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Chicken Bites Dog Edition. It's Wednesday April 1st, 2015. On today's show, The Hungarian film White God

is a girl and her dog story,

but it's also a searing parable about childhood and cruelty.

And then Slate's own Simon Dunan joins us

to discuss the sorry state of charm and finally we here at the Gapfest

divest ourselves of our last shred of dignity and go and do karaoke. Joining me today

is Slate's editor Julia Turner.

Hello Julia.

That was your last shred Steve?

It's all gone now.

All right.

And Slate's film critic, Danny Stevens, hey Dana.

Hey Steve.

All right, Julia, before we go any further,

though, we have some business to take care of.

What's on the docket?

Well, first, I want to let our listeners know

about our Slate Plus segment today

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