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Carbonite.com. That offer code is Slate. I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture

Gabfest junk-touching edition. It's Wednesday, November 24th, and on today's program, we're going

to talk about the recent outcry over the TSA's

new scanning procedures, about Mike and Molly, the new sitcom, about an overweight couple falling

in love, and about public speaking, HBO's new documentary about Fran Libowitz. You are hearing my

voice today because Steve is off in an underground layer bathing in a bath of crystals and echinacea to prepare himself for next week's live show in Seattle.

So we will be at full strength and you can still sign up for that live show in Seattle on the evening of November 30th at slate.com slash Seattle.

I will note, we are now within 15 RSVPs of topping the

political Gab Fest response number for their recent live show in Michigan. So please ask

everyone you know in Seattle to come out so that we can tromple their numbers wholeheartedly.

Joining me today is Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens.

Hey, Julia.

And for our first segment, we're joined by Slate's culture editor, John Swansberg.

Hi, John.

Hi, good to be here.

Let's talk about the new TSA's greetings.

I feel like I woke up on Monday morning and suddenly all the major media outlets in the world were using the phrase junk and don't touch my junk. Suddenly, junk is all over

major Metropolitan Dailies, the internet, and everywhere else. It is not the phrase I want to read in the

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