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I'm Stephen McHath, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Travoltafied Edition. It's Wednesday,

March 5th, 2014. On today's show, the Oscars have come and gone. We'll discuss the justice

of the awards themselves and then the various weirdnesses of the ceremony.

And then going by statistics alone, fraternities are hotbeds of violence and sexual assault.

We'll talk about their odd status in a politically correct world with Slate's own Mike Peska.

And finally, is it a fashion, a movement, or just more trend-spotting horseshit? Hopefully,

Julia Turner will tell me just what to make of something called Norm Cor. Joining me today is

Julia Turner. Julia Turner, what's your John Travolta name? It's Julian Tuckfer. Nice to be here,

Stephen. Julian Tuck. And, Dana, what's your Travolta name? As generated by the Slate Travolta fire, it is Damien Steveen's, with four E's in the last name.

Steve Eames.

I'm Steve McKeysald.

Dana, you're the movie critic of Slate.

Why don't you tell people who don't know what we're talking about, what we're talking about? Oh, just that after John Travolta's notable mangling of the name of Edina Menzel during the Oscar ceremony, a few geniuses at Slate created the name generator, the Travolta name generator, where you enter your name and hear it Travolta trivite. And the thing I most like about the name generator is that it starts from zero. They actually made it so that Edina Menzel's name is rendered Adele Dazim as Trevolta pronounced it. And we should say that Edina Menzel is the actress who voices the character in Frozen, who sings the song, Let It Go. She sang it at the Oscars. She's on everybody's lips apparently except

John Travolta. I feel like, right. Just last week we talked about Frozen. I mean, I feel like

Adina Mansell has a chokehold on pop culture right now, but somehow Travolta was not able to wrap his

lips around her. Not that difficult to say name. That almost got to a very weird place,

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