Culture Gabfest: Zero Day Makes Robert De Niro a Befuddled President

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On this week’s show, no amount of star power can save a “screamingly stupid show.” (Sorry, Robert De Niro et al.) With Sam Adams—Slate Senior Editor and Staff Writer—sitting in for Dana, the team talks about the Netflix political thriller series Zero Day. Then they remember the career of Gene Hackman and end with their thoughts about this Atlantic article on navigating optimism during times of crisis. Endorsements: Julia: Moist Peanut Butter Cake Recipe from Cakes By MK Steve: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’ by Sophie Elmhirst for The Guardian Sam: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (Again! After Julia endorsed it last week.) Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.8	I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest.
1:29.3	Zero Day makes Robert De Niro our befuddled president edition. It's Wednesday, March 5th, 2025. And on today's show, we're talking about
1:35.5	Zero Day, the star-studded new Netflix thriller featuring Robert De Niro himself as an ex-president
1:41.4	who is thrust back into the spotlight after a catastrophic cyber
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