The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen Meckaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Stinker Thinker Edition.

It's Wednesday, September 4th, 2019.

On today's show, On Becoming a God in Central Florida is by the best title we've heard but a long time.

But it's also a Showtime Black Dramity starring Kirsten Dunst as a woman caught up in a multi-level marketing scam.

And then the Sterling Affairs is the latest podcast from the 30 for 30 folks at ESPN.

It's a deep dive into the Donald Sterling saga in which an NBA owner is caught on an audio recording making racist comments to his mistress.

And finally, oh, here we go again.

Here we go again.

It's like this should be on pay-per-view.

This should not be available free to anyone clicking download on iTunes.

Julia and I are going to talk about Taylor Swift, who has a new album. It's called Lover. And by the way,

Slate's on Carl Wilson will have learned opinions about this as well. Joining me today is June Thomas,

who is, of course, senior managing producer for Slate

podcasts. Of course. Of course.

Hello, Stephen.

Hello, June. It's been far too long.

It has been way too long. I'm excited to talk about it. I feel like I'm always talking to

you about TV when I watch TV, but now I I'm always talking to you about TV when I watch TV,

but now I get to actually talk to you about TV. And then I should say we're going to have

a revolving third for each one of our segments today for the becoming a god in central Florida.

We're going to be joined by Heather Schwedell, who's a staff writer at Slate and

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