Fractal Badness Edition

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf discuss James Franco's The Disaster Artist with Slate's Forrest Wickman, the cult film The Room with producer Benjamin Frisch, and Fiona the hippo and celebrity animals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	I'm Stephen MacCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest fractal Badness edition.
0:16.8	It's Wednesday, December 6, 2017.
0:20.0	On today's show, The Disaster Artist is the new film, it's produced, directed and starring
0:23.6	the quite undisticious James Franco.
0:26.5	It's based on the making of the room, which is widely considered to be the worst movie of all time,
0:30.7	and then The Room, which is widely believed to be the worst movie of all time and then the room which is widely believed to be the worst movie of all time
0:34.4	it's inert but also sort of vomitus it's funny and yet capable of draining off your
0:38.9	will to live completely we will discuss with slate Zone Benjamin Frisch and finally the little hippo known as
0:46.2	Fiona has captured the hearts of millions including in probably the members of this roundtable podcast.
0:54.0	So we will discuss Fiona mania.
0:56.8	Joining me today is Slate's editor Julia Turner.
0:59.1	Hello Julia.
1:00.0	Hi.
1:01.0	Sorry to hear that you're slightly under the weather.
1:02.9	I think I can make it through this without a coughing fit.
1:05.2	We'll see.
1:06.2	Superb.
1:06.5	And Dana Stephen's, Slate's film critic, hey Dana.
1:09.3	Oh, hi Steve.
1:10.4	I've been waiting. I've been
1:15.0	practicing. The room jokes.
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