Culture Gabfest | Putting the Asinine in Astronaut

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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On this week’s show, Julia, Stephen, and Dana are reunited! The panel starts with Apple TV+’s new prestige offering, Your Friends and Neighbors, starring Jon Hamm. Then, they talk about A Minecraft Movie, already the most financially successful movie of the year. Finally, they bat around the purpose of, and responses to, the all-female Blue Origin flight that happened on Monday. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, a conversation about The Pitt season finale. Email us at [email protected]. Endorsements: Dana: What Rough Beast, a new podcast from Gabfest’s own Stephen Metclaf, and for Trumpcast host Virginia Heffernan. Steve: Read something by poet and writer, Delmore Schwartz. Start here. Julia: John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show, Everybody's Live! Though, she does prefer the previous title, Everybody's in LA. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.5	I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, putting the asinine in Astronaut Edition.
1:16.2	It's Wednesday, April 16th, 2025, and on today's show, we're talking about your friends and neighbors,
1:22.2	the new Apple drama featuring John Hamm in his first lead TV role since Madman.
1:27.2	He's once again a dysfunctional
1:29.2	Manhattan executive with a wife and kids in the burbs, but the show has a few interesting twists for us.
1:35.3	Then, a Minecraft movie, the smash-hit film adaptation of the massively popular sandbox video game,
1:41.6	which gives Jack Black a star turn and may save movie theaters,
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