Culture Gabfest: The Naked Gun And The Nearly Naked Momoa Edition

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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On this week’s show, Julia Turner is joined by guest hosts Nadira Goffe and Dan Kois to answer the urgent question: is The Naked Gun starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson the vital satire we need for our time? (Answer: No, but does that matter? The joke-dense spoof reboot directed by Akiva Schaffer is a hoot.) Next, they turn to tropical shores and talk about Chief of War, the epic series about Hawaiian history starring and produced by Jason Momoa. Finally, the panel examines the legacy of the musical Hamilton on its ten-year anniversary. Is it a naive Obama-era cringefest or an enduring piece of theater that still has much to say about American democracy? In an exclusive Slate Plus Bonus episode, Julia and Nadira grill Dan about the creation of Slate’s newest game Pears and discuss the state of the internet game ecosystem. Email us your thoughts at [email protected]. Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. Endorsements: Nadira: The new album BLACKSTAR by Ghanaian and American singer and songwriter Amaarae. Julia: Jurassic Park at the Hollywood Bowl accompanied by the LA Philharmonic. If not that, stream on a screen near you. Dan: Quitting your job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Julia Turner, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Naked Gun, and the Nearly Naked Mamoa edition.
0:17.3	It's Wednesday, August 13th, 2025.
0:20.7	And on today's show, we're talking about the crowd-pleasing, critic-tickling reboot of the classic cop spoof, The Naked Gun.
0:27.2	The new film stars Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson trading nonsensical quips and apparently falling in love.
0:33.9	Has it rebooted the theatrical comedy?
0:36.4	Then the new Apple TV Plus show, Chief of War,
0:39.9	tells the story of the unification of the Hawaiian Islands, just as European and American
0:44.6	explorers are beginning to drop anchor. It was created by and stars Jason Momoa, who wears
0:50.3	many hats, writer, director, producer, and also a loincloth in many butt-bearing scenes.
0:57.0	What happens when colonialism becomes IP?
1:00.7	And then finally, we'll take a look at the 10th anniversary of Hamilton.
1:04.6	The show made its debut on Broadway a decade ago.
1:07.4	How's it aging?
1:08.1	We'll discuss a New York Times article asking whether it's a naive relic of the
1:12.2	Obama era or a more enduring portrait of the American project. Tana and Steve are off somewhere
1:18.2	having my ties, not together to my knowledge, but I am joined this week by two of our VFFOPs, Slate
1:26.2	Writer. That's very favorite friends of the program. First up, Slate Writer, and now
1:31.0	game designer, Dan Cois. Welcome, Dan. Hey, hey. In what way are you at game designer?
1:36.5	We just launched a game I design called pairs on slate.com. And we're going to talk about it on Slate Plus,
1:43.1	as a little teaser. And then also other VF-F-F-O-P Slate Culture writer, Adira Gaff. Welcome to Indira. Hi. So glad to have you guys here. Let's show them how it's done. What's the second F-4? Very favorite friend of the program. Got it. Not favorite of the got it got it not v v vop
2:04.8	this man made a word game is there a worse idea for a movie than rebooting the naked gun the first one came
2:16.8	created by the legendary
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