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🗓️ 22 September 2010

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new HBO series Boardwalk Empire and the controversial documentary Catfish. They are also joined by Slate contributor Joshua Wolf Shenk to talk about John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and his series on creative pairs.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.3	This week's episode of Slate's Culture Gab Fest is brought to you by Carbonite, the leader in online backup.
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0:21.5	That offer code is Slate.
0:24.4	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Velveteen Gabfest edition.
0:29.1	It's Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010.
0:31.7	On today's program, the new HBO series, Boardwalk Empire, the ever-so tantalizing documentary Catfish and creative pairs with Slate contributor Joshua Wolfshank.
0:41.8	Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.
0:44.3	Hello, Julia.
0:45.0	Hi, and our film critic, Dana Stevens.
0:47.1	Hey, Dana.
0:47.6	Hey, Dave.
0:48.6	Julia.
0:49.5	Let's dig right in with Boardwalk Empire.
0:51.8	It's huge.
0:53.6	It's expensive. It's expensive.
0:54.8	It's massively promoted.
0:56.9	Is it any good?
0:57.9	What do you think?
0:58.9	So I watched the pilot, the first episode, directed by Martin Scorsese, which ran on Sunday night.
1:04.9	And I have not seen the rest of the show.
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