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The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Dana Stevens and this is the slate Culture Gab Fist still there edition.

It's Wednesday September 26 2018 and on today's show the podcast serial has returned for its third season and this time it's

deconstructing the justice system in a single city, Cleveland.

We're spending the whole season in Cleveland Courthouse.

Then we will talk about the recent spate of Redemption essays from disgraced men like John

Hawkenberry and Gian Gameshi that have run in Harpers and in the New York Review of Books,

leading to the firing of Ian Baruma, the editor of the New York Review of Books.

And finally, Forever is the new series from Amazon Video that stars Fred Armison and Maya Rudolph

as a couple whose bucolic but boring existence is shaken up by an extremely high concept premise.

Stephen Metcalf is out this week, but I am joined, thank goodness, by my regular co-host Julia

Terner, Slates editor, hi Julia, hi Dana.

And we also are joined this week, exciting excitingly by Gabriel Roth, who is the host, one of the hosts of Slate's parenting podcast, mom and dad are fighting, and also the editorial director of Slate Plus.

Hey, Gabe.

Hello.

I also just have to interject to say that last week's episode was very fun.

You guys did a lot of Malif Lewis reading aloud of things and the quote that Sam Anderson

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