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podcast from NPR and WBUR. The Naked Gun franchise has always been a rapid-fire delivery

system for gags, delivered straight-faced by a cop who doesn't know that anything is funny.

In the new Naked Gun movie, that role is handled by the very straight-faced Liam Nieson.

With Pamela Anderson as his femme fatale,

Nieson tries to save the world from, quite literally, a plot device.

I'm Stephen Thompson.

And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about the naked gun on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

Joining us today is Ronald Young Jr.

He's the host of the film and television review podcast, Leaving the Theater.

Hello, Ronald.

Hello, Linda.

And also with us is Daisy Rosario.

She's the senior supervising producer of audio at Slate,

where she works with shows like Death, Sex, and Money, and I See Why Am I. Hello, Daisy.

Hey, Linda. Happy to be here. Happy to have you. So for many years on Police Squad on TV and then

in the Naked Gun movies, Leslie Nielsen played Lieutenant

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