Putting the Asinine in Astronaut

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 culturefest@slate.com.  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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