Culture Gabfest: Daddygang Rage Virus Edition

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On this week’s show, Julia, Dana, and Steve return to the Rage Virus-infected world first created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland two decades ago. They talk about 28 Years Later and what the zombie movie sequel has to say about now. A lot it turns out: COVID, Brexit, human mortality, and more. Next, they grapple with the media phenomenon that is Alex Cooper—the spunky and sexually frank host of the blockbuster podcast Call Her Daddy— by discussing the recent documentary about her rise, Call Her Alex. Finally, they analyze the loping, charming, sister-rock appeal of Haim’s new album I quit. In an exclusive Slate Plus segment, the hosts spoil the ending of 28 Years Laters and get into all the film’s twists that make it such a surprising, interesting ride. Endorsements: Dana: More Haim, specifically their 2020 Tiny Desk concert performed on Zoom. Steve: The underappreciated band The Cry. And if you like that, more music from their Manchester-based record label Factory Records. Julia: The charming hang of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Daddy Gang Rage Virus edition.
0:17.2	It's Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, and on today's show, we're talking about 28 years later,
0:24.3	the zombie sequel from Danny Boyle and Alex Garland that depicts a small zombie-free community on the British Isles
0:30.8	that's turned both inward and backward.
0:33.8	We'll ask, why zombies again?
0:36.0	And what's this movie doing with the form? Then, Daddy Gang, it's time finally for us to Marvel at The Phenomenon, who is Alex Cooper, the podcaster and entrepreneur behind the massively successful Call Her Daddy Podcast. And we'll do that by examining Call Her Alex, a new two-part Hulu documentary about her and perhaps importantly from her production company.
0:59.9	And then the Hymn girls have a new album called I Quit in which they give up on relationships but not on making fun songs.
1:07.5	We'll give a listen.
1:08.9	We've got the gang all here today.
1:13.2	Hi, Dana. Hello. How are you?
1:19.6	Happy, happy, happy for the three of us to be back. Yeah. Indeed. And hello, Stephen. I mean, my head jerked back when someone described themselves as, is happy. I'm so happy. Happy for a specific circumstance.
1:26.1	Fair enough. But I am happy that someone is happy i mean like
1:30.5	i'm now myself am happy it's infectious steve i just throw open the window every morning and sing
1:36.2	with the bluebirds and in comes 102 degree zephyrs i like the idea of dana and sort of a
1:44.1	snow white dress with trussing and little swallows fluttering onto her fingertips.
1:51.0	All right.
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