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I'm Stephen Matt Kaffin. This is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, first time, long time edition. It's Wednesday, December 26th, 2012. On today's program, we're going to do something a little different. We don't have

three topics queued up for you. Instead, because our normal recording time would have fallen on

Christmas, we decided to record a show a little bit early and in a little bit of a different

format. It's a call-in show, our first ever call-in show. We solicited phone calls from our

listeners. We got a ton of amazing responses, and we're going to sift through some of them now and answer some questions. So joining me today is Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey, Stephen. Good morning. And calling in remotely is Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hey, Julia. Hi, Steve. All right. Well, should we dive right in?

We should also note that in lieu of taping on Christmas, we are taping on May and Apocalypse Day. So the world could end while we are recording.

Imagine if this were like the one surviving black box recording that gets...

To represent all of humanity?

For intergalactic posterity, to represent all of humanity, our opinions.

God, help us all.

Exactly.

All right.

Well, anyway, moving on.

Why don't we press play?

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