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🗓️ 23 December 2009

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jessica Grose, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the best TV shows and films of the year and decade and the polluted waters of MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.1	The Culture Gap Fest is sponsored by Audible,
0:11.3	offering more than 50,000 downloadable audio books.
0:15.4	CultureFest listeners can download a free audio book
0:18.5	by signing up for an Audible membership
0:20.6	at Audiblepodcast.com slash
0:23.7	culture.
0:26.2	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest.
0:29.4	Do you want to touch my Poof edition?
0:31.7	This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009.
0:37.2	On today's program, the best TV shows of the year and decade, the best movies of the
0:42.7	year and decade, and the time has finally arrived to wade into the polluted waters of Jersey
0:48.5	Shore.
0:49.4	Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.
0:52.3	Hello, Julia.
0:53.2	Hi, Steve.
0:54.0	And our film critic, Dana Stevens. Hello, Stephen. How's it going, Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And our film critic, Dana
0:54.9	Stevens. Hey, Dan. How's it going? Pretty well. Good. And June Thomas, June, welcome.
1:00.3	Thank you. I noticed you're not wearing headphones. No, Stephen. Welcome. We're here to talk about the
1:09.4	best TV shows of the year and the decade.
1:14.4	We defer to you on all things television.
1:17.0	So why don't you take it away?
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