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🗓️ 20 January 2010

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Troy Patterson, Dana Stephens and June Thomas discuss the Golden Globes, the Americanization of Mental Illness from the New York Times Magazine and the latest video to go viral from American Idol.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.4	The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible,
0:11.3	offering more than 50,000 downloadable audiobooks.
0:15.4	CultureFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership
0:20.7	at Audiblepodcast.com
0:23.1	slash culture.
0:26.0	I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Golden Globalization Edition.
0:30.5	This is also the daily podcast from Slate.com for Wednesday, January 20th, 2010.
0:35.0	On today's program, we're going to talk about the Golden Globes,
0:38.7	Ethan Waters article on the Americanization of mental illness in the recent New York Times
0:42.4	magazine, and the viral video American Idol sensation, pants on the ground. So, I'm here with
0:48.9	June Thomas, Slate's foreign editor. Hi, June. Hey, Dana. And with Troy Patterson, our TV critic.
0:53.5	Ladies.
0:59.3	Hello. So I should also mention that this is my first ever time hosting the Gab Fest. So I'm a little nervous. Bear with me here. I have big vegan shoes to fill. And we should also note that, sadly,
1:05.8	our beloved Julia Turner is on leave for the next three weeks working on a research project. So she
1:10.0	will be out until the beginning of February.
1:13.7	So the Golden Globes are rapidly getting old. We have to cover them while there's still
1:17.6	something to say about them. I like Merrill Streep and her acceptance speech at the Globes
1:21.6	am deeply divided on this whole award season. And for whatever reason, I don't know if it was Haiti
1:26.0	or just things that happened to be happening to me this weekend, but I was not able to get into the spirit that the Globes demanded this weekend. I mean, on the one hand, there's the fun and the frivolity of this ceremony and seeing what everybody wears, and I can completely get into the celebration. On the other hand, you know, at any moment, it can suddenly slide over into just that awful grasping for prestige thing
1:46.2	that these awards are. And I'm wondering how you two experienced it and whether you were able to
1:49.5	get into the spirit. I experienced it on my couch. We had people over for dinner. They cooked,
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