Slate's Spoiler specials are brought to you by Audible.com, a leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment.

Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free audiobook when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audiblepodcast.com slash spoiler.

Hi, this is Dana Steven, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with a Slate Spolar special podcast on Magic Mike, the new Stephen Soderberg film starring Channing Tatum as an extremely near naked male stripper.

Joining me in the Slate Studios in New York, we're actually in the same studio for the first time in a while, is Dan Coice. So, chika-boom, chika-boom, chak-a-bom, chik-a-pon.

Hi.

Hi.

So, thanks for joining me

to talk about Magic Mike.

I have no idea what you thought of it.

We didn't see it together.

And I actually saw it with Swansberg the other day

and was trying to drag him into the studio,

but he couldn't make it. He told me to channel some of his post-movie thoughts about Magic Mike.

First of all, before we get to spoiling, did you like the movie?

I love the movie.

You knew, but you went in with a kind of confirmation bias. You knew you were going to love the movie, right?

You're a Soderberg completest, I should say, you wrote the slate column, the completest column, which is to say that you watched all of Steven Soderberg's work and

waited on his entire corpus. And you did that just pre-Magic Mike, right? That included Haywire,

his last movie. It didn't know. It included Contagion. It was just before Haywire.

Okay. So there have been two since then.

Yes. That guy makes movies so fast, it's hard to keep up. It really is. It's insane how productive he is. So let's think about how this fits into his

of for a second, since you, since you are the completest. Were you surprised? Where does this fall in terms of

...