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🗓️ 31 March 2010

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the new CBS television show Undercover Boss, the language of coming out when your a celebrity and the website TV Tropes.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.1	The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible, offering more than 50,000 downloadable audio
0:14.2	news.
0:15.4	CultureFest listeners can download a free audio book by signing up for an Audible membership
0:20.6	at Audiblepodcast.com
0:23.0	slash culturefist.
0:26.2	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Shake Your Bon Bon
0:30.2	Edition.
0:30.9	This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, March 31st, 2010.
0:36.2	On today's program, the CBS hit reality TV show, undercover boss, famous and coming out, and finally, TV tropes.
0:45.0	Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.
0:47.7	Hello, Julia.
0:48.5	Hi, Stephen.
0:49.1	So nice to be back.
0:50.2	And our film critic, Dana Stevens.
0:51.7	Hey, Dana.
0:52.2	Hey, Stephen.
0:53.0	First, clear something up for me. I've heard this horrible rumor that last week you did a show without me.
0:59.9	Not only do we do a show, Steve. We did a show in which we talked about rockists and music criticism.
1:06.1	You were sorely missed. And Alex Chilton. It was terrible.
1:14.5	There was a yawning Steve-shaped hole in that show, I have to say. Yeah, we just let Jody run rampant and proclaim the dominance of pop music. Nobody argued with him when he said the Jonas Brothers were a triumph of power.
1:22.6	Oh my God, I'm shriveling like the, that you've poured water on the Wicked Witch, basically.
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