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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest, empty calories edition.

This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, April 8th, 2009.

And I should say before we plunge in, that in two weeks we're going to do a segment on Twitter,

which I'm sure you've all been hearing about, to no end.

But we wanted to experience it first.

So each one of us is going to attempt to Twitter for the next couple of weeks. Julia is going to tweet? Julia, is that what it is? I think we tweet. Oh, geez. Okay. Julia is going to tweet under Julia Turner. Dana is going to tweet under the high sign, and I'll be under Metzania, M-E-T-Z-A-N-I-A.

Hold on there, CultureFrest listeners. This is your producer speaking. I'm sorry to break into the podcast quite so early, but in what I'm sure is simply an illustration of his newness to the Twitter game.

Stephen Metcalfe did give you the wrong address for his Twitter feed.

It should be Metlandia, not Metzania.

That's M-E-T-L-A-N-D-I-A.

Sorry for the interruption.

Now back to the show.

On today's program, we're going to talk about the new movie Sugar and Neo-Neo-Realism.

Could this possibly be a meaningful term?

Levy Johnston, could this possibly be a meaningful term?

And high-fructose corn syrup.

Yum.

And if you'd like to stick around at the end of the show,

I'm going to speak with Berkeley philosopher and neuroscientist Alvin Noah about his new book out of our heads. Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner, Julia, hello. Hi, Steve. And our film critic, Dana Stevens, hello, Dana. Hey. Dana, I'll need you, as always, to walk me through this very slowly. But as I understand it, here's the progression, general progression of events. There's a new movie out that's getting good

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