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I'm Stephen Medcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. This is Sparta Edition.

On today's show, Jonah Hill and Chadding Tatum team up for more bromance in the movie 22 Jump Street.

And then should poetry be more ingratiating to its potential fans, we discuss as a kind of

test case the critical reception of the young and quite popular poet

Patricia Lockwood and finally what makes a song the song of the summer we discuss

this with the critic Chris Milamphy who covers the pop charts for Slate magazine

joining me today is Slate's deputy editor Julia Turner.

Hello Julia.

Hi Steve.

And of course Slate's film critic, Dana.

Hey Dana.

Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve.

I have to say we are the three least Spartan people who ever lived you think we're more

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