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I'm Stephen MacCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest Fort-night Kegelstorm

edition. It's Wednesday, August 1st, 2018. On Today's show, Mission Impossible

Fallout is along the way to its inevitable billion at the

B.O. Unexpectedly a critical darling, I can't wait to ask Dana if she's going along with the

consensus on this one. then the troubled middle segment in

which your hosts play Fortnite the world's most popular video game and try to

fathom its success with guest Dante Price.

And finally, we discuss Gwyneth Goop and a perfectly tuned Times magazine profile by

Taffy Broder Ackner.

Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner.

Hey Julia.

Hello Steve.

And of course, the Slate's film critic,

Dennis Stephen.

Hey, Dana. Hey Stephen. I can't wait to get your reaction to

Mission Impossible Fallout, but first how about some summer strut fallout? We had some

amazing summer strut fallout. That was a really fun show, really fun list. We got a couple great emails from listeners including one from someone who runs like an exercise cycling class like sort of a soul

cyclie type thing who says she relies on summer strut to make

interesting playlists definitely the closest I'm ever

going to get to a team exercise in a room cycling class.

So I was very honored about that and thought that was potentially the best response

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