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I'm Stephen Metcalfin.

This is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, That's My Gingerbread Edition.

This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, December 9th, 2009.

On today's program, we're going to talk about

a decade of convulsive change in the music business, and perhaps on a related note,

selling out is such a thing even possible anymore. And finally, the life omnivore known as

Facebook. Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And our film critic, Dana Stevens, hey, Dana. Hi, Stephen. How you doing? Pretty well. Good. Nice to see you. And Jody Rosen. Julia, how are you doing? Oh, I'm fine. I'm fine, Steve. Don't mind me. We're all, it's, we're basically four hollow-died zombies today, but we're being sustained by our producer, Jesse Baker's incredibly

sumptuous presence, but also the gingerbread that she brought, which is, oh my gosh.

It's occupying a place of honor in the middle of the table right now.

I think, Dana, you once called your cup of coffee Liquid Life, right?

So this gingerbread is life in cube form?

In wet, moist cube form.

And Jody, did I get to you yet?

Speaking of moist cube form morning.

Joining us today is Moist Cube.

A moist cube of Jody Rosen.

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