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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Shrinky Dink Edition.

This is also the daily podcast from Slate.com for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009.

On today's program, we're going to talk about funny people, Judd Apatow's

latest dramedy, I suppose, the death of the music magazine and an encyclopedia of mental disorders.

Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Julia, hello. Hi, Steve. And our film critic

Dana Stevens, hello, Dana. Hi, Steve. And I should say say we're also joined by Slate's pop critic, Jonah Winer.

Hi, Jonah.

Hi.

Let's dive right in with the Jodapito movie.

Dana, Julia and I saw this movie together last night.

And so I have some initial sense of her response to it.

Also, I've gotten a little bit of I've taken the dipstick to the internet reviewing community

and discovered that they find the movie funny, of course, almost of course.

Nuanced, maybe.

Overlong and sometimes airless and ill-formed could be.

I'm very curious to know what you thought of.

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