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The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen McAfee, this is the I'm Stephen, I'm Stephen my cat, and this is the Slaade Culture Gap Fest life-changing magic of making a black friend

edition. It's Wednesday, January 16, 2019 on today's show Green Book was a surprise winner at the Golden Globes.

I say a surprise because at the Golden Globes.

I say a surprise because it did meiddling business

to the box office and was widely panned

as an anachronistic racial reconciliation drama.

We discussed the movie and its dubious politics with Kay Austin Collins of Vanity Fair.

And then Marie Condo scored a big hit, not middling at all, with her book The Life Changing

Magic of Tidying Up.

She now has a Netflix show derived from that

called Tidying Up with Marie Condo.

And finally, the art of the hatch job, the pan,

our scathingly bad reviews is a sign of a healthy and open debate or of the diseased

conscience of the sallow little creep Dana Stevens known as the critic. Joining me

today is Slate's film critic Dana Stevens Salar, who's the Sala Little Creper?

We all know it's me, which is why I can get away with making that joke, Dana.

You're not a hatchet lady at all.

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