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I'm Stephen McHaff, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Mason Dixon Need Some Fixin Edition.

It's Wednesday, April 17th, 2013. On today's show, a hubbub now surrounds the new Brad Paisley-L-Cool-J collaboration, accidental racist.

We'll sort through it with Slate's own Ayesha Harris.

Another hub of a very different sort surrounds the virtual currency Bitcoin.

We'll talk to Farhad Manjou, Slate's tech columnist, and he's actually bought some bitcoins.

And finally, Vice, the Bad Boy magazine. It's come to HBO for better and for worse. Joining me today is Slate's culture critic June Thomas. Hello, June. Hello, Stephen. And of course, Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hi, Steve. Before we dig into today's show, I want to say very quickly that we are no longer accepting resumes for our new internship position.

I do want to say that we were pleasantly inundated by resumes from people who are massively overqualified.

If this is a dipstick taken to the quality of our audience, we are extremely heartened, and we're very grateful for everyone who wrote in.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Accidental Racist is the name of the collaboration song between country music star Brad Paisley and the veteran rapper L.L. Cool J.

It's a ballad, and it begins by addressing itself, begins with Paisley singing, addressing himself to the man who waited on me down at the Starbucks on Maine.

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