Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest: Swarm of Humbugs Edition

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🗓️ 15 December 2010

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech and NBC sitcom Community. They’re joined by Slate’s Daniel Engber to discuss the state of peer review.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:06.4	This episode of the Slate Culture Gab Fest,
0:09.4	and a special insider survey for this podcast,
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0:27.4	And take the Insider Survey for Slate's CultureGabFest at podcastinsidersurvey.com.
0:36.2	Once again, that's podcastinsidersurvey.com.
0:41.3	I'm Stephen Metcath, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Swarm of Humbugs Edition.
0:46.3	It's Wednesday, December 15th, 2010.
0:48.9	On today's program, The King's Speech, a new very posh indie import with the wonderful Colin Firth and the equally
0:54.6	wonderful Jeffrey Rush, the NBC Metacom community, and the state of peer review with Slate's
1:00.3	own Dan Engber.
1:01.7	Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.
1:04.2	Hello, Julia.
1:05.3	Hi, Steve.
1:06.1	Fresh from the holiday party.
1:07.6	Yes.
1:08.8	Steve and I were living it up, lamenting Dana's absence. And our film critic, Dana, Steven's, hey, Dana, you didn't make an appearance last night. I had to spend time with Ben Stiller and Terry Polo last night. Oh, goodness. I didn't realize it was little Fokkers that was keeping you from us. That's even sad. The indignity. Fye upon you and that movie, you were so sorely missed. A quick clarification. We got a lot of
1:32.9	mail and a lot of feedback on the Facebook page about what would have been a wonderful
1:37.0	bettees, which was tons of overlapping voices of people talking past one another and sort
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