The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest Stinker Thinker Edition.

It's Wednesday, September 4th, 2019.

On today's show on Becoming a God in Central Florida is probably the best title we've heard but a long time

but it's also a Showtime black dramedy starring Kirsten Dunst as a woman caught up in a multi-level

marketing scam and then the Sterling Affairs is the latest podcast from the 30-for-30 folks at E-SPN.

It's a deep dive into the Donald Sterling saga in which an NBA owner is caught on an audio

recording making racist comments to his mistress.

And finally, oh, here we go again.

Here we go again.

It's like this should be on pay-per-view.

This should not be available free to anyone clicking download on iTunes.

Julia and I are going to talk about Taylor Swift who has a new album.

It's called Lover and by the way, Slate Song, Carl Wilson, will have learned opinions about this as well.

Joining me today is June Thomas, who is of course senior managing producer for Slate Podcasts?

Of course.

Of course.

Hello Stephen.

Hello June.

It's been far too long.

It has been way too long. I'm excited to talk about I feel like I feel like I'm always

talking to you about TV when I watch TV but now I get to actually talk to you about TV and then I should

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