Hello, I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, One Banger After Another Edition.

It's Wednesday, October 1st, 2025. This week we'll be discussing, first off, one battle after another, the latest movie from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a burned-out ex-revolutionary forced to take up arms again after his daughter is kidnapped by his old arch enemy. Next, we'll discuss long story short, the new animated series on Netflix that come from the creators of BoJack Horseman.

Finally, we'll look at the state of the Broadway musical, which, according to a new report in the New York Times, appears much more dire than I had previously known.

I'm joined today, all of us cozzly in Slate Studio together by Slate Senior Writer Sam Adams. Hey Sam.

Hello, Dana. Thanks for coming up on the train to be with us in New York.

Oh, my pleasure. It's lovely to have all three of us stuffed into this tiny little room. And also by Isaac Butler, long-time friend of the podcast, an author of many good books, including the upcoming.

Yes, I turned it in last week. Oh, congrats. Eight days ago. I now get to not think about it for two weeks while I await the fact-checking and copy editing reports, which will, I'm sure, ruin my life. But it's called The Perfect Moment. The subtitle changes many times, like every day it changes, so I'm not going to give that. But I will tell you that it is about the culture wars of the 80s and 90s, or as I like to refer to them, the quaint culture wars. All right. Well, I cannot wait to read that. If you've read Isaac's previous book, The Method, I think you know that that is a book to get in line for when it comes out. I'm already waiting in line. You're the first in line just standing there at a bookstore. The bookstore will probably no longer exist by the time it comes out But I'll still be there Right, that's it, come on, lights out You've got a test tomorrow Just two minutes, I'm about to reach the next level It's going off now Yeah, whatever Let's see, where's the app? Oh, here it is. What? How?

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Paul Thomas Anderson's 10th feature-length film, One Battle After Another, is also his biggest movie in scale by quite a large margin with budget of about $150 million, which one critic estimated is around the cost of all his previous

movies combined. It's also the first film from PTA that could be classified as an action thriller,

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