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I'm Stephen Metcalfe, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest.

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It's Wednesday, October 27th, 2010.

On today's program, The Rividing Documentary Inside Job, the new FX

Show Terriers, and Wither the Hipster and Anthropological Exploration. Joining me today are Slate's

film critic, Dana. I never do it in that order. I like it. I like it. Stick with it.

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

And Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner, Julia.

Hi, Steve.

When's the title, I think this is the first.

I really thoroughly enjoyed all three things that we're talking about today.

But enough of that.

And on to Inside Job is a documentary by Charles Ferguson, who also made no end in sight,

which Dana Stevens tells me is one of the definitive documentaries about the Iraq War and the run-up to the Iraq War.

Inside Job explains not just the 2008 credit crash and the mechanics of the subprime mortgage debacle.

What it really explains, in my estimation, and with a high degree of patience, and fairly good access to key figures is the origins, nurturance and ultimate takeover of the regulatory state by Ponzi-style capitalism.

Dana, I thought it was an absolutely terrific movie. This is a subject that I know a little bit about, and it completely satisfied me in every way.

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