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contains explicit language. I'm Stephen Metcalfin. This is the Slate CultureGabFest. Watch

out for the Dildo Edition. It's Wednesday, October 9th, 2013. On today's show, Gravity. It's the new Alfonso Quarron space movie. It stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. And then we talk about Showtime's new series about the pioneering researchers Masters and Johnson. It's called Masters of Sex. And finally, the Future of Cool with Slate's very cool music critic, Carl Wilson.

Joining me today is Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And of course, Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hello, Steve. All right. Well, I should say I'm joining you guys again from Slate's Ghent Bureau, the plush Ghent Bureau. But, Julia, before we dig in with our topics, do we have some business to take care of?

We always have business to take care of?

We always have business to take care of.

Steve, I want to remind our listeners once again that Hang Up and Listen, our brethren, who do the wonderful sports podcast for Slate, will be at New York's City Winery on November 11th.

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delectation and consideration. Thanks, Julia. All right. Well, Gravity is the new film from the director

Alfonso Coran, who also brought us the miraculous Etou Mama Tambien and the equally most excellent children of men.

This movie stars Sandra Bullock as a researcher on her first mission in space and George Clooney as a veteran astronaut on his final mission.

Hurdling space junk separates her from both Clooney and their space station, and what ensues is a thriller about her attempt to return to Earth, it sounds somewhat banal, but in my estimation, it's a meditation on what it is to be a terrestrial creature. And it did huge B.O. this weekend. It was 55 million plus. Dana, what did you think of this movie? Well, I guess the short version is that I loved it. I mean, you can't go to this

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