturm, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss life without the Internet, June’s must see list of summer TV shows and love 'em or hate 'em no Fourth of July is complete without fireworks.

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0:00.0	The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible, offering more than 50,000 downloadable audiobooks.
0:12.4	CultureFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership at Audiblepodcast.com slash culturefest.
0:22.5	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Beauty in the Sky Edition.
0:27.1	This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, June 30th, 2010.
0:32.2	On today's program, the cartoonist James Durham lives offline.
0:36.4	Summer TV with our very own June Thomas, and Dan Engber and Troy Patterson duke it out over the virtues of fireworks. Joining me today are Slate's Deputy Editor Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Julia. Hi, Steve. And our film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hello, Steve. James Sturm is co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, and his most recent book is Market Day.
0:55.9	James, thank you so much for joining us.
0:57.4	You're doing a...
0:59.3	Julia, what would you call it, a column?
1:00.8	It's a column, a series for Slate.
1:02.7	In which you give up the Internet for four months and live completely offline and document it in cartoons.
1:14.5	One of the things that I find very provocative about this contribution to Slate is that we've only been connected in this way for, you know, 15 years of
1:20.9	human history, and yet it's completely taken over our mind and our spirit. Our lives are
1:25.3	slowly being thieved by this connectivity. And it's
1:29.4	amazing to think that we get some portion of our life back from disconnectivity after only having
1:34.4	developed this habit for 15 years. And yet our brains and our lifestyle seem to have reshaped
1:38.8	themselves completely for it. Tell me, what's your experience been like offline?
1:43.2	Yeah. Well, and I agree with what you just said. I feel like culturally we have like
1:46.6	indigestion that we've just like taken too much and we're just, you know, now all just like
1:52.2	not functioning properly. And part of going offline was to kind of like let my system
1:56.9	rest a little bit so I can kind of revisit my relationship with the internet.
2:03.4	And basically it started four or so months ago when I just felt my behavior was just so
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