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The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.

Will you be there for me, Edition?

It's Wednesday, August 28, 2019. On today's show, Blinded by the Light is a coming

of age film that features the songs, heavily features the songs, I should say.

Bruce Springsteen is the latest from writer-director, Garin Dachata, best known I think for Bennett

Like Beckham, and then Lodge 49, what a deliciously weird shambling TV series from AMC.

That's the network that brought us Breaking Bad and Madman.

And of course, how does this one stack up?

And then the TV show Friends, this just makes me feel old as dirt.

The TV Show Friend turns 25.

And joining me today, of course, is the deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times,

Julia Turner.

Hello, Julia.

Hello.

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