I'm Stephen Metcath, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Wow edition.

This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Thursday, November 6th, 2008.

On today's program, we're going to talk about, guess what?

Obama, Obama, and Obama.

And we'll attempt to artificially divide our gushing up into three discrete segments.

The first will be, is this a sea change in American life to have elected the first African-American

president? And second, we'll talk about the media coverage of the event.

And thirdly, I think we'll wrap up by talking about what on earth is going to fill this enormous vacuum from the termination in the aftermath of the election cycle.

And that sound you heard in case you couldn't tell, that was a bottle of Prosecco being opened by the three of us.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Cheers.

Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.

Hello, Julia.

Hi, Steve.

And our film critic, Dana Stevens.

Hey, Dana.

Hey, Steve.

Before we dive in, this is obviously a completely anomalous moment for everybody.

How do we feel about those?

I feel like all the rules are different. Right after they call it,

we popped a bottle of champagne in my house, and I was trying to pour it into very thin glass glasses,

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