The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, I'm Dana Steven Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with a Slate Spoiler Special podcast on Hot Tub, Time Machine, the new movie about a time travel in a hot tub.

I'm having trouble summarizing it because the title does it so perfectly already.

Here with me in the studio in New York is John Swansberg, Slate's Culture Editor. Hi, John.

Very happy to be here. And joining us remotely from DC's studio is Dan Coase. Hi, Dan.

Hey, Dana. Hey, John. Hey. Dan, you want to lay out your bio since you have even new credits since

the last time I listed it? Yes, the life of a freelance critic. I reviewed this movie for The Village Voice, who I'm starting to review for.

I also write for The Washington Post and for Slate sometimes.

And are the author of a new book on?

Oh, yes, and I'm the author of a new book on Israel Kamak of Evil Ola, that fat Hawaiian guy

who sang that version of Over the Rainbow that you always hear at rehearsal dinners.

Wonderful.

Okay.

Thank you, Dan.

So that makes you all the more qualified to join us.

So, Dan, I think that there's a differential here that we should start off by exploring,

which is that John and I saw a hot tub time machine together last night, and we really didn't

like it, despite at least on my part a really earnest effort to like it until about 45 minutes in when I kind of gave up.

But apparently you did like it.

So make the case for us real quick here.

Well, it's hard for me to make the case in any respect other than that, so there's this

hot tub and it's a time machine and then fucking John Cusack gets in it and goes back to the 80s

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