Culture Gabfest - The Mario Movie's Star Power
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, host Julia Tuner is joined by guest-hosts Jamelle Bouie and Nadira Goffe. In the first segment, they discuss The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which currently tops the box office and stars Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, and numerous other big stars. After that, the panel talks about Chimp Empire, a new Netflix nature series narrated by Mahershala Ali. Then they wrap things up with a conversation about A.I. music and the song Heart on My Sleeve, which sounds like a collaboration between Drake and The Weekend, but…isn’t.
Endorsements
Jamelle Bouie: The 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols.
Nadira Goffe: Ackee and saltfish, a delicious Jamaican breakfast.
Julia Turner: The 2011 documentary Sing Your Song about Harry Belafonte.
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Production assistance by Yesica Balderama. Production by Cameron Drews.
Outro music: “What We Didn't Do” by Particle House.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Julia Turner and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Mario movies star power |
| 0:16.0 | edition. |
| 0:17.0 | It's Wednesday, April 26th, 2023. |
| 0:20.3 | On today's show we'll bleep, bloop, bloop into the Mario movie, examining what's made |
| 0:25.3 | it such a box office sensation and how the film, which features Chris Pratt as the voice |
| 0:29.6 | of Mario, capitalizes on Nintendo's glorious IP. |
| 0:34.2 | Then, Chimp Empire, the new docu-series from Netflix and the director of my octopus |
| 0:39.4 | teacher. |
| 0:40.4 | It's part jaw-dropping footage and part reality show and asks us who will be Uganda's |
| 0:46.4 | next top chimpanzee. |
| 0:48.2 | Finally, we'll discuss Heart on My Sleeve, a song that briefly went viral last week because |
| 0:53.8 | it sounded like a collaboration between Drake and the weekend, but was actually concocted |
| 0:59.1 | using AI. |
| 1:01.4 | Steve and Dana are both out this week, but we are extremely lucky to be joined by two |
| 1:06.2 | of our very favorite friends of the program. |
| 1:08.6 | Joining me today is Jamal Buie, columnist at The New York Times. |
| 1:12.1 | Welcome, Jamal. |
| 1:13.1 | Hello. |
| 1:14.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:15.1 | So fun to have you here. |
| 1:16.5 | Also joining us is Slate Culture Writer and Culture Gab alumna Nadira Gough. |
| 1:21.2 | Hi Nadira. |
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