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The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen Metcapp and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest angry at the Lollipop Edition.

It's Wednesday, December 12, 2018.

On today's show, Ralph Breaks the Internet is the sequel to a 2012 movie called Reckat Ralph.

In this one a pair of lovable video game characters get uploaded to the Internet and

you'll be shocked to discover Hyjinks and Sue. And then Dogs is an anthology docu series

on Netflix about the deep abiding loving relationship,

very beautiful relationship between human

and canine beings.

And finally, cliches, we've been taught to hate them,

but should we at least so reflexively,

is that a cliche to hate cliches, we discuss.

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