The I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest Trundle Tale Dog Edition.

It's Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

It's Valentine's Day on today's show, BPM. The French film about the Act Up movement in France was included on many year and best of lists

to be the meaning to talk about it, and lo, we finally do.

And then Babylon Berlin is yet another sumptuous over-stuffed

a novel on film on streaming TV, an extraviganza of late Weimar early Nazi

Decidence and intrigue. It's on Netflix. And finally, we always knew that William

Shakespeare, in addition to being the greatest writer in the English language, was something of

an incorrigible plagiarist thanks to a once-in-a a generation scholarly discovery.

Turns out he's an even bigger plagiarist than we knew.

Joining me today is Isaac Butler.

Hey Isaac,

Hey Stephen.

You are a woof-op, a wonderful friend of the program.

Thank you, thank you.

We should keep appending new words on either end until I accrete some sort of initialism that takes like a minute to say.

You have an alphabet trailing after like a robe.

Yeah, exactly.

I love it.

I don't want to be remiss though.

You're also the co-author with Dan Koyce of a oral history of angels in America called the world only spins forward which is now out

correct that is right it came out yesterday the 13th so it is now in stores you can get get it. It's crazy to have been working on this

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