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I'm Stephen Metcalfe, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest. Can someone show me how to laugh

deeply edition? It's September 18, 2013, and on today's show, we are not divided like Gall into three parts, Dana Stevens. We are one thing this week. We are a call-in show. We accepted phone calls from listeners from around the globe, from across the globe, um because we all knew we know ourselves well enough

Dana Stevens to know that you would be so freaking hung over this morning and the truth is we're

you where I should say we're at the Mohawk Mountain House right now at Slate's annual retreat

and you know it's a true story I mean we've have over the years we've gotten used to

you know doing the show with Dana maybe maybe two, one and a half, two sheets to the wind. And we've covered for her. We've pulled her across the finish line over and over and over again. But, and, you know, as you all know, Dana on a little bit of sherry is just rubicund and joe cund. In fact, she the und words she's a dachshund am i feckoned

you're fecund but but hungover she's she's impossible impossible so the thought of actually

going through real topics and like cogitating and verbalizing our cogitations with Dana hungover.

It was just out of the question.

So instead we're taking calls today.

I appreciate the enablement.

All of which is to say, hey, Dana.

Good morning.

I'm joined by Dana Stevens, who's the film critic for Slate magazine and Notorious Lush.

And I've got Julia Turner here as well.

Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve.

Julia is now, what, deputy editor of Slate. Are we going to do this every week now, Steve? That remains my title.

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