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The following podcast contains explicit language. The I'm Stephen Met Caffin. This is the Slate Culture Get Fist, oopsie jar edition.

It's Wednesday, September 19, 2018. On today's show, A Simple Favor is a suburban noir.

It stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively,

as unlikely mom friends whose lives take a lurching turn

into mystery and suspense,

and occasionally the oopsie jar, and then Sam Anderson is somehow both a deep thinker and one of the more

swab dancing partners the English language now has. Sam has written a book and

is here to both co-host the show filling in for Julia and to discuss Boomtown and his fascination with Oklahoma City,

one of the great weirdo cities of the world.

And finally, love it or hate it, but for 40 years, the New York Post has dominated all comers

in this one regard, its magnificently cheeky headlines.

They are as much a part of New York City as Yellow Taxis and, I don't know,

fill in the blank, Sam't know fill in the blank

Sam Anderson fill in the blank what's really New York pastram I could only come

up with the stupidest cliche days pizza rat yeah dirty pigeons pizza rat as only in rat, as only in New York.

Actually, no one says that here.

I don't accept ironically.

You have to put like seven pairs of quotation marks around it.

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