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🗓️ 5 May 2010

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and June Thomas discuss a new biography of Oprah, the Data-Driven Life as quantified by Gary Wolf, and the new film Please Give from director Nicole Holofcener.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.7	I'm Stephen Metcath, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Optimization of Selfhood Edition.
0:14.2	This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, May 5th, 2010.
0:19.0	On today's program, Oprah Winfrey, the world's most, what, powerful
0:22.6	woman, probably June? Probably. The data-driven life. And please give the new film by Nicole
0:28.7	Hall of Center. Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And our
0:34.4	film critic, Dana, and also June Thomas, Slate's foreign editor.
0:39.5	Hey, welcome.
0:40.3	Thank you, thank you.
0:41.0	It's great to have you here.
0:42.1	One reason you're here is to help us talk about Oprah Winfrey.
0:45.1	The peg, such as it is for the segment, is the new biography by Kitty Kelly.
0:50.3	Kitty Kelly is known for, what, extremely long, thoroughly researched.
0:56.2	And completely unauthorized.
0:58.0	Completely unauthorized and possibly somewhat overstretched and insinuatingly presented biographies.
1:05.6	Her latest subject is Oprah Winfrey.
1:08.3	June, we should say, by way, full disclosure, you and I have read the biography.
1:12.0	I'm writing about it for Slate.
1:13.2	You've written about it for Business Week.
1:16.0	Dana and Julia are just Oprah Watchers,
1:18.8	as pretty much everyone in the culture is.
1:20.6	But let's dig right in.
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