The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen McCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Summer Strut 2019 edition.

It's Wednesday July 3rd.

Is that woo for a woo for strut or for July 3rd as it leads into the July 4th holiday?

First strut!

First strut!

I have to say it's like a, it's like the test of strut is that I have to be up at like 5 a.m.

to tape at the same time as you guys.

And I'm like, these songs are bangers.

Okay, well, these songs are bangers and it's Wednesday, look 3rd, 2019. On today's show, Strutty, Smutty in your hands like

Silly Putty, we talk a multitude.

Did you just come up with that? That was good.

I did, thank you.

We talk a multitude of songs that you, our listeners, sent us on the theory that makes you strut.

May just possibly make a strut, but sometimes they don't, but that's fine.

As always for this special annual ritual,

we're joined by Human Jukebox, Chris Malampi,

who will also be talking us through the song of summer.

But first, my co-panelista is joining us from Los Angeles is Julia Turner,

who is a deputy managing editor at the LA Times.

Hey Julia, good morning.

You didn't know that I could rap, did you? I mean, the jury's out.

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