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It's Wednesday, July 13th, 2011.

On today's program, Jason Zineman and the History and Future of the Horror genre,

Bill Wyman on the Napstering of Hollywood and Antidepressants, humane curative, or Big Pharma hoax. Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. You're not a big pharma hoax. I'm not a hoax at all. No, your reality embodied. I don't know. What the hell am I talking about. Dana Stevens, our film critic. Hey, Dana.

Hey, Steve.

You are a big pharma hoax. Just to be clear. She's just a shimmering mirage of pills. It's like a magic eye. All right, Julia, before we plunge in, we want to address a couple of issues from last week's show. What do we have? Yeah. We just wanted to mention in last week's segment about

children in sex slavery, we took Ashton and Demi to task for touting a figure that there were

100 to 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States that the village voice had pointed out was

specious and false. It turns out actually Ashton Coucher had acknowledged that that number was

problematic and that he'd cited it incorrectly in his interview on CNN prior to our recording. So we hadn't

we hadn't seen that he'd done that and he did. So he's taking some responsibility for the facts.

All right, Steve. On to our first segment. All right. Well, for our first segment, we're joined in

studio by Jason Zineman, author of Shock Value, how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror. Jason, welcome to the program. Great to have you. Thank you. Great to be here. We should also say that you're writing a series extrapolated in some ways from the argument of your book, Four Slate that's up this week,

a four-part series. Last week, it ran last week. It's running again this week. You guys

are really good, shamelessly promoting this book. This is already a horror show. It's a House of

Horace in here. I don't know if anyone warned you. Okay. Well, anyway, it ran sometime.

I don't know.

It was great whenever it ran.

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