Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, "Real Men Cheat on Their Wives" Edition

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🗓️ 6 July 2011

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Mark Oppenheimer's profile of Stranger columnist Dan Savage in the New York Times Magazine, and the Twitter fight between the Village Voice and Ashton Kutcher. For their third segment, our critics are joined by Slate editor Michael Agger to discuss his piece on 4chan's highly influential and somewhat revolting message board /b/ .

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.6	This Slate podcast is brought to you by Bing.com, a search engine that helps you make everyday decisions with the help of your friends.
0:15.1	Now, what your friends like on Facebook is in your search results on Bing.
0:21.2	I'm Stephen Metcath, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Real Men Cheat on Their Wives Edition.
0:26.5	It's Wednesday, July 6, 2011.
0:29.1	On today's program, Dan Savage and the Future of Marital Monogamy,
0:33.2	Ashton Coochre versus the Village Voice, and Slate's own Michael Agger on 4chan's influential message board, Julia.
0:40.4	It's called B.
0:41.9	Yeah.
0:43.3	Slash B slash.
0:44.7	Slash.
0:45.3	I don't know.
0:46.0	We got to wait until Agar gets here for that one.
0:47.7	Are you hitting me with that tone of withering incredulity or the topic?
0:53.5	It's like, well, we'll talk about it when we talk about it. Okay, fine. Joining me today is Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner, hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. You're in, what red, is that fire engine, Maraschino? What is it? Tomato? I don't know. Tomato? What color red is it? Yeah, I would say tomato. This time we'll take a picture. We can't always wax on Julia's clothing without ever posting a pick for our listeners.
1:14.2	I know.
1:14.6	It's always so notable. Also, Dana and Stephen are wearing blue and white stripes, both of them. And I'm wearing a red dress. So this is officially the Fourth of July Gab Fest. Yeah, you delivered. Long may we wave. I'm joined also by Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hi, Steve. Dana, how dare you equate us with the flag?
1:31.0	That's like some kind of flag desecration right there. It should be unconstitutional. I think so. Never compare a podcast to a flag, first than burning. Julia, so before we launch into our topics, you have something to say? I do. We are on the
1:45.9	hunt for an intern. Our marvelous intern, Forrest Wickman, is moving on to bigger and better things.
1:51.6	He has become an editorial assistant at Slate, and he no longer has time for us, which means we
1:55.8	need your help. We're hoping there's a listener somewhere in the New York area who has a few
1:59.8	hours a week to help us come up with topics, research them, write up our page notes. So if you're interested in this
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