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I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest in a World Without Stephen Dana edition.

It's Wednesday, August 21st, and on today's program, we're going to talk about the new movie in a world with Lake Bell.

The New York Times' new multimedia feature The Jockey and other similar experiments in long-form online journalism.

And finally, The Song of the Summer, Blurred Lines, and its various attendant controversies.

Joining me today is Slate contributor Seth Stevenson.

Hello, Seth.

Hi, Julia.

And Slate's Broadway editor, David Hagland.

Hi, Julia.

Thank you guys for coming to rescue our show from Mortal Peril.

Happy to do it.

Clearly, clearly we are practiced in heroism.

Your capes are fluttering.

Before we launch into our first topic, I have a major Mondo announcement for our listeners,

which is that the Slate Culture Gab Fest is doing a live show in Brooklyn. It will be the first live Slate podcast in Brooklyn. We're going to be taping at the Bell House, which is a great venue in Gowanus. That's on Tuesday, September 24th. So you can get your tickets and find more details about the show at slate.com slash culture, NYC. Again, that's slate.com slash culture, NYC. And we're really excited to see you there.

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