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The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen McCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest

Each Year Terrarium Edition.

It's Wednesday, September 5th, 2018.

On today's show, Black Clansman is the latest from writer director

Spike Lee, the Pureless Dean, of course, of Black Filmmaking in America.

It tells the improbably based on a true story of a black undercover cop in Colorado who in

the 1970s infiltrated the K KKK. And then making it is the latest competition show. This one comes with a twist. I think it's a twist. I don't really watch these things. It's a quirky craft-based competition show hosted by Nick Offerman and Amy Polar, of course, the beloved's from Parks and Rec.

And finally, Brazil's oldest and most important museum, the largest natural history museum in Latin America, has burned to the ground taking what is believed

to be almost all of its collection with it.

We discuss what is really an uncalculable loss, as I understand it, almost an existential loss

with Mauricio Santoro head of the

Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Joining me today is Slate's editor, Julia Turner.

Hey Julia.

Hi Steve.

And of course, Slate's film critic Dana.

Hey Dana.

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